Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  An haifi Konstantin Paustovsky a cikin Moscow. Mahaifinsa, zuriyar Zaporozhian Cossacks, masanin kididdiga ne na layin dogo, kuma ya kasance <unk> mai son soyayya da Furotesta <unk>. Mahaifiyarsa ta fito ne daga dangin masana ilimin Poland. Konstantin ya girma a Ukraine, wani ɓangare a ƙauye da kuma wani ɓangare a Kiev. Ya yi karatu a "First Imperial" na gargajiya na Kiev, inda ya kasance abokin aji na Mikhail Bulgakov. Lokacin da yake a aji na shida mahaifinsa ya bar iyalin kuma an tilasta masa ya ba da darussan masu zaman kansu don samun abin rayuwa. A cikin 1912 ya shiga sashin ilimin Tarihin Halitta a Jami'ar Kiev. A shekara ta 1914 ya koma makarantar koyan shari'a a Jami'ar Moscow, amma Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya ya katse karatunsa. Da farko ya yi aiki a matsayin mutumin trolley a Moscow, sa'an nan kuma a matsayin likitan asibiti a cikin asibiti. A cikin 1915, rukunin likitocinsa sun ja da baya har zuwa Poland da Belarus. Bayan 'yan uwansa biyu sun mutu a layin gaba, ya koma wurin mahaifiyarsa a Moscow amma daga baya ya bar kuma ya zagaya, yana gwada hannayensa a ayyuka da yawa, da farko yana aiki a masana'antar karafa a Yekaterinoslav (yanzu: Dnipro, Ukraine) da Yuzovka (yanzu: Donetsk, Ukraine). A cikin 1916 ya zauna a Taganrog, inda ya yi aiki a Kamfanin Taganrog Boiler (yanzu: Krasny Kotelschchik). Daga baya ya shiga ƙungiyar haɗin gwiwar masunta (artel) a Taganrog, inda ya fara littafinsa na farko Романтики ("Romantiki", Romantics) wanda aka buga a 1935. Labarin, wanda abun ciki da jin daɗinsa ya bayyana a cikin taken sa, ya bayyana abin da ya gani kuma ya ji a lokacin ƙuruciyarsa. Ɗaya daga cikin jaruman, tsohon Oscar, wani mai zane ne wanda ya yi tsayayya da dukan rayuwarsa da aka tilasta masa ya zama mai neman kuɗi. Ya koma babban jigon Romantics, makomar wani mai zane wanda ke ƙoƙari ya shawo kan kadaici, da abubuwan da ya samu a Taranrog a cikin ayyukan da suka biyo baya, gami da Разговор о рыбе (<unk>Razgovor o ribe<unk>, Tattaunawa game da Kifi), Азовское подполье (<unk>Azovskoe podpolie<unk>, Azov Underground) da Порт в траве (<unk>Port v trave<unk>, Seaport in The Grass).  Tambaya: Me ya katse karatunsa a Jami'ar Moscow?
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