Slavin, Lev Isaevich

Lev Slavin was born in Odessa (now Ukraine ) in the family of an employee. He studied at the University of Novorossiysk . In 1916 , from the first course, he was mobilized into the army and participated in the First World War . It was these events that later formed the basis of his first novel, The Heir ( 1931 ). After demobilization was engaged in journalism.

Creative activity began in Odessa, in the “ Team of Poets ” that emerged there in 1919 , with which the fates of many famous writers are related: E. G. Bagritsky , I. A. Ilf , Yu. K. Olesha , V. P. Kataev and others ; was friends with Ilf. The first stories of Slavin were published in the Odessa magazine "Communist".

In 1924, Slavin moved to Moscow and collaborated with the Gudok newspaper , appearing in all newspaper genres. One of the authors of the book "The White Sea-Baltic Canal named after Stalin " (1934).

In 1932, Lev Slavin wrote a play about the civil war - “ Intervention ”, which since 1933 has been staged on the stages of Soviet theaters and brought him fame. This play was played everywhere, returned to the stage by several generations of directors, translated into many languages, was repeatedly published and was filmed. Then he began working in the cinema. The most famous works are scenarios for the movie “The Return of Maxim” ( 1937 ) and “Intervention” ( 1967 ). The last film was recognized as a “creative failure” by the director ( G. I. Poloki ), lay on the shelves for 19 years and only in 1987 was released for hire. Based on the story by Slavin “Cafe Kanava”, a lyrical comedy was shot with Marina Neyelova “ Ladies invite gentlemen ”.

In 1939, Slavin was a war correspondent at Khalkhin-Gol , in 1941-1945 , during the period of the Great Patriotic War , a war correspondent for the newspapers Krasnaya Zvezda and Izvestia , a major in quartermaster service. He participated in the First World War , in the battles of Khalkhin Gol and the Great Patriotic War . In Mongolia, the writer met with G. K. Zhukov .

He wrote memoirs about I.E. Babel , A.P. Platonov , Sun. V. Ivanov , M. A. Svetlov , wrote books about A. I. Herzen , V. G. Belinsky , J. Dombrowski and others. He also wrote novels and memoirs . Many works of Slavin translated into foreign languages.

In 1964, he took part in writing a collective detective novel, “ He Who Laughs Laughs, ” published in The Week .

In 1966 he signed a petition in defense of A. D. Sinyavsky and Yu. M. Daniel .

In 1976, the eightieth anniversary was celebrated in the Central House of Writers (CDL), in particular with the participation of V.P. Kataev , L. Z. Trauberg and V.N. Pluchek .

He died on September 4, 1984 in Moscow .

• Wife - Sofya Naumovna Lifshits

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (10.28.1976) - in connection with the 80th anniversary
• Order of the Red Star (02.21.1945)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (01/31/1939)
• medals

• "The Heir" ( 1931 ) - novel
• "Intervention" ( 1932 ) - the play
• "Hamburg - America Line" ( 1934 ) - the story
• “The Private Life of Peter Vinogradov” ( 1934 ) - script
• "Son of Mongolia" ( 1936 ) - script
• "Bagritsky" ( 1936 ) - historical biography about E. G. Bagritsky
• "The Return of Maxim" ( 1937 ) - script
• "The Case of Kartamyshev" ( 1939 ) - the story
• "My countrymen" ( 1942 ) - the story , later published under the name " Two Fighters ", formed the basis of the script
• "The roads go to the West" ( 1943 ) - the story
• "Uralets" ( 1943 ) - the story
• Road Madonna ( 1945 ) - short story
• "A trip to Zerbst" ( 1945 ) - short story
• "The Last Days of the Fascist Empire" ( 1946 ) - documentary essay
• “About Lapin and Khatsrevine” ( 1946 ) - historical biography about B. Lapin and Z. Khatsrevine
• "On the other side of the hill" ( 1958 ) - the story
• "Andrey Platonov" ( 1963 ) - historical biography about A.P. Platonov
• "Objectionable sacrifice" ( 1964 ) - short story
• “My Olesha” ( 1964 ) - historical biography about Yu. K. Olesha
• “Portraits and Notes” ( 1965 ) - biographies and memoirs
• Ilf and Petrov ( 1965 ) - historical biography about I. A. Ilf and E. P. Petrov
• “Delights of Vsevolod Ivanov” ( 1965 ) - historical biography about V. Ivanov
• "The Foreboding of Truth" ( 1966 ) - story
• "Intervention" ( 1967 ) - script on his own play
• "Cafe" Kanava "( 1967 ) - the story
• “For our and your freedom!” ( 1968 ) - historical biography about J. Dombrowski
• "Features from the life of Mikhail Svetlov" ( 1968 ) - historical biography about M. A. Svetlov
• "Armenia! Armenia! "( 1970 ) - the story
• Carmelina ( 1972 ) - the story
• "The novel with the tower" ( 1972 ) - the story
• “Furious” ( 1973 ) - historical biography about V. Belinsky
• "My sensitive friend" ( 1973 ) - stories, notes, portraits
• "Ardennes passions" ( 1976 ) - novel
• "Strike the Bell" ( 1979 ) - historical biography about A. Herzen
• "Favorites" ( 1981 ) - a collection of stories and essays

• Team of poets

• Works by Slavin on the OCR Aldebaran Library website
• Works Slavin site FictionBook.ru