Zhitkov Biography Family

Boris Zhitkov is a Russian and Soviet writer, traveler, author of popular books for children. A brief biography of Boris Stepanovich was born on September 11 in Veliky Novgorod, in a family of a university teacher of mathematics Stepan Vasilievich Zhitkov and his wife, the popular pianist of Tatyana Pavlovna. Soon after the birth of his son, Stepan Zhitkov came into conflict with a local politician, which was due to which he was forced to leave Novgorod.

During the year, the family moved from city to city, eventually settling in Odessa. There, Stepan Vasilievich got a cashier on the ship, and the wife began to teach the game on the keyboards. Boris and his sister studied at home, and then entered the Odessa fifth gymnasium. There, the future writer met Korney Chukovsky, as well as with Vladimir Zabotinsky. In the year, Boris Stepanovich entered the department of the natural sciences of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Imperial Novorossiysk University.

At that time, he was fond of playing the violin, and also engaged in photography and sailing. During the revolution of the year, the young man was in a military student detachment who defended the Jewish quarter from the pogroms. In addition, he supplied the revolutionaries with weapons. In the year, the young man received a diploma and could not find a job for a long time.

In the end, he decided to become a sailor.

For several years, Zhitkov worked as a navigator on a sailing ship, in connection with which he traveled a lot. He wrote many letters about his adventures, and also left many diaries and travel magazines. Later, the rich experience of a traveler and researcher became the basis of Boris Stepanovich's works. In the year, the man took part in the ichthyological expedition on the Yenisei, and upon his return submitted documents for the department of shipbuilding of the St.

Petersburg Polytechnic University named after Peter the Great. A year later, he went on practice as a working-metallist in Denmark, and a couple of years later went on his first round-the-world trip. In the year, at the time of receipt of the diploma of the Sudroster engineer, Boris Stepanovich not only visited many countries, especially having loved the beauty of Asia, but also managed to get into the service of naval aviation.

Soon he received the title of ensign on the aviation part, and then the second lieutenant in the Admiralty. From the year, Zhitkov worked in the Odessa Sea Port, and then moved to Petrograd. By that time, he was already married twice and had two children from his first marriage. The writer's work was a move to Petrograd was due to two reasons: firstly, by virtue of his character, the writer simply could not sit in one place for a long time, and secondly, he decided to take his manuscript “Evil Sea” to the publishing house.

The work went to print in the year. After that, Boris Stepanovich got a job as a teacher of physics and drawing to a local school, and devoted all his free time to literary creativity. In total, in his life he wrote more than seventy essays, fifty nine stories and stories, seven novels and fourteen articles. Today, a man is known mainly as a children's writer. His collections “Sea Stories”, “What happened”, “Stories about animals”, “What I saw” are very popular.

However, the writer himself considered the novel “Victor Vavich”, dedicated to the events of the year, by his main work. The complete, not subjected to censorship, the version saw the light only in the year, when the daughter of Korney Chukovsky Lydia found the manuscript in the archives of her father. Today, writers and critics call the novel “Viktor Vavich” one of the best works that could be written about the events of that time.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, by his own admission, "searched for the widow of Zhitkov and kissed her hand." Boris Zhitkov passed away on October 19 from lung cancer and was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow. Similar authors.