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Ivan Akexeyevich Aramilev (1896-1954) was born and brought up in the Northern Urals. He came of a long line of professional hunters who passed on to him their love for the hunt which he retained to the end of his days. His stories are about forest life and the habits of birds and animals. They are marked by deep human interest and a hatred of wanton killing. This book is chiefly addressed to the young reader. The idea in writing the stories was to interest young people in the romance and poetry of hunting, to awaken in them a thirst for roaming about our vast country with knapsack and gun. A hunter who is a nature-lover, who is attuned to nature heart and soul, is inevitably a meteorologist, and a geographer, and an ethnographer, and a zoologist, as well as a collector of folklore. Almost all hunters are inveterate explorers with an endless store of knowledge of the countryside. Hunting trips are, besides, excellent physical training; they strengthen the will, build a strong, fearless character, and develop ingenuity and the ability to overcome the greatest possible variety of obstacles and hardships. In other words, it is the hope of the author that a youth who was not a hunter would, after reading this book, want to become a hunter.
144 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1959
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About the author
Ivan Aramilev
11 booksIvan Andreevich Aramilev (real name - Zyryanov) (Russian: Иван Андреевич Ара́милев, настоящая фамилия — Зырянов) Russian Soviet writer. Author of books about hunting.
Born into a peasant family, graduated from a rural school.
In 1914 he was called up for World War I as a private. In 1917-1921, he participated in the Civil War in the ranks of the Red Army , ended up on the Eastern Front , was seriously wounded twice.
Even during the war, he began to write small sketches, sketches, which were popular among fellow soldiers, which was noticed by the command, and the Red Army soldier was sent to the university.
From October 1922 he lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University .
For six years he worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature at the workers' faculty .
In the 1920s, he began to appear in print thanks to Maxim Gorky (on the manuscript of I. Aramilev’s story “On the Sable”, Gorky wrote: “ It’s coming. Very good, simple ”).
He also was a Member of the Great Patriotic War - war correspondent, in 1944 - major , writer of the newspaper Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda of the 3rd Belorussian Front.
He was awarded the Order of the Red Star (1944) and five medals, including the medal " For the Defense of Moscow ".
After the war he continued his creative activity.
He lived in Moscow, but during the hunting season he always left for the village of Eldino , where his parents settled back in 1924. He hunted in the lands in the Konakovo district, where since 1957 the Bezborodovsky state experimental hunting farm was formed. Participated in the creation and compilation of the almanac " Hunting Spaces ".
At the end of his life he was seriously ill, the stories “On the Island of Swan”, “Relic” and “Berendey” were written by the writer already bedridden, published posthumously.
He died in 1954 in Moscow, and was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery.
Born into a peasant family, graduated from a rural school.
In 1914 he was called up for World War I as a private. In 1917-1921, he participated in the Civil War in the ranks of the Red Army , ended up on the Eastern Front , was seriously wounded twice.
Even during the war, he began to write small sketches, sketches, which were popular among fellow soldiers, which was noticed by the command, and the Red Army soldier was sent to the university.
From October 1922 he lived in Moscow. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University .
For six years he worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature at the workers' faculty .
In the 1920s, he began to appear in print thanks to Maxim Gorky (on the manuscript of I. Aramilev’s story “On the Sable”, Gorky wrote: “ It’s coming. Very good, simple ”).
He also was a Member of the Great Patriotic War - war correspondent, in 1944 - major , writer of the newspaper Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda of the 3rd Belorussian Front.
He was awarded the Order of the Red Star (1944) and five medals, including the medal " For the Defense of Moscow ".
After the war he continued his creative activity.
He lived in Moscow, but during the hunting season he always left for the village of Eldino , where his parents settled back in 1924. He hunted in the lands in the Konakovo district, where since 1957 the Bezborodovsky state experimental hunting farm was formed. Participated in the creation and compilation of the almanac " Hunting Spaces ".
At the end of his life he was seriously ill, the stories “On the Island of Swan”, “Relic” and “Berendey” were written by the writer already bedridden, published posthumously.
He died in 1954 in Moscow, and was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery.
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June 29, 2025
Typische socialistisch-realistische verhaaltjes die je zou verwachten van een in de jaren '60 in Moskou uitgegeven bundel, maar tegelijkertijd ook wel gewoon lekker charmant.
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