Background
Nikolai Istomin was born in Voronezh, Russia in the family of the factory employee's family.
Nikolai Istomin was born in Voronezh, Russia in the family of the factory employee's family.
Since 1920 he lived in Riga. The Creator (1922) and the editor of the school magazine "School years". Employee of the newspaper "Segodnya" and its evening release. Left certificates about the last days of life J. Rainis.
About his Moscow wanderings (1934-1936) told in his memoirs "Violent" (published in the magazine "Daugava", 1996, № 2, 3).
Unreasonably repressed (June 1941), sentenced to 5 years of forced labor camps. After his release he worked as a club manager, a mass activist in sanatoriums. In the 1950s-1960s he translated from Latvian into Russian the works of J. Rainis, V. Latsis, A.Upit and other writers.