Vsevolod Vishnevsky

Vsevolod Vitalyevich Vishnevsky (, – 28 February 1951) was a Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, playwright and journalist.

He was born in 1900 in Saint Petersburg and educated at a Petersburg gymnasium. During World War I he enrolled in Baltic Fleet as sea cadet. He participated in the militant rebellion in Petrograd in 1917, in battles of the Russian Civil War as a machine gunner in the 1st Cavalry Army; he worked as political agitator attached to the Black Sea and Baltic fronts. During the German-Soviet War he participated in the defense of Leningrad.

Later he became an editor of Krasnoflotets (, "Red Fleet sailor") magazine. He battled at the fronts of Winter War and German-Soviet War, worked as war correspondent for Pravda newspaper. Since 1944 he worked as editor of Znamya magazine.

His first works were published in 1920. In 1929 his play The First Horse Army, which celebrated Marshal Semyon Budyonny's Rostov campaign during the civil war, was published. In 1930s he wrote many plays, including We Are from Kronstadt, Last Decisive, and his most famous play An Optimistic Tragedy (1934). In 1941, Vishnevsky was awarded the Stalin Prize.

In the winter of 1950 Vishnevsky suffered two strokes. He died in Moscow in 1951 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Works 1924: The First Cavalry Army 1933:An Optimistic Tragedy Last Decisive Battle We Are from Kronstadt 1949: Unforgettable 1919 Battle at West 1944: By the Walls of Leningrad 1942: The Sea Spreads Wide (the name of a Russian song, :ru:Раскинулось море широко) We, Russian People