Dmitriy Andreyevich Furmanov (; – 15 March 1926) was a Russian writer, revolutionary and military officer.

Biography

He was born to a peasant family. For three years, he attended the

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in Kineshma. It was there that he developed an interest in literature. He pursued his interests at the Imperial Moscow University but, after graduating in 1915, failed the state examinations. During

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, he served with the

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. It was there he met and married . In 1917, he joined the Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists, then became an

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. He fled Moscow following the Kornilov affair and settled in

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, where he provided support to the

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. In 1918, he joined the Russian Communist Party (b) and managed propaganda for the . The following year, he went to the Eastern Front to serve as a political worker. While there, his wife had an affair with Commander Vasily Chapayev, which resulted in him being transferred to the Turkestan Front. There, he was instrumental in quashing the

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. After that he went to

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, where he was seriously injured. After his recovery, in 1921, he returned to Moscow, where he was employed by several organizations dealing with military publications and he completed his education at

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. After 1923, he worked for " Gosizdat", a publisher of propaganda. He also worked for the (МАПП). He died of

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and is buried in

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. In 1941, the town of Sereda, where he was born, was renamed Furmanov after him. Despite the affair with his wife, he is best known for his novel about Chapayev. It was translated into English by George and Jeanette Kittell and issued by Foreign Languages Publishing House in 1940.

Awards

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, (1922)

External links

The ''Chapayev'' book
1891 births 1926 deaths People from Furmanov People from Nerekhtsky Uyezd Bolsheviks Soviet novelists Soviet male writers Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Neurological disease deaths in the Soviet Union Infectious disease deaths in the Soviet Union Deaths from meningitis Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery {{Russia-writer-stub

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