Natalia Ilyina Biography

She was born on May 6 in St. Petersburg in a family of descendants of an old noble family on the maternal line - the Voeikov family, about the outstanding representatives of which Ilyina wrote in the memoir book "Roads and Fate",; Interest in Russian and world culture absorbed from childhood from her mother - a highly educated woman, graduates of the highest female "Bestuzhevsk" courses.

Father to the Tsushima defeat by a marine officer, then - the gunner fought in the White Army; On his initiative, the family moved to Harbin. She had a sister - Olga Ilyina. The hard life in the unstable Manchuria of Russian emigrants among whom were prominent writers ... A. Nesmelov, Sun. Ivanov, S. Alymov, S. Petrov-Skitale, N. Ustryalov and others. In-Ilyina-freedom of the Oriental Faculty of the Harbin Institute of Oriental and Commercial Sciences, from the end-in Shanghai.

She performed in the emigrant newspaper Shanghai Zarya with feuilletons under the pseudonym Miss Pan, organized the Russian satirical weekly “Shanghai Bazaar” came to the end, since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, clearly discovered a pro -fighting orientation. From the end of Ilyin, she collaborated with TASS, published feuilletons and essays in the emigrant pro -Soviet newspaper New Life are collected in the book.

With other eyes: essays on Shanghai life, established relations with the "Union of Return". In, not without the influence of the act of his long -standing Shanghai acquaintance, poet, composer and singer A. Vertinsky, who returned to his homeland, returned to the USSR along with the group of repatriates. She lived first in Kazan, in -, studying at the correspondence department of the Literary Institute.

Gorky, in the suburbs. The feuilletons, parodies, satirical notes and reviews in the magazines “Crocodile”, “New World” and others were regularly printed with regularly. Autobiographic novel Return of the Novelty of the Life of the Little Empire of the Emigrant Life of the “Russian” Harbin and Shanghai, the sincerity of the tone, the accuracy of concrete historical details, the liveliness of psychological sketches, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin The all-pervasive humor, always painted with light sadness, the dynamics of worldview assessments, including in relation to the USSR-from euphoric hopes for the society of justice to disappointment and sad-spent bewilderment, a clear and pure language, as well as to a large extent the charming and touching image of the storyteller determined the honorary place of this work in Russian memoirism in the second half of 20 V.

The author of memoir books of fate: from long-standing meetings, roads and fate: autobiographical prose, novels about the famous philosopher, husband Ilyina, A. Reformat, memories of work in the journal New World with A. Twardowski my long lessons. Ilyina died in Moscow on January 12, a detailed biography.