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27 January
Dates in History
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1940—Isaac Babel, writer, dies. Babel writes novels which show Soviet army during the Civil War as it is, which image doesn’t agree with the Soviet government propaganda. Thus he makes a lot of enemies, and is arrested in 1939, and executed in 1940, although his death remained unacknowledged until 1954. 
1924—Lenin’s funeral. | Architect Shchusev receives an order to build mausoleum three days prior to the funeral. The mausoleum is built in time, but it’s made of wood. Later it is rebuilt of granite. 
1879—Pavel Bazhov, fairy tale writer, is born. | Bazhov writes several fairy tales based on folklore of Ural and publishes them as a collection of stories “Malachite case”. These fairy tales become classical just as Russian National fairy tales. 
1826—Mikhail Saltykov-Shedrin, writer, is born. | Saltykov-Shedrin writes satire novels, which describe the political and social life of Russian people so precise, that they never become out-of-date, even today. |
