Romanov Panteleimon Sergeevich is a well-known writer and playwright in the Russian Empire, and later in the USSR.
Biography
The future writer was born in July 1884 on the 24th in the village of Petrovskoye, Tula province. Panteleimon's parents were from impoverished nobles. Romanov began to receive education at a school in the city of Belev. Later he moved to the Tula gymnasium, where he studied for eight years. He was a very capable student and after graduating from the gymnasium decided to pursue higher education. Having moved to Moscow, Panteleimon was able to enter the Faculty of Law at Moscow University without any problems.
During the same period, he began working on his first works. He published samples of his work in the newspapers Russkaya Mysl and Russkiye Vedomosti. His stories were noticed by Maxim Gorky himself, who was filled with sympathy for the young writer. Such attention shifted the priorities of Romanov, and he began to devote more time to writing, and then completely left for the village, leaving his studies at the university.
In 1918, Panteleimon worked for the magazine "New Life", on the pages of which he spoke extremely negatively about such a phenomenon as Bolshevism. He paid particular attention to the spread of this ideology in the villages. During the First World War, he worked in St. Petersburg, as he did not go to the army for conscription because of his health.
Professional career
Success and recognition for the aspiring prose writer came in 1920. After returning to Moscow, Romanov began to write independent works, which were published in large editions. Especially popular was the epic novel "Rus", which told about the life of nobles and ordinary men in the countryside. "Rus" had several parts: pre-war and war, probably further development was planned, but the novel was never finished.
In the early twenties, Romanov also worked in one of the children's colonies as a simple teacher. This aroused great sympathy and respect for the writer on the part of the literary elite.
By the mid-twenties, Panteleimon wrote a large number of short, acutely social sketches that were not very popular. But after the author's rapprochement with the Nikitinskiye Subbotniki writers' society, the situation changed radically. His previously unrecognized works came to the fore and became popular. Romanov had an extremely negative attitude to Bolshevism and paid special attention to this in his works, and thanks to this he was quite famous abroad.
Personal life and death
Panteleimon Sergeevich was married. At the end of the tenth years of the last century, he met the famous ballerina Antonina Mikhailovna Shalomytova at that time. In 1919 they got married.
The famous writer passed away at the age of 53. In 1937 he suffered a heart attack, and a year later died of leukemia in a Kremlin hospital. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Years of death of the writer for a long time caused rumors that Romanov was subjected to repressions.
