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Fyodor Gladkov

Died in 1958

Fyodor Gladkov (1883-1958), born in the province of Saratov into a peasant family of Old Believers, became a schoolteacher and from 1904 was active in revolutionary movements; in 1906 he was sentenced to exile in Siberia. After the revolution, he worked in Novorossiysk, in public education and then at the head of a newspaper. Settled in Moscow in 1921, he directed the Gorky Literary Institute from 1945 to 1948 and received the Stalin Prize. He died in Moscow on 20 December 1958.

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