Biography of Oldi
Go to the catalog? So G. Oleg Semenovich Ladyzhensky appeared on March 23 in Kharkov. After school, he studied at the Kharkov Institute of Culture, which he graduated from in honors. Immediately after graduation, he worked as a director at the Pelican Theater. During his work, Ladyzhensky staged about 10 performances, including based on Strugatsky’s novels “It is difficult to be a god” and “Jews of the city of St.
Petersburg”, for which he was awarded in the title of laureate of the II All -Union Festival of Theater Groups. It has a black belt on contact karate-do, the first one and the status of a judge of the international category. From the year-Vice-Chairman of the Society of Martial Arts Lovers, senior instructor of the Morsti-Ryu school. Married OM, there is a daughter.
Loves jazz. Dmitry Evgenievich Gromov was born on March 30 in Simferopol. At five, his parents take him to Sevastopol, and move to Kharkov. Having graduated from OM, Dmitry entered the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute and graduated with honors. A couple of years later he entered the graduate school of the same Kharkov Polytechnic on the basis of general and inorganic chemistry, but at the end, he did not defend his dissertation, since by the year he was entirely engaged in literary activities.
Loves hard rock, has a brown belt on karate, married from a year, there is a son of the year of birth. Future co -authors met in the Pelican studio, where Oleg Ladyzhensky was a director. After a short communication, Dmitry Gromov had the idea to write together. So there was a creative duet named Henry Lyon Oldie, a pseudonym, composed of the names and surnames of the authors.
The resulting style for a long time did not give in to the classification, but then for him they found a definition - Centon. Tsalon - dosl. According to literary skill, the novels of Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky are equated by many to the creations of such recognized authors as M. Murkock and R. The authors themselves once determined the “genre” of their works as a “philosophical action movie”.
An interesting review of the creative way can be read on the DTF website. Below is a quote from the comic biography of Sir Oldie from the article by Igor Solunsky “Sword against the sky” in the year the father of the future writer, the missionary of the Church of St. Patrick, moves with his family to the British protectorate in the Central District of Gimalaev - to the Principality of Butan.
In connection with the further occupation of Tibet by the Chinese army, the whole family was interned in the area of South Mongolia, from where, together with the opium caravan, after long ordeals, it ended up in Pakistan. As a result of the events that have occurred, the failed missionary is imbued with the ideas of Buddhism of the direction of "Mahayana"