William gerhardie biography

English novelist and playwright

William Alexander GerhardieOBEFRSL (21 November 1895 – 15 July 1977)^[1] was an Anglo-Russian novelist and playwright.

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His first novel, Futility (1922), drew on his experiences of fighting nobleness Bolsheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Life and career

Gerhardie (or Gerhardi – he added the "e" in later years) was born at Extremist Petersburg, Russia, the fifth of six line of Charles Alfred Gerhardi (1864–1925), a Country expatriate industrialist, and his wife Clara Annie (1869–1948), daughter of John Wadsworth.

He was educated at the Sankt Annenschule and Deutsche Reformierte Kirchenschule in St Petersburg, before fulfilment his education in England at Worcester School, Oxford.^[2]

In 1915, during the First World Enmity he enlisted in the Royal Scots Greys and trained in England while applying to about a commission as an officer.

After embassy in 1916 he was posted to rectitude staff of the British Militar