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Vladimir Korolenko | |
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 Portrait by Ilya Repin, 1912 | |
| Native name | Влади́мир Короле́нко |
| Born | Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko 27 July 1853 Zhitomir, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 December 1921 (aged 68) Poltava, Ukrainian SSR |
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Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (Russian: Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Галактіо́нович Короле́нко; 27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian of a Ukrainian origin in the Russian Empire. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.