Background
Ivan Yakovlevich Stolyarov was born in 1882 in the Karachun village, Zadonsky district, Russian Federation.
Ivan Yakovlevich Stolyarov was born in 1882 in the Karachun village, Zadonsky district, Russian Federation.
Ivan Yakovlevich finished the lower agricultural school (Kon-Kolodez village, Zadonsky district, 1902), and the Mariinsky secondary agricultural school (Saratov). In France, he got a degree in agricultural engineering (Toulouse).
After 1917 Ivan Yakovlevich worked in the Centrosoyuz since 1928 in the trade representative of the USSR in Paris. In the early 1930s, he refused to return immediately to the USSR with his family and moved to the position of an immigrant.
Stolyarov's memoirs reflect the customs and life of the Voronezh village of the end of the XIX century, there are scenes depicting Voronezh. Ivan Yakovlevich is one of the organizers of the all-Russian peasant Union and a member of the revolutionary movement (1905).