Georgy Demidov
Georgy Demidov | |
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| Born | November 29, 1908 St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Died | February 19, 1987 Kaluga, Russia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Soviet Union |
| Genre | Short story |
Georgy Demidov (Russian: Гео́ргий Гео́ргиевич Деми́дов) (November 29, 1908 – February 19, 1987) was a Russian political prisoner and writer.
Born in
For fourteen years he served in the
On March 20, 1958, Demidov was rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of the USSR.
In August 1980 his entire corpus of work was seized.
In July 1988, due to the order of
He wrote several stories on labor camp themes, two of which were published in Novy Mir (1997, Volume 5, pp. 116–145) – "People Die for Metal" ("Люди гибнут за металл") – a title drawn from a statement of Mephistopheles in 'Faust' by 'Goethe' – and "The Artist Baccilla and his Wonders" ("Художник Бацилла и его шедевр"). Unlike other writers of the camps, Demidov remains comparatively unknown and untranslated.
In 2008, on the centenary of his birth, his stories, collected by his daughter, were published in book form as "Чудная планета" (Miraculous Planet) (
References
- Demidov biography (in Russian) at Belousenko.com
- Demidov (in Russian) at Booksite.ru
- Demidov profile (in Russian) at Magazines.russ.ru
- Biography by his daughter (in Russian)
- Biography by the Sakharov Museum (in Russian)
- Demidov books (in Russian)
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