Panteleimon Romanov

Panteleimon Sergeyevich Romanov (Russian: Пантелеймон Серге́евич Романов; July 24, 1884 – April 8, 1938) was a Russian/Soviet writer.

He won most of his fame with short satirical stories exposing the ignorance, inefficiency and cowardice of the new Soviet bureaucrats and their aides.

[3] He also devoted his attention to the sexual revolution of the 1920s, sometimes in works that were considered too graphic by contemporary standards, as in the story Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms (1926).

[1][3][page needed] On August 23, 1934, Romanov make a short but important speech at the First Soviet Writers Congress.

That year Gattinger wrote that Romanov "is not counted among those who have made a worthy contribution to Soviet letters.