Gazdanov brief biography

Childhood passed in St. Petersburg. Given to the Cadet Corps in Poltava. Before the outbreak of civil war, he studied at the Kharkov gymnasium. He fought in the White Army with the rank of an ordinary soldier, part of the service took place in an armored train. In November, he sailed on a ship from Crimea to Constantinople. Then - in Bulgaria, where he graduated from Russian gymnasium.

He moved to Paris, continued his education in the sorbon. He began to work as a taxi driver. During the Second World War, he published an information ballot of the French resistance movement. Later in Munich he worked in the Russian service of the Radio station "Freedom". Gazdanov is known as a Russian writer. He wrote about his native language: “I don’t know the Ossetian language, although my parents knew him perfectly at the University of Paris, but the Russian language remained relatives for me.” He corresponded with Maxim Gorky, sent him some of his works.

Gazdanov Gayto Georgy Ivanovich -, Prose writer, Literary critic. Born on November 23, December 6, but the profession of his father - found the her father’s profession.

A lot to travel around the country, so the future writer spent only childhood in St. Petersburg, then lived in different cities of Russia in Siberia, the Tver province, etc. Often visited relatives in the Caucasus, in Kislovodsk. The school years fell on Poltava, where he studied in the Cadet Corps during the year, and Kharkov, where he studied with the gymnasium. I managed to finish up to the seventh grade.

At sixteen, he enters the volunteer army of Wrangel, fights in the Crimea. He serves on an armored train. When the army left, Gazdanov left with her, first to Gallipoli, then to Constantinople. It accidentally meets her cousin, a ballerina, who left before the revolution and lived with her husband and worked in Constantinople. They helped Gazdanov a lot. Here he continued his studies at the gymnasium in here the first story was written - "The Hotel of the Coming." The gymnasium was transferred to the city of Shumen in Bulgaria, where Gazdanov graduated from the gymnasium in V in Paris, which does not leave for thirteen years.

To earn a living, you have to do any work: a loader, a washer of locomotives, a worker at the Sitroen Automobile Plant, etc. Then it works as a taxi driver for 12 years. During these twelve years, four out of nine novels were written, twenty -eight out of thirty -seven stories, everything else took the next thirty years. At the end of the 10th - early x years, he studied at the Sorbonne at the Faculty of Historical and Philology, engaged in the history of literature, sociology, and economic sciences.

In the spring, under the influence of M. Osorgin, he entered the Russian Masonic Lodge "Northern Star". In her became her master. The first Roman Gazdanov went on sale - "Evening at Claire", and the writer was immediately proclaimed by talent. All emigration praised the novel. He regularly begins to publish stories, novels along with Bunin, Merezhkovsky, Aldanov, Nabokov in Modern Notes The most authoritative and solid magazine of emigration.

Actively participates in the literary association "Nomad". He goes to the Riviera, where he meets his future wife Gavrishev, a nee lazaki from a rich Odessa family of Greek origin. "In - 39 every summer comes here, to the Mediterranean Sea, holding the happiest years of life. In, when the war began, it remains in Paris. He experiences the fascist occupation, helps those who are in danger.

He writes a lot: novels, stories. The only thing that was written at that time was recognized is the novel “The Ghost Alexander Wolf” - after the war, the book “The Return of the Buddha” was published, which was a great success, which brought fame and money. With only literary work lives, sometimes working as a night taxi driver. Gazdanov is offered to become an employee of the new radio station - "Freedom".

He accepts this proposal and from January to death works here. Three years later, he became the editor -in -chief of the news in Munich, he returns to Paris a correspondent of the Paris Bureau of Radio "Freedom". He is again transferred to Munich as the senior, and then the editor -in -chief of the Russian service. Having visited Italy, he forever fell in love with this country, especially in Venice.

I came here every year. The novel “Night Roads” is published, then “Pilgrims” - the last novels that saw the light - “Awakening” and “Evelina and her friends”, begun in E, but completed at the end of x. Gazdanov died of lung cancer on December 5 in Munich. He was buried in the Russian cemetery of Saint-Genevo-de-Bois near Paris. Materials of Prince. Brief biographical dictionary.

