Yakov Mikhailovich Metallov

Background

Yakov Mikhailovich Metallov was born on June, 5, 1900 in Mozyr, Belarus in the family of burghers.

Education

Yakov Mikhailovich graduated from the Gomel gymnasium (January, 1919). He graduated from the verbal history department of the pedagogical faculty of the Voronezh State University (1924).

Career

During the war Yakov Mikhailovich fought on the Western Front. After he worked as an investigator in the Provincial Emergency Commission.

Since 1921, Yakov Mikhailovich was published in local periodicals (satires, essays, reviews; used the pseudonyms Met., Sergey Zhigulev, Sergey). He also worked for the newspaper "Voronezh Commune" (since June 1922). Yakov Mikhailovich was the deputy editor of "Our Newspaper".

Later Yakov Mikhailovich lived in Moscow, he taught at various universities, including the Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky, was engaged in the study of Western European, mainly German literature.

He is the author of books about the works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Lion Feuchtwanger, and others.

Membership

Yakov Mikhailovich was the member of the "Music Perception Club".

• USSR Writers Union