Knorre, Fedor Fedorovich

Born in St. Petersburg , in the family of bridge engineer FF Knorre (1865-1927?). The grandson of the architect and engineer FK Knorre and the great-grandson of astronomer KF Knorre . ^[one]

At the age of 16 he volunteered for the Red Army and participated in the Civil War . He served in the Peter and Paul Fortress , in the headquarters of Petrukrekspryon. During the service joined the RCP (b) .

In the early 1920s, he studied at the creative workshop of FEKS ( “The Factory of an Eccentric Actor” ) in Petrograd. Then he performed as a circus artist ^[2] , wrote comic scripts, circus reprise. He worked in the Leningrad newspaper Smena and in the Moscow theater workshop Foregerger ( Mastfor ), where he was an instructor in acrobatics .

From the end of the 1920s he worked at Leningrad, and then at the Central Moscow Theater of Working Youth .

Later he was mainly engaged in literary activity - he wrote stories , stories , plays , screenplays . In 1941 he joined the Union of Writers of the USSR .

He was well acquainted with L. Z. Trauberg , V.E. Meyerhold , S.I. Eisenstein , M.A. Bulgakov , M.I. Romm .

In the mid-1930s, he married a theater actress M. I. Babanova ^[3] . In the 1950s, he broke up with her and married the film actress L. S. Emelyantseva ^[4] .

He died in 1987 in Moscow , buried in the Vagankovo ​​cemetery ^[5] .

In 1924, he starred in the film of the FEKS " The Adventures of October " as a representative of MOPR .

In 1930, the Central Moscow Theater of Working Youth, he himself staged his first play, The Alarm. ^[6] . Later he created the plays “Moskovsky 10-10” (1933), “Meeting in the Dark” (1944) and “Two Sisters” (1957), which were performed in the Moscow theaters of them. Mossovet and them. Vakhtangov .

He wrote scripts for the films “ Fighters ” (1939), “ Romantics ” (1941), “ Once at Night ” (1944), “ Rita ” (1957), “ After the Storm ” (1958), “ Native Blood ” (1963), “ Salty Dog (1973). In the movie After the Storm, he was also one of the directors (along with Edward Penzlin ).

In 1938 he published the first story, “Unknown Comrade,” dedicated to the courage and resilience of the Soviet people during the years of the civil war . Other stories and stories by F. Knorre were published in many magazines ( Znamya , Ogonyok , October , Youth , Rabochaya , Neva , Our Contemporary , New World , Friendship of Peoples ), and also came out in separate collections: “Your Big Fate” (1948), “Stories” (1953), “Native Blood” (1964), “Rustle of Dry Leaves” (1969), “Stone Wreath” (1973). The only novel of the writer - "Forever" (1960) - is dedicated to the struggle of the Lithuanian partisans and underground fighters during the Great Patriotic War .

He wrote several works in the genre, intermediate between fairy tale and children's fiction . In the fairy tale "Captain Crocus" (1967) it is told about the city where the villain (animated garden stuffed animal ) seized power, intending to turn all its inhabitants into obedient mindless mechanisms (in 1991 the story was made into a movie). By some critics, the story was interpreted as an imitation of Y. Olesha's “ Three Fat Men ”. “Knight's Tale” (1979) uses the traditional story of a knight and a dragon. In the fantastic story “Paper Books of Lali” (1983), humanity of the near future, far from utopia , faces the threat of annihilation if it does not use the help of powerful, but soulless aliens.

Many novels and stories of the writer are translated into foreign languages: Bulgarian, Polish, French, English, German, Bengali.

• Babanova, Maria Ivanovna - the first wife
• Yemelyantseva, Larisa Semenovna - second wife
• Knorre, Georgy Fedorovich - brother ^[3]

• Baruzdin S. One Single Life // Knorre FF Selected Works. In 2 tons .. - M .: Art. lit., 1984. - T. 1 .
• About the author: Fedor Fedorovich Knorre // Knorre FF Selected Works. In 2 tons .. - M .: Art. lit., 1984. - T. 1 .
• Knorre, Fedor Fedorovich // Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: Who's Who / Ed. Vl. Gakova . - Minsk : ICO Galaxias, 1995. - 694 p. - ISBN 985-6269-01-6 .
• Osherova E.S. Knorre, Fedor Fedorovich // Brief literary encyclopedia. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1966. - T. 3 . - p . 615 .
• Matsuev N. Knorre, Fedor Fedorovich // Russian Soviet Writers. 1917-1967. - M .: Soviet writer, 1981. - p . 107 .
• Kazak V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIK "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5000 copies - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 .

• Fedor Fedorovich Knorre (English) on the Internet Movie Database
• Knorre, Fedor Fedorovich on the site " Laboratory of Science Fiction "