Background
Pyotr Lukich Proskurin was born on January 22, 1928 in the village of Kositsy (now located in Sevsky district, Bryansk region) in a peasant family.
Pyotr Lukich Proskurin was born on January 22, 1928 in the village of Kositsy (now located in Sevsky district, Bryansk region) in a peasant family.
During his teens, he went through the Nazi invasion. Until 1950 Pyotr worked at the communal farm (kolkhoz). After serving in the Soviet Army (1950-1953), he stayed in the Far East, worked on timber harvesting and, during that very period, he began his literary activity. He had been published since 1958.
In 1957-1962, Pyotr Lukich lived in Khabarovsk, in 1962-1964 - in Moscow, in 1964-1968 - in Orel, and then finally settled in Moscow. He graduated from the Higher Literary Courses at the Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky (1964). In the 1980s, he was a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Roman-Gazeta".
In 1928, Luke Zakharovich organized the communal farm in his homeland, the Kositsy, participated in the dekulakization (the Soviet campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, and executions of millions of the better-off peasants and their families in 1929–1932). Therefore, he took the decision to move to the south, to Nazran. There Luke Zakharovich began to work as the chief accountant at a flourmill. However, during the first audit, money shortage was detected, and Luka Proskurin was arrested. He returned to his native land in the late 1930s.
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