Nikolai Ostrovsky

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Nikolai Ostrovsky
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Born	(1904-09-29)29 September 1904 Viliia [uk], Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	22 December 1936(1936-12-22) (aged 32) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Occupation	Novelist, Chekist, Communist Party member
Language	Russian
Nationality	Ukrainian
Alma mater	Sverdlov Communist University
Genre	Socialist Realist
Notable works	How the Steel Was Tempered
Spouse	Raisa Porfyrivna (née Motsyuk)

Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Островский; Ukrainian: Микола Олексійович Островський, romanized: Mykola Oleksiiovych Ostrovskyi; 29 September 1904 – 22 December 1936) was a blind Soviet socialist realist writer. He is best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered.

After living for years with paralysis, illness and blindness due to congenital ankylosing spondylitis as well as complications from typhus, Ostrovsky died on 22 December 1936, aged 32. Because of his early death, he was unable to complete his second novel, Born of the Storm, on the Russian Civil War.

Quotations

The dearest possession of any person is life. It is given only once, and it must not be lived only to feel tortured by regrets for wasted years or to know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that when dying you have a right to say: all my life, all my strength was given to the finest cause in the world – the fight for the liberation of humankind.

References

• Елена Толстая-Сегал, К литературному фону книги : 'Как закалялась сталь', Cahiers du Monde Russe Année 1981 22-4 pp. 375–399
• Лев Аннинский, Обрученные с идеей (О повести 'Как закалялась сталь' Николая Островского)
• Раиса Островская, Николай Островский, серия ЖЗЛ, Молодая гвардия, 1984
• Евгений Бузни, Литературное досье Николая Островского
• Тамара Андронова, Слишком мало осталось жить... Николай Островский. Биография. – М.: Государственный музей – Гуманитарный центр «Преодоление» имени Н.А. Островского, 2014.
• Entry in the Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers
• Jurij Mycyk. Did the Author of Pavka Korchagin Take Part in the Civil War? (in Ukrainian)
• Bohdan Dem′janchuk. How Ostrovsky Was Tempered (in Ukrainian)
• Petro Kraljuk. The "Steel" Man from Shepetivka (in Ukrainian)
• Svitlana Kabachynsjka. Life Free from Shame (in Russian)
• The Nikolay Ostrovsky state museum - humanitarian center "Overcoming" at Google Cultural Institute

Other websites

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