Lev Anninsky: biography and photos

The literary critic Anninsky Lev Aleksandrovich is known for his studies of the phenomena of modern culture. His books and reviews are a model of modern critical literature, as well as simply a fascinating reading with a tremendous language and the richest factual basis.

A family

Anninsky Leo was born in an interesting family. His father - Alexander I. Ivanov-Anninsky, by origin the Don Cossack, worked as a teacher of the university, a producer at Mosfilm. Mom, Anna Alexandrova, came from a family of Ukrainian Jews. Grandfather on the paternal line was a school teacher. The Soviet government dekulakized it and deprived it of the opportunity to work in the school. He before his death wrote the first story of his kind, which is now being completed by Lev Alexandrovich. Anninsky says that he owes his birth to the revolution. In other circumstances, his parents, people who belonged completely to different circles and places, would never have met. And thanks to the revolution, both his parents came to Moscow, got education, met and established a family. For some time my father worked as a teacher, and before the war at Mosfilm he was the organizer of filming. Today he would be called a producer. In 1941, he volunteered for the front and disappeared without a trace.

Childhood

The future literary critic was born on April 7, 1934. Lev Anninsky, whose early years passed in almost complete freedom, recalls that the parents were almost never at home. They traveled a lot on business trips and worked. Lyova went to kindergarten, and spent his free time in the courtyard. The house had a good library, and he was taught to read from childhood. Numerous books and formed his worldview. Among the books read at the time, Anninsky calls important: "Myths of Ancient Greece" A. Kuhn, works of Tolstoy, Stevenson, Gorky, Belinsky. Even at school he was able to read a lot of philosophical works, in particular Kant, Hegel, Rozanov, Berdyaev, Shestov, S. Bulgakov, Fedorov and many others. His philological vocation was realized even in his youth and firmly followed him.

Education

At school, Lev Anninsky studied well, helped with erudition and erudition, as well as an innate love of learning. Already in the senior classes, he firmly decided that his vocation was Russian literature, and he did not change his opinion to this day. He graduated from the school with a gold medal, which allowed him to enter the philological faculty without much difficulty in Moscow State University. Here, Anninsky was also one of the first students in academic achievement. After graduation, he was recommended for admission to graduate school. Anninsky successfully passed the entrance exams, but he did not succeed in continuing his studies: in 1959 the party course was changing, and for those who continue to study, only those who have already worked at the production are now accepted.

Beginning of the career path

Thus, in 1959 Lev Anninsky steps on his professional path: he begins to work in the journal "Soviet Union". Here he is charged with a very boring duty - to compose captions for photos in the magazine. Half a year he painfully invented ideologically correct signatures, but in the end was fired with the phrase "for profnepryodnost." Then Anninsky finds his own business: he begins to write reviews and critical materials.

Creative life

The long path of art critic Lev Anninsky, whose biography throughout its entire history is associated with various types of art, began in Literaturnaya Gazeta. This edition was a real school of skill, and Lev Alexandrovich never lowered the high bar set by "Literature". Having worked here for three years, Anninsky goes to the literary and art magazine Znamya. Then on his way were such media as "Friendship of Peoples", "Literary Review", "Motherland", "The Art of Cinema", "Time and Us." At the same time, Anninsky writes many articles and reviews for various publications and works on large books about the work of various Russian writers.

His subjects, besides literature, were also films and general trends in the evolution of culture. Lev Anninsky was also a television journalist, he was the author and presenter of such programs on the TV channel "Culture", as "Copper pipes", "Silver and Black", "Ambush Regiment", "Hunting for the Lion", "Boys of Power". In these programs the critic acts as a deep researcher of modern culture, a wonderful storyteller and essayist. His films-programs have very high ratings, as listening to Anninsky is a unique pleasure. He is one of the most well-read people on domestic television and has a talent for capturing spectators for himself in the history of the character or event.

Lev Alexandrovich is also a member of the Writers' Union, he is a member of the jury of the literary prize "Yasnaya Polyana".

Books

The literary critic Lev Anninsky, whose joints have been published since 1956, writes not only articles, essays and reviews, but also solid research works on various authors and events of cultural life. In total in his creative baggage today more than twenty books and more than a thousand articles. The most notable works of Anninsky are the long-term work on the life and work of Leo Tolstoy's "The Hunt for the Lion", which also became a script for the eponymous series of television programs, a critical biographical work on Nikolai Ostrovsky "The Betrothed with the Idea", several books about contemporary writers N. Leskov : "Leskov necklace", "Three heretics." Most of the legacy of Lev Alexandrovich are literary and art books, in which he realizes the life of real heroes of Russian cultural life of different eras. Such works include books: "Elbows and Wings" about writers and literature of the 80s of the 20th century, "Silver and Black" about the creators of the Silver Age and their relationships, "Sixties and Us" about Russian cinema.

15 volumes about your family

Throughout his life, Lev Aleksandrovich continues the work of his grandfather and writes a history of his own kind. This became his passion, his duty to his family, vocation. Lev Anninsky, whose books are read with pleasure by more than one generation of the inhabitants of our country, wrote another 15 volumes about the fate of their ancestors and this work was originally intended only for "internal use," that is, for reading with the family. But gradually, from the epic about the life of the family, this chronicle began to turn into a portrait of the era, and it is possible that soon this work will become public. Books about the family are not just a chronology of events, it is a collection of numerous family legends, a study of the characters of ancestors and the search for facts and documents about the lives of people of different periods. The Anninsky family is great, its circle includes numerous relatives from his father's extramarital affairs. The study of the family of Lev Aleksandrovich turned into a profound analysis of a complex historical epoch.

Awards

For his long creative life Lev Anninsky received many awards. Among them there are a lot of literary prizes, including the Lermontov Prize, the Prize. Kornilov. In addition, he holds TEFI awards, named after Alexander Nevsky "Russia's faithful sons", the RF Government in the field of media. In 1990, Lev Alexandrovich received the Order of the Badge of Honor.

Interesting Facts

Lev Anninsky, at the age of five, starred in Tatiana Lukashevich's film "Foundling", in which such great actors as R. Zelenaya, F. Ranevskaya, R. Plyatt were shot. He got a small role as a boy who wants to be a doctor, a tankman and even a border dog. In the film, several children were shot, none of whom later became an actor. In addition to Anninsky, Elena Chaikovskaya, now a famous coach in figure skating, also played in the film.

Lev Alexandrovich could avoid the temptations of the era and did not become a member of the party, a deputy, or an adept of the church. All his life he retained his freedom and his point of view of the world.

Lev Anninsky spent his entire life with his wife, who shared his interests and also took a great interest in literature and the chronicle of his family. Today, Lev Aleksandrovich is a widower. The couple had four daughters, which Anninsky also wants to leave the complete family history in 15 volumes.