Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Evgeny Nikolayevich Chirikov (born August 5, 1864 – died January 18, 1932, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, dramatist, and publicist. Chirikov was a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda. Chirikov was born in Kazan into a gentry family. His father, a former office in the Imperial Russian Army, was a policeman. He studied mathematics at Kazan University, but was expelled in 1887 for taking part in student demonstrations, and exiled to Nizhni Novgorod.