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Line 2: {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> \| image = Paustovsky.jpg \| imagesize = ~~200px~~ \| caption = \| birth_name = Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky \| birth_date = {{birth date\|1892\|5\|31\|df=y}} \| birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Empire]] \| death_date = {{death date and age\|1968\|7\|14\|1892\|5\|31\|df=y}} \| death_place = Moscow, [[~~Soviet~~Russian ~~Union~~SFSR]], Soviet Union \| movement = [[Neo-romanticism]] \| signature = Константин Паустовский (роспись).svg \| name = Konstantin Paustovsky }} '''Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky''' ({{lang-~~rus~~ru\|Константи́н Гео́ргиевич Паусто́вский}}, {{IPA-ru\|p=pəʊˈstofskʲɪj\|pron}}; {{OldStyleDate\|31 May\|1892\|19 May}} – 14 July 1968) was a ~~Russian~~Soviet writer nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1965.<ref name=Smorodinskaya>{{cite book \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXz2okCSfq8C&pg=PA450 \|title=Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian Culture\|author=Tatiana Smorodinskaya \|year=2012 \|publisher=Routledge \|page=450\|isbn=9781136787850 }}</ref> ==Early life== Konstantin Paustovsky was born in [[Moscow]]. His father was a railroad statistician, and was “an incurable romantic and Protestant”. His mother came from the family of Polish [[intelligentsia]]. Paustovsky's family were of Zaporozhian Cossack, Turkish and Polish origin.<ref>{{citation\|last=Aleksandrova\|first=Vera\|year=1963\|title=A History of Soviet Literature\|page=260 \|publisher=Greenwood publishing \|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofsovietl0000unse/page/n6/mode/1up \|quote=The Paustovsky family stems from Zaporozhian Cossacks , with an admixture of Turkish and Polish blood.\|isbn=978-0837161143}}</ref> Konstantin grew up in [[Russian Empire]], partly in the countryside and partly in [[~~Kyiv~~Kiev]]. He studied in “the First Imperial” classical [[Gymnasium (school)\|Gymnasium]] of ~~Kyiv~~Kiev, where he was the classmate of [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]. When he was in the 6th grade his father left the family and he was forced to give private lessons in order to earn a living. In 1912 he entered the faculty of Natural History in [[Kyiv University\|University of ~~Kyiv~~Kiev]]. In 1914 he transferred to the Law faculty of the [[Moscow State University\|University of Moscow]], but [[World War I]] interrupted his education. At first he worked as a trolley-man in Moscow, then as a paramedic in a hospital train. During 1915, his medical unit retreated all the way through Poland and [[Belarus]]. After two of his brothers died on the front line, he returned to his mother in [[Moscow]] but later left and wandered around, trying his hands at many jobs, initially working in the metallurgical factories in [[Dnipro\|Yekaterinoslav]] and [[Donetsk\|Yuzovka]]. In 1916 he lived in [[Taganrog]], where he worked at the Taganrog Boiler Factory (now: Krasny Kotelschchik). Line 78 ⟶ 79: ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Sources== * Frank Westerman, ''Engineers of the Soul,'' Overlook Press, 2011.