Yuri Libedinsky biography

Libedinsky Yuri Nikolaevich writer. In the early twenties of the last century, his name and his first book "Week" were familiar not only in our country, but also in other countries. The childhood and youth of Libedinsky passed in our Southern Urals. He was born on December 10 in Odessa in a family of doctors. Yuri's father was a graduate of Vienna University. Father often traveled to close and distant mines to the sick and took his son with him.

Since childhood, Yuri fell in love with the Urals: "I have been grateful to my father all my life, and I rejoice that the Urals became my second homeland." The very word "Ural" seemed to him "calm, important and sounding like a mountain echo." When the boy grew up, the family moved to Chelyabinsk so that children in the family could study three children. In the year, Yuri entered a real school.

The wide yard adjoined the edge of the pine forest. "In this building on Krasnaya Street, 38 is now one of the faculties of the agro -engineering university. There were very good teachers in the real school. The literary abilities of Yuri Libedinsky were first appeared there. He took part in the publication of the student literary journal" First Steps ", wrote the first stories under the pseudonym of Yu.

First World War. In Chelyabinsk there are a lot of refugees, illness, hunger. Yuri's father works in a military hospital. A wave of revolutionary movement rises in the city. It is no accident that Yuri, who grew up in a prosperous family, reached out to the revolutionaries: "The obesity and wealth of some and the hopeless poverty of others were striking all the time and the young conscience took place." He was friends with the younger brother and sister of the Yelkin revolutionaries, visited their house.

Yuri and his friends watched from the balcony in the People’s House now here the Youth Theater is the stormy meetings of the Council of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies. I listened to those whose names are named the streets of Chelyabinsk: Zvilling, Kolyushchenko, Vasenko in April of the year a real school was graduated. But the civil war began. He was a political officer. In Kolchakovsky underground he led a revolutionary propaganda among soldiers.

His satirical poem "The Gray Patfinder" of the Mark of the car, on which Kolchak traveled, corresponded by hand. In September, Libedinsky in Siberia was arrested and cruelly beaten. In the same year, Yuri Nikolaevich lost his father, who was always a high moral ideal for him. In Chelyabinsk there was an epidemic of typhoid. The father saved many from illness, but could not save himself.

Nikolai Lvovich buried the whole city. After the Civil War, in the fall of the year, Yuri Nikolaevich returns to Chelyabinsk, serves in the political department of the provincial enlistment office, collaborates in the newspaper Sovetskaya Pravda, now the Chelyabinsk worker, which played a special, important role in his life. In the early year, he was sent to Yekaterinburg to teach at the courses of military commissars.

There he begins to write his first story, which played a special important role in his life. The story "Week". About the hardest week after the Civil War in Chelyabinsk in the spring of the year. There is no word "Chelyabinsk" in the story, but the city is guessed by many descriptions. In some images of the heroes of the story, the features of specific Chelyabinsk residents are recognized.

A very difficult situation in the city, hunger, the threat of an attack by "kulak rebels." A small group of the Communists died, protecting the city. The story ends tragically, but leaves a feeling of hope. The book is permeated with revolutionary romance. No one ordered this book to Libedinsky. He simply could not help but write about what he was experienced.

He has an interesting job, he conducts classes with the Red Army. There is not enough time, you can write only in the evenings. There is no papers, writes on the wrapping sheets of the Vysotsky Chaiwort Factory. Hungry, the ration was reduced to grams of bread per day. But Yuri is young, in love. He dreams of writing a book and throwing her at the feet of his beloved girl, he made a "trip to the Crimea." By this time, Libedinsky was transferred to work in Moscow, to teach at the Higher Military School of Communications.

The book enthusiastically met criticism. The author did not expect such success. This article under subsequent publications has become a preface to the book. The book was translated into many foreign languages: French, German Henri Barbus wrote that it was "a revolution through the eyes of a revolution." The story was reprinted many times, studied in schools and institutes.

Libedinsky became famous. He came to him, as a teacher, with the first book "Spill" Alexander Fadeev. Both marriages were short -lived. Our Chelyabinsk journalist M. Libedinsky continued to write. In addition to success, failures appeared. He realized that he was lacking in knowledge, experience. He went to the factory, to the machine was a turner of the Moscow plant named after Vladimir Ilyich, but did not leave writing.

After 43 years, when Yuri Nikolayevich will be gone, the book will become a film. In the year, Libedinsky moved to Leningrad, led a writer. His new books, articles appeared. But Stalin did not forgive him with a good review by Nikolai Bukharin. Criticism attacked Libedinsky. They especially criticized the story "The Birth of the Hero", in which Libedinsky spoke of the rebirth of the party apparatus into the bureaucratic apparatus.In the year, Fadeev persuaded Libedinsky to leave Leningrad to Moscow and this saved him from arrest.

But in the year, Yuri Nikolaevich was expelled from the party for "communication with the enemies of the people." His books, published before 37 years, were banned, withdrawn from libraries. Libedinsky experienced this time heavily, did not sleep at night for two years, waited for his arrest. The heart became sick. He turned gray early. But he continued to work, write books, translate from the Caucasian languages ​​in the year his book Batash and Batay about Caucasian events.

In the same year, he was restored in the party. When the war began, Yuri Nikolaevich volunteered for the militia, but soon became the front -line correspondent of the newspapers Red Warrior, Red Star. His essays were known: “Guards”, “Yugov’s gun” was more than once in advanced positions, visited Kursk, in Stalingrad. He experienced a heavy contusion. During treatment in Moscow, he met Lidia Tolstoy, who was much younger than the writer.

But you can’t order love, a good family arose. Yuri Nikolaevich ended the war with the rank of major. After the war, Yuri Nikolaevich is working on a large trilogy: “Mountains and People”, “Cathedral”, “Morning of the Soviets” these books did not become such well -known as the small “Week”. From the end of the 10ths, those books that were banned in metro Yuri Nikolaevich were a man of unique hard work and very high demanding on himself began to be published.

He could rewrite hundreds of pages ten times. Every day I got up at 6 in the morning and sat down at the desk. The Libedinsky family always had many friends. No wonder he was once said that he was "a man for people." Yuri Nikolaevich never asked for anything for himself, but he constantly bustled for others.