Ilya Gruzdev was born on August 2, 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a writer, known for
Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938),
Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship (1939) and
Gorky 3: My Universities (1940). He died on December 11, 1960 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].