Всеволод Вишневский

Vsevolod Vitalyevich Vishnevsky (Russian: Все́волод Вита́льевич Вишне́вский, 1900 – 1951) was a Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, playwright and journalist.

He was born in 1900 in Saint Petersburg and educated at a Petersburg gymnasium. During World War I he enrolled in Baltic Fleet as sea cadet. He participated in the militant rebellion in Petrograd in 1917, in battles of the Russian Civil War as a machine gunner in the 1st Cavalry Army; he worked as political agitator attached to the Black Sea and Baltic fronts. During the German-Soviet War he participated in the defense of Leningrad.