Background
Panteleimon Sergeyevich Romanov was born on July 12, 1884 in Petrovskoe, Tula oblast, Russian Federation. He was born into a gentry family.
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Panteleimon Sergeyevich Romanov was born on July 12, 1884 in Petrovskoe, Tula oblast, Russian Federation. He was born into a gentry family.
After completing his law studies at Moscow State University, he devoted himself to literature. He published his first story in 1911, but had little success before the 1917 Revolution.
Panteleimon Sergeyevich published Childhood in 1920. He became one of the best known Soviet authors of the 1920s and 1930s. He won most of his fame with short satirical stories exposing the ignorance, inefficiency and cowardice of the new Soviet bureaucrats and their aides. Panteleimon Sergeyevich also devoted his attention to the sexual revolution of the 1920s, sometimes in works that were considered too graphic by contemporary standards, as in the story Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms (1926). He wrote novels in the epic manner, including Childhood (1926) and his five volume series Russia (1922-1936), dealing with rural life in pre-revolutionary Russia.
In 1938, he died of heart disease.
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2004