Gleb Mikhailovich Pushkaryov

Background

Gleb Mikhailovich Pushkaryov was born on June 10, 1889 in Tomsk, Russian Federation. He was born in the officer family.

Education

Until the sixth grade, Gleb studied at the Barnaul Real School and he was expelled for academic failure. In Barnaul, Gleb Mikhailovich took the first step toward writing. He began to publish in the newspaper "Barnaul leaflet" notes about school life, about city news. In 1911 he went to Saint Petersburg. As a member of the Tomsk student community, he participated in the activities of an underground Social Democratic organization, and therefore was arrested. Examinations for the seven classes he passed at the cadet corps.

In 1913 Gleb entered the Psychoneurological Institute (now Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute), but in 1916, without graduating from the institute, he was mobilized into the army, where he studied at the "instructor of chemistry of suffocating agents". During the test, he was severely poisoned and was released from military service.

Career

In June 1917, Gleb Pushkarev returned to Barnaul and began working in the newspaper "Voice of Labor" - an organ of the Barnaul Council of Workers and Soldiers Deputies. From December 1917 he was transferred to the Altai Union of Cooperatives to the post of head of the publishing department, where he worked until December 1919, that means until Kolchak was defeated.

Achievements

• On Puskaryov's initiative, a literary circle was created in Novosibirsk in October 1925, which set itself the task of organizing an all-Siberian association of writers. And in March 1926 the first congress of Siberian writers was held in Novosibirsk, after which the Siberian Union of Writers was created. Later it was reorganized into the department of the All-Russian Union of Soviet Writers.

Politics

In the years 1905-1907 mass unrest occurs in Russia, later called the "The First Russian Revolution" or "The Russian Bourgeois Revolution". During this period the Bolshevik Party grew in numbers, expanded its influence among the masses. On the formation of the worldview of Gleb Pushkarev also affected the events of the first Russian revolution. Among the realists, illegal literature went. Together with high school students in 1906, Gleb took part in demonstrations and in a "protest strike" against the orders that dominated the school.

Membership

• Siberian Writers Union , Russian Federation

  March, 1926

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• According to Anna Karavaeva: "Gleb Pushkarev as a Soviet writer, showed, perhaps, even a rare ability to publish something with the paper hunger of those times."