Sergienko, Konstantin Konstantinovich

He graduated from the publishing department of the Journalism Department of Moscow State University ( 1967 ). He was fluent in German, French, and English. Collaborated with the historical editors of the publishing house " Children's Literature ", publishing house " Young Guard ".

He is the author of books for children and youth, a number of which are devoted to historical topics. Major works: “Kees - Admiral Tulipov”, “Borodino Awakening”, “Goodbye, Gully”, “House on the Hill”, “Ksenia”, “Kashira Station”, “Take Us Pegasus!”, “Cardboard Heart”, "White Rondelle", "Days of Late Autumn", "The happiest day." Sergienko’s books have been translated into 12 foreign languages; plays based on his works have been performed in 40 Russian and foreign theaters.

• Konstantin Emelyanovich Sergienko (1914-1967) - father, graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI) with a degree in electrical engineering. Before and after World War II he worked at the Stalinogorsk State District Power Station. From 1951 to 1953 worked as secretary of the Stalinogorsky CPSU Civil Code ^[2] .
• Sergienko (Savushkina) Antonina Savelyevna (1918-2001) - mother, worked in the railway department first in Kashira, then in Stalinogorsk (Novomoskovsk) as secretary of the department head.
• Sergienko Nadezhda Konstantinovna - sister, pediatrician / pediatrician.
• first wife: Sergienko (Popenkova) Minna Stefanovna
• second wife: Sergienko (Varshavskaya) Irina Yakovlevna - since 1971.
  • Sergienko Artyom Konstantinovich - son, graphic designer, web developer, programmer.

His first book is the historical novel “Kees - Admiral Tulipov. The dangerous and funny adventures of the young Leyden, as well as his friends, told by himself without boasting and concealment, ”were published in the publishing house“ Children's Literature ”in 1975 . Her main character is a 12-year-old boy, Kees, who lives in the Dutch city of Leiden during his siege by Spanish troops in 1574 . During a dangerous trip with a special assignment from the besieged Leiden to Rotterdam, he and his friends (circus artist Karakol, a girl with a mysterious fate, Ele, a boy named Red Fox) have to experience many adventures, faced with the intrigues of the powerful Order of the Jesuits . Preparing to write this book, Sergienko read more than five hundred historical works in different languages.

Following Kees in 1977, the following historical novel by Konstantin Sergienko, The Borodino Awakening, dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812, was published. According to the writer Vladislav Bahrevsky ,

only once did Sergienko let slip about his secret. In the "Borodino Awakening." The hero, our modern man and, of course, a loser in love - he himself erected his Tower of Babel of Misunderstanding - falls asleep in a haystack, and wakes up as lieutenant Berestov in 1812 .

Lieutenant Berestov, the protagonist of the book, takes part in the events preceding the Battle of Borodino , and then in the battle itself. The book contains an artistic version of the real story with a balloon, which was launched before the battle by the inventor Leppich , who offered his services to the Russian authorities.

The main character of “Xenia” ( 1987 ) is Princess Ksenia Godunova. The action of The White Rondel ( 1983 ) takes place in Dorpat ( Tartu ) in 1625 , “Take Us Pegasus” ( 1979 ) - shortly before the Civil War in the USA (its heroes, white teenagers, rescue black slaves). Another historical novel by Sergienko is “A notebook in saffian binding: notes by Dmitry Pochivalov made by him during a trip to Little Russia and Tauris in 1786” ( 1989 ).

The most famous was the story of Konstantin Sergienko "Goodbye, ravine" ( 1979 ). It tells about the fate of a pack of stray dogs living on the outskirts of Moscow. Bright and memorable "humanized" characters - the noble Proud, the authoritarian leader of the Black group, the unfortunate Former Dachshund, the downcast intellectual Golovasty and others - are participants in a kind of parable, which was later processed by the author into the play "Dogs", the performances of which were in Moscow , St. Petersburg , Rostov , Yaroslavl , Novosibirsk . According to the book, the puppet cartoon “ Goodbye, Gully ” ( 1981 ) was shot.

Since 1987, the play "Dogs" has been going on in the Moscow Theater in the Southwest.

The modern adaptation of the novel “Goodbye, Ravine” is the musical of Vera Kopylova “Dogs” staged by a friend of Konstantin Sergienko Mark Rozovsky in the theater “ At the Nikitsky Gate ”. According to Rozovsky ^[3] ,

perhaps this story is the best work of a departed writer. In any case, the most piercing and insightful, written, as they say, "to rupture the aorta." Of course, the play is not only about the fate of stray dogs, so deplorable and terrible, in the back streets and on the inconspicuous margins of our megacities. There are so many human beings in these unfortunate animals, there are so many impressive characters with a subtle grace of joyless dialogs - we have before us a social drama, eternal and especially acute in merciless times in a ruthless society.

In 2010, the novel “Goodbye, Gully”, staged by Vera Kopylova, was also staged at the Shchelkovsky Youth Theater in the Moscow Region.

In 2007, the hand-drawn cartoon “The Dog’s Door ” was created (directed by Natalia Malgina ), which in 2008 was awarded the Audience Award at the Sretensky Film Festival “Meeting” ^[4] .

In 2013, the play was staged by the Stanislavsky Theater (director - Valery Belyakovich). ^[5]

The theme of youthful love occupies an important place in the work of Konstantin Sergienko - in particular, it is discussed in the novels “Happiest Day” ( 1989 ), “House on the Mountain” ( 1986 ) and “Days of Late Autumn” ( 1983 ). Vera Kopylova believes ^[6] that

his tales of love - half-childish, half-adult. Tales where the heroes have strange, mysterious, exciting dreams, where the delphinium thickets are crowded in the abandoned cottage and the juniper bush is full of tears after the rain, where dreams do not come true, but dissolve in it, change it and still make people happy .

As an artistic experiment, Sergienko under the pseudonym Peter Martin wrote several detective stories: “You can sleep forever”, “Underground is not always dark”, “Do not play on broken strings”.

Shortly before his death, he began translating the books of his beloved American writer Henry Miller , but managed to translate only the novel "Quiet days in Clichy."

Mark Rozovsky recalled that Konstantin Sergienko

professionally turned everyday life into feasts and holidays - suffice it to say that he taught us all to "celebrate Valentine's Day" in those “years”. He marvelously skillfully processed his loneliness into unity with no less lonely souls - together it was already not so lonely, not so sad.

• Late Autumn Days. M., 2001.
• Goodbye, ravine. M., 2002.
• Keyes Admiral Tyulpanov M., Case LLC, 2011. Case Publishing House
• Cardboard heart M., Meshcheryakov Publishing House, 2012. Meshcheryakov Publishing House
• Die Schlucht der freien Hunde (“Goodbye, Gully”), ARTEM Verlag, 2013. ARTEM Verlag language: German, ISBN 978-3-943974-02-7
• Kees Admiraal der Tulpen ("Kees Admiral Tulip"), ARTEM Verlag, 2013. ARTEM Verlag language: Dutch, ISBN 978-3-943974-04-1
• Goodbye, ravine! The Story of Stray Dogs, Meshcheryakova Publishing House 2016, ISBN 978-5-91045-810-3

• Eisenberg M. The cult author of the certificate // Banner. - 2006. - No. 4 .

• Konstantin Konstantinovich Sergienko - official site
• Die Schlucht der freien Hunde (Goodbye, Gully)
• Kees Admiral Tulipov - official site
• Cardboard heart - official site
• Kees admiraal der tulpen
• About Konstantin Sergienko
• About the evening in memory of Sergienko
• Grave of K. K. Sergienko at Troekurovsky cemetery