Fyodor Kryukov

Fyodor Dmitrievich Kryukov (Russian Фёдор Дмитриевич Крюков; * 2.jul / February 14 1870greg, .. † March 4, 1920 ) was an anti-Bolshevik Cossack writer and soldier in the White Army.

Various literary critics, especially Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Roi Medvedev, claiming that Kryukov is the actual author of the 1927 published until 1940 novel The Quiet Don, in 1965 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Mikhail Sholokhov. It was at this result reaches a statistical analysis of the text by Anatoly Fomenko.

Kryukov, who is mentioned in detail in Solzhenitsyn's novel November 1916 under the name " Fyodor Dmitrievich Kownjew ," died in 1920 of typhoid fever.