1. Vasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, memoirist, and the brother of famous theater director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
13 Facts About Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko was born in Tiflis, the son of a Russian army officer based in the Caucasus.
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko began writing poetry while a student of the Moscow 1st Cadets Corps.
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In early 1870 Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko was deported to Archangelsk.
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko published the majority of his novels, short stories and books for children in the 1870s.
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko travelled to the Balkans as the correspondent for Novoye Vremya.
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko's reports were published under the Shest moniker and later made part one of the One Year of War compilation.
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko took part in all of the key military operations and was rewarded with the St George's Cross, usually reserved for heroic soldiers.
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The common characteristic of Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko's novels was their "overpopulation"; they boasted a huge number of characters, most of them vague and undeveloped.
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One of the most successful of Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko's books was Major Bobkov and His Orphans, a novel about a man of the highest moral standards who devotes his life to the bringing up of orphan children, refusing himself everything for their happiness.
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko arrived at Port Arthur together with a shipment of ammunition just before the start of the Siege of Port Arthur.
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko was one of the most prolific writers in the history of Russian literature, having published more than 250 books in his lifetime.
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In 1921 Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko emigrated to Germany, then moved to Czechoslovakia where he died in Prague, in 1936.