Aleksandr Serafimovich was born on January 7, 1863 in Nizhne Kurmoyarskaya, oblast Voyska Donskogo, Russian Empire. He was a writer, known for
Podpolye (1918),
Zheleznyy potok (1967) and
Zateryannye v peskakh (1984). He died on January 19, 1949 in Moscow, USSR.