# Artyom Vesyoly

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{{Short description|Russian author (1899–1938)}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [:Template:Infobox writer/doc](/source/%3ATemplate%3AInfobox_writer%2Fdoc) -->
| name             = Artyom Vesyoly
| awards           = 
| image            = Veselyj.jpg
| imagesize        = 
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1899|9|17}}
| birth_place      = [Samara](/source/Samara), [Samara Governorate](/source/Samara_Governorate), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire)
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1938|04|08|1899|9|17}}
| death_place      = [Kommunarka shooting ground](/source/Kommunarka_shooting_ground), [Moscow](/source/Moscow), [USSR](/source/USSR)
| occupation       = Writer, poet, prose writer, journalist
| notableworks     = ''Russia Washed in Blood''
| language         = Russian
| birth_name       = Nikolai Ivanovich Kochkurov
}}
'''Artyom Vesyoly''' (Russian: Артём Весёлый; 17 September 1899 – 8 April 1938) was the pseudonym of '''Nikolai Ivanovich Kochkurov''', a Soviet writer and poet.

== Biography ==
He was born into a poor working family and was himself a worker at the age of fourteen.

Vesyoly became a [bolshevik](/source/Bolsheviks) after the [February Revolution](/source/February_Revolution). He joined the [Red Army](/source/Red_Army) in the [Russian Civil War](/source/Russian_Civil_War) and was active in the [Cheka](/source/Cheka). In the early 1920s, Vesyoly studied for some time at the Institute of Literature and [Moscow State University](/source/Moscow_State_University), but did not graduate. He belonged to the Pereval group of writers and, from 1929, to the [All-Russian Association of Proletarian Writers](/source/Russian_Association_of_Proletarian_Writers).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Весёлый Артём |url=https://xn----7sbbaazuatxpyidedi7gqh.xn--p1ai/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3/%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F/%D0%B2/%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%91%D0%BB%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%91%D0%BC.html |access-date=2022-06-18 |website=xn----7sbbaazuatxpyidedi7gqh.xn--p1ai}}</ref>

Vesyoly as known as the early illustrator of the Russian Civil War, representing the “ornamental” prose of the [Pilnyak school](/source/Boris_Pilnyak). His main work is a novel about the Civil War, ''Russia, Washed in Blood 1924–1932''. The author has also written the historical novel [''Yermak''](/source/Yermak_Timofeyevich)'','' about his conquest of Siberia.

In the late 1930s, Vesyoly who was in the past a supporter of the [United Opposition](/source/United_Opposition_(Soviet_Union)), fell victim to the [Great Purge](/source/Great_Purge). In a private report from [Nikolai Yezhov](/source/Nikolai_Yezhov) to Stalin, he claimed that Vesyoly had terrorist sentiments against the Soviet leadership.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Спецсообщение Н.И. Ежова И.В. Сталину о литераторе А. Веселом |url=https://www.alexanderyakovlev.org/fond/issues-doc/61075 |access-date=2022-06-18 |website=www.alexanderyakovlev.org}}</ref>

He was arrested in October 1937 and executed on charges of involvement in the activities of a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization. His wife and three daughters were also sentenced to prison.<ref name=":0" />

Artyom Vesyoly and his family were rehabilitated in 1956.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Литературный Армавир - Артем Весёлый |url=http://litarmavir.my1.ru/index/artem_vesjolyj/0-50 |access-date=2022-06-18 |website=litarmavir.my1.ru}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Artem Vesely.jpg|Artyom Vesyoly in 1919
File:Artem Vesely 1937.jpg|NKVD photo of Vesyoly after his arrest 
</gallery>

==References==
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Category:1899 births
Category:1938 deaths
Category:Soviet writers
Category:Soviet poets
Category:Soviet novelists
Category:20th-century Russian novelists
Category:20th-century Russian poets
Category:20th-century Russian writers
Category:Bolsheviks
Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Category:Great Purge victims from Russia
Category:Soviet rehabilitations

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