Died 1967-08-31.
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Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, poet, revolutionary, journalist, translator, and cultural figure.
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Born 14 January 1891 · Died 31 August 1967 · Q348497
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1967· 6 entries
Of prostate and bladder cancer, and was interred in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, where his gravestone is etched with a reproduction of his portrait drawn by his friend Pablo Picasso
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“Zrozumiałem tam, że sztuka nie jest kaprysem, ozdobą ani świąteczną datą w kalendarzu; że można z nią mieszkać w jednym pokoju niby z ukochaną osobą.”
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“Pisarz bardzo rzadko opisuje ludzi istniejących w rzeczywistości – konkretnego Iwanowa, Duranda czy Smitha – bohaterowie powieści to stop, na który składa się zarówno wiele osób znanych pisarzowi z życia, jak i własne przeżycia wewnętrzne pisarza oraz jego rozumienie świata.”
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“Pamiętnikarze twierdząc, że opisują bezstronnie epokę, zawsze niemal opisują siebie samych.”
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“Cała rzecz w tym, że ludzie uważają swoje obyczaje albo, jak się teraz mówi, swój „styl życia” za jedynie słuszny i potępiają – jeśli nie na głos, to w myśli – wszystko, co od niego odbiega.”
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Four years after the 1956 exhibition, Ehrenburg helped to push through the Soviet censorship the first ever book on Picasso to be printed in the USSR, written by Andrey Sinyavsky and Igor Golomshtok
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1956· 1 entry
As Pablo Picasso’s close acquaintance since 1914, Ehrenburg played a pivotal role in organizing Picasso’s first ever exhibition in the USSR which opened on 21 October 1956 in Pushkin Museum and three weeks later was tran
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1954· 1 entry
Ehrenburg published a novel titled The Thaw that tested the limits of censorship in the post-Stalin Soviet Union
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded International Stalin Prize for Peace (1952).
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1950· 1 entry
Attended by over 200 journalists, he was challenged about the fate of the writers David Bergelson and Itzik Feffer, and said that "If anything unpleasant had happened to them, I would have known", knowing that they were
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1949· 1 entry
And Ehrenburg’s memories about the 1956 exhibition
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1948).
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1944· 3 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1944).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1944).
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“greatest crime was the murder of six million Jews. His incendiary articles calling for vengeance against the German enemy won him a huge following among front-line Soviet soldiers, who sent him much fan mail. As a consequence, he is one of many Soviet writers, along with Konstantin Simonov and Alexey Surkov, whom many have accused of”
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1943· 1 entry
Ehrenburg, working with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, began to collect material for what would become The Black Book of Soviet Jewry, documenting The Holocaust
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1942· 1 entry
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1942).
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Red Star (1937).
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And 1938 but had "gritted his teeth" in silence
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1935· 1 entry
Ehrenburg attended the first International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture, which opened in Paris in June
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1929· 1 entry
Published The Life of the Automobile, a communist variant of the it-narrative genre
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1920· 1 entry
Ehrenburg went to Kiev where he experienced four different regimes in the course of one year: the Germans, the Cossacks, the Bolsheviks, and the White Army
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1917· 1 entry
After the revolution, Ehrenburg returned to Russia
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1916· 1 entry
Also published Russian translations of François Villon
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1908· 1 entry
When Ehrenburg was seventeen years old, the tsarist secret police (Okhrana) arrested him for five months
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1901· 1 entry
Studied at First Moscow gymnasium (1901).
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-01-14.
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