Michael Nikitich Belov

Background

Michael Nikitich Belov was born in 1875 in the village of Vasilievka (modern Ulyanovsk district, Ulyanovsk city in the Russian Federation).

Education

Michael Nikitich studied at an ungraded school. In 1893 he left his native village and went to wander around the world.

Career

In 1905, the first publications in the local press appeared. In the early 1910s, Michael Nikitich joined the circle of writers from the people of the Simbirsk journalist and writer N.N. Ilyin (known under the pseudonym Nilly). The poems of Michael Belov were published in the books of N. Ilyin, Simbirsk journalist and writer as well as in the newspaper "Life" (1910-1911). At the end of 1910 the first and only collection of M. Belov's "Poems" was published. After the October Revolution (1917), Michael Nikitich took part in the work of the literary association "House of Folk Art", published in the literary and artistic almanac called "Nugget".

Connections

Sister:

Anna Nikitichna Belova

Friend:

Nikolai Nikolaevich Ilyin

Also known by the pseudonym N. Nilly, Nikolai Nikolaevich Ilyin was a Russian prose writer, poet, publicist and publisher of the Simbirsk newspaper "Life" (1910-1911).

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989