Romanov Panteleimon Sergeevich - a famous playwright in the Russian Empire, and later in the USSR.
Biography
The future writer was born in July 1884 on the 24th in the village of Petrovskoye in the Tula province. Panteleimon's parents were from impoverished nobles. Romanov began his education at a school in the city of Belev. Later he moved to the Tula gymnasium, where he studied for eight years. He was a very capable student and at the end of the gymnasium decided to get a higher education. Having moved to Moscow, Panteleimon without any problems was able to enter Moscow University at the Faculty of Law.
In the same period, he began to work on his first works. He published examples of his work in the newspapers Russian Thought and Russian Vedomosti. His stories were noticed by Maxim Gorky himself, who was imbued with sympathy for the young writer. Such attention shifted Romanov's priorities, and he began to devote more time to writing, and then completely left for the village, leaving his studies at the university.
In 1918, Panteleimon worked in the journal New Life, on the pages of which he spoke extremely negatively of such a phenomenon as Bolshevism. He paid particular attention to the spread of this ideology in the villages. During the First World War, he worked in St. Petersburg, as he did not go on conscription due to his health.
Professional career
Success and recognition for the beginning prose writer came in 1920. After returning to Moscow, Romanov began to write independent works, which were published in large numbers. Particularly popular was the epic novel "Rus", which talked about the life of noblemen and simple peasants in the village. “Rus” had several parts: pre-war and military, probably, further development was also planned, but the novel was never finished.
In the early twenties, Romanov also worked in a children's colony as a simple teacher. This caused great sympathy and respect for the writer from the literary elite.
By the mid-twenties Panteleimon wrote a large number of short acutely social sketches that were not very popular. But after the author’s rapprochement with the Nikitinsky Subbotnik writers, the situation has fundamentally changed. His work, not previously recognized, came to the fore and became popular. Romanov was extremely negative about Bolshevism and paid special attention to this in his works, and thanks to this he was quite famous abroad.
