Vasily Yan (; ,

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– August 5, 1954,

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), also spelled "Vassily Yan" (or "Ian") or just "V. Yan", was the pen name of Vasily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky (), a Russian and Soviet writer, author of famous historic novels.

Biography

Born in Kiev to a family of teachers, his father was from an Orthodox Christian priests family, who had graduated from seminary and taught Latin and Greek at the University Gymnasium. In 1897, Yan graduated from the historical and philological faculty of

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. Impressions of a two-year tour of Russia form the backbone of his book ''Notes of a Pedestrian'' (1901). In 1901–1904 he served as inspector of wells in

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, where he studied Oriental languages and the lives of local people. During the Russian-Japanese war, he was a military correspondent for the St. Petersburg News Agency (SPA). In 1906–1913, he taught Latin at the first Petersburg Gymnasium. As an organizer of the scouts he met with Colonel Robert Baden-Powell, who came to Russia in 1910. In the autumn of 1910 Vasily Yan introduced the magazine ''Pupil''. In 1913, he worked as a correspondent in

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for SPA. In 1914, with the beginning of the First World War, he became SPA's military correspondent in

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. In 1918–1919 he worked in the press service of

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in Siberia. After the establishment of Soviet power in Achinsk he worked as a teacher, correspondent and director of schools in Uryanhae (

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). He then became the editor of the leading newspaper ''The Power of labour'' in Minusinsk. That was when he first adopted the pseudonym Yan. In 1923, he moved to Moscow.

Works

*"Notes of a Pedestrian", 1901 *story "Story of Captain", 1907 *story "Soul", 1910 *"Raising of the Übermensch", 1910 *"What You Need to do for the Children of St. Petersburg", 1911 *novel "The Afghan Emerald" *story "

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", 1931 *story " The Lights at Barrows", 1932 *story "Spartacus", 1933 *story "Hammermen", 1933 *'' The Mongol Invasion'' (trilogy): **story "

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", 1939 (the USSR State Prize in 1942) **story " Baty", 1942 **story "To Last Sea", published 1955 *"Kids Commander" *"The Mystery of Lake Kara-Standard" *" Yermak's Campaign" *"On the Wings of Courage" *"Melters of the Vandzh" *"In the Sands of the Karakum" Falsification of the novel "Ermak's Campaign" was carried out in 2011 by " Leningrad publishing house" (ЛЕНИЗДАТ). In fact this novel is Lydia Charskaya's "Formidable squad" (Грозная дружина) published in 1909. The circulation of the fake "Lenizdat" was only 7050 copies. Since the falsification was successful, it is referred to as the real work of Vasily Yan.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yan, Vasily Writers from the Russian Empire Recipients of the Stalin Prize 1875 births 1954 deaths Writers from Kyiv Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery Soviet writers