Background
Alexander Alekseevich Bogdanov was born on April 22, 1874 in Penza, Russian Federation. He came from an educated but rather poor family. His father was a local school teacher and later became a lawyer.
Penza Religious School
The Penza Ecclesiastical Seminary
Bogdanov's collection of novels and poems "Under the tender sun"
columnist Political activist teacher writer poet
Alexander Alekseevich Bogdanov was born on April 22, 1874 in Penza, Russian Federation. He came from an educated but rather poor family. His father was a local school teacher and later became a lawyer.
Alexander Alekseevich attended the Penza Religious School and the Penza Ecclesiastical Seminary. After his graduation in 1894, he was deprived of the right to enter any secular educational institution.
Alexander Alekseevich started his career as a teacher in the Spassko-Aleksandrovskoye village in 1894. He later created an underground youth club for the locals. Two years later he left that job to become a personal secretary for S.A. Panchulidzev, and helped him gather the data for his work Stories of December 14, 1825 (it was never published). It was then that he met N.E. Bauman and fell under the influence of his ideas, starting to read Marxist literature. In 1897 Alexander Alekseevich was arrested for spreading illegal literature and put in the Saratov prison.
In 1899 Alexander Alekseevich met M. Gorky and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. By 1903 he was a member of the Bolshevik movement. Since then Alexander Alekseevich was arrested and put into jail 6 times and was also sent into exile. He participated in the Revolution of 1905 and took part in the Tampere conference and Helsingfor conference in 1906 and 1907 respectively, meeting V.I. Lenin there. In 1909 he emigrated to Finland.
As for his literary career, his poetry was published since 1896 by many Russian and European underground party editorials and newspapers. His most famous works were In the village, Students' Marseillaise (was spread by party flyers mostly), and Who found the gold for the Tzar's crown?.. (the translation of a Polish revolutionary song).
His prosaic debut happened in 1909 when his socialist novels started getting published by such editorials as Vesti Evropy, Russkoe bogatstvo, Sovremennyi mir, children magazines Rodnik and Vskhody, and Bolshevik newspapers Proletaryi, Zvezda, Pravda. His writing style was inspired by Surikovtsy circle members as well as by I. Nikitin, N. Nekrasov, and some others.
Alexander Alekseevich came back from Finland to take part in the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War in Siberia and the Far East region.
Alexander Alekseevich was a socialist, Bolshevik movement supporter, and an active participant of the two Russian revolutions.