21 Facts About Daniil Andreyev

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Daniil Leonidovich Andreyev was a Russian writer, poet, and Christian mystic.

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Daniil Andreyev graduated from high school but could not attend university because of his "non-proletarian" background.

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Daniil Andreyev was conscripted into the Red Army in 1942.

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Daniil Andreyev suffered a heart attack in prison in 1954, the first manifestation of the heart condition that would eventually cause his death.

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Daniil Andreyev was released on April 22,1957, already terminally ill.

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Daniil Andreyev was the second son of the famous Russian writer Leonid Andreyev and Alexandra Mikhailovna Andreyeva, who was the great-niece of Taras Shevchenko.

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On November 2,1906, Daniil Andreyev was born in Berlin's Grunewald at Herbertstrasse, 26.

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Daniil Andreyev was often sick and it was hard work for his adopted family to help him survive.

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That summer, at a dacha on the Black River near St Petersburg, Daniil Andreyev was stopped from drowning himself, yearning to see his mother and grandmother again.

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Andreyeva, Daniil wrote a great epic, where the action takes place in a fictional interplanetary space.

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In September 1917, Andreyev entered the Moscow Gymnasium of E A Repman, which he graduated in 1923.

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Daniil Andreyev writes about it in the first chapter of the second part of the book Rose of the World.

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In February 1927, the couple officially divorced, and Daniil Andreyev left the Higher State Literary Courses.

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Daniil Andreyev experienced the second event of a mystical nature on Easter 1928 in the Church of the Intercession in Levshin.

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Daniil Andreyev's many-day wandering through the forest led to a spiritual and mystical experience associated with the elementals.

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Daniil Andreyev was part of the funeral team, acted as a paramedic and army graphic designer.

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Daniil Andreyev received the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad".

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Daniil Andreyev created works while imprisoned despite not being allowed to do it by prison authorities.

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Daniil Andreyev soon receives some material assistance through the Union of Writers.

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Daniil Andreyev's body was buried on the Novodevichy cemetery near the mother's grave.

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Daniil Andreyev tried to restore Wanderers of Night, but he could only restore a few pages of it.