# Aleksey Chapygin

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| birth_date  = {{birth date|1870|10|17}}
| birth_place = [Kargopolsky Uyezd](/source/Kargopolsky_Uyezd), [Olonets Governorate](/source/Olonets_Governorate), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire)
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'''Aleksey Pavlovich Chapygin''' ({{langx|ru|Алексе́й Па́влович Чапы́гин}}; {{OldStyleDate|17 October|1870|5 October}} - 21 October 1937) was a Russian writer, and one of the founders of the Soviet historical novel.<ref name="Dictionary">Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, Bédé, Edgerton, Columbia University Press, 1980.</ref>

==Biography==
Chapygin was born in [Kargopolsky Uyezd](/source/Kargopolsky_Uyezd), [Olonets Governorate](/source/Olonets_Governorate). His northern peasant origins are reflected in his works.<ref name="Dictionary"/> His first book of stories, ''Those Who Keep Aloof'', and his novel ''The White Hermitage'', describing northern life, were published before the [Russian Revolution of 1917](/source/Russian_Revolution_(1917)).<ref>''25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature (1918-1943)'', Gleb Struve, Taylor & Francis, 1944.</ref>  He is best known for his two novels about peasant uprisings in the 17th century, ''Itinerant Folk'' (1934–37) and ''[Stepan Razin](/source/Stenka_Razin)'' (1926–27). ''Stepan Razin'' is considered a classic of Soviet literature.<ref name="Dictionary"/>

Chapygin drew upon Russian folklore for both the style of ''Stepan Razin'' and the positive and romanticized portrait of Razin himself. The Soviets excused this modernization of history as a justifiable polemic against the negative portrayal of Razin in 19th-century Russian literature.<ref name="Dictionary"/> ''Stepan Razin'' was published in the magazine ''Red Virgin Soil''.<ref>Red Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920s, Robert A. Maguire, Northwestern University Press, 2000.</ref>

==English translations==

*''Stepan Razin'', Hutchinson International Authors, Ltd., London, 1946.

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310204623/http://www.prazdniki.ru/person/1/87/ Biography] {{in lang|ru}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313073159/http://moshkow.rspu.ryazan.ru/cgi-bin/koi/HIST/CHAPYGIN/ Aleksey Chapygin ''Razin Stepan''] {{in lang|ru}}

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Category:People from Plesetsky District
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Category:Soviet novelists
Category:Soviet male writers
Category:Writers from the Russian Empire
Category:Soviet short story writers
Category:20th-century Russian short story writers

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