1. Vasili Yakovlevich Eroshenko was a blind writer, translator, esperantist, linguist, traveler, poet and teacher.
13 Facts About Vasili Eroshenko
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Vasili Eroshenko travelled to Britain in 1912 and studied in a school for the blind.
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Vasili Eroshenko studied massage in a school center for the blind in Tokyo, after learning their reputation in the practice.
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Vasili Eroshenko went to Burma, in Moulmein, and established a school for the blind.
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Vasili Eroshenko was arrested in Calcutta, as a Russian Bolshevik.
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Vasili Eroshenko escaped arrest and went to Bombay, but later was caught and sent back to Calcutta.
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Vasili Eroshenko escaped from the ship when in Shanghai and from there successfully returned to Russia.
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In May 1921 due to active participation in socialist protests and his participation in the second convention of the Japanese Socialist Party, Vasili Eroshenko was beaten up by the police and was arrested.
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From 1921 to 1923 Vasili Eroshenko went to China and lived in Harbin for more or less three months, then stayed in Beijing, China, where he taught Esperanto.
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Vasili Eroshenko was in contact with the Chinese writer Lu Xun, who translated a play and a collection of fairy tales by Eroshenko in Chinese.
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Vasili Eroshenko gave lectures to a university and a teacher's training school for women in Beijing on Russian literature and other themes.
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In 1923 Vasili Eroshenko left China and spent his remaining time in Europe.
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Vasili Eroshenko translated works of Marx, Engels and Lenin into Japanese.