Background
David Aizman was born in Nikolayev, a coastal city in what is now Ukraine.
David Aizman was born in Nikolayev, a coastal city in what is now Ukraine.
He went to Paris in 1896 to study painting. While living in France, he made his debut in the magazine Russian Wealth. Two of his most original works, In a Foreign Land (1902) and The Countrymen (1903), were written and set in France.
He returned to Russia in 1902.
During the 1900s and 1910s his stories and novellas appeared in leading periodicals, and his plays were staged in major theatres. His open portrayal of Russian and Ukrainian anti-semitism made his fiction unpublishable in the Soviet Union, and his reputation and popularity suffered a serious decline.