Background
Ilya Vasilevsky was born on December 28, 1882, Poltava, Poltavs'ka Oblast', Ukraine in a Jewish family.
1937
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feuilletonist, journalist, literary critic
Ilya Vasilevsky was born on December 28, 1882, Poltava, Poltavs'ka Oblast', Ukraine in a Jewish family.
Ilya Vasilevsky graduated from high school in Poltava.
The first story by Ilya Vasilevsky Thirty-Two was published in Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh in 1903. He worked mainly in the genre of story-feuilleton. During the Revolution of 1905-1907, he worked for the Saint Petersburg satirical magazines Aksioma, Bulat, Skirmishe, Gadfly, Juvenal, etc. He ridiculed the highest bureaucracy in "rehash" poems such as Dispute - a remake of the eponymous poems by M.Yu. Lermontov, In the Village (Hunger ... Long Patience ...) the ironic version of A.A. Fet’s poem Whisper, timid breathing ...
In 1904-1917 Vasilevsky’s stories, feuilletons, articles, and reviews were published in the journals such as Science and Life, The Word of God, World Panorama, The World, The Sun of Russia, Satyricon, Argus, etc., as well as in the newspapers Poltava Vedomosti, Odessa News, Southern Territory, Saint Petersburg statements, Exchange statements, Speech, and many others.
Ilya Vasilevsky worked as an editor for the Monday Saint Petersburg newspaper Free Thoughts in 1907-1911, (In 1908-1909, the official editorial office of Morning was one of the names of Free Thoughts). From July 1908 to August 1909 he worked as an editor for the journal Education.
Since 1912 Ilya Vasilevsky gave lectures on literature (Odessa, Moscow, Petersburg). In 1915-1917 he edited the Journal of Magazines in Petrograd, reviewing current journal fiction and encouraging writers to unite on a broad democratic platform. The magazine opposed the chauvinistic propaganda of the bourgeois press of the World War I period.
After 1917 Ilya Vasilevsky emigrated. In Paris, he tried to resume the publication of Free Thought. In the mid-1920s he returned to his homeland, actively worked in the Soviet press. From 1929 to October 1935 Ilya Vasilevsky headed the editorial office of the journal Inventor, printed brochures on the issues of mass invention, published the book Country of Inventor. He was Illegally repressed. Later was posthumously rehabilitated.
In the early 1920s, his wife was the ballerina Lyubov Evgenievna Belozerskaya, who later became the second wife of M.A. Bulgakov.