Viktor Ivanovich Strazhev (27 October 1879,

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– 19 October 1950) was a bibliographer, translator, poet and literary critic. He is the author of poetry and short stories for children, having participated in the creation of school textbooks in Russian literature. Together with Aleksei Zerchaninov and D. Y. Rayhin, he wrote one of the best textbooks on literature of the 19th century, reprinted many times since 1940. Strazhev went to high school along with

Georgy Chulkov Georgy Ivanovich Chulkov ( rus, Гео́ргий Ива́нович Чулко́в, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ tɕʊlˈkof, a=Gyeorgiy Ivanovich Chulkov.ru.vorb.oga; – January 1, 1939) was a Russian Symbolist poet, editor, writer and ...

, studying under the guidance of Professors Viktor Hoffman and

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. Graduated in

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in 1898, and from the historical-philological faculty of

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in 1902, he worked for the journals ''Morning of Russia,'' ''Russian idea,'' and ''Pass.'' He had his first book of poems ''Opuscula'' (Little Stories) published in 1904, and three years later ''On The Holy Sadness.'' In 1907, he was elected a member of the Russian Society of Literature, had two collections of lyrics ''The Way of the Pigeon'' and ''Poems,'' published in 1908 and 1909 respectively, and a poetic response to Alexander Blok in 1919. From 1921, he worked in the People's Commissariat of Education, being awarded the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences without a thesis in 1944. During the Soviet years, Strazhev engaged himself mainly in teaching.

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