Cherkasov, Alexey Timofeevich

Born in 1915 in the village of Potapova, Daursky volost (now at the bottom of the Krasnoyarsk reservoir) of the Yenisei province in a peasant family.

Adolescence and youth spent in orphanages in Minusinsk and Kuragino .

He began to write in his youth - first poetry, then created a play. In 1934, he published the play "For Life", which was staged at the Minusinsk Drama Theater .

Among the pupils of the Kuraginsky commune he was sent to study at the Krasnoyarsk Agro-Pedagogical Institute . Having not finished it, after two years of training, he left for the Komsomol draft in the Balakhta district to conduct collectivization. He worked as an agronomist on the collective farms of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Northern Kazakhstan.

In 1937, Cherkasov was arrested in Kazakhstan on a false charge “as a Turkish spy” and sent to build the Volga-Don Canal . He pleaded not guilty. After three years in prison and camps, in 1940, he was released. They removed the criminal record and even paid compensation for the entire time of imprisonment. In these dramatic years, manuscripts of Cherkasov's first two (unfinished and lost) novels “Ice Cover” and “The World as It Is” were lost.

In 1942, Cherkasov was arrested again. Sits in Minusinsk, Abakan and Krasnoyarsk prisons. They are going to shoot him. But they recognize him insane and send him to compulsory treatment at the Krasnoyarsk Psychiatric Hospital.

The NKVD censor Polina Dmitrievna Moskvitina, on duty, read Alexey's letters to her mother. And I fell in love with them in the author. The girl was not afraid to come to the psychiatric hospital to get acquainted with Alexei Cherkasov, and soon to achieve his release. In 1943, A.T. Cherkasov was sent to Minusinsk and he would marry P.D. Moskvitina. Polina Dmitrievna for 30 years becomes his wife, friend and fellow in literary work - co-author of the last two novels of his famous trilogy.

Since the fall of 1946, the Cherkasovs have been living in Krasnoyarsk.

The first book of short stories and stories by A. T. Cherkasov, “On the Siberian Side,” was published in 1949 in Moscow by the publishing house Soviet Writer.

In 1969, Alexei Timofeevich moved with his family to Simferopol. ^[1] Died April 13, 1973. He was buried at the Simferopol city cemetery.

• Order of the Badge of Honor (10/28/1967)

In 1941, the writer receives a letter from the village of Podsiney , which is near the city of Abakan .

The letter was written with the letter "yat", with a fita-izhitsa, in a direct, petrified handwriting, and was, according to the writer himself, a "letter from the next world."

Under the letter was the signature "Efimia, the daughter of Habakkuk from the Yuskovs, living in the village of Podsinoy at Alevtina Krushinina."

The log cabin of Krushinina, half grown into the ground, was then visited by Cherkasov. There he found Efimia (whose history he wrote down).

She was 136 years old. She had a real Soviet passport issued to her in 1934. The indicated year of birth is 1805th. The old woman, the Old Believer, told the writer that in 1812, as a child, she saw Napoleon in the first World War II. In the 1917 revolution, she was already 112 years old, and she survived to the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet era.

The image of the great-great-grandfather Cherkasov, the legendary Decembrist, exiled to Siberia, became the prototype of the beloved Efimia convict Loparev, described on the basis of the stories of the writer’s grandfather, Zinovy ​​Andreevich Cherkasov,

The plot begins after the uprising of the Decembrists in 1830, when Euphemia is 25 years old. At the time of her appearance in Belaya Elani (one of the main locations of the novel), Euphemia was 55 years old (1861).

The entire trilogy consists of sections designated as the ovary, and the ovary consists of chapters.

The period of the trilogy from 1830 to 1955.

The story of the novel "Hops" (1963) ends shortly after the October Revolution of 1917.

The novel "Red Horse" (1972) tells about the events in Yenisei Siberia during the civil war.

The novel "Black Poplar" (1969) covers the periods after the defeat of Kolchakism , the years of World War II and the first post-war years.

The action takes place in the Yenisei province , as well as in Krasnoyarsk and Minusinsk .

In the 1950s, while working in Minusinsk on the novel “Hops,” the author used materials from the Martyanov Museum .

In 1963, the first edition of the novel “Hops” was published in Krasnoyarsk. It has nothing to do with the abridged chapters of the novel published in the Yenisei, Siberian Lights , and Neva magazines in 1956-1962. During the life of the author, five editions were published with a total circulation of more than three million copies. In each new edition, the writer made changes, improved the text, reworked, deleted and added whole chapters. ^[2]

• "Ice cover . " Novel. 1933-1934 ^[3]
• "The world as it is . " Novel. 1940-1941 ^[3]
• "In the Siberian side . " Tales and stories. M .: Sov. writer, 1949
• "The day begins in the East . " //October. 1949, Part 1. L "No. 5-7. / Publishing House: Krasnoyarsk: Publishing House, 1957.
• Lika . Story. // Yenisei. 1939 Prince 23. / Dep. publishing house: Krasnoyarsk: Prince. publishing house, 1939
• Hops . Novel. // Neva. 1961 No. 11-12. (Abbr. Option) / 1st Sep. publishing house: Krasnoyarsk: Prince. Publishing House, 1963, T. 1-3; M .: Hood. literature, 1967
• "Swallow" Tale . // Sib. lights, 1962, No. 2. / Dep. Publishing House: Novosibirsk: Prince. Publishing House, 1963; M .: Sov. Russia, 1965
• "Sumeria . " Abakan: Hackbook Publishing House, 1962
• "Black poplar. Tales of the Taiga People ” / In collaboration with P. D. Moskvitina. Krasnoyarsk: Prince NZD, 1969
• “The horse is red. Tales of the Taiga People ” / In collaboration with P. D. Moskvitina. Krasnoyarsk: Prince Publishing House, 1972

• 1991 - Hops
• The performance-dilogy “Hops” (staged by V.P. Pashnin ) of the Minusinsk Drama Theater was awarded the Konstantin S. Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR for 1986.

• The memorial plaque was installed in Simferopol (opened on June 12, 2012 at house 14 on Samokisha Street, in which the writer lived from June 1969 to April 13, 1973)

• The official website of the writer
• I. Panteleev about A. Cherkasov and his work
• Traveling in the Krasnoyarsk Territory
• Writer's House on the Locomotive (unknown pages of the life of Alexei Cherkasov)
• Memorial plaque to the writer A. T. Cherkasov