Benedict Avraamovich Catloker ( July 11, 1872 , Soroki , Bessarabian Region - after 1944) - a major Russian publisher and journalist , satirist, prose writer, editor, translator.
Benedict Avraamovich (Adolfovich) Katlovker | |
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Aliases | B. K .; Vampire; Grandfather — Berendey; Reutsky, B .; Shadow; Ghoul; Falstaff; Shimoza; Yumov, N. * * * |
Date of Birth | July 11, 1872 |
Place of Birth | Soroki , Bessarabian Governorate , Russian Empire |
Date of death | unknown |
Citizenship | Russian Empire, USSR |
Occupation | journalist , poet , publisher, editor |
Language of Works | Russian |
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Biography
Born in the family of national teacher Abraham Naumovich (Abram Nokhimovich) Kotlovker (1844, Vilna - February 24, 1907, Chisinau ), the official Rabbi of Chisinau and honorary citizen , a secular member of the fifth session of the Rabbi Commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire (1893-1894) [1 ] , and Zlata Kotlovker (? - January 8, 1903, Chisinau). He studied at the 1st Kishinev gymnasium, then at the medical department of Kiev University , worked as a doctor in Chisinau.
In 1897, in Petersburg, together with Mikhail B. Gorodetsky (1869–1918) and A.E. Kogan (1878–1949), he founded the Kopeyka publishing house and the eponymous joint-stock company. The publishing house published the Kopeyka newspaper with appendices and a number of other publications [2] that were published in colossal in those times in Russia editions - Gazeta Kopeyka , Magazine Kopeyka with illustrations, humorous Leaf Kopeyka, Merry Balagur , “Kopeyka Album”, the World Panorama weekly (1909–1918, 1909–1913 - the illustrated supplement “Newspapers-pennies”), the illustrated magazine “The Sun of Russia”, the magazines “Waves” (1912–1917) and “Daily mail ”(1907–1916), the weekly art and satirical magazine“ Vampire ”(1906), criminal law Science lyuchencheskie [3] . Since 1909, the Kopeyka newspaper was published by the same publishers in Moscow ; many Russian cities had their own leaflets — supplements to the newspaper.
The circulation of the main of these publications, the Kopeyka newspaper , reached 250 thousand copies by 1914; the newspaper was published in the form of four separate publications, differing in volume and number of applications. Both the morning and evening editions of the newspaper cost one penny (against the usual price of 5 kopecks of most other newspapers).
Katlovker was the editor of most of these publications, including World Panorama, Daily Mail, Vampire and Waves. In 1906 he published a book of satirical poems under the pseudonym "Shadow"; three poems from this book - “Ballad of the Premiere”, “Complaining Song”, “Honest Word! Couplets "- were included in the collection" Poetic satire of the first Russian revolution: 1905-1907 "(Poet's Library: A Big Series. 2nd ed. - L .: Soviet Writer, 1969). Under the same pseudonym published satirical poems in all applications "Penny".
After the revolution, he headed the editorial offices of Rabochaya Gazeta and Batrak newspaper, was deputy director of Rabochaya Gazeta publishing house. He taught publishing at the State Institute of Journalism (GIZH). In 1926 he published the article "Modern achievements of printing production in Western Europe and its immediate tasks." In the 1930s, he worked as an editor-in-chief at the Young Guard publishing house, then at the USSR Academy of Architecture publishing house. In 1936, translated by B. A. Katlovker, Lewis Mumford published his work “From a Log House to a Skyscraper: A Sketch of the History of American Architecture” (Moscow: All-Union Academy of Architecture, 1936). He edited a collection of documents and materials entitled “Monuments of architecture destroyed or damaged by German invaders” (Vol. 1 - M .: Publishing House of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR, 1942; Vol. 2 - ibid, 1944), monograph “Russkoe wooden architecture "(1942), a textbook for architectural universities and architectural faculties of engineering and industrial and industrial institutes" Architectural structures "(1944) and an annotated catalog of the publishing house of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR for 1934-1944 (with IG Sushkevich, 1944).
Under the pseudonym B. Reutsky published the crime-adventure novels of the series “From Notes of a Psychiatrist” - “The Gorge of Death” (1909, 1917), “The Hand of the Avenger” (1910), “One or Two?” (1910); was also announced, but the novel “Underwater Bandits” (1917) [4] did not come out.
The fate after 1944 is unknown.
Family
- Sister - Paulina Adolfovna Katlovker (1881–1943), married (1911–1915) to Lev Semenovich Berg , academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences ; their kids:
- Simon L. Berg (1912–1970), geographer;
- Raisa Lvovna Berg (1913–2006), a geneticist, popularizer of science, memoirist.
- Sister - Augustine Katlovker (in the marriage of Augustus Erdheim, 1869 -?), A graduate of the Vienna Conservatory, pianist; from 1894 she was married to Austro-Hungarian national Bernard Erdheim (1866 -?).
- Wife - cousin L. S. Berg . Children:
- Natalia Benediktovna Katlovker (? - 1976) - editor of English and French literature at the State Publishing House of Foreign Literature, co-author of the English course A. L. Gilbertson on gramophone records (1940), translator of Russian prose into English ;
- Anna Benediktovna Katlovker, an employee of the Foreign Languages Department of the Moscow Machine Tool Institute , the author of the “Manual for the specialty“ Machines ”” (with M. Yu. Vladykina, Moscow: Moscow Machine and Tool Institute, 1962), “The manual for the specialty“ Stamps ”” ( with G. V. Kulakova, ibid., 1962).
Books
- The gorge of death (From the notes of a psychiatrist). Roman (under the pseudonym B. Reutsky). St. Petersburg: Kopek, 1909. - 184 p.
- The hand of the avenger: a novel (under the pseudonym B. Reutsky). St. Petersburg: Kopeyka Publishing Association, 1910. - 128 p.
- One or two? (From notes of the psychiatrist). Roman (under the pseudonym B. Reutsky). St. Petersburg: Kopeyka publishing partnership, 1910. - 136 p.
- The gorge of death (From the notes of a psychiatrist). Roman (under the pseudonym B. Reutsky). Series: Novels "Newspapers Kopekki", vol. № 1. Petrograd: Kopek, 1917. - 184 p.
- B. Reutsky . The Hand of the Avenger (novels “The Hand of the Avenger” and “One or Two,” an article by Gennady Ulman “Exotic Adventurers of B. Reutsky”). M .: Favorite (V. V. Mamonov), 2014. - 496 p.
Notes
- ↑ Estate of Jewish Bessarabia
- ↑ "Vampire." Weekly art satirical magazine
- ↑ Press of Russia
- ↑ Republished by V. Mamonov Publishing House in 2014. Nickname "B. Reutsky "comes from the name of the river Reut , on which the city of Soroki is located, where the author was born.
Links
- Katlovker, Benedict Adolfovich . Dictionary of pseudonyms: electronic scientific publication . Fundamental electronic library. The appeal date is September 17, 2013.
- Haham D. Jewish journalists from the Forty / / Magpies - my native city !.