1. Aleksandr Arosev then studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Liege.
13 Facts About Aleksandr Arosev
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Aleksandr Arosev served his sentence and was mobilised in the Imperial Russian Army in 1916 as a warrant officer until and served there until the February Revolution.
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Until 1927, Aleksandr Arosev was active in the Soviet state security forces of the Cheka and the OGPU.
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In 1927 Aleksandr Arosev was the Soviet ambassador to Lithuania, from 1929 to 1933, the plenipotentiary ambassador in Czechoslovakia, then he worked in the Soviet embassy in France.
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From 1934 to 1937, Aleksandr Arosev was the Chairman of the Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
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Aleksandr Arosev was a Delegate of the 1st All-Union Congress of Writers.
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Aleksandr Arosev was a resident of the famous apartment complex House on the Embankment.
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Aleksandr Arosev was arrested during the height of the Great Purge on 3 July 1937 after he went to see Nikolai Yezhov, whom he knew since the Civil War.
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Aleksandr Arosev wrote multiple letters to his old friend Vyacheslav Molotov during this period pleading for him to intervene in his trial, however he never got any response.
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Aleksandr Arosev made his debut in 1916 with the story "The Carpenters" and the poem "Beloshveyk".
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Aleksandr Arosev was considered to be one of the most prominent proletarian writers in the RSFSR and many of his works were published widely in magazines until his arrest.
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Aleksandr Arosev was father of actresses Elena and Olga Aroseva.
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Aleksandr Arosev's cenotaph is in the Golovinsky cemetery in Moscow.