1. Vikenty Vikentyevich Smidovich, better known by his pen name Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev, was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and medical doctor of Polish descent.
12 Facts About Vikenty Veresaev
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Vikenty Veresaev was a cousin of the later prominent Soviet politician, Pyotr Smidovich.
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Vikenty Veresaev's first work to appear in print was a collection of poems in 1885.
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Vikenty Veresaev wrote about the difficult position of the Russian peasantry, such as in the short story "Lizar" which was praised by Vladimir Lenin.
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Vikenty Veresaev published his most successful book, the semi-autobiographical Memoirs of a Physician in 1901, in which he sharply criticized the system of Russian medical education.
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Vikenty Veresaev told of his experiences in his book In the War, published in 1906.
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Vikenty Veresaev wrote a long critical and philosophical work entitled Vital Life, the first book of which was devoted to a comparative analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy ; the second book, Apollo and Dionysius, was a critique of Friedrich Nietzsche's views.
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In 1911 Vikenty Veresaev established the Pisately v Moskve Publishing House which he headed until 1918.
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Vikenty Veresaev completed his cycle of works about the intelligentsia, including the novels The Deadlock and The Sisters.
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Vikenty Veresaev published his reminiscences In the Years of My Youth in 1927 and In My Student Years in 1929.
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Vikenty Veresaev translated works by ancient Greek and Roman authors, including Homer's Hymns, Sappho, Archilochus and others.
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Vikenty Veresaev was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.