Background
Petr Semenovich Parfenov was born on June 29, 1894 in Nikolskoye, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Petr Semenovich Parfenov was born on June 29, 1894 in Nikolskoye, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Petr Semenovich headed the Political Department of the People’s Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic. In 1920s in Moscow he held responsible party and state posts. Supervised the Moscow Writers Association.
The most famous work of Parfenov - "Guerrilla hymn", which became a folk song ("Through the valleys and the hills ...", 1920); for a long time the lyrics were attributed to the poet Sergey Yakovlevich Alymov.
From the autumn of 1916 to the spring of 1917 - warrant officer of the 186th Reserve Regiment Parfenov served in Bobrov, Voronezh Province. Here, at amateur concerts, Parfenov sang a song in his own words (“On Suchan”), in which the theme of the future “Guerrilla hymn” was already announced.
In October 1935 Petr Semenovich Parfenov
was groundlessly repressed and later shot dead.
(Russian edition)
1925
