Location: Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
Photo taken by: Triumphato
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Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He was one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist schools in literature.
In 1898 his first short story, Баргамот и Гараська / Bargamot and Garaska, was published in the Kurier newspaper in Moscow. This story came to the attention of Maxim Gorky who recommended that Andreyev concentrate on his literary work. Andreyev's first collection of short stories and short novels, повести, appeared in 1901, quickly selling a quarter-million copies and making him a literary star in Russia. He was married to Alexandra Veligorskaia with whom he had two sons, Daniil Andreyev and Vadim Andreyev, who both became writers.
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