Biography about Panteleev

Brief information The real name of the writer is Alexey Ivanovich Yeremeyev. The nickname, which later became his literary pseudonym, he received either in an orphanage or at a school for difficult teenagers: the boy did not give himself offense, for which he was compared with a lazy Panteleev, Petrograd bandit. Alexei Yeremeyev was born on August 22 in St.

Petersburg. Although his father came from an Old Believers' family and could not dissolve a marriage, he and his wife parted. Alexandra Vasilievna Yeremeeva was left alone with three children and, in order to feed them, began to give music lessons. In the year, Yeremeyev entered the second Petrograd real school. Two years later, the family left the city, hoping to escape from hunger.

After the Yaroslavl uprising, the Yeremeyev moved to Tatarstan. Alexei managed to return to Petrograd in the year. By that time, Yeremeyev had already written poetry and almost all the money given to him by his mother for pocket expenses, spent on books.

After the exclusion of their school, Alexei began to trade in the bazaar stolen electric bulbs. He was caught and sent to an educational institution for difficult teenagers-the school of socio-individual education named after Dostoevsky, the very “Republic of Skid”. There Alexey met Grigory Belykh. In the year, friends escaped from school to become actors, but soon abandoned acting courses and began to wander.

In the year, young people returned to Petrograd, where they took up the writing of the book. Maxim Gorky mentioned this book many times in his articles and letters, and also recommended it to his friends of the literature. Alexei Yeremeyev, aka Leonid Panteleev, entered the circle of writers of that time. Together with Grigory of the White, they began to print feuilletons and humorous stories in the magazines “Change”, “Kino -Hotel” and “Hippo”.

In the year, Grigory Belykh repressed, three years later he died in prison. Panteleev escaped his arrest thanks to the support of influential friends. During the Great Patriotic War, the writer lived in the besieged Leningrad without registration and food cards and almost died of hunger. The readers and friends were saved by Panteleeva. Later, on the basis of his blockade diaries, Leonid published the books “In the besieged city” and “Living Monuments”.

After the war, Panteleev married, he had a daughter, about whom he wrote the book “Our Masha”. Critics often compare this work with the famous book by Chukovsky “From two to five”. It is worth noting that most of Leonid’s works are somehow based on the events of his life. The writer died on July 9 in Leningrad. Similar authors.