Nikolai Ostrovsky





Nikolai Ostrovsky

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born
in Viliya, near Ostroh, Ukraine
September 29, 1904

died
December 22, 1936

gender
male

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Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Островский) was a Soviet socialist realist writer, who published his works during the Stalin era. He is best known for his renowned novel How the Steel Was Tempered on the Russian Civil War.


Average rating: 3.67 · 509 ratings · 29 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
How the Steel Was Tempered
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 501 ratings — published 1936 — 12 editions
Born of the Storm
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions

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“Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world──the fight for the Liberation of Mankind”
Nikolai Ostrovsky

“إن الإنسان لا يخاف الموت ، إذا كانت له قضية يفنى من
أجلها ،
فـ إنها تخلق في نفسه القوة ، وسـ يموت مطمئن الضمير ، حتما ،
إذا كان يحس بـ أن الحقيقة إلى جانبه ... ومن هنا تأتي البطولة !”
Nikolai Ostrovsky