Background
Veresaev, Vikentii was born on January 4, 1867 in Tula.
Veresaev, Vikentii was born on January 4, 1867 in Tula.
Studied medicine at Moscow and Derpt Universities. Studied medicine at Moscow and Derpt Universities.
In the 1890s, a ‘legal Marxist’, a writer of novels about the intelligentsia and the hard life of the peasantry, close to Gorkii. Military doctor during the Russo-Japanese war, 1904-1905. Head of the Publishing House of Writers in Moscow, 1911-1918.
After the revolution, wrote memoirs and biographies (Pushkin, Gogol). In his old age, translated Homer and was honoured as an old Marxist and revolutionary.