Background
Paustovsky, Konstantin Georgievich was born in 1892.
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Paustovsky, Konstantin Georgievich was born in 1892.
Studied at Kiev and Moscow University.
Traveled in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Turkey, Greece, France, Netherlands, Sweden, etc. 1956 defended Dudintsev’s novel “Ne khlebom yedinym” (Not by Bread Alone) before Presidium, USSR Union of Writers. 1959 defended Soviet youth in “Literaturnaya gazeta”.
After his West European trip wrote several essays dealing favorably with West. 1914-1915 medical orderly in Russia Army at front. Later streetcar operator and conductor in Moscow.
Worker at plant in Yekaterinosav (now Dnepropetrovsk), various factories in Bryansk, Yuzovka and Taganrog, and a fishing artel operating in Azov Sea. In Moscow teacher of Russ, literature. 1917 corresponding and staff reporter, newspaper “Vedomosti moskovskogo gradonachalstva” (Gazette of the Moscow Borough).
Later worked for newspaper “Vlast naroda”. During Civil War: in Kiev in Red Army. In Odessa as corresponding, newspaper “Mayak”.
In Caucasus and Transcaucasia later devoted himself entirely to literature work. During World War II correspondent on Southern front.
Author: Kara Bugaz, 1932. Kolchida, 1934
The Romantics, 1935. Black Sea, 1936
Northern Tales, 1939.Distant Years, 1946
Tale of the Forests, 1948. Birth of the Sea, 1952. Restless Youth, 1955.The Golden Rose, 1956. The Beginning of the Unknown Age, 1958. The Time of Great Expectations, 1959.A Jump to the South, 1960. The Best Novels, 1962. Selections, 1961
Story of a Life, 1964.Zolotoi Lin’.