Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky was born on May 31, 1892, in Moscow, in Granatny Lane. His father worked in the railway administration, and his mother was the daughter of a sugar factory employee. The family moved often until they settled in Kyiv. The Paustovsky household valued art: they sang a lot, played the piano, and attended the theater. Konstantin studied at the Kyiv Classical Gymnasium, where he had good teachers passionate about Russian literature, history, and psychology. He read a lot and began writing poetry.

When Konstantin was in the sixth grade, his parents divorced, and he started earning a living by tutoring. In his final year of gymnasium, he wrote his first story, published in the Kyiv magazine "Ogni." From that moment, he firmly decided to become a writer.

In 1912, Paustovsky graduated from gymnasium and studied at Kyiv University for two years while continuing to work as a tutor. Thanks to his father, who provided him with free train tickets, he traveled extensively across the country and fell in love with the central Russian nature.

In 1914, he transferred to Moscow University and moved to Moscow. With the onset of World War I, he became a sanitary worker on a rear sanitary train and was later transferred to a field train, where he picked up the wounded from the front in Poland and Galicia and took them to Kyiv and Gomel.

In the autumn of 1915, Paustovsky joined a field sanitary unit, retreating from Polish Lublin to Belarusian Nesvizh. Soon he learned of the death of two of his brothers in the war. After that, he was left with only his mother and a sick sister. The February Revolution found him in Yefremov, Tula Province.

He returned to Moscow and began working as a reporter. After the October Revolution and the government's move to Moscow, Paustovsky often attended meetings of the Central Executive Committee and listened to Lenin's speeches. He then went south, moved to Kyiv, and served in the Red Army.

After Kyiv, he ended up in Odessa, where he worked for the newspaper "Moryak" and met young writers such as Bagritsky, Kataev, Ilf, Babel, and others. Here he wrote a lot but had not yet published. Upon returning to Moscow, Paustovsky worked as an editor for ROST and began publishing his works. His first book was a collection of stories titled "Meeting Ships," published in 1928. Subsequently, he wrote "Colchis," "The Black Sea," "The Fate of Charles Lonséville," and "The Lake Front," which brought him fame. Many of his novellas and stories are dedicated to the beauty of the nature of Mstera.

During the Great Patriotic War, Paustovsky worked as a war correspondent on the Southern Front, continuing to write. In the post-war years, he gained worldwide fame, allowing him to travel across Europe. He visited Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Italy, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, England, and Sweden. The impressions from these trips were reflected in his works.

Konstantin Paustovsky passed away on July 14, 1968, in Moscow.