The writer and classic of Soviet and Russian literature K. G. Paustovsky was born on May 19, 1892. And before getting acquainted with his biography, it should be noted that he was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, and his books were translated into different languages of the world. From the middle of the 20th century, his works began to be studied in Russian literature in secondary schools. Konstantin Paustovsky (photos of the writer are presented below) had many awards - prizes, orders and medals.
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Secretary Valery Druzhbinsky, who worked for the writer Paustovsky in 1965-1968, wrote about him in his memoirs. What surprised him most was that this famous writer managed to live a time that constantly praises Stalin without writing a word about the leader. Paustovsky also managed not to join the party and not to sign a single letter or denunciation branding any of those with whom he spoke. And on the contrary, when the writers A.D.Sinyavsky and Yu.M. Daniel were tried, Paustovsky openly held them and spoke positively about their work. And moreover, in 1967, Konstantin Paustovsky supported Solzhenitsyn's letter, which was addressed to the IV Congress of Soviet Writers, where he demanded that censorship in literature be abolished. And only then, the terminally ill Paustovsky sent a letter to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR A.N. Kosygin in defense of Taganka director Yu.P. Lyubimov with a plea not to dismiss him, and this order was not signed.
Konstantin Paustovsky: biography
To understand the whole life story of this amazing writer, you can familiarize yourself with his autobiographical trilogy "A Tale of Life." Konstantin Paustovsky was the son of the railroad statistician George Maximovich and Maria Grigoryevna Paustovsky, who lived in Granatny Lane in Moscow.
His paternal pedigree is rooted in the family of the Cossack hetman P.K. Sagaidachny. After all, his grandfather was also a Chumak Cossack, it was he who introduced the grandson Kostya to Ukrainian folklore, Cossack stories and songs. My grandfather served under Nicholas I and was captured in Russian-Turkish, from where he brought his wife, a Turkish woman Fatma, who was baptized in Russia with the name of Honorata. Thus, the Turkish from his grandmother got mixed up with 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 for Ukraine
Born in Moscow, Paustovsky lived in Ukraine for more than 20 years, here 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 to him, the image of which he wore for many years in his heart.
In 1898, his family moved from Moscow to Kiev, where Konstantin Paustovsky begins 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 for only two years.
World War I
With the outbreak of the war, Paustovsky moved again to Moscow with his mother and relatives, then moved to Moscow University. But he soon interrupted his studies and got a job as a tram conductor, then he served as a nurse in hospital trains. After the brothers died in the war, Paustovsky returned to his mother and sister. But again, after some time, he left and worked, either at the metallurgical plants of Yekaterinoslavl and Yuzovsk, then at the boiler plant in Taganrog or in a fishing farm in Azov.
Revolution, civil war
With the beginning of the February Revolution, he went to Moscow and worked as a reporter in various publishing houses. There he witnessed the October Revolution of 1917 .
After that, the country plunged into a civil war, and Paustovsky was again forced to return to Ukraine in Kiev, where his mother and sister had already moved from the capital. In December, he was drafted into the hetman’s army, but after a change of power, he was called up to serve in the Red Army in a guard regiment created from former Makhnovists. This regiment was soon disbanded.
The path to creativity
The life of Konstantin Paustovsky changed, and after he traveled a lot in the south of Russia, then he lived in Odessa, worked at the Sailor Publishing House. During this period, he met with 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 was again in Moscow and worked for several years in the editorial board of ROSTA. His begin to print. In the 1930s, he again traveled and worked as a journalist for the publishing house 30 Days, Our Achievements, and the newspaper Pravda. In the journal “30 days” published his essays “Talk about fish”, “Zone of blue fire”.
At the beginning of 1931, on the instructions of ROSTA, he went to the Perm Territory, to Berezniki, to build a chemical plant. His essays on this topic were included in the book "The Giant on the Kama." At the same time, he finished writing the story “Kara-Bugaz”, which had begun in Moscow, which became a key one for him. He soon 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 novels “The Fate of Charles Lonseville”, “The Lake Front” and “Onega Plant” were written. Then there were trips to northern Russia, the result was the essays "Country for Onega" and "Murmansk". Through time - essay "Underwater winds" in 1932. And in 1937, the article “New Tropics” was published in the newspaper Pravda after a trip to Mingrelia.
After traveling to Novgorod, Pskov and Mikhailovsky, the writer wrote the essay Mikhailovsky Groves, published in Red Night magazine in 1938.
In 1939, for literary achievements, the government awarded Paustovsky 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 convey to readers all his life experience - everything that he saw, heard and experienced.
The Great Patriotic War
During the war with the Nazis, Paustovsky served as a war correspondent on the line of the Southern Front. 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 production was prepared by the Moscow Chamber Theater of A. Ya. Tairov, evacuated to Barnaul.
For almost a year, from 1942 to 1943, he spent time in Barnaul or Belokurikha. The premiere of the play, dedicated to the fight against the German conquerors, took place in Barnaul in the spring of April 4, 1943.
Confession
In 1950, the writer came to world recognition. He immediately had the opportunity to visit Europe. In 1956, he was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize, but Sholokhov received it. Paustovsky was a favorite writer, Marlene Dietrich. He had three wives, one adopted son Aleksey and natural children - Aleksey 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.