Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (1878-1927) was a leading exponent of
Naturalism in Russian literature. He studied at the Kharkov School
of Drawing and Art (1897-1898). In 1898 he moved to Saint
Petersburg, where he lived as a freelance journalist. His first
major publication was the story Meeting which was published in
1901. He considered his novel Death of Lande (1904) to be his best
work, but his major success was the novel Sanine (1907). In 1923
Artzybashev received Polish citizenship and emigrated to Poland,
where he edited a newspaper For Liberty!. He was known as an
irreconcilable enemy of the bolshevik regime.
