Pavel Aleksandrovich Bulanzhe was a Russian publicist, translator, children's writer, and memoirist. Author of many works about L.N. Tolstoy.
Background
Pavel Aleksandrovich Bulanzhe was born on the 2 (14) June of 1865 in settlement Artemovka, Miusskaya district, Don Host Oblast (now Artemivka, Amvrosiyivka district, Donetsk region, Ukraine) in the family of a village teacher, his father was a Frenchman.
Education
Working at the Catherine railway, Pavel Aleksandrovich graduated from the Taganrog Gymnasium in 1882. Graduated from the faculty of physics and mathematics of Kharkiv University in 1887, candidate of mathematical Sciences (1888).
Career
Before Pavel Aleksandrovich started making money on his creativity, he from 1887 till 1897 worked on the railway department. Since 1893 collaborated with Posrednik publishing house. Due to public restrictions in 1907 secretly went to Grozny, got a job as a worker at oil fields.
In 1909- 1916 lived in Ovsyanikov, near Yasnaya Polyana, cultivated land on a collective basis with farmers, organized a cooperative shop. After the October revolution attracted to work in the people's Commissariat RSFSR. In 1923-1925 he worked in the first state farm of the RSFSR Lesnyye Polyany created by V. D. Bonch-Bruevich on Lenin's initiative.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
L.N. Tolstoy: "Bulanzhe is unusual, gentle, warmhearted and unshakably firm in the religious sense, man. I loved him very much."