Dmitry Furmanov
For the Russian river cruise ship, see Dmitriy Furmanov (ship). For the class of Russian river passenger ships, see Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorship.
Portrait of Dmitriy Furmanov by Sergey Malyutin
Dmitriy Andreyevich Furmanov (Russian: Дми́трий Андре́евич Фу́рманов; 7 November 1891 [O.S. 26 October] – March 15, 1926) was a Russian writer. During the Russian Civil War he joined the Red Army and served as a Bolshevik commissar. He is well known for his novel Chapayev about Vasily Chapayev, a Red Army officer and a hero of the Civil War. The novel is available in English translation.
In 1941, the town of Sereda, where he was born, was renamed Furmanov after him. A street in Almaty is named after him.
Commissar Furmanov died of meningitis on March 15, 1926.
Furmanov is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
See also
- Chapayev and Void (novel)
External links
- The Chapayev book
- "Dmitry Furmanov". Find a Grave. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
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