Background
MAMONTOV, Yakov was born on October 22, 1888 in village Strelichnyy, now Sumy Oblast. Son of a peasant.
playwright and theater critic Ukrainian writer
MAMONTOV, Yakov was born on October 22, 1888 in village Strelichnyy, now Sumy Oblast. Son of a peasant.
1914 graduate Moscow Business Institute.
From 1920 various research and teaching posts at Khar’kov higher educational and research institutions. 1907 first work published. Passed from symbolism to modernism and realism, with traces of socialist realism.
Attacked Ukraine “bourgeois nationalism”. Wrote about socialist reforms in village and formations of new Soviet intelligentsia. Adapted for stage works of Shevchenko, Kotsyubinskiy and Franko.
Wrote theoretical and critical studies of drama and theater.