Biography

Pavel Grigoryevich Antokolsky (July 1, 1896, St. Petersburg, Russia—October 9, 1978, Moscow, USSR) - a Russian poet, a nephew of Mark Antokolsky. His poem, "All we who in his name..." was written in 1956, the year of Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" condemning Stalinism, and widely circulated among student groups in the 1950s.

Pavel Antokolsky translated in Russian story by V. Hugo Le Dernier jour d'un condamne.

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