Vsevolod Kochetov
| Vsevolod Anissimovich Kochetov | |
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| Born | Всеволод Анисимович Кочетов 4 February 1912 Novgorod, Russian Empire |
| Died | 4 November 1973 (aged 61) Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Occupation | Agronomist, Journalist, Novelist, Editor |
| Language | Russian |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Education | Technical school |
| Notable works |
The Zhurbin Family Brothers Yershov What Do You Want Then? |
| Notable awards | Order of Lenin |
Vsevolod Anissimovich Kochetov (Russian: Все́волод Ани́симович Ко́четов) (4 February [O.S. 22 January] 1912, Novgorod, Russian Empire - 4 November 1973, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian writer and cultural functionary. He has been described as a party dogmatist and as a classic of socialist realism. Some of his writings were not well received by the official press, as Kochetov was considered too "reactionary" even by Soviet standards of the 1960s.
Kochetov was born into a peasant family, the youngest of eight children, all but three of whom died of hunger or illness during the First World War. His impoverished parents were unable to care for him, and he left home in 1927, moving from Novgorod to Leningrad, where he graduated in 1931 from a technical school and worked thereafter as an agronomist, then as director of a Machine Tractor Station and of a state farm. In 1938 he became a reporter for the newspaper Leningradskaya Pravda. During the Second World War, Kochetov worked as a reporter for various newspapers at the Leningrad Front.
From 1946, he devoted himself to literary activities. (On the Plains of the Neva («На невских равнинах»), described recollections of the war. His writings were characterized from the start with rigorous following of the political line. In 1952 he published the novel The Zhurbin Family («Журбины»), which portrays the life of a worker dynasty. It was adapted as the film A Big Family. The book was re-published numerous times and translated into a number of languages.
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