Moscow, Gazdanov Gaito Georgy Ivanovich [Gazdanov was born in a wealthy Ossetian family, who lived at that time in St. Petersburg. Mother - V. Abazieva was brought up in the family of his uncle M. Abaziev, in the house of which on the cabinet st. In one of his stories, Gazdanov recalled: “I was born in the north, early November in the morning. Many times then I imagined the weakening darkness of St.

Petersburg street and the winter fog and the feeling of extraordinary freshness that entered the room as soon as the window was opened "" Third Life ".After graduating from the St. Petersburg Forest Institute, the father of Gazdanov worked as a forestry in the Urals, Smolensk, in the Tver Territory, in Belarus. He was a very beautiful, cheerful and educated person, gathered a unique library that his son mastered with great interest.

The unexpected death of his father in left an indelible mark in the soul of the boy. In the novel “Evening at Claire”, he will write about this event: “The icy sense of death swept me, and I felt a painful frenzy, immediately seeing my own death somewhere in endless-the same fate as the fate of my father.” After the death of his father, the family found himself in Poltava, where Gazdanov studied in the Cadet Corps, and later at the Kharkov gymnasium, which he left after the 7th grade because of the civic war.

In the summer, he enters the Volunteer Army and serves as a soldier on an armored train. This act of the summer young man was explained not so much by political motives as the desire to experience something new, a romantic desire to see with their own eyes what war is. Finding himself in the most terrible fight of the “white” and “red” in the Crimea, Gazdanov felt all the horror of violence, arbitrariness, death.

Therefore, later, in his stories and novels, they popped up as a dream, then as a memory, then as a rock pursuing humanity, terrible episodes of that time. In the fall, along with the remnants of the Wrangel Army, he leaves Sevastopol, forever saying goodbye to his homeland. In Gazdanov ends the Russian gymnasium in the Bulgarian city of Shumen and moves to Paris. Possessing excellent health, endurance, incredible resistance of the spirit, with dignity tolerates all the hardships of emigrant life.

He works as a port loader, steam locomotive, workers at a car factory, a night taxi driver. The work of a taxi driver, who provided Gazdanov with a means for existence for 25 years, laid out a kind of imprint on his lifestyle and his creative fate, giving the opportunity to see a night, ghostly, shadow side of life. At the end of the X Gazdanov enters the Sorbonne, studies the history of literature, sociology, and economic teachings.

At this time, he begins to write stories, they are published in the Prague magazines “His Ways” and “The will of Russia” “The Hotel of the Coming”, “The Tale of Three Failures”, “Comrade Marriage”, etc. The tradition of Pilnyak and Babel is noticeable in them. Gazdanov takes an active part in the work of the Paris Literary Association "Nomad". The first novel of Gazdanov “The evening at Claire”, who brought him well -deserved fame among Russian emigration, was released in the publishing house of Y.

Volotsky in Paris. The novel begins with a description of the hero’s love dates with a charming and capricious woman, into which he was in love for many years. And that evening, when she remains with her, he has to re -survive all the events of his life, starting from the very first children's memories before his participation in the civil war and farewell to his native shores.

The hero is distinguished by some strangeness, which is expressed in the fact that he "does not have the ability to react to what is happening immediately" and at the same time knows "some secret that others do not know." This is a delayed and mysterious perception of life is covered with a sad feeling of the inevitability of time, taking away all the joys and the chagrin of the experienced moments, hopeless searches for stable life guidelines, illusory ghosts of hope.

In a review of the novel, M. Osorgin wrote: “In the skillful lace of the story, the most difficult spiritual problems of life, and death, and love, and that insoluble node of events, which we can equally call both fate and history, are not always solved, are not always solved. Literary criticism of Russian emigration welcomed the birth of a new artist, noting his undoubted natural talent, stylistic skill, nevertheless did not always make the free manner of his narrative, the openness of compositional decisions, the absence of the author’s sentence to his heroes G.

Adamovich, N. Otsup, M. Slonim, etc.