Background
MAKSUD, Makhmud was born on January 15, 1900 in village Kibyakhuza, now Tat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Son of a mullah.
MAKSUD, Makhmud was born on January 15, 1900 in village Kibyakhuza, now Tat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Son of a mullah.
Until 1919 studied at a seminary. Graduate Communist University of Workers of the East and Tat Department, Moscow University.
During Civil War fought at front. From 1921 worked in Moscow for Tat newspaper “Young Worker”. 1918 first work printed.
Wrote poetry, essays, lit criticism, lit studies and did translations. During World War 2 worked for front newspaper “Sovetskiy voin” after the war wrote several books of essays. Wrote studies on work of G. Tukay, G. Ibragimov, et cetera
Translated into Tat; works of Pushkin. Turgenev’s novel “Rudin”. Lev Tolstoy's Voyna i mir (War and Peace).
Gorky's Mat’ (Mother). Nekrasov’s poems; Feuchtwanger’s novel “The Oppenheim Family”. Nizami’s poem “Leyli and Mcdzhnun”.
The “Communist Manifesto”. Plekhanov’s articles about art, et cetera
Communist Party member from 1919.