Background
VIRTA, Nikolay was born on December 19, 1906 in Lazovka, Tambov Region.
VIRTA, Nikolay was born on December 19, 1906 in Lazovka, Tambov Region.
1923 on edition staff, Tambov Oblast newspaper. 1935 first major work published. During World War II front-line corresponding.
Board member, USSR Union of Writers. 1954 expelled from above and 1957 reinstated.
Plays: Earth 1937, Slander 1939, Our Daily Bread 1947, Plot of the Doomed 1948, Endless Horizons 1957, In Summer the Sky is High Three Stones of Faith 1960, Operation Czech Forest 1961, Thirst Golgotha 1961, Winds Blew and Blew 1962, Niagara Falls 1962, Secret of Clemance and Son 1964. Novels: Loneliness 1935, The Adventurer 1937, Evening Bells 1951, Steep Hills 1955, Soil Returned 1960, The One We don’t Know 1960, Our Bertha 1960, Field Marshal 1961, Aksushka Two Days of their Life 1962, Fast Running Days 1965, Novels of Last Years 1965, Cat with a Long, Long Tail 1966, The End of a Career 1967, How it used to be and how it is 1973, Selected Works (2 vols.) 1973.