Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov (Russian: Всеволод Вячеславович Иванов, IPA: [ˈfsʲevələt vʲɪtɕɪˈslavəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈvanəf]; 12 February [O.S.

"Partisans" was published in the first edition of the journal Krasnaya Nov, whose editor, Aleksandr Voronsky, saw Ivanov as the most important writer to emerge since the revolution because of his "joyfulness" and his evocation of a world "where everything is suffused with powerful, primitive vitality ... people, like the nature surrounding them, are pristinely whole and healthy.

His first novels, Colored Winds (1922) and Azure Sands (1923), were set in the Asiatic part of Russia and gave rise to the genre of ostern in Soviet literature.

Produced by the Moscow Art Theatre, it was that theatre's "first production of a strictly Soviet topic", in which the Bolsheviks' enemies were portrayed as whining caricatures, prompting speculation that the head of the MAT, Konstantin Stanislavski had put it on to please the regime and make amends for having produced The Days of the Turbins by Mikhail Bulgakov, with its vivid and sympathetic portrayal of White Russian army officers.

"[5] From the late 1920s, Ivanov began to drink heavily and write less, and in the opinion of at least one critic "nothing he did in the last four decades of his life matched, in quality or in influence, what he had written in those six years" (to 1927).

During the Great Purge, he declared his "creative hatred" for those accused of being enemies of the people, provoking Leon Trotsky, who had previously praised Ivanov's work, to describe him as a "miniature Gorky" – "Not a prostitute by nature, he preferred to remain quiet as long as possible but the time came when silence meant civil and perhaps physical annihilation: it is not a 'creative hatred' that guides the pen of these writers but paralysing fear.