Konstantin Paustovsky: biography, works, photo

Writer and classic of Soviet and Russian literature KG Paustovsky was born May 19, 1892. And before getting acquainted with his biography, it should be noted that he was in the Union of Writers of the USSR, and his books were translated into different languages of the world. From the middle of the twentieth century, his works began to be studied in Russian literature in general schools. Konstantin Paustovsky (pictured below) had many awards - awards, medals and orders.

Reviews of the writer

Secretary Valery Druzhbinsky, who worked with the writer Paustovsky in 1965-1968, wrote about him in his memoirs. Most of all, he was amazed that this famous writer managed to live his time, constantly praising Stalin, without writing a leader about a word. Paustovsky also managed not to join the party and not to sign a single letter or denunciation that branded one of those with whom he communicated. And even on the contrary, when the writers AD Sinyavsky and Yu. M. Daniel were judged, Paustovsky openly supported them and spoke positively about their work. Moreover, in 1967, Konstantin Paustovsky supported Solzhenitsyn's letter, which was addressed to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers, where he demanded the abolition of censorship in literature. And only then mortally ill Paustovsky sent a letter to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, AN Kosygin, in defense of the director Taganka, Yu. P. Lyubimov, with a plea not to dismiss him, and this order was not signed.

Konstantin Paustovsky: biography

To understand the entire history of the life of this amazing writer, you can see his autobiographical trilogy, "Povet about life." Konstantin Paustovsky was the son of the statistician Georgy Maximovich and Maria Grigoryevna Paustovsky, who lived in Moscow in Granatny Lane.

His pedigree on the father goes back to the genus of the Cossack hetman PK Sagaidachny. After all, his grandfather was also a Cossack chumak, he also introduced his grandson Kostya with Ukrainian folklore, Cossack stories and songs. Grandfather served under Nicholas I and was taken prisoner to Russian-Turkish, from where he brought his wife, the Turkish Fatma, who was baptized in Russia with the name Honorata. Thus, the Turkish from his grandmother was added to the Ukrainian-Cossack blood of the writer.

Returning to the biography of the famous writer, it should be noted that he had two older brothers - Boris, Vadim - and Sister Galina.

Love to Ukraine

Born in Moscow, Paustovsky spent more than 20 years in Ukraine, where he became a writer and journalist, as he often mentioned in his autobiographical prose. He thanked fate for growing up in Ukraine, which was like a lyre, the image of which he had worn for many years in his heart.

In 1898, his family moved from Moscow to Kiev, where Konstantin Paustovsky began his studies at the First Classical Gymnasium. In 1912 he entered the University of Kiev at the Faculty of History and Philology, where he studied only two years.

The First World War

With the outbreak of the war Paustovsky moved again to Moscow to his mother and family, then moved to Moscow University. But soon he interrupted his studies and got a job as a conductor of a tram, then he served as a paramedic in train-hospitals. After the death of his brothers in the war, Paustovsky returned to his mother and sister. But again after a while he left and worked, then at the metallurgical plants of Yekaterinoslav and Yuzovsk, then at the boiler plant in Taganrog or at the fishing center in Azov.

Revolution, civil war

With the beginning of the February Revolution, he went to Moscow and worked as a reporter in various print publishing houses. There he witnessed the October Revolution of 1917 .

After that, the country plunged into a civil war, and Paustovsky is again forced to return to Ukraine in Kiev, where the mother and sister have already moved from the capital. In December, he was called into the hetman army, but after the change of power - to serve in the Red Army in the guard regiment, created from the former Makhnovists. This regiment was soon disbanded.

The Way to Creativity

The life of Konstantin Paustovsky changed, and after that he traveled a lot in the south of Russia, then he lived in Odessa, worked in the publishing house "Sailor". During this period he met I. Babel, I. Ilf, L. Slavin. But after Odessa he went to the Caucasus and lived in Batumi, Sukhumi, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Baku.

In 1923, Konstantin Paustovsky again in Moscow and several years working in the editorial office of ROSTA. It begins to print. In the 1930s he again traveled and worked as a journalist for the publishing houses "30 Days", "Our Achievements", the newspaper Pravda. In the magazine "30 days" published his essays "Talk about fish", "Zone of blue fire".

At the beginning of 1931, on the orders of ROSTA, he went to the Perm region, to Berezniki, to build a chemical combine. His essays on this topic were included in the book "The Giant on the Kama." At the same time, he finished the novel "Kara-Bugaz", which began in Moscow, and which became for him a key one. Soon he dropped out and became a professional writer.

Konstantin Paustovsky: works

In 1932, the writer visited Petrozavodsk and began working on the history of the plant. As a result, the stories "The Destiny of Charles Lonsewil", "The Lake Front" and "Onega Plant" were written. Then there were trips to northern Russia, the result was the essays "Country for Onego" and "Murmansk". Through time - an essay "Underwater winds" in 1932. And in 1937 he published in the newspaper Pravda an essay "New Tropics" after a trip to Mingrelia.

After traveling to Novgorod, Pskov and Mikhailovsky writer wrote an essay "Mikhailovsky Groves", published in the magazine "Red Night" in 1938.

In 1939, for government achievements, the government awarded Paustovsky with the Labor Order of the Red Banner. It is not known exactly how many stories Konstantin Paustovsky wrote, but there were plenty of them. In them, he was able to professionally transfer to readers his entire life experience - everything he saw, heard and experienced.

The Great Patriotic War

During the war with the fascists, Paustovsky served as a military correspondent on the Southern Front line. Then he returned to Moscow and worked in the TASS apparatus. But he was released to work on the play at the Moscow Art Theater. And at the same time he and his family were evacuated to Alma-Ata. There he worked on the play "Until the heart stops" and the epic novel "Smoke of the Fatherland". The performance was prepared by the Moscow Chamber Theater A.Ya. Tairov, evacuated to Barnaul.

Almost a year, from 1942 to 1943, he spent his time in Barnaul, then in Belokurikha. The premiere of the play, dedicated to the struggle against the German conquerors, was held in Barnaul on the spring of April 4, 1943.

Confession

In 1950, the writer came to world recognition. He immediately had an opportunity to visit Europe. In 1956 he was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize, but Sholokhov received it. Paustovsky was the favorite writer Marlene Dietrich. He had three wives, one adopted son Alexei and his own children - Alexei and Vadim.

At the end of his life, the writer suffered from asthma for a long time and suffered a heart attack. He died in Moscow on July 14, 1968 and was buried in the cemetery of the city of Tarusa, Kaluga region.