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Aleksandr Amfiteatrov
1862–1938
Known for sharp satire and a lively journalistic voice, this Russian writer moved between fiction, criticism, and history with unusual ease. His life included censorship, exile, and emigration, and that restless energy runs through much of his work.
1 Audiobook
Folk-Tales of Napoleon Napoleonder from the Russian; The Napoleon of the People from the French of Honoré De Balzac
by Aleksandr Amfiteatrov, Honoré de Balzac
About the author
Born in Kaluga in 1862, he became a prominent Russian writer, journalist, critic, and historian. Although trained in law, he built his career in literature and the press, gaining attention for satirical writing and for his wide range of work across novels, essays, theater criticism, and historical subjects.
His public career was shaped by conflict with authority. He is widely remembered as a bold commentator whose writing could be politically risky, and his years outside Russia became an important part of his story. He died in Levanto, Italy, in 1938.
Today he is often noted for the breadth of his output as much as for any single book: he wrote with the pace of a journalist, the curiosity of a historian, and the bite of a satirist.