Robert Aleksandrovich Shtilmark (April 3, 1909, Moscow – September 30, 1985) was a Soviet writer and journalist. He was known as the author of the adventure novel The Heir From Calcutta.
Overview
Robert Aleksandrovich Shtilmark (April 3, 1909, Moscow – September 30, 1985) was a Soviet writer and journalist. He was known as the author of the adventure novel The Heir From Calcutta.
Biography
Born in Moscow in the family of engineer Alexander Shtilmark. In 1929, he graduated from the Higher Literary and Art Institute Named After Valery Bryusov. In the same year, he married Evgenia Belago. Evgenia was an expert on Japanese economics, and in the early 1920s, she worked in Japan with her first husband, a diplomat. Soon they had a son, Felix, a future ecologist and biologist.
Shtilmark worked as an assistant and head of the department of the Scandinavian countries in the All–Union Society of Cultural Relations with Abroad. Subsequently, he was an international journalist in the newspaper Izvestia, in the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, worked as an editor in the magazines "Foreign Literature", "Young Guard".
He published a collection of his poems and a book of essays "Draining the Sea" (1932). Since 1937, he was a researcher and teacher of the Department of Foreign Languages of the Valerian Kuibyshev Military Academy.
