Dmitry Stonov

Background

Dmitry Stonov (born Dmitry Vlodavsky) was born on January 8, 1898, in Bezdezh, Brest region, Belarus, a son of Miron Vlodavsky, a merchant and manager, and Hava Vlodavskaya.

Education

Dmitry Stonov attended the Brest-Litovsk Commercial School during 1906-1912, but did not graduate.

He then studied weaving in Lodz, Poland.

Career

Dmitry Stonov worked as a weaver, and from 1916 - on railway construction in Valdai, Russian Federation.

He began publishing his works in 1919. In 1922 he moved to Moscow and changed his last name from Vlodavsky to Stonov. He became later a correspondent for the newspapers Izvestia, Gudok, Trud.

In 1929 Stonov wrote his famous novel "The Family of Raskins".

During World War II, Stonov served as a decorated officer. After demobilization, he worked at the Soviet Information Bureau and taught at the Literary Institute.

However, in March 1949 Stonov was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in a Siberian work camp. He was released in 1954.

In 1959 Stonov published his novel "Teklya and Her Friends".

Dmitry Stonov died on December 29, 1962, in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Works

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  • In the Past Night: The Siberian Stories
  • The Raskin Family 1929
  • In the city of our fathers 1964
  • The story of Altai 1930
  • People and things 1928
  • Chest 1929
  • Teklya and her friends 1959

Views

Quotations: "I cannot write common letters and use common gray words and standard small ideas - I don't know how. That is why I am silent and I torture myself for this silence, for the silent are dead, and we are supposed to be alive."

Connections

Dmitry Stonov married Anna Zinovievna Idlin, a teacher, in 1928. Their son Leonid Stonov was born in 1932.

After the war, Stonov adopted the niece of his wife, Elena Nikolaevna Volosevich, who became Elena Dmitrievna Stonova.

Father:

Miron Vlodavsky

Mother:

Hava Vlodavskaya

Spouse:

Anna Zinovievna (Idlin) Stonova

Anna Zinovievna taught biology at the Moscow school No. 170.

Son:

Leonid Stonov

Leonid Stonov was a graduate of the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Moscow State University, doctor of biological sciences, head of the herbicide laboratory, author of the monographs “Herbicides” (1969), “Defoliants and desiccants: chemical means of pre-harvest leaf removal and drying of agricultural plants” (1972), "Application of herbicides in the conditions of modern technology of cultivation of sugar beet" (1979).

stepdaughter:

Elena Dmitrievna (Volosevich) Stonova

Her stepbrother was a writer Georgiy Vladimov.

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Volume 154