What circumstances led mathematician Alexander Volkov to become a writer? Detailed answer

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What circumstances led mathematician Alexander Volkov to become a writer?

In the late 1930s, Alexander Volkov, who was a mathematician by education and taught this science at one of the Moscow institutes, began to study English and, for practice, decided to translate the fairy tale "The Wise Man from Oz" by the American writer Frank Baum in order to retell it to his children . They really liked it, they began to demand continuation, and Volkov, in addition to translating, began to invent something from himself. This was the beginning of his literary path, the result of which was "The Wizard of the Emerald City" and many other fairy tales about the Magic Land. And "The Wise Man of Oz" in a simple translation into Russian was not published until 1991.

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