Russian Writers for Children (Russkie Pisateli Detyam)

Real name — Aleksey Ivanovich Yeremeyev — a Russian Soviet writer. After the revolution, during the Civil War, he was homeless. In 1921 he entered the Dostoevsky School of Social and Individual Education (ShKiD), founded by V. N. Soroka-Rosinsky, where he met G. Belykh. After leaving school he lived in Leningrad and worked as a journalist.

Alyosha Yeremeyev was born in St. Petersburg, into the family of a Cossack officer, a cornet, Ivan Adrianovich Yeremeyev, a descendant of Old Believers, a hero of the Russo-Japanese War, who later inherited the family business — the timber and firewood tra…

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