About the book: 2010 / Vasily Akimovich Nikiforov-Volgin (December 24, 1900 (January 6, 1901), Markushi village, Kalyazinsky district, Tver province - December 14, 1941, Vyatka ) - Russian writer. Born in the village of Markushi, Kalyazinsky district, Tver province, into the family of a craftsman. Soon after Vasily's birth, the family moved to Narva. Not having the means to graduate from high school, Nikiforov-Volgin spent a lot of time educating himself in childhood and adolescence and became well acquainted with Russian literature. His favorite writers were F. Dostoevsky, N. Leskov, A. Chekhov. S. Yesenin. In 1920, Nikiforov-Volgin became one of the organizers of the “Union of Russian Youth” in Narva, organizing literary evenings and concerts. Nikiforov-Volgin’s first publication was the article “Fulfill your duty!” (1921) in the Tallinn newspaper “Last News”, where the author called for concern for the graves of the soldiers of the white North-Western Army. In 1923, Nikiforov-Volgin began his regular literary and journalistic activities. In Russian periodicals published in Estonia, he publishes stories, articles, sketches, sketches, lyrical miniatures, which he signs with the pseudonym Vasily Volgin. At the same time, Nikiforov-Volgin, who knew and loved Orthodox worship well, serves as a psalm-reader in the Narva Transfiguration Cathedral (before spring 1932).In 1926-27, together with S. Racevich, he edited the “New Narva Leaflet”. In 1927, at a competition of young authors in Tallinn, he received first prize for the story “Bow to the ground.” In 1927 he became one of the founders of the Russian sports and educational society “Svyatogor”, under which in 1929 a religious and philosophical circle was created, which laid the foundation for the local organization of the Russian Student Christian Movement. Nikiforov-Volgin participated in the congresses of this movement, held in the Pskov-Pechersk and Pyukhtitsa monasteries. In 1930-1932 Nikiforov-Volgin also headed the literary circle of the Svyatogor society. In the 30s, together with L. Ax, he edited the magazine “Field Flowers” ​​- the organ of Russian literary youth in Estonia. By the mid-30s, Nikiforov-Volgin became a famous writer of the Russian Abroad. Awarded a prize from the magazine “Illustrated Russia” for the story “The Bishop”. On the eve of 1936, he moved to Tallinn, where he was elected an honorary member of the Russian Vityaz society; published in a major organ of Russian emigration - the Riga newspaper Segodnya. The Tallinn publishing house "Russian Book" published two collections by Nikiforov-Volgin - "The Earth's Birthday Girl" (1937) and "The Road Staff" (1938). In the summer of 1940, Soviet power was established in Estonia, putting an end to the cultural and literary life of the Russian emigration. In May 1941, Nikiforov-Volgin, who worked at a shipbuilding plant, was arrested by the NKVD, and with the outbreak of war he was sent along a convoy to Kirov (Vyatka), where he was shot on December 14, 1941 “for publishing books, brochures and plays of slanderous, anti-Soviet content.” Rehabilitated in 1991.