Vladimir Korolenko

Vladimir Korolenko
Portrait by Ilya Repin, 1912
Native name
Влади́мир Короле́нко
BornVladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko
(1853-07-27)27 July 1853
Zhitomir, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire
Died25 December 1921(1921-12-25) (aged 68)
Poltava, Ukrainian SSR
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Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (Russian: Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Галактіо́нович Короле́нко; 27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a Russian writer, journalist and humanitarian of Ukrainian origin. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.

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