biography
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Andreyev, Leonid Nikolayevich
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also spelled Andreev
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pronunciation:
[andrayef]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1871–1919)
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| biography:
| Writer and artist, born in Orel, W Russia. He suffered much from poverty and ill health as a student, and attempted suicide, before taking to writing and portrait painting. Many of his works have been translated into English, such as Krasnysmekh (1905, The Red Laugh) and Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh (1908, The Seven That Were Hanged). |
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