Background
KOTOV', Anatoliy was born on February 5, 1909 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a peasant.
KOTOV', Anatoliy was born on February 5, 1909 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a peasant.
1931 graduate Literature Faculty, 2nd Moscow University. 1936 completed postgraduate course at Moscow’s Lenin Teachers’ Training Institute.
1931 first work printed. Studied life and work of Korolenko, Chekhov and Podyachev. 1948-1956 director Fiction Publ House.
Religion is bad because it imposes irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Individuals have rights to express freedom if it safeguarde the interests of a collective.
Communist Party member from 1940.