Panteleimon Romanov

Panteleimon Sergeyevich Romanov (; July 24, 1884 – April 8, 1938) was a Russian/Soviet writer.

Biography Romanov was born into a gentry family in the village of Petrovskoe in what is now Tula Oblast. After completing his law studies at Moscow State University, he devoted himself to literature. He published his first story in 1911, but had little success before the 1917 Revolution.

He published Childhood in 1920. Since he wrote to express his philosophy, he was not put off by the work's lack of success. Anna Gattinger, the author of the master's degree thesis Literary Heritage of Panteleymon Romanov, 1883–1938, wrote that Childhood was Romanov's first published work.

He became one of the best known Soviet authors of the 1920s and 1930s. He won most of his fame with short satirical stories exposing the ignorance, inefficiency and cowardice of the new Soviet bureaucrats and their aides. he died of heart disease. The Writers' Union did not publish an obituary. Several collections, including unpubished texts, appeared in 1980-2000s. Despite this, in 2007 the book The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire stated that Romanov is "virtually unknown in Russia" because Romanov's name had been "deleted from history" with his books taken out of circulation, and he had never "been accorded with even partial rehabilitation in the post-Stalin era". Comrade Kislyakov – a novel

English translations: Three Pairs of Silk Stockings, E. Benn Limited, London, 1931. Diary of a Soviet Marriage, Hyperion Press, 1975. On the Volga and Other Stories, Hyperion Press, 1978. Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms, from Great Soviet Short Stories, Dell, 1991.