Biography Panteleev Leonid


(1908 – 1987)

Panteleev Leonid, real name – Aleksey Ivanovich Eremeev (1908 – 1987), prose writer.
He was born on August 9 (22nd century) in St. Petersburg in a military family. During the Civil War he lost his parents and in 1921 he went to the school named after Dostoevsky for homeless children. About this school is told in the first book of Panteleyev (co-authored with G. Belykh) –
“Republic Shkid”. Memories of this school formed the basis of the essays “The Last Chaldeans” (1939) and the stories “Karlushkin Focus”, “Portrait”. Panteleev strove for the children’s book to be a book of profound content, “where there would be humor, heroics, lyrics, real human passions, and a great thought.” These qualities of the book Panteleev deserve their popularity.
In 1930 – 40 a number of his works were combined in the series “Stories about the feat:” The Package “(1932), telling about the civil war,” Nochka “(1939),” Guards Private “(1943), dedicated to the events of the Patriotic War,” Novenkaya ” , “The Platochek” (1952), the famous short story “Honest Word” (1941)
.In 1966 the book “Our Masha” was published, a diary about the writer’s daughter, who he led for many
years. Panteleev was the author of sketches, stories, diaries dedicated to the blockade Leningrad: “In a besieged city” (1964), “January 1944” (1965), as well as memories of writers – S. Marshak, E. Schwartz, M. Gorky.
Some of the stories and stories of Panteleev were screened (“The Clock”, “Honest Word”, “
A short biography from the book: Russian writers and poets. A short biographical dictionary. Moscow, 2000.


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Biography Panteleev Leonid