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Bianki (Áèàíêè) Vitaly Valentinovich
(1894–1959)
Novels and tales
Russian writer. He studied at Natural Sciences Department of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Petrograd University (did not finish), from where he was drafted into the army in 1916; he served in the 1st Artillery Brigade at Tsarskoe Selo. From 1923 he was a professional children’s writer-naturalist, wrote for «Chizh» and «Yezh» magasins and others. «Forest Nwspaper» - a kind of nature study encyclopedia for children (as a separate edition - 1928) was the most popular. Bianki was the first to combine scientific, artistic and folk approaches in stories about nature; his favorite genre fable - not fairy tale. «Forest True and Fable Stories2 were published in 1957, Columbuses' Club, in 1959. He also wrote for adults. In 1925 he was arrested as a former member of socialist-revolutionary Party and was expelled to Uralsk, in 1929 returned to Leningrad. He was arrested for short periods on two occasions - in 1932 and 1935.
Russia, 2001, 
Biysk. Museum of Bianki
