Background
Ivan Kataev was born on May 14, 1902 in Moscow, Russian Federation. His father was the uncle of Andrey Kolmogorov, and his mother was the niece of Pyotr Kropotkin.
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Ivan Kataev was born on May 14, 1902 in Moscow, Russian Federation. His father was the uncle of Andrey Kolmogorov, and his mother was the niece of Pyotr Kropotkin.
Ivan studied at Moscow State University at the Department of Economy in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Ivan was a member of the Civil War. He served in the 8th Army, which in the fall of 1919 participated in the Voronezh-Kastornoy operation against Denikin; freed from white Voronezh suffered typhus. The first poems of Kataev were published in the newspaper of the 8th Army. Echoes of those events are present in the story "The Poet" (1928).
Kataev's first works were published in 1921. From 1926 to 1932 Ivan was the leader of the literary group Pereval, which included Eduard Bagritsky, Mikhail Prishvin, and Pyotr Pavlenko, among others. His works include the novellas The Heart (1928), Milk (1930), and The Encounter (1934) and the collections of essays Movement (1932) and The Man on the Mountain (1934).
He made numerous long trips as a journalist to the Kuban, Altai Republic, Kola Peninsula, Armenia, and many other places, providing him with material for his fiction. His novel Milk was attacked on ideological grounds as a work that preached religion. His works were attacked throughout the mid-1930s, eventually leading to his arrest and execution as an "enemy of the people" in 1937.
