Sergey Ivanovich Gusev-Orenburgsky (russian: Серге́й Иванович Гусев-Оренбургский) (October 5, 1867 – June 1, 1963) was a Russian writer and a member of the Moscow literary group

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Biography

Gusev-Orenburgsky was born into the family of a merchant. In 1893 he became a village priest, but left the priesthood in 1898. He began publishing his works in 1890. He was greatly influenced by his acquaintance with

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

and by his participation in the

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(Knowledge) collections, which published his best works, including the novella ''In the Parish'' (1903), and the novel ''The Land of the Fathers'' (1905). Gusev-Orenburgsky wrote about the impoverishment of the Russian countryside and criticized the church and its ministers. ''The Land of the Fathers'' depicts the development of revolutionary events in the city and countryside and creates the image of the peasant-revolutionary. After the

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he emigrated to

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in 1921. It was there in 1922 that a Jewish aid organisation published his detailed account of pogroms against Jews in Ukraine in 1919-20.Багровая книга. Погромы 1919-20 гг. на Украине https://vtoraya-literatura.com/pdf/gusev-orenburgsky_bagrovaya_kniga_pogromy_1919-1920_na_ukraine_1983__ocr.pdf A censored version was published in the Soviet Union in 1923 with an introduction by

. In 1923 he emigrated to the United States and lived in New York. In 1928 he published the novel ''The Land of the Children''.

English translations

*''The Land of the Fathers'', (novel), The Dial Press, NY, 1924. *''The Land of the Children'', (novel), Longmans, Green and Co, NY, 1928.

References

1867 births 1963 deaths Russian male novelists Russian male short story writers White Russian emigrants to the United States People from Orenburg {{Russia-writer-stub