Victor Nekrasov

Michael George Falchikov (University of Edinburgh)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 17 Jun 1911
Died 3 Sep 1987
Activity 1946-1987

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in Russia; France

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer
Travel writer

Resources

Nekrasov's Works

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Born 17th June 1911 in Kiev, Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov’s earliest memories were of Zeppelin raids over Paris during the First World War and it was in that city that he died over 70 years later. In between those two dates, as he himself was to acknowledge, he could well have lived his life as a Russian

émigré

and, as he also acknowledged, his unconventional background could well have resulted in his arrest during the Great Purge of 1937-38. Yet he only became a victim of the Soviet system towards the end of his life and, ironically, the period of his greatest accommodation with the regime was during the post-war years of Stalin’s final paranoid phase, when life in the Soviet Union was particularly hard for creative artists.

Nekrasov’s mother, Zinaida Nikolaevna, was a doctor.

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Citation: Falchikov, Michael George. "Victor Nekrasov". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 February 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11694, accessed 23 November 2024.]