Voznesenskaya, Julia Nikolaevna

She was born in the family of a military engineer who served in East Berlin after the war. From 1945 to 1950 she lived in Berlin. Father and mother were atheists and only at the end of their life converted to Orthodoxy. ^[1] She studied at the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema , was an active participant in the circles of informal art. In 1964 , she was first convicted of a year of forced labor.

In 1966 she published her first poems. It was published in periodicals, and then in samizdat . In 1973 she was baptized. Participated in the organization of the action on December 14, 1975 at Sq. Decembrists (Senate) , as well as in a number of demonstrations, a hunger strike of non-conformist artists.

Spent literary evenings in her room in a communal apartment. In June 1976, she participated in the preparation of the first issue of the magazine “Hours” (p. 303). She published poems in the magazines “Hours”, “37” (p. 297), “Maria”, in the “Tamizdat” magazines “Grani”, “The Third Wave”, “Vestnik RHD”, “Sowing” (including articles) .

In the same year, she was sentenced to five years of exile for " anti-Soviet propaganda ." She fled from exile in Leningrad to the court in the case of Yulia Rybakova , for which she was sentenced to two years in prison in the camp - until June 1979 .

In the West, her poems were first published in 1978 in the journal Grani . In 1979, she participated in the publication of the first feminist almanac in the USSR “Woman and Russia” , in the preparation of the magazine “Maria”.

In 1980, she emigrated from the USSR with her two sons. Until 1984, she lived in Frankfurt am Main , then settled in Munich , where she worked at Radio Liberty .

In 1996 - 1999, she lived in the Lesninsky female monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary in France ( ROCOR , Promemon , Normandy ). There, with the blessing of Mother Superior Athanasia, she wrote the parable "My Posthumous Adventures."

From 2002 to 2015 she lived in Berlin .

Died in Berlin on February 20, 2015. ^[2]

Voznesenskaya’s later works are often called "Christian (or Orthodox) fantasy ."

• title of "Best author of the year" in the competition " Orthodox Book of Russia " ( 2003 )
• Laureate of the annual competition of works for children and youth “Scarlet Sails” in the nomination “Prose” - for the book “The Way of Cassandra”

Compiled

• Briefe über die Liebe, München, 1987
• Was die Russen über Deutsche denken, München, 1988

• In 1980, the biographical television movie “Yulya's Diary” about the life of Yulia Voznesenskaya was released in the USA, the main role in which was played by Victoria Fedorova .
• On June 10, 2015, the premiere of the feature film based on the novel by Y. Voznesenskaya “Together on an Ice Floe” (director Valery Ignatiev) took place.

• 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 .

• Samizdat anthology
• Our faith
• Once upon a time there was Julia Voznesenskaya
• Russian line
• Voznesenskaya Julia Nikolaevna, writer
• Memoirs of the Gulag and their authors
• Site about the work of Ascension Julia.
• "Together on the Ice", a feature film.