Cossacks writer biography

Yuri Kazakov Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov -, Russian Soviet writer. Born on August 8 in Moscow in a family of a worker, a native of the peasants of the Smolensk province. In the autobiography, he wrote: “In our family, as far as I know, there was not a single educated person, although many were talented.” The adolescence of Kazakov coincided with the years of World War II.

The memories of this time, about the night bombing of Moscow, were embodied in the incomplete story of two nights of other other separation of souls, which he wrote in the years. For fifteen years, Kazakov began to study music - first on the cello, then at the double bass. I entered the music school. The Gnesins, who graduated from finding a permanent place in the orchestra, turned out to be difficult, Kazakov’s professional musical activity was episodic: he played in unknown jazz and symphonic orchestras, worked as a musician on dance floors.

The difficult relations between parents, the difficult financial situation of the family also did not contribute to the creative growth of Kazakov-musician. In the end of the x, the Cossacks began to write poetry, in v. The diary entries of those years indicate a craving for writing, which in the Literary Institute named after While studying at the institute, the head of the seminar, according to the memoirs of Kazakov, forever repelled him to write about what you do not know.

As a student, the Cossacks began to publish his first stories-blue and green, ugly, etc., his first Arcturus book soon came out-the hound dog the story became his favorite genre, the skill of Kazakov-storyteller was indisputable. Among the early works of Kazakov, the stories of Teddy and Arcturus - a hound dog, the main characters of which are animals - the Teddy Bear and a blind hunting dog Arctur, occupy a special place.

Literary critics fell on the fact that in the modern literature of the Cossacks - one of the best successors of the traditions of Russian classics, in particular I. Bunin, about whom he wanted to write a book and what he talked about with B. Zaitsev and G. Adamovich during a trip to Paris in Kazakov’s prose was characterized by subtle lyricism and musical rhythm. In the sketches of autobiography, he wrote that during his studies “he was engaged in mountaineering, hunted, caught fish, walked a lot, spent the night, where he had to, he looked all the time, listened and remembered.” Already at the end of the institute, being the author of several prose collections, Cossacks did not lose interest in travel.

He visited the Pskov Pechora, in the Novgorod region, in Tarus, which he called the "cute artistic place", and in other places. The impressions of the trips were embodied both in travel essays and in works of art - for example, in stories on the road, crying and sobbing, damned north and many others. A special place in the work of Kazakov was occupied by the Russian North.

In a collection of stories and essays, the Northern Diary of Kazakov wrote that he “always wanted to live not on time camps, not on polar wintering and radio stations, but in the villages in the places of original Russian settlements, in places where life is not in a hurry, but permanent, a hundred -year -old, where the family, children, households, and the usual hereditary work and crosses are tied to the house graves of fathers and grandfathers.

" In the story of the life of fishermen Nestor and Cyrus and others. The last chapter of the Northern Diary is dedicated to the Nenets artist Pumpa. Subsequently, the Cossacks were written about him by a boy from a snowy pit - and the script of the film the great Samoyed Hero of Kazakov’s prose - an internally lonely man, with a sophisticated perception of reality, with an aggravated sense of guilt.

Feelings of guilt and farewell are imbued with the last stories of a candle and in a dream you cried bitterly, the main character of which, in addition to an autobiographical narrator, is his little son. During the life of Kazakov, about 10 collections of his stories were published: on the road, blue and green, two in December, autumn in oak forests and others. Cossacks wrote essays and essays, including Russian prose writers - Lermontov, Pomorskoye fairy tale Pisakhov and others.

A special place in this series is occupied by the memories of the teacher and friend K. Paustovsky We’ll go to Lopschengu in the translation into Russian, made by Kazakov in the inter -strip, a novel of the Kazakh writer A. was published in the last years of his life of Cossacks, wrote little, most of his intentions remained in sketches. Some of them after the death of the writer were published in the book for two nights, Cossacks died in Moscow on November 29 Books of the author:.