Victor Platonovich Nekrasov is a figure that is amazing and significant in Russian literature. His first work immediately gained immense popularity and approval of Stalin. However, after three decades, the writer ended up in exile and no longer returned to his homeland.
Children and teenagers
Victor Nekrasov, whose biography is given in the article, was born in 1911 in Kiev. But his childhood passed in Switzerland and France, where she first studied in medicine, and then worked Zinaida Nikolaevna, the writer’s mother. Platon Fedoseevich, father, was an employee of the bank.
Shortly after returning to their homeland (1915), a revolutionary coup took place. He brought misfortune to the Nekrasov family: in the 17th, his father died, and a year later the Petliurites were screwed up until the death of his elder brother Victor. For some time, the mother was afraid to go out, but nothing happened. They did not touch the family in the thirties, when many of their friends were arrested. Perhaps this is due to the fact that Zinaida Nikolaevna treated the NKVD officers who lived in the same house as them.
Education and work in the theater
Victor Platonovich Nekrasov was very fond of Kiev, especially its architecture. It was not just a hobby. In the 30th year he entered the construction institute and studied with the well-known in the country and abroad I. Karakis. However, Nekrasov did not receive a diploma in architecture. The leadership of the institute did not like his project, developed in the 36th year on the basis of the ideas of the constructivist Le Corbusier.
The young man was no less interested in theater and literature - even at school, he and his comrades published the Zuav magazine. Victor Nekrasov, whose biography will later be associated with this passion for him, graduated from the theater studio in the 37th. Not becoming an architect, he joined the troupe in Krivoy Rog. Then, until the outbreak of war, he moved from one theater to another. Actor, artist, director, assistant architect - this is what he has been doing for four years.
War and the first work
But Nekrasov came to the recruiting station himself and was assigned to the engineering troops. During the war years had to command a battalion. The soldiers who served with him recalled that he always behaved on an equal footing with them and did not hide from bullets. In the 43rd received the medal "For Courage". He was wounded three times, the last time his right arm was interrupted. So the future writer Nekrasov was in the hospital. On the advice of doctors, he began to develop a hand. The result - diary entries about the experiences at the front. They composed the story “In the Trenches of Stalingrad” that brought him fame.
The injury was incompatible with further service, and Nekrasov was demobilized with the rank of captain.
Literary and social activities
The story "In the Trenches of Stalingrad" (1946) was far from the first work about the war. However, recent events have been shown so believable that they shocked many readers. It was based on everything that Viktor Nekrasov himself experienced and experienced. The biography of the protagonist was familiar to thousands of yesterday's soldiers: retreating from the western borders to the Volga itself, fierce battles for Mamaev Kurgan, mass death of comrades, disappointment and hope that the victims were not in vain ... In the 47th Nekrasov, a year ago no one not known, received the Stalin Prize. Although the day before the award Fadeev crossed out the work from the list. It is not difficult to imagine, thanks to whom it appeared in it again by morning. I must say that most of the prize Nekrasov gave for the purchase of wheelchairs to front-line soldiers.
Subsequently, Victor Nekrasov, whose biography is proof of this, never violated the principles of justice and humanity. In the 60th, he opposed the construction of a stadium near the place of Babi Yar, for which he was declared a Zionist. The story continued six years later in connection with a speech at a rally dedicated to the next anniversary of the execution of Jews. In the 62nd, after a trip to Europe, he shared his impressions in essays. This was the beginning of the persecution. His works (In the Hometown, Senka, etc.) were waiting for the attack of critics, and they did not reach the general reader.
Forced emigration
In the 74th, the writer’s apartment was searched. Even before that, the writer spoke in support of those who were persecuted for dissent. The result is exclusion from the party, as his opinion did not coincide with the generally accepted one. Now interrogations followed, wiretapping of the telephone. Deprived of all awards, including military ones. Expelled from the Writers Union. Soon, Victor Nekrasov, whose work was finally banned, turned to the government with a request to give permission to travel to Switzerland. In September, the emigration of the writer began. At first he was visiting with relatives, then he moved to France, where he died in 1987. Here he was the editor-in-chief of Continent magazine and worked on the radio.
“A Little Sad Tale” - the latest work of Victor Nekrasov - is filled with homesickness, which in the late 70s deprived him of citizenship for “activities incompatible with high rank ...”. A small obituary in connection with the death of the writer was published only in the Moscow News.