Vladimir Vladimirovich Ermilov (1904-1965) was a Soviet literary critic and writer, and a prominent figure in the cultural landscape of the Soviet Union. A leading proponent of socialist realism, he exerted considerable influence as an editor of important literary journals, including "Krasnaya Nov" and "Literaturnaya Gazeta". His critical work focused mainly on the Russian classics, with monographs dedicated to Anton Chekhov (1946), Nikolai Gogol (1952), and Fyodor Dostoevsky (1956), interpreted according to the canons of official ideology. He was an active participant in the ideological campaigns of the time, contributing with his writings to defining Stalinist literary orthodoxy and denouncing authors deemed non-compliant with the party line, such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Andrei Platonov. For his work on Chekhov, he received the second-class Stalin Prize in 1950, a testament to his status within the Soviet cultural system. His work remains a significant example of the dogmatic literary criticism of the period.