Soviet and Russian writer, laureate of State Prizes of the USSR and the RSFSR Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov was born on January 14, 1911 in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv in the family of an engineer, but at an early age he moved to Moscow with his parents.
All childhood memories of the writer are associated with Moscow of the 20s, when pioneer organizations were formed, there he was later accepted into the Komsomol, studied at the school of Komsomol members who returned from the fronts. He went to
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Soviet and Russian writer, laureate of State Prizes of the USSR and the RSFSR Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov was born on January 14, 1911 in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv in the family of an engineer, but at an early age he moved to Moscow with his parents.
All childhood memories of the writer are associated with Moscow of the 20s, when pioneer organizations were formed, there he was later accepted into the Komsomol, studied at the school of Komsomol members who returned from the fronts. He went to work early in the factory as a loader, then as a driver. In 1930 he became a student of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers. In 1933 he was arrested and then sentenced by the OGPU to three years of exile “for counter-revolutionary agitation and propaganda.” After returning from exile, he traveled around Russia in search of work, since at that time there was a passport regime and not everywhere they were hired without filling out a questionnaire. From 1938 to 1941 he was chief engineer in the Ryazan Department of Motor Vehicles.
In 1941 he went to the front and served in the automobile units of the Red Army. He participated in the battle for Moscow, reached Berlin and was subsequently recognized as having no criminal record for his distinction in battles with the German fascist invaders.
After the war, in 1947, he had already written a story for young men, first the Kortik was written, a little later - The Bronze Bird, The Adventures of Croche, The Holidays of Croche, The Unknown Soldier, A Minute of Silence. All the stories were filmed.
The cult novel “Heavy Sand” was released in 1978. The novel describes life in the Jewish ghetto very realistically. In time, the novel captures the 1910s-1940s and shows the changes in the lives of the inhabitants of the Ukrainian city of Snovsk in different periods of history. In 2008, the film adaptation of the novel was released.
The tetralogy of Anatoly Rybakov’s novel “Children of Arbat” was written back in 1960, but the first part was published only in 1988. Here the author showed the life of the youth of the 30s of one of the Moscow courtyards on the Arbat (the writer himself lived in Moscow at Arbat, 51). The author tells about the time of loss, fear, shows the fate of generations, reveals the phenomenon of Stalin in the understanding of ordinary people and not only. In the same year, the continuation of the novel “Thirty-fifth and other years” was published, in 1990 – “Fear”, in 1994 – “Dust and Ashes”. In 2004, the eponymous multi-series film was released. Books by Anatoly Rybakov have been published in more than 50 countries.
Anatoly Rybakov died in New York on December 23, 1998, is buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevo cemetery.
