Zadornov, Nikolai Pavlovich

Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov was born on November 22 ( December 5 ), 1909 in Penza, in the family of veterinarian Pavel Ivanovich Zadornov (1875-1933) and Vera Mikhailovna Zadornova (nee Shestakova, 1876-1961) (later P.I. Zadornov was accused of intentional extermination of cattle and died in custody), grew up in Siberia.

After graduating from high school in 1926-1941, he was an actor and director in theaters of Siberia, the Far East, Ufa, worked in traveling groups. Since 1935 he was a literary employee of the newspapers Beloretsky Rabochiy, Sovetskaya Sibir, Krasnaya Bashkiriya. During World War II he worked in the Khabarovsk Regional Radio Committee and in the Khabarovsk newspaper " Pacific Star ". During this period, he wrote his first novel, Amur Father .

N.P. Zadornov owns two cycles of historical novels about the development in the 19th century of the Russian Far East , about the exploits of explorers. The first cycle consists of 4 novels: “Far Land” (books 1–2, 1946–1949), “First Discovery” ( 1969 , first title - “To the Ocean”, 1949), “Captain Nevelskaya” (books 1-2, 1956-1958) and The War for the Ocean (books 1–2, 1960–1962). The second cycle (on the development of the Far East by peasant immigrants) is thematically related to the first: the novels Amur Father (books 1-2, 1941-1946) and The Gold Rush (1969).

In 1971 he published the novel "Tsunami" - about the expedition of Admiral E. V. Putyatin to Japan in 1854-1855. He also wrote a novel about the present “Yellow, Green, Blue ...” (Book 1, 1967 ), a book of travel essays “Blue Hour” (1968) and others.

From 1946 until his death, Zadornov lived in Riga .

In 1969 and 1972 he visited Japan.

Nikolai Zadornov died on June 18, 1992 . He was buried in Jurmala , in the cemetery in Jaundubulti ^[2] .

In the city of Penza , a memorial plaque is opened on the house where the writer lived (45 Revolutionary St.).

In Khabarovsk, a monument was erected to Nikolai Zadornov on the Amur River embankment.

In Riga, on the house in which Zadornov lived in 1948-1992 (corner of Rupniecibas and Elizabetes streets), a memorial plaque was opened in 2009.

Also, the Zadornov memorial plaque was opened in Komsomolsk-on-Amur , on the facade of the Drama Theater.

• Wife - Elena Melkhiorovna Zadornova (Ur. Matusevich, 1909-2003) - Polish by nationality, worked as a proofreader in the Ufa newspaper, and met Nikolai at work.
• Daughter - Lyudmila (born 1942) - teacher of English at the Baltic International Academy , author of the book “Zadornov. The history of the clan ”(2009).
• Son - Michael (1948-2017), a famous satirist.
• Granddaughter - Elena (born 1986) - actress, graduated from the Russian University of Theater Arts - GITIS , knows French and English, practices yoga, lives in Malta , starred in Maltese television series, as well as in the movie Once Upon a Time in America, or A Pure Russian Fairy Tale "According to the script of his father ^{[3] [4] [5]} .
• Grandson - Alexey Zadornov, lawyer, entrepreneur, general director of the law firm Zadornov & Partners LLC ^[6] , son of Lyudmila’s daughter. In 2018, he became director of the Nikolai and Mikhail Zadornov library at the Moscow House in Riga ^{[7] [4]} .

• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1952) - for the novels "Amur Father", "Far Land", "To the Ocean"
• Honored Worker of Culture of the Latvian SSR (1969)
• Order of the October Revolution ( November 16, 1984 ) - for services to the development of Soviet literature and in connection with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Union of Writers of the USSR ^[8]
• two orders of the Red Banner of Labor (01/03/1956; 12/12/1969)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (12/04/1979)
• medals

• The documentary film “ Arsenyev ’s Trail” ( 1984 ; USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company; N. Zadornov - scriptwriter and presenter; director Sergey Satyrenko; cameraman Alexander Bozhko ; text was read by Yuri Solomin ) ( watch ).

