Davidovich, Arkady Filippovich

Arkady Davidovich was born into a family of doctors: his father, Filipp Abramovich, is a venereologist, his mother, Raisa Solomonovna, is a children's doctor, so, according to the aphorist, he “was first treated by his mother and then by his father . ” The Davidovich family appeared in Voronezh in 1916 together with the first university , the students of which were his parents: Davidovich’s grandfathers, who had their own business in Tartu , dreamed of developing new markets for their aphorisms.

From 1938 to 1941 studied at the 17th school in Voronezh, now the "mathematical" gymnasium named after N. G. Basov . During the war, the family was evacuated to Tashkent . After the mobilization of Raisa Solomonovna in 1944, the son and his mother were at a military hospital. In 1946, the family returned to Voronezh.

In 1948 he entered and graduated from the Voronezh Agricultural Institute in 1953, worked as a mechanic at a state farm in the Ryazan Region, and taught at the school of machine operators.

In 1954 he returned to Voronezh, where in 1976, together with the artist Valentina Zolotikh, he founded a unique museum of aphorism.

In 2010, the collection “The End of the World Will End Well” was “recognized as an unrecognized genius”, and by the summer of 2012, the circle of people who recognized Arkady for the genius of aphorism expanded to a fan club . On October 15, 2012, the Davidovich Club, with intellectual and material support and under the auspices of the Khovansky Foundation , began a new educational project “Aphorism as a Word with a Capital Letter”, the content of which consists in training through copyright aphorisms. March 21, 2013 the project was developed on the basis of the Voronezh branch of the Moscow Humanitarian and Economic Institute.

Currently, the Davidovich Museum is unique and the only known museum of brief thought. The museum was designed by artist Valentina Zolotikh; her paintings and aphorisms by Davidovich, painted by her hand, represent the museum's exhibition fund.

The museum is located in the old part of Voronezh, next to the residence of the Voronezh Metropolitan Sergius .

In the Soviet years, Davidovich was published in the Crocodile magazine under the pseudonyms Julius Caesar, Ernest Hemingway, Honore de Balzac, A. David, French writer, in the section “Humor of Different Latitudes” ^[1] . His works are included in many collections of aphorisms. At the writer's own expense, more than two dozen issues of Samizdat copyright collections of Laws of Being, Including Non-Being were published. Davidovich is one of the authors of the journal “ Common Sense ”, published under the auspices of the Russian Geographical Society - the Russian Humanist Society .

In recent years ^{[ when? ]} Davidovich is the absolute leader in the number of aphorisms published in the collections “Anthology of Wisdom” ^[2] , “Anthology of Thought in Aphorisms” ^[3] , “Wisdom of Russia. From Vladimir Monomakh to the present day ” ^[4] ,“ The New Book of Aphorisms ” ^[5] ,“ The Big Book of Aphorisms ” ^{[6] is} far ahead in the citation ratings of such authors as Jerzy Lets , Friedrich Nietzsche , Leo Tolstoy , Arthur Schopenhauer and other great thinkers ^[7] :

Dekalingva Davidovich

On May 29, 2015, in the Voronezh Regional House of Journalists, the presentation of the first collection of aphorisms “JE SUIS DAVIDOWITZ” from the cycle “Decalings of Davidovich” took place, which included translations of aphorisms from Russian into 10 languages ​​of the world that are part of four language families ( Indo-European , Afro-Asian , Finno - Ugric , Sino-Caucasian ), including Farsi , Hindi , Hebrew , Greek , English , Italian , Spanish , Georgian , Polish , Hungarian .

