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Yuri Kazakov - biography Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov - prose writer, Russian writer, playwright, screenwriter. He is a representative of the Soviet small narrative prose. Yuri Kazakov begins his literary activity in the period, which was subsequently called the “thaw”, and became a representative of the “sixties”. He had traditional life positions, he was interested in the old man, and the modern way of life was “dubious new” for him.

He often heard accusations against him that he idealizes the past and worships emigrants, for example, Bunin. He felt a kinship with Lermontov and Tolstoy loved the works of Chekhov and Prishvin, adopted their skill words and spiritual problems. Dmitry Bykov, on the other hand, spoke of him as a rude, who curses with swearing words. Childhood and youth Yuri Pavlovich was born in the year, on August 8 in Moscow.

His parents moved to Moscow from Smolensk. They were immigrants from the peasants. They had a legend in their family that his great -grandmother was good, and Prince Meshchersky, who then seduced the girl, took her into his house. If the story is true, then Yuri Kazakov is a relative of Nikolai Karamzin. Yuri Kazakov in the childhood of Father Prose writer was called Pavel Gavrilovich.

Having moved to Moscow, he began his career as a student of the emitor, but then he changed his specialty and became a carpenter. He was flexible and britched as a man, but had a pernicious habit of drinking. In the beginning of the X, he was sent for three years from the capital. He settles in the Vyatka province, the cause of the exile was his drunken conversation, about the riot, which had a place to be in the Tambov region.

At the end of the war, he lives in Solga, which was in the Arkhangelsk region. It was a small village at the railway station. His wife and son, who remained in Moscow, visited infrequently. The writer's mother was called Ustinya Andreevna, even before the revolution, she worked as a nanny in rich families, then at the factory, was a subsurrent. And then the woman learned to the nurse.

In the family, she was behind the main one. Ustina Andreevna sheltered her orphaned niece, and they all lived in a room on Arbat. Even in early childhood, Yura began to get involved in music. He could without much effort play a song heard on the radio on the balalaika, and he also mastered the button accordion. Ustinya Andreevna was proud of her son and encouraged this addiction.

But she was wary of his enthusiasm, and writing was a waste of time for her at all. Yuri loved to read, and spent a lot of time in libraries and reading rooms. Of particular love, the child was enjoyed by books where it was about hunting, having matured, hunting became his only hobby and passion. Yuri Kazakov in his youth in difficult wartime Ustinya Andreevna and Yura took up any work: they cleaned the Crimean bridge from the ice, unloaded potatoes and cabbage with a barge.

Yura, like many children of Moscow, extinguished the "lighters" on the roofs. The bomb exploding not far from him, she contouring the child, and for his life he remained a staircase. But Igor Kuzmichev, in his documentary novel “The Life of Yuri Kazakov”, described other events that caused stuttering in Kazakov. He writes that at the age of six, when he and his mother escorted his father to exile, he was frightened by an evil dog.

From the age of summer, in the year, Yura goes to study at a music school. He enters the class of cellists, but later goes into the class of double bass, which required less flexibility of the fingers. In the year, he becomes a student at the Moscow Architectural and Construction College, but throws it, and in the year enters the Gnesins music school.

Muse of Kazakova, Marina Litvinova, claimed that Yuri Pavlovich did not even graduate from school, but he acquired his certificate in the market in Mytishchi. At the end of the Music School, he enters a smuggler at the Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater orchestra. He had part -time jobs in jazz groups and newspapers. But he soon understands that the music is not his path.

And in the year he writes a statement of dismissal from the theater. The next year, he enters the Gorky Literary Institute, having passed the competition more than a person for one place. Creativity by the earliest works of Kazakov, which are preserved in the archive, are considered poems and prose, short essays for the newspaper Soviet Sport. But the first publication was a small play, entitled “New machine”.

She was printed in the collection of the year. In the future, the author wrote mainly stories and small novels. One of the most popular works that the readers used the novels “Quiet Morning”, “Arctur - Hound Dog”, which is about a blind dog, and in the year this short story was taken away. Interested hunting stories attracted the attention of readers and critics.

In search of answers to his questions, he travels a lot around the country. It is especially attracted by the Russian North.

The pristine and original way of life that he watches there gives him inspiration to write new works.Free forest life prompted the writer to write northern stories. In the year, Yuri Pavlovich will write “Nikishkin Stories”, “Form”, “Manka”, all of them are simply permeated with hopelessness. Yuri Kazakov for 10 years from a year to year, Kazakov wrote the Northern Diary, in it he described the historical portraits of Pomors.

Visiting the Kola Peninsula, Karelia, moving along the coast of the Arctic Ocean, Murmansk and Solovkov, the writer literally absorbed landscapes and portraits of ordinary fishermen and hunters. And then he replenished his diary with new stories. In the year, he will write a story about the dramatic fate of the Pomors “Nestor and Cyrus”, in the year about the Solovetsky monastery, which was turned during the years into a concentration camp “Solovetsky Dreams”.

One of the latest works of this cycle was the story “A Boy from the Snow Pit”, which tells about the life of the Nenets artist-samodka Pumpa, he wrote this story for a year. Yuri Pavlovich reaches the peak in his genre. The award, which was awarded the journal "New World" of writers for the best story, is named after writer Yuri Kazakov. In the year, he is involved in the creation of a collective detective "Laughs the one who laughs." In the year, Kazakov goes to France.

There he collects material about his beloved writer Ivan Bunina. But the spelling of a large work was beyond his power, this idea remained unrealized. They may be familiar.