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After graduating from the school in 1906 Belyaev became a practicing lawyer and made himself a good reputation. In that period his finances markedly improved, and he traveled around the world extensively as a vacation after each successful case. During that time he continued to write, albeit on small
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By 1922 he had overcome the disease and tried to find occupation in Yalta. He served a brief stint as a police inspector, tried other odd jobs such as a librarian, but life remained difficult, and in 1923 he moved to
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in seminary. After graduating he didn't take his vows and enrolled into a law school. While he studied law his father died and he had to support his mother and other family by giving lessons and writing for theater.
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found that
Belyaev's works are protected by copyright until 1 January 2017 due to his activity during the Great Patriotic War, and remanded the case to lower courts for retrial. In 2012 the parties have come to a
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where he started to practice law again, as a consultant for various Soviet organizations. At the same time
Belyaev began his serious literary activity as writer of science fiction novels. In 1925 his first novel,
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scale. Literature, however, proved increasingly appealing to him, and in 1914 he left law to concentrate on his literary pursuits. However, at the same time, at the age of 30, Alexander became ill with
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of the legs. Belyaev suffered constant pain and was paralysed for six years. His wife left him, not wanting to care for the paralyzed. In search for the right treatment he moved to
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copyright term expired before the 1993 law came into force. All of this contributed to confusion about whether or not
Belyaev's works are protected by copyright, and for how long.
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In 2008, Terra publishing company acquired exclusive rights to print
Belyaev's works from his heirs, and proceeded to sue Astrel and AST-Moskva publishing companies (both part of
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Kazanskoe cemetery in the town of Pushkin is placed on the mass grave where his body is assumed to be buried.
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and his brother
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during the Second World War he refused to evacuate because he was recovering after an operation that he had undergone a few months earlier.
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by the Nazis. Due to this, after the war, Soviets treated them as collaborators: they were exiled to
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together with his mother and old nanny. During his convalescence, he read the work of
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