Serapion Brothers
In 1922 Ivanov joined the literary group Serapion Brothers. Other members included Nikolai Tikhonov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Victor Shklovsky, Veniamin Kaverin and Konstantin Fedin. His first novels, "Colored Winds" (1922) and "Azure Sands" (1923), were set in Asiatic part of Russia and gave rise to the genre of ostern in Soviet literature.In the early 1920s, he was one of the most popular writers in the Soviet Union. Thirteen of his short stories and three longer works were published in "Krasnaya Nov" during Voronsky's editorship - more than any other writer's. His novella "Baby" was acclaimed by Edmund Wilson as the finest Soviet short story ever.