Bykov biography of the work

Vasil Bykov, Vasil Vasily Vladimirovich - Belarusian Soviet writer, People's Writer of Belarus, participant in the Great Patriotic War, captain. Born on June 19 in the village of Cherenovshchina, according to other information in the village of Bychiki, Ushachsky district of the Vitebsk region, Belarus in a poor peasant family.

After graduating from a seven -year school, Bykov entered the sculptural department of the Vitebsk Art College, but he was soon forced to return to the village - the scholarships were canceled. In the year he was drafted into the current army, he fell into an engineering battalion, which built defense fortifications, participated in battles on the Southwestern Front, then he was sent to the infantry school in the city of Saratov.

After graduating from the school, he fought as commander of a rifle platoon, a platoon of machine gunners and a platoon of anti -tank artillery in Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Austria before Victory. He was wounded twice. After the war, he began working in a newspaper in the city of Grodno, but he was soon drafted into the army and served in one of the distant garrisons in the Kuril Islands until the end of the year.

Returning after demobilization to Grodno, then he moved to Minsk, Bykov is given to literary work. One after another, his novels are published: “Crane Scream”, “Front page”, “The Third Rocket” The latter, after translation into Russian, put the author in the first row of the front -line generation of those who were in the war by soldiers and officers of the front Territory or, as they wrote then, “Lieutenant Literature”, which became a noticeable phenomenon of the spiritual life of the 10ths.

Bykov had to fully experience this kind of attacks - he also got to the fact that he printed most of his things in the “New World” by A. Twardowski, a magazine, which was the main and constant object of crushing attacks of guards of ideological sterility and ardent opponents of truth in literature. Bykov’s novel “The Dead NOT pain”, “Attack on the move” and “Kruglyansky bridge” were especially cruel - on command from above in the most authoritative press bodies, the articles, rational collective letters were printed with political accusations.

As a result, the book edition of the Kruglyansky bridge novel appeared after a journal publication after 11 years, “attacks on the move” - after 18, “it doesn’t hurt the dead” - only after 23 years. Starting from the story “Supply for Dawn,” Bykov himself translates his works into Russian, but it is much more important that they have become an organic and very significant part and Russian literature, the Russian literary process.

Bykovsky parable, bearing the moral and philosophical nature of the story marked in literature a new stage in the artistic understanding of the tragic events of the war. In the year he was awarded the title of "People's Writer of Belarus." After the “Kruglyansky bridge”, almost everything that Bykov wrote: the novels of “Sotnikov”, “Obelisk”; For this story and the story “To live to dawn”, Bykov was awarded the USSR State Prize,, “Wolf Style”, “Go and not Return”, “The sign of trouble”; The Lenin Prize, “Career”, “In the Fog”, “The Footmore” - is dedicated to the partisan war in Belarus.

He himself explained this by the fact that the problem of the choice to which his attention was borne by was more acute and merciless in the partisan war, the motivation of human acts was more complicated, the fate of people is more tragic than in the regular army, in general the tragic manifested itself here in all its terrible power. The Tolstoy traditions prevailing in Russian literature on the war with fascist Germany, they rely on them and bulls, but no less significant for his work is an appeal to the experience of F.

Dostoevsky, first of all, this is manifested in the formulation of the main issues of human life. With the coming to power in Belarus, A. Lukashenko Bykov, who made a harsh criticism of the regime established in the country, was persecuted by the authorities, repeating the campaign directed against him in the years: it was almost stopped publishing, she was sheltered in the media.

He was forced to leave Minsk in the year, at the invitation of the Pen-club of Finland he lived a year and a half in the city of Helsinki and worked fruitfully, moved to Germany in the year. In “emigration” he wrote several military stories and parables, the story “Wolf Yama”, dedicated to the consequences, as always with Bykov, primarily a moral, Chernobyl disaster.

In the year he finished the story "Wall". From Germany he moved to Prague, where he lived in recent years, a few weeks before the death he returned to his homeland. According to Bykov’s works, the films “Third Rocket”, “Alpine Ballad”, “To live to dawn”, “Wolf flock”, “Obelisk”, “Climbing”, according to the story of “centurions”, “Bede sign”, the television movie “Long Miles of the War”, according to the novel “At dawn”, the television series “In Zapana”, Ballet “Alpine Bald” And the opera "Tropol of Life", according to the "wolf pack." He died on June 22, in a year of life.

He was buried in the Eastern Moscow cemetery in Minsk.The captain was awarded the Soviet Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Red Star, the Russian Order of Friendship, and medals. Books of the author:.