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Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) was a Russian writer from Oryol who worked as a court reporter before Maxim Gorky encouraged his fiction. He became one of the most famous writers in Russia with dark, intense work like The Red Laugh, The Seven Who Were Hanged, and the play He Who Gets Slapped, and his 1906 story "Lazarus" is an early classic of cosmic horror. He opposed the Bolsheviks and died in Finland in 1919.