Background
YEROSHENKO, Vasiliy was born on January 12, 1890 in village Obukhovka, Belgorod Oblast.
YEROSHENKO, Vasiliy was born on January 12, 1890 in village Obukhovka, Belgorod Oblast.
Studied at Moscow school for the blind.
Wrote in Japanese and Esperanto. In his early youth went blind. Played with a blind orchestra in Moscow restaurants.
Studied Esperanto and then, with the aid of European Esperantists, went to London and entered the Royal College for the Blind. 1914 went to Tokyo; mastered Japanese and from 1916 published his Japanese-language stories and tales. 1919 deported to Vladivostok as a “Bolshevik agent”.
Thence moved to Peking. Lectured on Russian Literature at Peking University. 1923 returned to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
In Moscow translated Marxist classics into Japanese.