Irina Vladimirovna Golovkina Biography

Irina Vladimirovna Golovkina Rimskaya-Korsakova, nee Troitskaya-Russian writer, author of the novel Swan Song was originally published under the name "defeated". Irina Vladimirovna Troitskaya - the eldest child in the family of the daughter of composer N. She was born on May 22 on June 22 in the village of Vesha now in the Plussky district of the Pskov region, in the family estate.

On the day of its birth, the composer was also in the estate, he wrote the opera “The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Virgin Fevronia”. Parents of Ira Troitskaya rented an apartment in the same house with his grandfather - Nikolai Andreevich. Irina's mother, Sofia Nikolaevna, was very attached to her father, helped him in his work. Irina’s grandfather, General Pyotr Arkhipovich Troitsky, was a participant in several military campaigns, including the Russo-Turkish war-years of years, where he, while still in the rank of colonel, besieged the city of Plevna.

In Petrograd, I. Troitskaya visited the gymnasium M. After a year, the gymnasium became a single labor school, Irina Vladimirovna graduated from it in the year. This period includes her first literary experiments: the story “Peasants”, written in the year, verses. She could not enter the university because of her origin and for a long time studied at a music school for adults.

In the year, having got a job under the Soviet regime, she received the right to enter the Rabfak at the Literary Institute, after a year of study, she entered the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​there, where she studied for another two years. Her training at this institute was interrupted due to "purges" for political reasons. In the year, she married Kapiton Vasilievich Golovkin, a former tsarist officer who participated in the First World War.

Kapiton Vasilievich came from a merchant family, from G. he studied at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute from the GG. In the year, the son of Kirill was born at the Golovkin - at the beginning of the year Irina Golovkina graduated from the rates of radiographs, entered the eye clinic at the institute of cranial wounds. During the war, the clinic became a StatePaline, Irina Vladimirovna worked there throughout the blockade of Leningrad.

Was dismissed in the year. Irina Vladimirovna’s husband died at the front near Moscow on June 16. In May, Irina’s younger sister, Lyudmila, died in exile in Tyumen, their mother, Sofia Nikolaevna, died of hunger in the besieged Leningrad. She also had to send it to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, but I. Golovkin insisted that the daughter of the great composer, who had done a lot for his people, did not have the right to send as a “alien element”.

Irina Vladimirovna herself survived the blockade of Leningrad. Impressed by the experienced tragic events, as well as youth during the years of the revolution, civil war and repression, I. Golovkin at the end of the X. This is a narrative of people from several aristocratic families who did not leave Russia after the revolution and the civil war and who fell into a bead of repression; About people defeated, but not surrendered - in difficult circumstances, they retain their dignity and ideals, their almost mystical love for the motherland.

This is not just a testimony of the former, but the history of feelings, fidelity, betrayal, stamina - real life with all its joys and sorrows.

In Soviet times, the book was printed on a car under a carbon copy and walked only in the circle of close friends of the author. In the year, Irina Vladimirovna managed to ensure that one copy was put on storage in the safe of the State Public Library - on the condition that it will be opened after 30 years. The author’s name was changed by the publishers to “defeated”, under this name Roman became known to the general public.

The full version of the book with the author’s original name was published in the year and has since been regularly reprinted in this form. Golovkina Sorting: For this author, by default, the dates of writing works are shown primarily - they are indicated in gray. To see the dates of the publication, switch the sorting. Irina Golovkina Rimskaya-Korsakova.