Biography
Writer Leonid Leonov lived a long, almost a century of life. From his youth, it was ranked classic, twice was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature. He was happy in his personal life and managed to see the grandchildren by adults. However, one of the well-known quotes of the writer almost literally repeats the epigraph to Colin Maccalo "singing in the thorns":"All the most valuable in the world is pulled out of pain."Childhood and youth
The writer was born late in the spring of 1899 in Moscow in the family of Maxim Leonov - a merchant son, who pretended to the literature and the revolution, who was friends with Nikolai Bauman and who published under the pseudonym Maxim Gormanka. Mother of Lene (or home-style Laona) Maria Petrovna Petrova was the second spouse of Poet-Surikovtsa.
In the link to Siberia, the father of the family went with the third wife - the seams and the poetess Maria Chernyshova, leaving Maria Petrovna and five children's concerns of his relatives. Leonid had Nikolai brothers, Boris, Vladimir and sister Lena. A year after the departure of Maxim, Leonovich from the family fell into a hole and died from a cold 10-year-old Volodya. Then infections climbed the life of Kolya and Lena.
In 1918, Leonid with a silver medal graduated from the gymnasium. Another 3 years before the release in the Arkhangelsk newspaper "Northern Morning", editable by the Father, saw the first essays of a teenager. Junior Deuts Leonov genre did not have anything in common with his mature creativity, in which the prose prevailed, dramaturgy and was present elements of journalism: 15-year-old Lenya wrote poems and theatrical reviews.
In civil war, a beginner writer managed to host for the White, and for the Reds, but the Soviet biographers of the writer emphasized that Leonid had a call to supporters of the monarchy, and in the army of workers and peasants - according to a good wax. It is curious that in all his long life of Leonov did not bother to join the ranks of the rules of the Communist Party.
Personal life
With the wife of Tatiana Mikhailov, the writer lived 56 years old and, according to the testimony of the poet of Alexander Zharova, being more beautiful than all of the fellow in Peru, never even looked towards other women. His spouse is the youngest daughter of the publisher Mikhail Sabashnikov, in the house of which at the beginning of the 20s of the 20th century often had a novice writer of Leonov.In July 1923, Leonid and Tatiana married the Church of the village of Abramtsevo. In 1928, the wife gave the writer the first daughter of Elena, and in a couple of years - Natasha.
The wife of Leonov dedicated only one book - the story of Evgenia Ivanovna, and after the death of Tatiana Mikhailovna confessed that his companion was his main reader. Widowing Leonid Maksimovich predicted the Bulgarian Justice of Vanga, sending a writer as a gift not a tea couple as a gift, but only one cup. The cause of the death of Tatiana Mikhailovna became cancer.
Among the hobbies of Leonov were photography and flower growing. Leonid Maksimovich left amateur photo of his wife and children, without tired of improving the greenhouse in the writing village of Transmekino near Moscow, was the Deputy Chairman of the All-Russian Society of Gardening. Roman Leonova "Russian Forest" is one of the first works of world literature on the problems of ecology.
Books
The professional writer Leonov began after demobilization in the early 20s of the 20th century. The first was the light of the stories of "Buryga", "Care Hama" and the story "Petushyinsky break". Like Michael Sholokhov, the most significant works are the novels of "Bumbinki" and "Thief" - Leonid Maksimovich created in his youth.
In 1927, the writer took part in the literary experiment - the collective writing of the novel-detective "Big Fires". Each head of the work published in the magazine "Spark" was his author, Alexander Green and Isaac Babel, Konstantin Fedin and Mikhail Zoshchenko appeared among the coasters. A separate book was released only in 2009.
Leonid Maksimovich was considered a classic of socialist realism and contributed to the glorification of Joseph Stalin, articles "Word about the first deputy" and "Nald of Victory", and Leonovskaya Pieces about the war "invasion" and its adaptation by Abram Roma was awarded the Stalin Prize. However, some works of the writer were defeated and were prohibited.
Such a fate suffered the play "Blizzard" and "Golden Care". The first mentioned repression, and in the second - the tragedy in the Soviet propagandists in the Babi Yar.
For more than 40 years of Leonov worked on the complex housebooting novel "Pyramid". The work saw the light in the months before the death of the writer.
Death
4 months after the death of his wife, Leonid Maksimovich found out that he had oncology - stomach cancer. The writer was waiting for death, but the treatment suddenly helped, and the writer lived for another 15 years, of which the decade remained vigorous. Oncology still caught up with Leonov, in the last year of life the classic tormented from the throat cancer. The suffering was exacerbated by living conditions in the oncological center.On August 8, 1994, Leonid Maksimovich died in a dream in the apartment at the Big Nikitskaya Street. The writer sent in the church of the Ascension of the Lord in Nikitsky gates. Leonov's grave is located at the Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow.
In 2010, in the series "The Life of Wonderful People" printed the book of Zakhar Prilepina "Leonid Leonov: His game was huge." To the biography of the author "Barsukov" and "Russian Forest", the modern tribute was recommended to turn his today's political opponent Dmitry Bykov. In 2020, the Bibliography of Prilepina was replenished with another book-life book. Now Sergey Yesenin became the hero of the Chairman of the Party of the Truth.
Bibliography
- 1923 - Petushyinsky break
- 1924 - "The end of a small man"
- 1924 - "Bumbers"
- 1927 - "Thief"
- 1930 - "Sot"
- 1932 - "Skatarevsky"
- 1935 - "Road to Ocean"
- 1938 - "Wolf"
- 1938-1963 - Evgenia Ivanovna
- 1939 - "Misel"
- 1940-1994 - "Pyramid"
- 1942 - "Ordinary man"
- 1942 - "Invasion"
- 1946 - "Golden Care
- 1953 - "Russian Forest"
- 1961 - "Flight of Mr. Mac-Kinley"
Filmography
- 1944 - "Invasion"
- 1956 - "Ordinary man"
- 1964 - "Russian Forest"
- 1975 - "Mr. McKinley's flight"