Thieves

Mikhail Demin, real name Georgy Evgenievich Trifonov (1926-1984), - Russian writer, son of a large Soviet military leader, cousin of writer Yuri Trifonov. In 1937, he lost his father, vagranced, during the Second World War, after a two -year imprisonment, he served in the army, after the war, due to the threat of repeated arrest, he was hidden in the criminal underground. In 1947, he was arrested and sentenced to six years of Siberian camps, followed by a three -year link. After liberation, he began to be printed first in Siberian, then in the central press, released four collections of poems and a book of prose. In 1968, he went to Paris and became the first writer of the River. In the West, he published an autobiographical trilogy "thieves", "taiga tramp", "red -haired devil". Many have been written about political prisoners, but not about criminals