Veniamin Kaverin

Veniamin Kaverin. Writer: Chuzhoy pidzhak. Venyamin Kaverin was born Venyamin Aleksandrovich Silber on April 19, 1902, in Pskov, Russia. He was the youngest of six children. His father, named Aleksandr Silber, was a musician and conductor of a military band. Young Kaverin studied at the Pskov Gymnasium. There he began to write poetry. In 1919 he moved to Moscow and entered the Department of History and Philology at Moscow University....