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Yevgeni Chirikov
writer
- Born:
- 1864-08-05, Kazan, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire [now Republic of Tatarstan, Russia]
- Died:
- 1932-01-18, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Born under the domes of Kazan on 5 August 1864, Yevgeni Chirikov grew up amid the mingled scents of the Volga and ink. His pen soon carved stories that travelled farther than he ever could: the mountain-shadowed fable Devi gory reached screens in 1919, while the aching romance Lyubov statskogo sovetnika had already flickered into life four years earlier. Exile carried him westward; he breathed his last in Prague on 18 January 1932, leaving the twin lights of his films still glimmering behind him.
