"Snail on the slope", "Picnic on the side of the road", "hard to be God" - these and other names written by Strugatsky, immersed the reader in fabulous worlds, are beautifully familiar with the large number of domestic fans of fiction.
On August 28, 2020, a brother-Arkady Strugatsky would meet his 95th anniversary in the creative tandem, but fate ordered otherwise. On entertaining facts from the personal life and the author's biography - in the material 24cm.
1. Hobbies of pre-war years
To the Great Patriotic War, Arkady Strugatsky was seriously fond of astronomy and even mastered his own telescopes, whom he had accumulated as many as 10 pieces. It is noteworthy that Brother's dream embodied Boris, who received an astronomer's diploma after the end of LSU. Therefore, there is nothing surprising that in the work of writers so much attention is paid to space travels and other planets.Another hobby in young years for Arkady became a writhe - already then from under his hand there was a story "Nakhodka Major Kovaleva", which was relevant in two fatty notebooks. On a practically calligraphic handwriting pages, in addition to the text, there were also illustrations created by Arkady Strugatsky personally. Unfortunately, "Nakhodka" did not enter the print - the work was lost in blockade.
2. Alarm Lhacety
Arkady Strugatsky at the beginning of the war was working at first time on the construction of defensive structures in a deposited Leningrad, and then went to the enterprise that occupied the manufacture of a grenade.
In 1942, together with his father evacuated from a blockade city - a mother with younger Boris remained, because the latter was seriously sick and would not suffer the road. It is noteworthy that the future science fiction writer during the bombardment of Echelon with the refugees of German aviation was the only survivor from the entire car in which he was driving. To pull out relatives from the city later, Arkady had to be independently, since his father died due to the disease shortly after evacuation.
3. With Alfa Centauro - Driving
The works of the Strugatsky brothers enjoyed great popularity. And so much that some of the beautiful fans-romance seriously believed that Arkady, like his brother Boris, is not an ordinary person, but a representative of an unknown extraterrestrial civilization, an unknown way that turned out to be on Earth.Therefore, Arkadya was on a par with a junior relative, had to receive many letters with suggestions to help, since they were "stuck" on the planet, as well as apologizing for the insufficient development of earthly science and technology, which does not allow them to repair their spacecraft.
4. By Older
Arkady Strugatsky was distinguished by significant conservatism when the case concerned technology. Therefore, even when Boris already had his own computer, the elder brother writer continued to use the typewriter's usual writing machine.
5. Masters of an overseas syllable
Arkady by profession was a translator from Japanese and English. Therefore, not only wrote his own works with the younger brother, but also dealt with translation into Russian. Thanks to him, they were printed on the great and mighty works of Natsuma Soseks, Siteya Ento, Cobo Abe and many other writers of the country of the rising sun. And together with Boris Arkady, he opened the Soviet readers of such authors as Cold Clement, John Wyndem and Andre Norton.6. Dear, favorite, cute
In 1948, Inna Shershova, in 1948, was the first wife of Arkady, with which the author came out in Kansk, during military service. However, the marriage lasted for a long time - in 1954, the spouses broke up, and not developing children.
The second spouse of the author Elena Oshanin presented the daughter of Maria, who later became his wife Hydar later. Elena's daughter from the first marriage Natalia Arkady Strugatsky loved and raised as his own.
7. From a bird's eye view
Arkady Strugatsky died in October 1991 - the cause of death was a long time to the writer of liver cancer, who managed to bring the author to the grave at the 67th year of life. As also pointed out in his own testament, his remains were cremated and then dispelled the dust from the helicopter.