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Arkady Averchenko | |
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| Born | 27 March 1881 Sevastopol, Russia |
| Died | 12 March 1925 (aged 43) Prague, Czechoslovakia |
Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko (Russian: Арка́дий Тимофе́евич Аве́рченко; 27 March 1881 – 12 March 1925) was a Russian playwright and satirist. He published his stories in the journal Satirikon, of which he was also an editor, in the series of New Satirikon,[1] and other publications. He published a total of around 20 books. Averchenko's satirical writings can be described as liberal. After the Russian Civil War, he emigrated to Central Europe and died in Prague.
- ^ Lesley Milne (October 2006). "Novyi Satirikon, I9I4-I9I8: The Patriotic Laughter of the Russian Liberal Intelligentsia during the First World War and the Revolution". The Slavonic and East European Review. 84 (4). JSTOR 4214359.