The Story of Achmed Abdullah

Achmed Abdullah is a writer born in Yalta, Russia, on the 12th of May 1881. His real complete name is Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff and he is the son of an Afghan princess married to a cousin of Nicholas Romanoff, the Czar of Russia. Achmed Abdullah has an amazing life story, He is sent to the Oxford University, after which he joins the British Army, becoming a colonel after 17 years of military service. Although he was baptized an orthodox, he was raised as a Muslim and he then chose to be a Roman Catholic.

The story doesn't end here, but it continues with Achmed Abdullah moving to the United States of America in 1910 where he starts writing and finds all the success he ever dreamed about.

Achmed Abdullah wrote numerous pulp stories for different magazines. Some of the most famous pulp stories are: The Red Stain, Steel and Jade, Mysteries of Asia, Deliver Us from Evil, The Thief of Baghdad, Shackled, The Trail of the Beast, The Benefactor's Club, Girl on the Make, Dreamers of Empire or Bucking the Tiger. Achmed Abdullah ws very appreciated for his writings by readers all over the country, who couldn't wait for the weekly pulp magazine to appear with new stories.

The Russian born author also wrote screenplays for numerous successful movies in Hollywood like The Thief of Baghdad, Arabian Nights or The Lives of a Bengal Lancer which was very well received by the public. It was also nominated for Best Picture Oscar and 5 other Oscar Categories. An interesting thing about Achmed Abdullah is that the actions in his stories or even movies are set in exotic locations like India, Chinatown, or extravagant places in New York, or sometimes even Tibet. He was also an exotic writer. Achmed Abdullah died on the 12th of May 1945.

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