Alexander Fadeyev

Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev was a Soviet writer and one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers, of which he was chairman from 1946 to 1954. Born in 1901 and dying in 1956, he wrote the novel The Young Guard, about a young resistance organization during the Second World War. He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1918 and took part in the guerrilla movement against the Japanese interventionists and the White Army during the Russian Civil War, and in 1927 he published the novel The Rout, about young guerrilla fighters. He was born in Kimry, in the Tver Governorate.