playwright writer theatrical and literary critic
Sergey Abramovich Auslender was born on September 30, 1886 Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation in a merchant-noble family. His father, Narodovolets Abram Auslander (1859-1887?) was from a Jewish merchant family from Kherson. He died in exile in Siberia shortly after the birth of his son.
Sergey Abramovich Auslender studied at the gymnasiums in Kiev, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod; graduated from the 7th Saint Petersburg Gymnasium in 1906. Sergey Abramovich studied at the Faculty of History and Philology of the Imperial University of Saint Petersburg (now Saint Petersburg State University). He had friendly relations with M.A. Kuzmin, who introduced him to the circle of St. Petersburg bohemia.
Sergey Abramovich was engaged in literary work, theatrical criticism. From the end of 1915 he printed correspondence from the front in Petrograd publications, in 1916 he published a collection of short stories about the anger of the day, "The Heart of a Warrior".
Having left revolutionary Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), in 1918 in Moscow Sergey Abramovich collaborated in the newspaper "Zhizn" ("Life"). He was a war correspondent in the White Army, in 1918-1919 he lived and worked in Kolchak Omsk, served as Kolchak’s press secretary, author of Kolchak’s biography and his main speechwriter.
