Andrey Aldan-Semenov Explained

Andrey Aldan-Semyonov
Birth Date:27 October 1908
Birth Place:Shungur, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Date:8 December 1985
Death Place:Moscow, Soviet Union
Citizenship:Soviet Union
Nationality:Russian
Occupation:Writer

Andrey Ignatyevich Aldan-Semyonov (Russian: Андре́й Игна́тьевич Алда́н-Семёнов; 27 October 1908 – 8 December 1985) was a Russian writer, who was imprisoned in the Far Eastern Soviet Gulag camps from 1938 to 1953.[1] Along with Boris Dyakov and Yury Pilyar, he published his memoirs of Gulag life as part of the second wave of Russian literature on the Soviet camp experience, after Georgy Shelest published his Kolyma Notes and Alexander Solzhenitsyn his One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: The Gulag Archipelago. registration. Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Alexander Solzhenitsyn. 1973. New York. Harper & Row. 621.
  2. Book: Tolczyk, Dariusz. See No Evil: Literary Cover-ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience. 1999. Yale University Press. 254. 0300066082.