Haydock, Alfred Petrovich

Born on October 19, 1892 in present-day Latvia near the Amata River on the Doles farm in the family of the owner of an agricultural equipment repair workshop, Latvian . At the age of 16, at the invitation of his uncle, he moved to the Tver province , where he became the manager of a sawmill before the First World War .

World War I

In 1914 he was drafted into the army, first to the military sanitary organization of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna , and then as head of the economic department of the warehouse of the Red Cross of the Second Army, which supplied the entire Western Front . By 1917, Haydock rose to the rank of officer. In 1917 he was captured by Germany, in 1918 he was released from it.

Revolution and Civil War

After being released from German captivity, Haydock returned to revolutionary Russia and immediately joined the ranks of the White Guards . He went through the entire Civil War and ended it in Blagoveshchensk . Under the fierce onslaught of the Red Army, he fled to China .

Beginning of creativity

In China, Alfred Petrovich Haydock lived in Harbin , tried many professions until he became a journalist and writer. In December 1929, he published his first story, “A Man with a Dog,” in the Harbin magazine, Rubezh, and subsequently became a permanent contributor to the magazine and several other Harbin newspapers. In 1940, together with his wife Evgenia Sergeyevna and two sons, he moved to Shanghai . There he participated in the creation of a society of Soviet journalists and fiction under the society of Soviet citizens. He headed the fiction section, and when the newly formed society received a license from TASS for the publication of the journal Today, he placed his story San Rafael in it. A.P. Haydock lived in Shanghai for seven years.

Meeting with N. K. Roerich

In 1934, Haydock’s fateful meeting with N.K. Roerich , who visited Harbin as part of his Manchu expedition (1934-1935), took place.

“From childhood I was fond of reproductions of Nikolai Konstantinovich. I liked them so much that when I became a teenager, I came to the conclusion that N.K. Roerich is the greatest artist in the world. And inevitably our meeting was to take place. ” ^[3]

Meeting with Roerich had a huge impact on the future work of Haydock. He fully accepted the philosophical system of understanding of the Roerich family - “ Living Ethics ”, becoming its active propagandist until the end of his life. In 1934, Haydock's collection “Stars of Manchuria” was published, a preface to which was written by N. K. Roerich. ^[four]

Repatriation and Camps

In 1947, Haydock and his family received a passport of a Soviet citizen and voluntarily returned to the Soviet Union , in the city of Severouralsk . He worked as a fireman, an English teacher.

Due to the fact that the Haydock family continued their correspondence with the Roerich family who lived in India , in 1950 they arrested the youngest son of Valentine and could not bear this shock, Haydock’s poor wife died six months later, and then Haydock himself was arrested, all property was confiscated and sent to the camps.

“Being in custody, I thought how much happier Lenin was when I was in the imperial prison. there he wrote great works. And only once they gave me a piece of paper and the tip of a pencil for an application. No writing accessories, nothing was given. Even the belt was removed from the trousers, and I had to hold the trousers with my own hands. ” ^[3]

In 1956 he was released and he achieved complete rehabilitation . In the autumn of the same year he moved to Kazakhstan , in the city of Balkhash , to his youngest son. There, at one time he worked as a librarian, and then at the Kazakh Research Institute of Fisheries as a translator of the English language of scientific literature. In the same period, he translated such capital works as “ Letters to Mahatm Sinnet ”, the third volume of The Secret Doctrine by E. P. Blavatsky and two volumes of her “ Isis Unveiled ”, as well as A. David-Neel - “Mystics and Mages Tibet ” and a number of other works.

Zmeinogorsk

In July 1981, already a pensioner, A.P. Kheidok moved to Altai Krai, the city of Zmeinogorsk. Having completely lost his sight, he continued to dictate novels, short stories and essays. Here he passed away on June 20, 1990, leaving behind a rich literary heritage.

• A man with a dog (1929);
• Stars of Manchuria (1934, collection);
• Prophets (1935)
• Moth (1969)
• The Story of Grandfather Markel (1980)
• Zmeinogorsk (1981)
• Life is a Feat (1981)
• The Last Angel (1981)
• Two Truths (1982)
• Torvald Sword (1982)
• Thought - Defense (1983)
• The Illusion of Mystery (1983)
• My Journey to the West (1986)
• Star Trek of Science (1986)
• Fire (1987)
• Spirituality (1988)
• Far Worlds (1988)
• A History of a Rusty, Slightly Bent Nail (1988)

• Rainbow of miracles . - Riga: Vieda, 1994
• Fire at the doorstep - Magnitogorsk: Amrita-Ural, 1994
• Pages of my life. Memories, stories, tales, essays. - M.: Delphis, 2011

• Biography.ru. Biographical Encyclopedia. Haydok Alfred Petrovich
• Pacific Almanac "Frontier" - Alfred Haydock. "Stars of Manchuria"
• Moscow Space Club Alfred Petrovich Haydock
• Literary Almanac "Likbez"
• Roerich Encyclopedia. Alfred Petrovich Haydock
• The New Age Magazine. Singer of love and joy. Essay on Alfred Petrovich Haydock

Articles

• In Altai, to Haydock // Delfis - No. 53 - 2008
• In Altai, to Haydock (ending) // Delfis - No. 54 - 2008
• Klimov V.G. “Singer of love and joy” // Delphis - No. 25 (1) - 2001
• Pages of my life // Delphis - 30 (2) - 2002

Documentary Video

• Step Over GoriZont. In Altai to Haydock
• Interview with A. P. Haydock to the video magazine Belovodye (1985)
• Alfred Petrovich Haydock. Documentary shots (1989)