Mikhail Artsybashev Writer

Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Арцыба́шев, Polish: Michał Arcybaszew) (November 5, 1878 – March 3, 1927) was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the great grandson of Tadeusz Kościuszko and the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator. Following the Russian Revolution, in 1923 Artsybashev emigrated to Poland where he died in 1927.

Personal facts

Birth date	November 05, 1878
Birth place	Ukraine , Kharkiv
Date of death	March 03, 1927
Place of death	Poland , Warsaw
Children	Boris Artzybasheff

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Writer

Career start	1900
Career end	1920
influenced by	Anton Chekhov Fyodor Dostoyevsky Victor Hugo Max Stirner Leo Tolstoy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
movement	Naturalism (literature)