Biography
Alexander Beliaev (?????????? ?????????? ??????? IPA: [?l???ksandr r??man?v??t? b??l?æj?f] (1884?1942) is a Russian author of science fiction whose body of work from the 1920s and 1930s made him a highly regarded Russian author in that field. His published works include Professor Dowell's Head (?????? ?????????? ??????), Amphibian Man (???????-???????), Ariel (??????), and The Star KETs (?????? ???; KETs are the initials of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky), The Air Seller and many more.
Born in Smolensk, young Alexander dreamed of flying and one day climbed to the roof of a barn. In his leap from there, he severely injured his spine. By his mid-twenties, Beliaev suffered constant pain from the injuries and would become paralyzed for months at a time. In his convalescence, he turned to the work of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and began to write novels in earnest.
Beliaev died of hunger in the Soviet town of Pushkin in 1942 while it was occupied by the Nazis. His wife and daughter, who managed to survive, were taken away to Poland by the Nazis.
Bibliography
Novels
Amphibian (1928), Moscow, Raduga Publisher, 1986. ISBN 5-05-000659-7
Professor Dowell's head (1979), New York, Macmillan, 1980. ISBN 0-02-508370-8
Struggle in Space
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Biography
Alexander Beliaev
Alexander Beliaev (?????????? ?????????? ??????? IPA: [?l???ksandr r??man?v??t? b??l?æj?f] (1884?1942) is a Russian author of science fiction whose body of work from the 1920s and 1930s made him a highly regarded Russian author in that field. His published works include Professor Dowell's Head (?????? ?????????? ??????), Amphibian Man (???????-???????), Ariel (??????), and The Star KETs (?????? ???; KETs are the initials of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky), The Air Seller and many more.
Born in Smolensk, young Alexander dreamed of flying and one day climbed to the roof of a barn. In his leap from there, he severely injured his spine. By his mid-twenties, Beliaev suffered constant pain from the injuries and would become paralyzed for months at a time. In his convalescence, he turned to the work of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and began to write novels in earnest.
Beliaev died of hunger in the Soviet town of Pushkin in 1942 while it was occupied by the Nazis. His wife and daughter, who managed to survive, were taken away to Poland by the Nazis.
Bibliography
Novels
Amphibian (1928), Moscow, Raduga Publisher, 1986. ISBN 5-05-000659-7
Professor Dowell's head (1979), New York, Macmillan, 1980. ISBN 0-02-508370-8
Struggle in Space
- Natan Eidelman
Natan Eidelman (Eidel'man, Natan Iakovlevich), (Russian: ????? ?????????) (1930 ? 1989) was a Russian author and historian. He wrote books about author Alexander Pushkin, Decembrists Sergey Muravyov-Apostol and Mikhail Lunin, and historian Nikolai...
- Victor Erofeyev
Victor Erofeyev (Russian: ?????? ???????; born 1947) is a Russian author, the son of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat (who worked closely with Stalin). He spent some of his childhood in Paris, which accounts for why much of his work has been translated...
- Nadezhda Durova
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- Mark Aldanov
Mark Aldanov (Mark Alexandrovich Landau) (Russian: ??????? ???? ?????????????) (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1889?February 25, 1957) was a Russian emigrant writer, known for his historical novels. Mark Landau (Aldanov) was born in Kiev in the family of...
- Konstantin Aksakov
Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (Russian: ?????????? ???????) (1817 - 1860) was a Russian critic and writer, one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles. He wrote plays, social criticism, and histories of the ancient Russian social order. The writer...