Nikolai Grigorievich Smirnov ( March 3 [15], 1890 , Vyazma - June 27, 1933 , Novokuznetsk [2] ) - Russian writer and playwright .
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Biography
He graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow University ( 1912 ) and began to work as an assistant to the lawyer L. N. Novosiltsev [3] .
Since 1911 he wrote plays, starting with a sketch for the Crooked Mirror theater. After the October Revolution, he was the director of the theater of revolutionary satire in Kaluga , where for the most part he directed his own plays, which were distinguished by buffalo comedy and elements of science fiction.
Since 1924 , Smirnov switched to prose, mainly for children and youth. One of the main areas of Smirnov’s work is books popularly telling about various spheres of economic and economic activity: “Children about the newspaper” (1924), “Where do the dishes from” (1924), “How people travel” (1925), Travel by Charlie [4] (1925), Yegor-monter [5] (1928) and others. Smirnov’s other books have a strong adventure basis: he, in particular, owns the repeatedly reprinted novel “The State of the Sun” (1928) about Moritz Benevsky . The most famous book of Nikolai Smirnov is the story Jack Vosmerkin American (1930), which tells about a Russian peasant boy who grew up in the United States and returned to Soviet Russia, where he has to significantly change his worldview and behavior. The novel “The Spy Diary” ( 1929 ), dedicated to the struggle of the Soviet counterintelligence against English spies in the first post-revolutionary years, was also famous. as Varlam Shalamov claims in his memoirs,
Smirnov’s knowledge of the case led him unexpectedly to Lubyanka, where for two months he showed what materials he used for his “Spy Diary”. Smirnov was fluent in English, took out several English memoirs (including the memoirs of Sydney Reilly , known in Moscow for the Lockhart plot), read English newspapers. When everything was clarified, Smirnov was released [6] .
In the last year of his life, Smirnov, together with Alexander Beck, worked as part of a writing team sent to Kuznetsk with the goal of creating a book on the construction of the Novokuznetsk Metallurgical Plant [2] . He died in 1933 from typhus [7] .
Films
- Jack Vosmerkin - "American"
Sources
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120124033332/http://www.litsite.narod.ru/letters/letters_008.htm
- ↑ 1 2 Toom L.P. The writer who died at the post // Bolshevik steel . - 1933. - July 6. ( Internet publication by Yu. A. Budaeva)
- ↑ From October 31, 1912 - see the List of jurors of the district of the Moscow Court of Justice and their assistants by November 15, 1913 - M., 1914. - P. 227.
- ↑ Smirnov N.G., Galina Chichagova, Olga Chichagova. Travel Charlie . - Moscow-Leningrad, State Publishing House, 1925.24 p.
- ↑ Smirnov N.G., Galina Chichagova, Olga Chichagova. Yegor the fitter . - Moscow-Leningrad, State Publishing House, 1928.15 p.
- ↑ Shalamov V.T. Memoirs (inaccessible link) / Prep. text and comment. I.P. Sirotinskaya. - M .: Olympus; Astrel; AST, 2001 .-- S. 75.
- ↑ "Fresh", "groats . " // Rakhtanov I. Stories from memory. - M .: Children's literature, 1971.P. 63-74.
Links
- Smirnov N.G. // Literary Encyclopedia
- Memoirs of I. A. Rakhtanov about Nikolaev Smirnov // Rakhtanov I. Stories from memory. - M .: Children's literature, 1971. - S. 63-74.