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Nikolay Breshko Breshkovsky

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Language
  
Russian, French

Citizenship
  
Russia →  France


Period
  
1900–?

Genre
  
novelist

Died
  
23/24 August 1943 Berlin

Pen name
  
Mata d’Or, Starii peterburzhets, Vasilii Veriga, Nikolai Belii, Fraskuello, etc.

Name
  
Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky

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.

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Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky Wikipedia