Sokolov Mitkov Biography

Ivan Sergeyevich Sokolov-Mikitov was born in the tract of the frozen of the Kaluga province now the Peremyshsky district of the Kaluga region in the family of Sergey Nikitich Sokolov-the rectors manager of the rich merchants of the Knashins. In the city, when he turned ten, his father took him to Smolensk where he determined the real school in the Smolensk Alexander. At the Sokolov-Mikitov school, he was carried away by the ideas of the revolution.

For participation in the underground revolutionary circles of the Mikita falcons, he was excluded from the fifth grade of the school. He went to Sokolov-Mikitov in St. Petersburg, where he began to attend agricultural courses. In the same year, he wrote his first work - the fairy tale "Salt of the Earth." Soon, Sokolov-Mikitov understands that he has no tendency to agricultural work, and is more and more begin to get involved in literature.

Since the year, Sokolov-Mikitov worked in Revel Secretary of the newspaper Revelsky List. Soon he got a job on a merchant ship, visited many port cities in Europe and Africa. In connection with the First World War, he returned to Russia. During the war, Sokolov-Mikitov, along with the famous pilot Gleb Alekhnovich, made combat sorties on the Russian bomber "Ilya Muromets".

In the year, Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov is recorded by the sailor on the Omsk merchant ship. However, in the year in England, the ship is arrested and sold at auction for debts. For Sokolov-Mikitov, forced emigration began. He lives in England for a year, and then moves to Germany in the year. In Sokolov-Mikitov met in Berlin with Maxim Gorky, who helped him get the documents necessary for returning to his homeland.

After the return of the Miktov, the Mikitov, participates in the Arctic expeditions on the icebreaker Georgy Sedov, led by Otto Schmidt, after returning to Russia. The expeditions to the North Arctic Ocean, the Franz Joseph and North Earth was followed by an expedition to save the Malygin icebreaker, in which he participated as an Izvestia correspondent.

In the years, Sokolov-Mikitov lives and works in Gatchina. During World War II, Sokolov-Mikitov works in Molotov as a special correspondent of Izvestia. In the summer of the year he returns to Leningrad. Starting from the summer of the year, Sokolov-Mikitov begins to live in a house built by him in the village of Karacharovo Konakovsky district. His prose is expressive and visual primarily in those cases when he adheres to his own experience, it is weaker when the writer conveys the hearing.

Visiting his “Karacharovsky” house were writers Alexander Tvardovsky, Victor Nekrasov, Konstantin Fedin, Vladimir Soloukhin, many artists, journalists. Sokolov-Mikitov died on February 20 in Moscow. According to the will, the urn with his ashes was buried in the new cemetery in Gatchina. Near Ivan Sergeyevich his relatives are also buried - mother Maria Ivanovna Sokolova - and daughter Elena - and Lydia - books of the author:.