And Osorgin Biography
Born on October 7 in Perm in a family of hereditary pillar nobles, direct descendants of Rurik. He began to be published in the gymnasium years, from B. to the B. entered the law faculty of Moscow University, from where he was exiled to Perm to participate in student unrest under the unspoken supervision of the police. In the University, he was restored at the University, he conducted during the years of study the Moscow Letters Camping “Moskvich Diary” in the newspaper Perm Provincial Vedomosti.
Confidential intonation, soft and wise irony, combined with a tag of observation, and subsequent Osorgin's stories in the genre of the “physiological essay” are noted on an inclined plane. From student life ”,; “Prisoner of the wagon”, romantic “fantasy” “Two moments. New Year's fantasy”, and humorous sketches “Son’s letter to mother”, engaged in a lawyer, together with K.
Kovalsky, A. Butkevich and others Alekseev, A. Kuropatkin, S. Makarov and others. The writer married the daughter of the famous people's volume A. Malikov The memoir outline of Osorgin "Meetings. Malikov and V. Korolenko, ”entered the Socialist -Revolutionary Party was close to her“ left ”wing, in whose underground newspaper he published the article“ For what?
During the Moscow armed uprising, he was arrested, due to the coincidence of the names with one of the leaders of the combat squads, almost executed. Sentenced to the link, in May he was temporarily released on bail. Staying in the Tagan prison was reflected in "Pictures of prison life. From the Diary of G. Lenin in a dispute in the apartment of Osorgin;" Little Memory ";" nine hundred and fifth year.
To the anniversary ”,; as well as in the story“ Terrorist ”, and having a documentary basis for the“ Witness of History ”, and“ Book of Ends ”, already in Osorgin writes that“ it is difficult to distinguish a revolutionary from a hooligan ”, and he is illegally leaving to Italy, from where he sends the correspondence to the Russian press in the prince.
Vedomosti and the magazine "Bulletin of Europe", where the stories "Emigrant", "My daughter", "Ghosts" and others. Near the Masonic fraternity of the Great Lodge of Italy. Russia. In August, his Art. Continuing to work with a traveling correspondent, he made the cycles of essays "on his homeland" and "on the quiet front" the February revolution first accepted enthusiastically, then wary; In the spring in Art.
After the October Revolution, he opposed the Bolsheviks in opposition newspapers, called for a general political strike, in Art. The strengthening of the Bolshevik power prompted Osorgin to call the intelligentsia to engage in creative work, he himself became one of the organizers and the first chairman of the Union of Journalists, the vice-chairman of the Moscow branch of the All-Russian Union of Writers, together with M.
Gershenzon, prepared the charter of the Union, as well as the creator of the famous "Bookstore of Writers", which became one of the important centers of communication of writers and readers and a kind Airbographic "manuscript" publishing house. He took an active part in the work of the Moscow circle "Studio Italian". B was arrested, released at the request of the Union of Writers and Yu.
He worked in the commission of assistance to the starving at the All -Russian Central Executive Committee of Pomgol, was the editor of the ballot “Help” published by it; In August, he was arrested along with some members of the commission; From the death penalty they were saved by F.'s intervention He spent the winter in Kazan, editing the Literary Gazeta, returned to Moscow.
He continued to publish fairy tales for children and stories, translated at the request of E. Vakhtangov the play by K. Gozzi "Princess Turandot" ed. In made a sketch of a great novel about the revolution, the head of the Monkey Gorodok was published.
In the fall, with a group of opposition representatives of the domestic intelligentsia, an essay was sent from the USSR “How they left us. The anniversary”, longing for the homeland, to retained the Soviet passport. He lived in Berlin, made lectures in Italy, s in France, where, after marriage to a distant relative, M. Bakunin entered the most calm and fruitful strip of his life. World fame brought Osorgin by the novel "Sivtsev’s enemy", the Roman of the Front.
Osorgin seeking what happened in Russia seeks to look from the point of view of the “abstract”, timeless and even non -social humanism, drawing constant parallels of the human world with the animal. The statement of a few student gravity to the Tolstoy tradition, reproaches for “dampness”, the insufficient organization of the narrative, not to mention its obvious tendentiousness, did not prevent the huge reader success of Sivtsev of the Doctor ”.
The clarity and purity of writing, the tension of the lyrical-philosophical thought, the bright nostalgic tonality, dictated by the enduring and acute love of their fatherland, the liveliness and accuracy of the household, resurrecting the aroma of the Moscow past, the charm of the main characters-the bearers of unconditional moral values, inform the novel by the Osorgin the charm and the depth of highly artistic literary Certificates of one of the most difficult periods in the history of Russia.
The creative success of the writer also became the "Tale of Sister" Dep. The wise simplicity, sincere, unobtrusive humor, characteristic of the manner of Osorgin, manifested themselves and in his "ancient stories" part entered the Security Council. Possessing an excellent literary taste, Osorgin successfully acted as a literary critic. The cycle of novels on the autobiographical material “Witness of History”, “The Book of the Ends” and “Free Mason” in the first two is given the artistic understanding of the revolutionary minds and events in Russia of the beginning of the century, not deprived of the features of an adventurous adapted story and leading to the idea of the deadly idealistic path of maximalists, and in the third-the lives of Russian lives.
Emigrants who connected themselves to Freemasonry, one of the active figures of which Osorgin has been since the beginning of the 10th. Criticism noted the artistic innovation of the “free member”, the use of cinema style is partly related to the poetics of European expressionism and newspaper genres Information interspersed, factual saturation, sensational-flashing “hats”, etc.
The pantheisms of the Esorgin were clearly manifested in the novel “Sivetz” and found expression in the cycle "The incidents of the Green World"; Initially, they were published in the “Last News” signed “the layman”, where close attention to all living things on Earth is combined with a protest against offensive technotron civilization. In line with the same “protective” perception, a cycle dedicated to the world of things was also created, collected by the writer of the richest collection of Russian publications “Notes of the Old Book-House”, where in an archaic-only, correct and colorful author’s speech an unmistakable hearing of a prose writer on the Russian word was expressed.
Shortly before the war, Osorgin began work on the memoirs "Childhood" and "Youth", both; "Times" - publ. The writer moved from Paris to the south of France; In the "New Russian Word" New York correspondence "Letters from France" in the New Russian Word. Pessimism, awareness of the meaninglessness of not only physical, but also spiritual confrontation of evil are reflected in the books "In the quiet place of France" ed.
Osorgin died in Shabri France November 27