Alexey Tolstoy

(1883-1945)
Born on December 29 (11 January) 1883 s.Sosnovka Samara. His writing career began in 1907 publishing a collection of poems. The most significant works of Tolstoy belong to the Soviet period of creativity, although the first years after the revolution he spent in exile in Paris (1918-1921). He returned to the USSR and subsequently was twice awarded the Stalin Prize for his outstanding contribution to the literature. During the Second World War, Tolstoy gave a lot of energy journalism and wrote numerous essays frontage
. In 1920 Tolstoy published a number of works of fiction: the story Aelita (1922-1923), . image of social revolution on Mars; play Bunt machines (1925) and novel Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1925-1927), . the scientist, . megalomaniac and attempting to enslave the world,
. In the story Blue City (1925) describes the confrontation between modern science and patriarchal Russia village. The trilogy The Road to Calvary, which started in Paris in 1921 and completed in 1941 - his most important work, a realistic picture of the life of Russia's society, especially intellectuals, during the war and revolution. His Peter I (kn. 1-3, 1929-1945, incomplete.) Is considered the best historical novel of the Soviet period in the history of Russian literature.

Tolstoy died in Moscow on February 23, 1945.