Pavel Grigoryevich Antokolsky (; 1 July 1896, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 9 October 1978, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet and Russian poet and theatre director. His father was a nephew of sculptor Mark Antokolsky. In the 1930s, Antokolsky worked as a director in the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. During World War II, he ran a front theatre and was awarded a Stalin Prize for a long poem about the Germans killing his son. After the war, he managed a theatre in Tomsk. His poem, "All we who in his name..." was written in 1956, the year of Nikita Khrushchev's "secret speech" condemning Stalinism, and widely circulated among student groups in the 1950s. Among other works, Pavel Antokolsky translated in Russian Le Dernier jour d'un condamne and Le roi s'amuse, by Victor Hugo. External links Pavel Antokolsky: The Official Web Site (in Russian) Collection of Poems by Pavel Antokolsky (English Translations) 1978 deaths 1896 births 20th-century Russian male writers 20th-century Russian poets 20th-century Russian translators Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Jewish poets Russian Jews Russian male poets Russian translators Soviet male poets Soviet translators