Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky
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Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky | |
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Born | Николай Николаевич Брешко-Брешковский 20 February 1874 Saint Petersburg |
Died | 23/24 August 1943 Berlin |
Pen name | Мата д’Ор, Старый петербуржец, Василий Верига, Николай Белый, Фраскуэлло, etc. |
Language | Russian, French |
Citizenship | Russia → France |
Period | 1900–? |
Genre | novelist |
Relatives | Catherine Breshkovsky (mother) |
Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Бре́шко-Брешко́вский, also transcribed as Nikolaĭ Brechko-Brechkovskiĭ etc.; 20 [O.S. 8] February 1874, Saint Petersburg — 23/24 August 1943, Berlin) was a Russian writer, a son of the renowned revolutionary Catherine Breshkovsky.
Due to the mother's revolutionary activity Nikolay was raised by relatives. Became a known writer in early 20th century. In 1920, after the Russian Revolution (1917), he emigrated to Warsaw, Poland, but was expelled in 1927 because of conflict with the Sanacja régime. He became a French citizen. During World War II, he collaborated with the Nazi Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
External links
- Works by or about Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky at Wikisource
- http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/np-brechko%20brechkovskii,%20nikolai%20nikolaevitch
- Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky at IMDb
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- 1874 births
- 1943 deaths
- Writers from Saint Petersburg
- People from Saint Petersburg Governorate
- French male writers
- White Russian emigrants to Poland
- White Russian emigrants to France
- White Russian emigrants to Germany
- Imperial Russian emigrants to France
- Imperial Russian emigrants to Poland
- Imperial Russian emigrants to Germany
- Russian writer stubs
- French writer stubs