Pavel Ulitin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR
- Soviet Russia (1918–22)
- Soviet Union (1922–86)
Pavel Ulitin | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Native name | Павел Павлович Улитин |
| Born | 31 May 1918 Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR |
| Died | 24 May 1986 (aged 67) Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship |
|
| Alma mater | IFLI |
| Literary movement | Stream of consciousness |
Pavel Pavlovich Ulitin (Russian: Павел Павлович Улитин; 31 May 1918 – 24 of May 1986) was a Russian underground writer.
Ulitin was born in Migulinsky, a Cossack village located on the Don. His father was a surveyor murdered in 1921 by White Army bandits. His mother was a doctor and highly educated, having completed the most advanced courses then available to women in St. Petersburg. After finishing primary school, Ulitin entered the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History (IFLI), where he and his friends organized an anti-Stalin Communist club. This led to his arrest in 1938. Sixteen months later he was released due to poor health. The injuries he received during his imprisonment left him permanently disabled.
At the end of the Second World War, Ulitin returned to Moscow and began correspondence studies at the Moscow State Linguistic University. In 1951 he attempted to seek asylum in the United States embassy, but was arrested and committed to the Leningrad Prison Psychiatric Hospital, where he remained until 1954. He returned to his hometown, then went back to Moscow. In 1957 he completed his correspondence studies. He supported himself by teaching English and working as a clerk in a bookstore. He died in Moscow in 1986.
