Aleshin, Samuel Iosifovich

Samuel Alyoshin was born in Zambrow (now in Poland ) into the family of doctor Iosif Abramovich Kotlyar (1879–1927) and teacher Klara Samoilovny Kotlyar (1880–1956).

In 1935 he graduated from the industrial department of the Military Academy of Motorization and Mechanization of the Red Army , worked in the design office. During World War II, he was an engineer in tank forces, fought on the Stalingrad front.

Member of the USSR Writers' Union (1954).

He was buried in Moscow at Vostryakovskoe cemetery ^[1] .

His wife is Zoya Alekseevna Lyubarskaya (1915–1989).

• 2 orders of the Red Banner of Labor (including 10/28/1967)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (08.22.1986)
• medals

One of the most famous plays of S. Aleshin - “ Everything remains for people ”, staged in 1959 in the Leningrad Drama Theater. Pushkin . In 1963, a play of the same name was made from this play. Nikolai Cherkasov , the leading actor, Academician Dronov, and in the play and in the film, in 1964 was awarded the Lenin Prize .

In the play "Then in Seville" (1948) the playwright gives the most original version of the legend of Don Juan. Known film-theater performance them. Vakhtangov, in the leading role - S.Pereladova.

In the play “The Chamber” (1962), the problems of marriage, attitudes towards death, and also political wards, which eliminate the need to make their own decisions, were raised. In the play “Diplomat” (1967), Aleshin turned to the first years of the Soviet state, putting the hero, whose prototype was M. Litvinov , and his activities in Copenhagen , in the center of the play. In the play “The Other” (1968) Alyoshin addresses the problem of a man between two women and the invasion of public privacy. In the play “The Ladder” (1976) tells about physicists and their collision with questions of everyday life. In the play “If ...” (1978) Alyoshin turns to his favorite medium, doctors, and shows a woman who has gone on a break with her beloved husband, repenting of this, but knowing through the separation of herself. The play “Theme with Variations” (1979) again depicts a loving person and the problems facing him. “All I will not die” (1989) - a play about M. Bulgakov and Stalin . The author of memoirs "Meetings on the sinful earth".

“Alyoshin’s dramaturgy has a wealth of conflict, intensity of action and clarity of composition; the author stands in his plays for the uncompromising truth, for the full commitment of the person. At the same time, he is not always able to embody his own theoretical background in the images of heroes acting and speaking according to inner convictions. ”(V. Kazak)

Dramaturgy

• Director: The Play (1951).
• The Man from Stratford (1954)
• One: Drama (1956).
• Everything remains for people
• To each his own (1962; the plot was used in the film "The Lark ", 1964)
• Chamber: Drama (1962).
• Mephistopheles (1963)
• The main role: Drama (1964).
• Diplomat: Drama (1967)
• Other (1968)
• Staircase (1976)
• If ... (1978)
• Theme with Variations: Play (1979)
• Eighteenth Camel: Comedy. (1982)
• The investigation revealed: The play. (1984)
• All I Won't Die (1989)
• Then in Seville (1948)

Memoirs

• Encounters on Sinful Earth: Memories (2001)
• Regular meetings on the sinful earth and another (2002)
• Theater and other affairs (2004)

Published collections

• Plays M., 1958
• Plays M., 1962
• Six Pieces. M., 1968
• Plays M., 1972
• If ... et al .: Plays. M., 1968

• 1959 - " Everything remains for people ." Leningrad Drama Theater. Pushkin . The roles were performed: Dronov - N. Cherkasov , Vyazmin - P. Krymov , Morozov - I. Gorbachev
• 1963 - "The Chamber" Bolshoi Drama Theater. M. Gorky . Statement by G. A. Tovstonogov and E. A. Lebedeva . Artist V. L. Stepanov; composer Ya. I. Weisburd. The premiere took place on February 15

• 1963 - Everything remains for people
• 1978 - Then in Seville

• 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 .

• Biography of S. I. Aleshin in the Encyclopedia "Krugosvet"
• S. Aleshin. Meet on the sinful earth. M.: "Zakharov", 2001, information about the publication