Gavriil Nikolaevich Troepolsky
USSR State Prize
Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR
USSR State Prize
Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR
playwright publicist prose writer
Gavriil Nikolayevich Troyepolsky was born on the 16th of November,1905 in Novospasskoye village, Borisoglebsky district of the Tambov province (now Gribanovsky District, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation). In the family of priest Nikolai Semenovich Troepolsky (the family had six children).
Gavriil Nikolayevich graduated from an agricultural school in 1924 and worked as an agronomist on kolkhozes until 1954 when he became a full-time writer, all his books dealing with nature and people who work the land.
His first short story appeared in 1937. His first book, the collection Iz zapisok agronoma (Diaries of an Agronomist, was published in 1953 The following year he moved to Voronezh, where he remained the rest of his life.
Gavriil Nikolayevich was elected to the board of the USSR Union of Writers in 1967. In 1975, he received the State Prize, and afterward, he held a senior position on the board of the Russian Federation Union of Writers. His works appeared in Literaturnaya Gazeta and other literary magazines, and his three-volume Complete Works was published in 1977-1978.
Quotes from others about the person
Jeanne Vronskaya writes: "He is reported to have expressed joy when the Communist system collapsed. His house in Voronezh became a place of pilgrimage for young writers."