The idea with ten languages ​​goes back to 10 strings on the psalter of King David . Another source of the collection's idea is the famous Rosetta stone , due to the discovery of which, as you know, the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing was restored. In comparing aphorisms in 10 languages ​​from four language families and different groups, the task was to identify some universal, anthropological models of thinking. ^[9]

In October 2015, the collection was presented at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, the international book fair in Frankfurt . ^[10] In December 2015, a presentation of the project to continue the cycle took place - a model of the collection of aphorisms “Davidovich’s Cultural Calendar” in the languages of the Commonwealth countries , which was attended by teachers from leading CIS metropolitan universities. ^[11] In October 2016, another collection of “Davidovich - Any Wise Slovenian” was published in all Slavic languages, including Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak, Kashubian, Upper and Lower Luzhitsky, Czech, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian. ^[12] A collection of aphorisms translated into all Slavic languages ​​is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the collection " Slavic Herald ", founded by A. A. Khovansky in 1866 on the eve of the first Moscow Slavic Congress (1867).

Filmography

On July 4 and 5, 2015, the premiere screening of the film “ Homunculus ” took place in the art gallery “H. L. A. M. ”(dir. R. Dmitriev and K. Saveliev, thin. V. Zolotykh), in which Davidovich immediately played the roles of Faust , Mephistopheles and the homunculus ^[13] . This film was the debut of a full-length acting career as an aphorist. One of the main roles in the film was played by the famous rock musician Konstantin Stupin .

Davidovich's active civic stance began to emerge in writing and publishing acutely satirical reviews of current politics back in the Soviet years. In recent decades, the object of creative attention of the aphorist has been contemporary political figures, both Russian and foreign.

In 2015, in the Year of Literature in Russia, as well as in connection with the definition of Kulyab (Tajikistan) and Voronezh (Russia) as the cultural capitals of the CIS, Davidovich, in the presence of representatives of the European Union , was elected Civil Head of the Cultural Capital of the Commonwealth. The Mir television channel dedicated to Davidovich, as one of the most striking modern residents of Voronezh, a documentary film in the series “Cultural Capitals of the Commonwealth” ^[14] .

I. Information from the General Alphabetical Catalog of Books in Russian (1725-1998) / NLR

1. Kotenko, Vladimir Mikhailovich and Davidovich, A .; The brave parrot . Satyr. and humorous stories [Ill .: L. A. Letov. Voronezh, Center.-Chernozem. rn ed., 1968]. - 72 p. - 15,000 copies . ^[fifteen]
2. Kotenko, Vladimir Mikhailovich and Davidovich, Arkady Filippovich; Attraction . Humorous stories / - Voronezh, Tsentr.-Chernozemnoe kn. Publishing House, 1976. - 81 p. - 15,000 copies ^[16]
3. Well, nude! : Stories / V. Kotenko, A. Davidovich: Fig. G. Irsha. - M .: “Pravda”, 1976. - “Crocodile”. - 47 p. - 75,000 copies . ^[17]
4. Irreplaceable Dusya : Humoresques, satyr. miniatures / A. Davidovich, [Art. I. Anchukov]. - Voronezh: Center.-Chernozem. Prince Publishing House, 1985 .-- 56 p. - 15,000 copies . ^[eighteen]
5. Such things . Satire, humor, aphorisms / Arkady Davidovich. - Voronezh, Center.-Black Earth book. Publishing House, 1991 .-- 110 p. - 2000 copies . - ISBN 5-7458-0264-8 . ^[19]

II. Information from the MFN electronic catalog

The end of the world will end well : aphorisms with fascinating drawings by Victor Koval / Arkady Davidovich. - Ed. 2nd, add. - Moscow: Eksmo, 2010 .-- 253 p. - (Comedy. A jester with you / comp .: Yu. Kushak). 3000 copies - ISBN 978-5-699-41806-0 .

III. Publisher Information

• The alphabet of life of Arkady Davidovich . - Voronezh, Central Black Earth Book Publishing House, 2011-136 p. - ISBN 978-5-7458-1198-2 .

• Parting words to life: aphorisms for the youth / comp. Lavrukhin A.V. - M., Olma Media Group, 2012—304 p. - ISBN 978-5-373-04764-7
• A. Davidovich - Aphorism Man / comp. A. Ivanovich. - Voronezh, Quart, 2013—134 p.
• Davidovich: 2014 + 1001 nights - Olympic record / comp. A. Ivanovich. - Voronezh, Quart, 2014 .-- 154 p.

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