Background
Akulshin (Beryozov) Rodion Mikhailovich was born on April 8, 1896, in the village Vilovatoe Volga region of Samara province, died June 24, 1988, city of Ashford, Connecticut, United States. He came from a peasant family.
Akulshin (Beryozov) Rodion Mikhailovich was born on April 8, 1896, in the village Vilovatoe Volga region of Samara province, died June 24, 1988, city of Ashford, Connecticut, United States. He came from a peasant family.
After primary school, he was enrolled in a two classes school, then in a teacher's seminary, after which he began to teach in 1915.
From the end of 1923 he lived in Moscow. During the Great Patriotic War he was taken prisoner; after the war he left for the United States, where he lived and was published under the surname Beryozov. He was published since 1917. The author of many collections of short stories (since 1925), including for children.
In the autumn of 1937, Akulshin, as a member of the brigade of the Central House of Folk Art, visited Chigolsky district, Vorontsovsky district, Buturlinovsky district and Losevsky district of the Voronezh region, where, together with Pavel Davydovich Druzhinin and Viktor Fedorovich Bokov, he looked for performers of folk songs and chastushki, recorded folklore texts. In December of the same year he participated in the preparation of the inter-district olympiad of amateur art in the village of Losevo. In September 1938 he came to Buturlinovsky district and Losevsky district.