The real name of Gorin. Gorin's biography

The interest in the personality of Grigory Izrailevich, in his literary and cinematographic masterpieces and in what Gorin's real name is, speaks of the enormous popularity of the famous Russian satirist and the demand for the genre in which he was especially famous. Someone knows him first of all as a writer, for some he is remembered as a TV presenter, for others he is a brilliant screenwriter, for others he is a witty comedian.

Gorin's biography. Childhood

The writer joked that he had several biographies - for each published book he had to “select the appropriate one”. And each of these biographies is certainly true. The surname Gorina adorns the front pages of journalistic and fiction publications, dozens of works created by him for theater and cinema. The writer claimed that as a playwright he was born in 1968, he first “sounded” as a screenwriter in the 70s, but Gorin noted his birth as a comedian with a real birth date: March 12, 1940. Little Grisha came into the world in happy moments, to joyful exclamations, laughter and applause: on the radio at that moment they announced the end of the military conflict between the USSR and Finland. “... the feeling when you yell ... and everyone around is laughing ... determined my creative destiny,” Gorin joked. His humor was never rude and flat, he laughed in a special ironic and intellectual manner that enchanted the public and made her passionately love this unflappable, cheerful person.

Alias ​​origin

Gorin's real name is Ofshtein. She inherited from his father, who was an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel. During World War II, Israel Abelevich served in the 150th division of the third shock army of the first Belorussian front. Mom worked as an ambulance doctor, Gorinskaya - was her real name.

Gorin-Ofshtein was often "tormented" by publishers: they say that with a Jewish surname he has little chance of printing his magnificent creations. Since 1963, the writer worked under the pseudonym Gorin. Perhaps his source was the mother's maiden name. Or maybe Grigory Izrailevich was guided by the history of the origin of the surname Gorin, which arose on behalf of Grigory. Thus, it turned out that the name and surname of the humorist duplicated each other. And when reporters asked a question about the real name of the satirist Grigory Gorin, he answered with a joke, they say, this is an abbreviation of the phrase "Grisha Ofshtein decided to change his nationality." Later, Grigory Izrailevich made a pseudonym with his official last name.

Doctor writer

As a child, Gregory was sure that he would become a writer, so he entered the medical institute - a place "where they taught ... the wisdom of life and did it ... fun."

Gorin wrote feuilleton and humoresque without stopping, working as a doctor in the ambulance team. But literature eventually won, and the aspiring writer became a member of the Writers' Union and, as he said with a smile, “was forced to leave medicine alone.” The fact that she "did not leave" the writer until the end of her life was told by his colleagues. So, Gennady Khazanov recalled how his head hurt, no medicine helped, but as soon as he heard Gorin’s speech on TV, the pain disappeared without a trace. Gorin can also be called the “doctor” of human souls, because his refined humor and philosophically colored irony provide a rare opportunity to look at yourself and the world around you with amazing criticality.

Satirist or comedian?

Grigory Gorin always insisted that he does not see himself as a fighter whose mission is to improve life, but he saw his vocation in making it easier by scattering lively sparks of sparkling humor around . Someone from the celebrities of the past noticed that satire is humor that has lost patience. Gorin always had plenty of patience.

Successful career Gorin

For the first time, the story of a young writer was printed on the sixteenth page of the authoritative Literary Newspaper. It happened in 1960. Six years later, Gorin published the first book, where his prose is adjacent to the works of other authors. In the same period, the comedian, in a creative tandem with Arkady Arkanov, wrote several plays. One of them, the Banquet, staged in 1968 by Mark Zakharov, caused a resounding success at the Moscow Satire Theater. Actors played the actual and sharp performance only thirteen times, until censorship officials came to their senses. In 1970, the Theater of the Soviet Army premiered Gorin's play “Forget Herostratus” (later other theaters eagerly put on a tragicomedy). The same year marked the beginning of the renewal and growth of popularity of the Moscow Lenkom Theater.

The creative friendship of the playwright Grigory Gorin and the director Mark Zakharov was really - real. The surname of Gorin, a satirist and screenwriter, was listed on the posters of the theater’s favorite performances: “Memorial Prayer”, “The House that Swift Built”, “Til”. Zakharov once noted that Grigory Izrailevich had a special gift - to take an old story and fill it with modern meaning and subtext. Therefore, in the heroes of different countries and eras, we sometimes recognize ourselves. The last joint work in Lenkom - the play "Jester Balakirev" - was interrupted by the sudden sudden death of Grigory Gorin, which happened from a heart attack in June 2000. The performance was intended to be reckless and impudent. So he turned out, in memory of a sincere, talented and deep man who could not stand the "stuffiness" of hypocrisy and meanness.

Movie work

In our country, there is probably no person who would not see the films created by Zakharov and Gorin. These movie masterpieces have always become a cultural event. Witty and spectacular films - “An Ordinary Miracle”, “The Same Munchausen”, “The Formula of Love” and others - are full of subtle allegory and philosophical depth. The movie “Kill the Dragon”, released at the beginning of perestroika, allegorically expressed the vitality of the evil, hypocritically disguised as innocence, energy of evil.

In collaboration with Eldar Ryazanov, Gorin wrote the script for the film "About the poor hussar, put in a word" in 1978. The text of the dark atmosphere of provocations, denunciations, and the meanness of the secret service police that reigned in the forties of the nineteenth century unambiguously hinted at the situation that had developed towards the end of the seventies of the twentieth century. Censorship completely “shredded” the script of the film, which was released on the screens of the country only a year later.

In total, the Gorinsky film collection has about twenty beautiful adaptations.

Two sad comedians

The creative duet Gorin - Arkanov took shape when both were just starting to print, and lasted more than ten years. Their joint plays and humoresques were a huge success. Both authors have a peculiar manner of telling surprisingly funny things with a murderously serious face. The writers understood each other perfectly. According to Arkady Arkanov, the person with whom he could be safely sent on a long space flight was Grigory Gorin. The real name of Arkanov (Steinbock) also did not leave doubts about his nationality, and the satirist also had to change it.

Smile gentlemen!

Real fame is when the words of a writer become folklore. Gorin had dozens of such phrases and aphorisms. About love, as a theorem that always requires proof, and about an institution with notoriety, thanks to which he had no end to visitors, and that the Russians harnessed for a long time, but did not go anywhere. And what is the phrase in the film about Munchausen that all the stupid things on earth are committed with an intelligent expression on your face!

The famous aphorism about a piano in the bushes, which is used when it comes to fake impromptu, was born in one of Gorin's early stories. It was a reporter who “accidentally” met a production leader on the street , who also had an “smart book” with him “accidentally”, and when it turned out that he could play musical instruments, it turned out that the bushes were completely “accidental” a grand piano stands to demonstrate the harmoniously developed personality of the drummer of communist labor.

Universal gift

Gorin never was important, there was no trace of arrogance in him. Viewers remembered his subtle and funny humors, which he read with a calmly serious face in the program "Around the Laughter" for almost ten years. In the early 1990s, he became a member of the judges of the Higher League of KVN, then - the author, participant and presenter of the TV show "White Parrot".

Gorin's gift was multifaceted. Like Chekhov, he combined the talent of a storyteller and playwright. In depth and scale of philosophical and allegorical understanding of life, critics rightly compare it with Swift and Brecht. Without exaggeration, Grigory Gorin is a unique and striking phenomenon in our culture.