Golitsyn, Sergey Mikhailovich (1909)

Sergei Golitsyn was born in the family estate of Buchalka on March 1 (14), 1909, in the family of Prince Mikhail Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1873-1942) and Anna Sergeyevna, nee Lopukhina (1880-1972). He had five sisters: Alexandra (1900-1991), Sofia (1903-1982), Eugene (1906-1908), Maria (1911-1988), Catherine (1914-2005) and brother Vladimir (1902-1943).

During the repression of the 1920s and 1930s, their family was persecuted. At different times, his grandfather, Vladimir Golitsyn (1847-1932), father, brother, husband of Alexandra's sister, George Osorgin , cousins, some of them died in the camps, were arrested. Later, Sergei Mikhailovich reflected these years in his book, Notes of the Survivor.

Marriage and children

In 1934 he married Claudia Mikhailovna, nee Bavykina (1907-1980). Married:

• George (Yuri) (born 1935)
• Michael (born 1936)
• Sergey (1937-1938)

In 1984, he married Tamara Vasilyevna, nee Grigoryeva (1912-1992) ^{[1] [2]} .

He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Lyubets, Kovrovsky district, Vladimir region.

Even as a child, under the impression of books read, Sergei Golitsyn wanted to become a writer. After leaving school, in 1927, he entered the Higher Literary Courses (managed to complete three courses, and in 1929 they were closed).

Golitsyn began to publish his first stories for children in the 1930s in the children's magazines Chizh , Murzilka , and the World Pathfinder . However, Sergey Golitsyn was not able to immediately become a professional writer. In the thirties, he began to work as a surveyor, took part in the construction of the Moscow Canal .

July 3, 1941 Sergei Golitsyn was mobilized into a military construction detachment. Since 1943 - Red Army soldier of the 74th military construction detachment of the 27th Directorate of Special Construction under the 48th Army . Participated in the Battle of Kursk , Belarusian and East Prussian offensive operations . As a topographer in the construction units, he went the battle route to Berlin and was demobilized only in 1946 with the rank of private. He was awarded orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree , the Red Star , medals "For Military Merit" , "For the Defense of Moscow" , etc.

After the war, Sergei Golitsyn worked as a surveyor engineer at the State Design Institute.

Since 1959, Sergei Golitsyn became a professional writer. His books about the life of Soviet pioneers - “Forty Prospectors”, “Town of Tomboys”, “Towel Town” and others — were popular. He also wrote historical and historical books - “The Legend of White Stones” and “The Legend of the Land of Moscow”. To create a panorama of Ancient Russia, Golitsyn uses both documentary sources and artistic masterpieces of ancient literature: the annals of “Lives of the Saints”, “ The Word of Igor’s Regiment ”, “The Legend of the Battle of Mamaev ” and others ^[3] .

Sergey Golitsyn also wrote historical books for children (“Rooks are sailing to the north,” “To the blue Don”, etc.).

In the 1960s and 1970s, Golitsyn wrote several fictionalized biographies of artists.

In the last years of his life, the writer worked on the biographical book Notes of the Survivor. It was published only after his death, in 1990.

Since 1960, Sergei Golitsyn every summer (approximately from April to early October) lived in the village of Lyubets on the banks of the Klyazma . The rest of the time he spent in Moscow .

He was buried in Lyubets, in the fence of the church, which stands on a high hill on the banks of the Klyazma.

The greatest work of his life, on which Sergei Mikhailovich worked for 10 years, was never seen by the writer - on November 7, 1989, he died of an extensive heart attack , in the first half of this last day he was editing a typewritten copy of “Notes of the Survivor”.

Popular methodological books

• I want to be a topographer (under the editorship of A.M. Kazachkov; 1936). The book popularly talks about work on orienteering on the ground and about home-made measuring tools.
• I want to be a topographer (a completely revised edition with new illustrations, the volume of the book almost doubled; 1953; revised edition 1954, 2017)
• We read the Green Book (1959). "The book tells you what you need to know and be able to pioneer 2nd and 3rd level to go on a multi-day trip."
• Linen town (tourist camp of pioneers) (1961). A documentary from the life of the Zvenigorod summer camp of the Moscow boarding school No. 18. Golitsyn also spoke about how this camp was created in the literary novel "Town of Tomboys".
• Tourism at school: a book by the travel director / I. A. Verba, S. M. Golitsyn, V. M. Kulikov, E. G. Ryabov. (1983). How to organize and conduct a school trip.

