Background
Mikhail Borisovich Khrapchenko was born on the 8th of November in the village of Chizhovka, Roslavl district, Smolensk Region, Russian Federation.
Smolensk State University
literary critic literary scholar Public figure
Mikhail Borisovich Khrapchenko was born on the 8th of November in the village of Chizhovka, Roslavl district, Smolensk Region, Russian Federation.
In 1924 Mikhail Borisovich graduated from the department of verbal history of Smolensk State University.
In 1939-1948 Mikhail Borisovich was working as a chairman of the Committee on Arts under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. The area of his research interests included theoretical and methodological aspects of literary criticism, the history of Russian classical literature (Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy).
Mikhail Borisovich is an author of many monographs published in Moscow. In 1929-1931 he worked as an associate professor, head of the literary and linguistic department of the pedagogical faculty of Voronezh State University, where he conducted a seminar dedicated to Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. One of the organizers of the magazine Voshozdenie, a member of its editorial board. He took an active part in the activities of the Association of Proletarian Writers of the Central Black Earth Region. At the suggestion of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Mikhail Borisovich was sent to Moscow to work at the Institute of Literature and Art of the Communist Academy.