Background
Vasil’ev, Pavel was born on December 25, 1910 in Zaisan, Kazakhstan. Son of a Semirechenskii Cossack.
Vasil’ev, Pavel was born on December 25, 1910 in Zaisan, Kazakhstan. Son of a Semirechenskii Cossack.
Very popular in his time. Amazingly sincere poet in the sycophantic atmosphere of the 1930s. Arrested and disappeared in the Gulag, circumstances of death unknown.
Poems re-published during the Khrushchev thaw in the late 1950s.