Azolsky, Anatoly Alekseevich

Born in the family of a soldier. He graduated from the Higher Naval School. M.V. Frunze (now St. Petersburg Naval Institute ). In 1952-1954 served as a naval officer - ship gunner, then worked at the Kuntsevo Marine Club DOSAAF , was commander of a minesweeper at a rescue station on the Moscow River , and later until 1965 worked as an engineer at Moscow enterprises.

He was buried in Moscow at the Khovansky cemetery (Central Territory, section 34i) [1] .

The first story was printed in 1965. In 1968, the New World magazine by A. Twardowski announced his novel Stepan Sergeich. But, twice rejected by censorship, he appeared in the magazine only in 1987. Then the Znamya magazine published another of his novels, A Long Shot (Mantsev Sea). Since then A. Azolsky has been a regular contributor to The New World, Friendship of Peoples, Banner, Continent. In 1997, A. Azolsky was awarded the Booker Prize for the novel “The Cage”. In addition, A. Azolsky’s publications were awarded the prizes of the magazines Friendship of Peoples (1999) and New World (2000). Azolsky was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, the Russian PEN Center, a member of the International Association of Writers of Battlemen and Marinists. His novels, novels and short stories were translated into German, Polish, Estonian and Chinese. In criticism, Azolsky’s ability to create an adventurous narrative based on material from the Soviet era, the discovery by him of a new type of character - a heroic loner, who defends his right to life in a situation that is aggravated by the ideology of absurdity, was noted. Parallels were drawn between Azolsky's prose and the literature of the absurd, the works of Graham Green ( Eugene Ermolin ). Based on the works of A. Azolsky, popular films and series were shot: "Saboteur", "Forgotten", "Stepan Sergeich", "Unknown Pages from the Life of a Scout". Azolsky wrote and published until the end of his life - in his February New World for 2008, his short story “penultimate days” was published.

Novels and novels

• "Stepan Sergeich" (1968-1987). Novel. Filmed in 1989 - “ Stepan Sergeich ” ( Belarusfilm )
• The Legend of Travkin (1976-1984). Novel.
• “A protracted shot” (“Sea of ​​the Mantsevs”) (1987). Novel.
• "Extra" (1988). Story. Filmed in 1990 - " Unknown pages from the life of a scout ."
• “Steamboat” (1989). Story.
• “Cigarette Butts” (1992). Story.
• Nora (1994). Story.
• “The search for the absolute” (1995). Story.
• The Cell (1996). Story. Literary award " Russian Booker " for the best novel in Russian for 1997 .
• “War at Sea” (1996). Story.
• “Baltic Marriage” (1997). Story.
• "Regional Theater" (1997). Story. Filmed in 2011 - the television series " Forgotten " (director - Vladimir Schegolkov ).
• The Trumpet (1997). Story.
• The Burdock (1998). Novel.
• “Blood” (1999). Novel.
• "Patrikeev" (1999). Story.
• The Monks (2000). Novel.
• "VMB" (2001). Story.
• The Saboteur (2002). Novel. Filmed in 2003 - the television series " Saboteur ", in 2007, based on the novel, the television series " Saboteur 2: The End of the War " was shot.
• "White Night" (2003). Story.
• Glasha (2003). Story.
• “Candidate” (2004). Story.
• “Colonel Rostov” (2006). Novel.
• "Athanasius" (2007). Story.
• Margara, or Shoot Me at Dawn (2007). Story.
• The Outsider (2007). Novel.

Stories

• “This Damned War” (1965).
• “Berlin — Moscow — Berlin” (1994).
• “Who killed Kirov. The experience of home investigation ”(1994).
• The Art of Cinema (1996).
• "Conversation" (1996).
• “Something About Myself” (1997).
• “Heinz Guderian, Nikolai Grebenkin and others” (1997).
• “Flight to the Sun” (1997).
• "Atomic disease" (1998).
• "Grave at the Vvedensky cemetery" (1999).
• The Indiscreet Charm of Battleships (1999).
• "Rats" (1996).
• The Great Terror (1998).
• “Freedom and Equality” (1998).
• The Teacher (2000).
• "Idealists" (2000).
• “Man and Woman” (2000).
• High Literature (2002).
• “Sevastopol and Beyond” (1989-2003).
• “Rokossovsky’s Binder” (2004).
• “The death of Kirov. Commentary on the Shot ”(2004).
• “Do Not Kill” (2004).
• “An Ungodly Tankman” (2004).
• “Business” (2005).
• “Joseph and His Brothers” (2007).
• “War without war” (2007).
• “The penultimate days” (2008).

Criticism

• Latynina A. Belated. (1987)
• Lazarev L. Freed from liability. (1987)
• Eugene Ermolin To the other world and back: The Soviet experience in prose of recent years. (1987) - http://www.intelros.ru/readroom/kontinent/k150-2011/18036-o-literature-90-h.html ]
• Voiskunsky E. Overcoat from the admiral's drape. (1988)
• Eugene Ermolin Life in an illegal situation. Adventurers of the Soviet era in the prose of Anatoly Azolsky. - Lit. newspaper. 1996. No 35
• Mildon V. All life is from the cage. (1997)
• Remizova M. A sighted loner among obedient blind people. (1997)
• Eliseev N. Azolsky and his heroes. -"New world". 1997. No. 8.
• Nemzer A. A look at Russian prose in 1996. Azolsky and his heroes. - "Friendship of Peoples". 1997. No. 2.
• Nemzer A. Literary today. About Russian Prose. 90s. Second birth. A. Azolsky. (M.: New Literature Review 1998)
• Kostyrko S. Anatoly Azolsky. Blood. Novel. (The New World 1999 No. 8)
• Eugene Ermolin People of the abyss. About the prose of Anatoly Azolsky. - "Friendship of Peoples". 2001. No 4. - http://magazines.russ.ru/druzhba/2001/4/erm.html
• Bulkina I. Anatoly Azolsky: Saboteur. “The Banner.” 2006. No. 10.
• Ogryzko V. The best adventurous writer. - Literary Russia. 2007. No. 40.
• Eugene Ermolin Lone Hero. In memory of Anatoly Azolsky. “The Continent.” 2008. No. 135. - http://magazines.russ.ru/continent/2008/135/ee1.html
• Eugene Ermolin The Last Classics. M .: Coincidence, 2016. - ISBN 978-5-903060-36-2

• Biography and works of Anatoly Alekseevich Azolsky on the site "Book shelf of a second-hand book dealer"
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