• Mogusyumka and Guryanych: a story. 1937. First published in 1957, it tells about the life of the Bashkirs in the city of Beloretsk after the abolition of serfdom (Mogusumka - Bashkirs; Guryanych - Russian, blacksmith).
• Migrant Trilogy
  • Cupid-father : a novel. - Khabarovsk: Dalgiz, 1944. Revised. ed. 1958 (two books) (first published in the magazine "At the Frontier" in 1940 ^[9] ).
  • Gold Rush: A Novel. - Khabarovsk: Book. Publishing House, 1971. - 448 p. (It is the third book of the novel "Cupid", first published in the journal "Far East" in 1969 ^[9] ).
• Mangmu: a story. - Khabarovsk: Dalgiz, 1946 .-- 146 p. with illustrations by D. D. Nagishkin (about the life of the Nanai people at that time when only poorly populated separated families lived in the Khabarovsk Territory; the story was written in 1940 and subsequently became the first part of the novel “Far Land”).
• Tetralogy of the Far East
  • Far Land: A Novel. - Leningrad: Young Guard, 1949 (the first part of the novel was the story "Mangmu", written in 1940, and the second - the story "Markeshkino rifle", completed by the author in 1948).
  • To the ocean: a novel. - Riga: Latgosizdat, 1950 (in 1969 it was finalized by the author and was released under the title “First Discovery”).
  • Captain Nevelskaya: a novel. In 2 books. - Moscow: Soviet writer. 1956-1958.
  • War over the ocean: a novel. In 3 books. - Riga: Latgosizdat, 1963.
• Yellow, green, blue ...: novel. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1967. - 215 p. (novel about a writer helping a secretary of a regional committee).
• Blue hour: essays. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1968. - 183 p. (the author’s story about trips to the east of Russia (to the cities of Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur , to Sakhalin , Kuril Islands, the Amur estuary , and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk).
• Tetralogy of Admiral Putyatin
  • Tsunami: a novel. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1972.
  • Shimoda: a novel. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1975.
  • Head: a novel. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1979. - 432 p. Put in the kit on 09.01.80. Signed for print on June 18, 1980. The circulation of 200,000 copies.
  • Hong Kong: a novel. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1982. - 368 p. Put in the kit 03.03.82. Signed for publication on 13.08.82. Add. shooting gallery. 100,000 copies (on relations between Russia and Great Britain in the Pacific at the end of the 19th century).
• Big swims: a novel. In 3 books, 1984.
• The mistress of the seas: a novel. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1989 .-- 464 p. ISBN 5-265-00551-X . Put in the kit 07/19/88. Signed for print on January 2, 89. Circulation of 100,000 copies. (on the founding of the city of Vladivostok ; Vladivostok is also dedicated to the novel "Vladivostok", which was not completed by the author ^[9] ).
• Fertility Wind: A Novel. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1992. - 256 p. ISBN 5-265-02315-1 . A circulation of 50,000 (on the conclusion of the Aigun Treaty between Russia and China).
• Collected Works: In 6 volumes. - Moscow: Fiction, 1977-1979 ^[10] . The collected works include the following previously published works: the Amur Batyushka novel (volume 1, 1977), the Gold Rush novel (volume 2, 1977), the Faraway Land novel (volume 3, 1978), the first discovery novel (Volume 4, 1978), the novel “Captain Nevelskaya” (volume 5, 1979), the novel “War for the Ocean” (volume 6, 1979).

The books of 3 Dornov do not differ in historical authenticity, testify to the interest of the author in folklore particularities; they are very stretched and devoid of psychological depth.

- Wolfgang Cossack

The fact is that he was, to put it mildly, an average writer. He did not possess psychological skills. The intrigues of his novels were rather dull. Apparently, he felt this, since in 1967 he pushed aside the story with the development of Siberia and took up the story with the writer developing the profession of secretary of the regional committee.
For some reason, he needed party support. He wanted something from those in power ^[11] .

- Gennady Krasukhin

• Zadornova L. N. “Zadornovs. The history of the clan. ” - M .: Amrita-Rus, 2009 .-- 288 p. - ISBN 978-5-9787-0453-2 .

• Cossack V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIC "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 .
• Tyustin A.V. Zadornov Nikolay Pavlovich (11/22/1909 - 06/18/1992) (Russian) // Tyustin A.V., Shishkin I.S. Penza personality. They increased the fame of Penza. T. 1 (A-L): [biogr. words.]. - Penza: Iceberg LLC, 2012. - S. 126-127 . - ISBN 978-5-94428-091-6 .
• Russian Language Development Center (Neopr.) . Date of treatment August 17, 2008. Archived March 16, 2012.
• N.P. Zadornov on peoples.ru (neopr.) . Date of treatment August 17, 2008. Archived March 16, 2012.
• Page on the official website of M. N. Zadornov, dedicated to N.P. Zadornov (Russian) . Date of treatment November 5, 2009.
• azbukivedi.lv - the official website of the library named after Nikolai Zadornov