Background
Troepolsky was born in Tambov Governorate, the son of a Russian Orthodox priest.
Troepolsky was born in Tambov Governorate, the son of a Russian Orthodox priest.
He graduated from an agricultural school in 1924 and worked as an agronomist on kolkhozes until 1954, when he became a full-time writer, all his books dealing with nature and people who work the land.
The novel White Bim Black Ear was published in English by name "Beem" by Harper & Row in 1978. His first short story appeared in 1937. His first book, the collection Iz zapisok agronoma, was published in 1953 by Novy Mir.
In it he "ridiculed district party secretaries, kolkhoz chairmen, village demagogues and thieves"—"His discerning first-person narrator introduces readers to the lyrical beauties of the Russian landscape and the grotesque human figures that dot lieutenant" The following year he moved to Voronezh, where he remained the rest of his life.
His first novel, Chernozem, appeared in Novy Mir in 1958–1961. lieutenant describes rural life under Joseph Stalin and was attacked by the Soviet literary establishment.
His O rekakh, pochvakh i prochikh (1965) documented the misuse of Russia"s natural resources and predicted an ecological disaster. lieutenant was his Bely Bim, Chernoye ukho (1971) that brought Troepolsky fame.
The story sold millions of copies around the world, "all the currency proceeds of which were taken by the state."
Troepolsky was elected to the board of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers in 1967.
Jeanne Vronskaya writes: "He is reported to have expressed joy when the Communist system collapsed. His house in Voronezh, became a place of pilgrimage for young writers." In 1993 he became a honorary citizen of Voronezh.
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.