Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky

Sergei Nikolayevich Sergeyev-Tsensky (, December 3, 1958) was a prolific Russian and Soviet writer and academician.

Early life Sergei Sergeyev was born on , in the village of Preobrazhenskoye, Rasskazovsky District, Tambov Governorate. His father was a teacher and a retired veteran of the Crimean War of 1853–1856. At four, Sergeyev learned how to read and at five he already knew by heart many poems by Pushkin and Lermontov, as well as Krylov's fables, beginning to write his own poems at seven. He served in Kherson and Odesa before being placed under house arrest and discharged from the army for political activities in 1905. He had spoken out against the pogroms in Simferopol in 1905, testifying in a court inquiry about the role of the police and army in these pogroms.

The work of his life was Russia's Transfiguration which consisted of 12 novels, 3 stories and 2 studies.

Awards Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1941) The Poet and the Mob (1925) - [Russian: Поэт и чернь] Brusilov's Break-Through: a Novel of the First World War , translated into English by Helen Altschuler, Hutchinson & Co, London, 1945. Preobrazhenie Rossii (1955-1958), [Russian: Преображение России]

Plays

Death (1908) - [Russian: Смерть] The Poet and the Mob (1934) - [Russian: Поэт и чернь] [Play version]