Alexander Bogatyrev: life and creative path

After graduating from the Faculty of Philology, Bogatyrev Alexander Vladimirovich showed himself in many areas of writing and directing. He received several high awards in journalism. During his life, Bogatyrev traveled a lot, which undoubtedly affected his creative path.

The beginning of the creative path

Bogatyrev Alexander graduated from St. Petersburg University, studying at the Faculty of Philology. At first, to earn a living, he worked as a watchman. Then he began to teach English in one of the schools, and then in the library technical school. True, the teaching activity did not last long. All his spare time Alexander Bogatyrev gave creativity.

Even in his student years, he began writing scripts, short stories and short plays, carried away translations. His works he read at meetings of nonconformist artists in St. Petersburg and Moscow. His play "Edelweiss" wanted to put four theaters of Petersburg, but the Soviet strict censorship did not allow it. For the same reason, Alexander Bogatyrev was unable to make the film "I'm Back, Father" for a paid scenario.

Wandering

While working in the journal Literary Studies, Alexander Bogatyrev went on a business trip to hot Tajikistan. There he became acquainted with the color of life of local people, made acquaintances with writers, created a script for the Tajik studio. At the same time, Alexander began to translate.

After that he went to the north of an immense homeland to collect material for new scenarios. For two years, from 1985 to 1986, Alexander Bogatyrev traveled from Vologda to Arkhangelsk. The stops were made in the villages, where the script writer communicated with the local population. He recognized the surrounding world from within, recognized the people, their way of life, way of life and character. A couple of years after the scenario of Bogatyrev, the well-known director Alexander Sidelnikov shot the documentary "Transfiguration".

Another long time had to travel writer. After traveling through Siberia, four documentary films were shot. A trip through the countries of the West gave the film "About Russia with Love", which was shot in France, namely in Paris.

Alexander Bogatyrev often traveled to Abkhazia and Georgia, where he visited a considerable number of parishes and monasteries. Now the writer lives in St. Petersburg, then in Sochi, but in his heart he dreams of living in a quiet town or village, far from the bustle.

Life in the countryside

After numerous trips, Alexander wanted to go to the countryside for permanent residence. In 1986, the writer's family settled in the village of Berezaika in the Tver region. There they lived for a little over ten years, until both daughters graduated from school. Then they moved the whole family to St. Petersburg.

The village life very much brought the author of the living stories about the common people closer to the "Russian world". Alexander Bogatyrev turned from a sarcastic Westerner into a simple man with a Russian open mind.

About the book of short stories "The bucket of forget-me-nots"

Without a twinge of conscience we can say that "Leskov of our time" is Bogatyrev Alexander. Books are read with great interest, because the story line in them is unpredictable. His stories on the approach to problems and style of presentation resemble the work "Trifles of the Hierarchical Life". They also have rural priests, vivid images of parishioners, holy fools and wandering around the world. But unlike Leskov's stories, Bogatyrev's actions take place all over the world: Siberia, the Russian outback, the capital, Tbilisi, Abkhazia, America, Sochi, Estonia.

Alexander manages to see in people a special, unique. Narrative in the stories is very lively, reading, you can cry and laugh in your voice. The narrator can fool around like local villagers on a bench, but can immerse themselves in deep thoughts and amaze with remarks and reflections on what is happening in life. The book recreates the image of the era through a series of unique images. The author writes about the Soviet era, about the dashing 90s, as well as about the "stagnant" 80's.

Achievements

Alexander collaborated with the film studio "Lennauchfilm", and also wrote scripts for the St. Petersburg documentary film studio, starting in 1983. It was shot more than 30 films by its author scenarios. Since 1992, he has been shooting documentaries, acting as a screenwriter and director.

At the same time, he writes articles on historical, topical social and political topics. Most of all Bogatyrev pays attention to church Orthodox themes. In 2004, at the Christmas readings in Moscow, he was awarded recognition as the best journalist of the year. To date, he is a regular author and laureate of the literary prize of the Russian Binder. Alexander was awarded the title of "Golden Pen", in this nomination took part authors from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

For more than a decade, the writer was a member of the jury of the Radonezh Film Festival. He is often invited to other festivals. Now his stories are published on the websites of "Orthodoxy" and "Radonezh". In the environment of the film industry and publishing houses, many know Alexander Bogatyrev. Photo from the presentation of Bogatyrev's collection "Bucket of forget-me-nots" once again speaks about the importance of the author, about readers' interest in his work.