Stories for children

• Olenok (a story with that name is mentioned by the author in the Notes of the Survivor: “... I still waited for an answer, and then I found out that the editors Chizh and Ezh - Oleinikov had been planted, decided that the stories were gone. And much later they sent me a letter to Dmitrov at parents that my stories were found in the archive of the magazine “Chizh”, asked me who I am and both stories - “Fawn” and “Teapot” were printed in 1940 ”)
• Lid for the teapot: story // Chizh : magazine. - 1939. - No. 5.

Art books about the life and adventures of Soviet pioneers

• Forty Prospectors (1959, reprints 1961, 1966, 1969, 1974, 1983, 1989, 2015, 2017)
• Tomboy Town (1963, reprints 1974, 2016, 2017)
• For birch books (1963, reprints 1965, 1969, 1989, 2015, 2017). The story of a tourist trip.
• The terrible Crocosaurus and his children (1965, reprints 1974, 2016, 2017)
• The Mystery of Old Radul (1972, reprints 1987, 1989, 2015, 2017)

Fictionalized biographies

• The solar palette. The Story of the Artist V. D. Polenov (1967)
• A word about a wise master. The Story of the Artist V. A. Favorsky (1977)
• Essay on F. M. Dostoevsky // Spark : Journal. - 1977. - No. 52.
• Essay on L. N. Tolstoy // Spark: Journal. - 1978. - No. 37.
• About the unfulfilled plan of L. N. Tolstoy (“Yasnaya Polyana Collection”, 1982)

Historical and local history books

• Tales of White Stones (M., Young Guard, 1969; supplemented and revised editions of 1980, 1987).
• About white-combustible stone. A historical tale for children (1983, reprints 1989, 1994, 2014, 2017)
• The Legend of Evpatia Kolovrat. A historical tale for children (1984, reprints 1987, 1994, 2014, 2017)
• Rooks sail north. A historical tale for children (1985, reprints 1994, 2014, 2017)
• To the blue Don. Historical tale for children (1986, reprints 1994, 2014, 2017)
• Grandfather's house: a story // New World: magazine. - 1985. - No. 9.
• The village of Lyubets and its environs: Tales, essays (1989). About the village of Lyubets, Kovrovsky district, Vladimir region, where the author had a house, and about the inhabitants of the village. Contents: History of the village Lyubets. Lyubetsk old-timers. Grandfathers house. Big house. Rural teachers. From my notebook.
• Tales of the land of Moscow: a historical book (1991; written in the 1970s).

Memoirs

• Remembering the "World Pathfinder" // Bibliophile Almanac. - Vol. 2. - 1975. - S. 61-66.
• Summer in Buchalki. Memories of childhood // Pioneer: Journal. - 1989. - No. 7. - P. 36-45 (reprint 2017). A chapter not included in the Notes of the Survivor.
• Notes of the survivor. Memoirs // Friendship of Peoples: Journal. - 1990. - No. 3 (book edition 1990, reprints 2006, 2016)
• Notes of the survivor / publ. G.S. and M.S. Golitsyn. // Our heritage: a magazine. - 2000. - No. 54. The heads of the memorial novel-chronicle, where the author spoke about several generations of the Golitsins and their kindred families, bringing the story to the events of 1917.
• Notes of a homeless man. - M.: Russkiy Mir, 2010 .-- 608 p. - 2000 copies. The book was published for the first time according to the manuscript of 1946-1948. The memories were again discovered and corrected by the author in 1971. Excerpts were published in the journal Our Contemporary (1995, No. 7, 8).

• An article by Leonid Gorovoy in the Kaliningradka Internet newspaper
• Short biography on the project “People. RU"
• Bibliography on the project "Public Library"
• (inaccessible link) An article by Yu. V. Belov on the Kovrov Historical and Memorial Museum project
• An article by D. Mareev on the Bogoroditsk project about Vladimir S. M. Golitsyn’s brother
• The article "The First Soviet Comic, or the Gender Continues" on the project "Theotokos" on the brother Vladimir S. M. Golitsyn
• Figure T. N. Reina in the journal Our Heritage
• (unavailable link) Burial of S. M. Golitsyn at the Kovrov Historical and Memorial Museum project
• Memorial evening dedicated to S. M. Golitsyn at the Kovrov Historical and Memorial Museum project
• (inaccessible link) Article by E. Taranets in “Kovrovskaya Gazeta”
• An article by O. Barabanov in the Kovrovskiye Vesti Internet newspaper
• Photos of representatives of the Golitsyn clan on the project “Livejournal.Ru”
• Unpublished chapters from the book of S. M. Golitsyn "Notes of the survivor" (neopr.) . "Our legacy . " Date of treatment July 21, 2016.