Yuri Dombrovsky: biography, best books, main events and interesting facts

The destinies of many worthy people of their time will disappear into obscurity. This is very sad, because they could teach the modern generation to really live. Life and work of Yuri Dombrovsky undeservedly forgotten and erased from the textbooks of literature.

First meeting

Do you know such a person as Yuri Dombrovsky? The author's books are very popular, but he himself is too modest about his work. Who is this stranger?

Russian writer, novelist and literary critic - that's who Yuri Osipovich Dombrovsky. Biography, the list of books - all this is impressive from the first. Well, let's get acquainted with the list of his creations:

• «Derzhavin».
• "Faculty of unnecessary things."
• "The swarthy lady."
• "The monkey comes after his skull."
• "Guardian of antiquities."
• "The birth of a mouse."
• "Torch".

Biography: the beginning

Yuri Dombrovsky was born in Moscow, in May 1909, to a family of intelligent people. My mother was a biologist, and my father was an attorney. Having reached a certain age, the young Yuri enters the Tailstvo gymnasium, which was in Krivoarbatsky lane. Worthy graduating, he begins to go to the Higher Literary Courses and in 1932 safely ends them.

Arrest and expulsion

1933 was very sad. Yuri Dombrovsky was arrested and deported from Moscow. The reason for this was the incomprehensible flag found in the room of the hostel of Yuri. Naturally, this was only an excuse, and we are unlikely to learn the true reasons for expulsion. Those who were familiar with Yuri believe that he was deported to Alma-Ata because of his harsh statements about state power. Some categorically deny Dombrowski's interest in political affairs.

Life goes on

Despite life's circumstances, Yuri Dombrovsky tried various professions in the new city. He worked as an archeologist, journalist, art critic, teacher. Yuri was married to a beautiful female philologist, but the couple did not have children.

However, the thunder broke out again, and already in 1937 an ambitious man was taken under investigation. For several months he is completely cut off from the life of society. Then Yuri is released. Soon this situation will form the basis of his two books.

Literary field and subsequent arrest

The author begins to be published in the newspaper "Kazakhstanskaya Pravda" and the magazine "Literary Kazakhstan" under the real name - Yuri Dombrovsky. The books have not yet completely captured him, but he already publishes the first part of his novel Derzhavin and is behind bars. In 1939 he was arrested again, and he is serving his sentence in Kolyma camps.

Liberation, anti-fascist book and arrest

It was 1943. What is Yuri Dombrovsky now busy with? His biography commits a new turn. The writer is released from custody, and Yuri returns to Alma-Ata to engage in theatrical activities. In addition, he lectures at the University on the work of W. Shakespeare. The same time it is necessary to write such books as "Monkey comes for his skull" and "Swarthy Lady". The first of the books contained strongly pronounced antifascist thoughts.

1949 was marked by the fourth arrest, the cause of which was the testimony of Irina Strelkova - correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda. Yuri is sent to prison in the North - Ozerlag.

Finally, after the hard years spent alone in the North, the writer was released in 1955. At this time, he becomes calm, balanced and comes to the realization that the regime does not break. He tried to write the truth, to bring her to the people, but constantly the iron hand of power found him, humiliated and destroyed him. After arrests and expulsions, Yuri always had to regenerate spiritually, re-discover the desire to create in himself. It is impossible to ignite what smoldered, but it succeeded each time. It is difficult to find a person with such a will to live and a desire to create.

The all-seeing eye of the authorities noticed this change in the writer. Life broke it, but it did not break. Yuri is allowed to live in his native city - Moscow. Here he continues his literary activity, but is more calm and thoughtful. But, despite this, he did not change his views, just learned how to hide them.

Interesting facts from life

When Yuri wrote the novel "The Monkey Comes after his Skull", the manuscript was allowed to be printed. However, the subsequent arrest of the writer led to the fact that all his manuscripts were selected by authorized bodies. When the author was finally released to Moscow, that is, after many years, an unknown person came to him. The name of this person has remained unsolved. He brought Yuri a preserved manuscript, although according to the order he had to burn it.

Yuri very harshly perceived one notorious novel by Solzhenitsyn. In the letters he wrote that the author magnifies the abominable servants of the regime and belittles a man of honor and dignity. Yuri led to the fact that the man who wrote such stories, he was in the camp only "six" of more powerful people.

Throughout life, except for references, the author of unique texts has suffered and ordinary human cruelty. He was beaten many times, but going to the police with a statement would be ridiculous. Cases were not made public and gradually forgotten about them.

In addition, the writer was constantly a target for the persecutors from the KGB. This is a little-known fact, and only the relatives knew that the person who just wanted to create, went every day of his life, as if in the gun.

A little bit about famous books

The Guardian of Antiquities

Yuri Dombrovsky, whose books were printed only in a negligible quantity, does not lose his will and continues to write. In 1964 he published the novel The Guardian of Antiquities, in which the fictional name describes his unhappy adventures expulsion from Moscow.

«Faculty of unnecessary things»

This book was launched in the same 1964 year. She became the pinnacle of the writer's work. Having finished the book in 1975, the writer could not publish it in his homeland, so three years later he prints it in France in Russian.

The essence of the work is what happens to Christian values in the inhuman world. The main characters are the "cogs" of the Stalinist system, which regularly work for the regime.

Death

After the publication of his cult book, the author was severely beaten, life was hanging by a thread. As a result, he died in the hospital from a severe internal hemorrhage in May 1978. Identify the identity of several attackers failed. This case was quickly hushed up, and no one recognized the names of the true murderers of the great man. It is noteworthy that the beating occurred near the House of Writers, to which Yuri was heading.

The relatives buried the writer at the Kuzminsky cemetery, in Moscow. Even after the writer's death, his works saw the world. Three books were published by the writer's family and friends.