Borshchagovsky, Alexander Mikhailovich

Born on October 1 ( October 14 ), 1913 in the city of Bila Tserkva ( Vasilkovsky district of Kiev province ), in a Jewish family ^[1] . His father was a lawyer and journalist, his mother was a midwife. After graduating from a seven-year school in Bila Tserkva, he studied at the factory school of a steam engine repair plant in Zaporozhye . He graduated from the Kiev Theater Institute (1935), at the end of graduate school he went to the front of the Great Patriotic War . Candidate of Philology. The dissertation “Ivan Tobilevich’s dramaturgy” was published as a separate book in Ukrainian (1948). He was the head of the literary part of the front-line theater, a civilian, awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad." Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940 . Member of the joint venture of the USSR since 1946 .

After the war, he headed the literary part of the theater of the Soviet Army (1945-1949); during this period he published the book "Dramatic Works of Ivan Franko" (1946) and an essay on the outstanding actor A. M. Buchma (1947). In 1949, as part of an ideological campaign against the "bourgeois cosmopolitans," he was fired from his job, expelled from the CPSU (b), deprived of the opportunity to print for participation in the "anti-patriotic group of theater critics." ^[2] Later he acted primarily as a prose writer. The story “Three Poplars on Shabolovka”, which he later revised into the script for the famous film “Three Poplars on Plyushchikha,” brought Borshagovsky the most famous. In 1991, he published the memoirs “Notes of the Minion of Fate,” abounding with a mass of inaccuracies and distortions. The period of “the struggle against cosmopolitanism” is also devoted to the works “Accused of blood” and “Hollow monolith”.

In 1993, he signed the “Letter of 42's” .

In recent years, he lived and worked in the writing village of DNT Krasnovidovo .

He died on May 4, 2006 . He was buried in Moscow at the Vostryakovsky cemetery .

Wife - Valentina Filippovna Borshchagovskaya (nee Malets, in the first marriage of Karmalit; 1924-2018).

• Selected works in two volumes. M., 1982
• Russian flag. M., Soviet writer, 1953. A historical novel about a little-known episode from the history of the defense of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from the Anglo-French squadron during the Crimean War
• Missing. M., 1956, 1958 - a story based on the true story of six Soviet sailors who were shipwrecked and rescued after 82 days off the coast of Kamchatka
• Gray gull. M., Soviet writer, 1958
• Alarming clouds. Moscow, Soviet Russia, 1959. The legendary story of a heroic football "death match" , which took place (according to information publicly available on RuNet) in Kiev, August 9, 1942 (according to the text of the author’s story, in an unknown provincial town). “Disturbing clouds” were published in socialist countries, in the main languages ​​of Western Europe, including Spanish, the novel was printed in Algeria in French, in Bombay it was translated into Marathi , in Copenhagen it came out on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the liberation of Denmark from the Nazi occupiers. The story was subsequently filmed. In 1962, to the 20th anniversary of real events, the first film “Third Half” was released. The film took sixth place at the box office of the USSR in 1963 - 32 million viewers watched it in the cinema. The second - “Match (film, 2012)” - was shot in Russia in 2012 for the 70th anniversary of the tragic match.
• The Island of All Hopes, M., Soviet Russia, 1960
• The Island of All Hopes, M., Soviet Russia, 1962
• Glass beads. M., 1963
• Madness of the Brave ... M., 1965
• Gray gull. M., Soviet writer, 1965
• The crowd is lonely. M., 1967
• Noah's Ark. M., 1968
• Milky Way. M., Soviet Russia, 1970
• Three poplars. M., 1974
• Where does the blacksmith live? M., Soviet writer, 1976, 1978
• Not strangers. M., Soviet Russia, 1978 - a storybook
• Section. The Story of Ivan Babushkin , M., Politizdat, 1978, 1980 (Flaming Revolutionaries)
• Ladies tailor . The play, 1984 (filmed).
• There was sadness. M., Soviet writer, 1983
• Alarming clouds. M., 1984
• Portrait from memory. M., Soviet writer, 1986 - a novel about Gogol , as if seen through the eyes of Alexander Agin
• Three poplars. M., 1986
• Rise from the darkness. M., Politizdat, 1988 - about the poet Alexander Polezhaev (Flaming revolutionaries)
• Glass beads. M., 1988
• From captivity years. M., 1990
• Notes of a minion of fortune. M., Soviet writer, 1991
• Blood is blamed. M., Progress Culture, 1994
• Alarming clouds. M., 1995
• Hollow Monolith, 1997
• Departing islands (epistolary conversations in the context of time and fate), 2005 - conversations with Valentin Kurbatov

• 1957 - On the Far Island ... , dir. Nikolai Rozantsev - according to the story "Missing."
• 1967 - Three poplars on Plyushchikha , dir. Tatyana Lioznova - based on the story “Three Poplars on Shabolovka”.
• 1978 - Glass beads , dir. Igor Nikolaev - according to the novel of the same name.
• 1990 - Ladies tailor , dir. Leonid Gorovets - based on the play of the same name.