Ivan Shmelyov

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Ivan Shmelyov
Born	3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1873 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	24 June 1950(1950-06-24) (aged 76) near Paris, France
Genre	Fiction
Notable works	The Stone Age The Sun of the Dead

Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв, also spelled Shmelev and Chmelov; 3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1873 – 24 June 1950) was a Russian writer best known for his idyllic recreations of a pre-Revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow. He was a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda. After the October Revolution Shmelyov fled to France, becoming an émigré writer.^[1]