Mikhail Vedernikov told about the writer Antonin Ladinsky

The Governor of the Pskov region Mikhail Vedernikov told in his blog about the fate of Antonin Ladinsky, who was born in 1896 on the territory of the modern Dnovsky district.

The reason for the story was the 40th anniversary of the publication of the joint edition of his historical novels “When Chersonese fell” and “Anna Yaroslavna – Queen of France”, the total circulation of which amounted to about 2.5 million copies. Ladinsky’s works are devoted to the intersection of cultures and historical paths of Russia and Europe.

The writer went through a difficult life path: from a student of the law faculty of Petrograd University and a volunteer of the First World War to an immigrant in Paris. Abroad, he became a recognized writer: he was published by leading publications of the Russian diaspora, and Vladimir Nabokov highly appreciated his poetic gift. However, the main fame of Ladinsky brought historical novels, about which contemporaries said that the author of his work “before the historians”. Returning to his homeland, he achieved success and recognition in the USSR.

Details of the biography of the writer will be revealed in the new issue of the project “Russian Glory Earth”, prepared with the support of the Russian Historical Society.