Biography of Petronius

I remember that, firstly, I was struck by the number of the Moscow school, in which the little hero of the fairy tale studied-something in a thousand. We did not have hundreds. It was also surprised that Rostov was repeatedly mentioned in the "Poo", then I read "Gayan" - there was also Rostov there. And the turret, crowning the building, resembles the tower - the abode of some forest virgin, and not a strict, inexorable aviation dispatcher, a concrete strip at the Rostov airfield is beautiful: it is so nice to plant her plane!

In general, Amatuni made Rostov a fabulous city. It became more interesting in such a city. The family secret is amazing, but over 26 years of the Don Exupery death, Petronius Gai Amatuni, like the famous Frenchman, was both a pilot and a children's writer very little. According to the daughter -in -law of Amatuni - Galina Dorofeevna, earlier the local press recalled the writer every five years, to the next "flat" date.

In OM - forgot. Probably, the daughter -in -law suggests, there is some opinion on this subject - there, upstairs. Alas, in the perestroika years, the Amatuni Museum, which was located in the building of the airport terminal, disappeared without a trace. Those who worked together with a -knit writer in the united air detachment for all about eighty now, remember little about a colleague, say that it was a kind, respectful person, but “did not do his careers - so he worked all his life with a second pilot“ a piston aircraft with two engines for 30 seats.

Lived near the airport - in the area called SMU. In general, by the beginning of the year, the name of Amatuni is only a children's library in Proletarsk. There is very little for memory of a person whose books have been dispersed in total with a circulation of more than a million copies and which is still considered one of the most popular children's writers. However, the relatives of Amatuni - his son and daughter -in -law - refuse to talk about Petronia Amatun, they say, the time has not yet come.

And when it comes, the book will come out, everyone will learn from it about the secrets of the Amatuni family. So, while we can judge the children's years of Petronius of Amatun, only by the very modest reconsiders of his friend, the Rostov writer Vasily Karabanov: “He told me that when he was born, he was a child prodigy, he was shown to people for another three to four years.” And he surprised it.

I tried to scout from him, threw fishing rods. But he did not spread, or modesty, or something else ech, would you come about twenty years ago! You cannot extract some significant biographical details from newspapers from the X - 10. It was an era when newspaper articles resembled very long Caucasian toasts of a quarter of a strip, at least. They were written to the anniversaries and, for some reason, they did not give the words to the culprit of the triumph in them - they did not let them say to the congratulated!.

Next was the retelling of some novel of the hero of the day. And - very briefly: he built the first aircraft model at ten years old, at fourteen - the first flight on the glider, at the age of 18 he first took off on his own on the article usually ended with the words - "Communist, writer, science fiction, closely connected with the life of contemporaries. Such is Petronius Amatuni." I did not invent these phrases, I took from the Rostov newspapers for July, when the city celebrated the summer anniversary of the writer.

However, if you carefully read the books of Amatuni himself, you can find some more facts of his biography. In the fantastic novel of Tiunsa, there are such lines in Rostov in the year - from the author: “It is time to introduce myself to the reader, although it is difficult for me to tell about myself, because I was fond of decisively everything, but did not reach noticeable perfection in anything.

Now, if I could start my life again, while preserving the acquired experience, I am afraid that, as I once in Yerevan, I would again become a leader Black Panther, three times fled to the shores of the Amazon and would be delivered home by police officers three times, then he would have become a “hypnotist” and euthanized all the dogs and cats of Local Street, wrote fantastic poems, starred in the mass scenes of the Armenian film “The First Rays”, and would then build flying models of airplanes.

I was preparing to become a juggling several years later in Moscow and became an instructor in the regional school of planning at the planning station. I would certainly have become a fighter-fighter and “wound up” thousands of loops, coups and Immelmanov figure of the highest aerobatics, “barrel”-S. And then he would go to Aeroflot to become the commander of the ship and fly a million or two kilometers from the Don writers' reference, you can find out that the childhood of the future writer passed in Armenia, and youth in Moscow, mature years, mature years, mature years, mature years, mature years, mature years, mature years.

Until the death-in Rostov-on-Don, where he worked in Aeroflot. Everything coincides. And the flight from the dining room of the Mount Amatuni describes in his other book - "The sky of people: notes of the pilot."At that time, he was a hollow beam: at one end - a seat, pedals and a control handle, and on the other - a tail consisting, as now, from horizontal and vertical plumage.

The wing - rectangular in plan and streamlined in the profile - was attached to high racks. In the bow of the beam, from below, - a hook, a ring clung to it with a rope in August in the year with a group of my cadets climbed to the top of the dining room of the mountain, which is now near the city of Ordzhonikidze, now Vladikavkaz- S. We delivered a disassembled glider to a height of meters.

At the top, the remains of a small chapel were preserved - the mountain was once considered sacred. We wrote our names on a piece of paper, put a note in an empty tin can and buried. I hoped to start on August 18, on the day of aviation. But two days passed - the weather was getting worse and worse. On the first morning, the mountaineers who helped us, and the conductor disappeared.

To justify themselves, they dismissed a rumor that I flew and crashed. It got into print. We heard through the clouds the noise of low flying aircraft, but did not suspect that the entire flying club was looking for my remains. And there was no hope for stable good weather, and I decided to fly without waiting for the holiday. I soared over the city for about an hour at an altitude of meters, admiring the Caucasian ridge and the Daryal gorge.

But I had to take the course at the airfield. Before leaving, the superstitious mountaineers on behalf of Allah pierced the wing of my plain in several places on behalf of Allah. We, as we could, poured holes, using even handkerchiefs, but not all the latches withstood. When I landed, half of them had already blown away by the wind. " This is perhaps all that Amatun wrote about his childhood and youth.

A boy from an ancient family from a writer's reference book can be found out that Amatuni was born on July 12 in a family of an employee in the village of Grand Duke now Proletarsk. According to the Rostov writer Nikolai Egorov, the mother of Petronia was a Cossack from the locals, his father was an Armenian named Gai. Amatuni - the surname in Armenia is famous.

Since ancient times. It translates into Russian as "minister" or "court". The Amatuni Rod in Armenia stressed on the last syllable in charge of the financial and tax services of the court, was engaged in horse breeding. Some representatives of the family were even elected to the Armenian throne. In the Jewish encyclopedia, you can read that Amatuni have Semitic roots. As Guy Amatuni - a guy from a noble Armenian family - fell into the village of the Grand Duke of Donskoy, we can only assume.

According to Vasily Karabanov, he tried to question his friend about his parents, his ancestors, but he said that this business is long, and he knew nothing. It can be assumed that the writer’s father, Guy Amatuni, was a refugee saved from the Turkish genocide. It is quite suitable in time. Why did he soon end up with his family in Yerevan? It is also not difficult to assume: educated people just created the Armenian Soviet Republic - they were looking for them throughout the former Russian Empire.

Then the artist Saryan moved from Rostov to Yerevan. Well, in the thirties, part of the Armenian intelligentsia poured back to Russia - Mikoyan defeated the so -called Dashnakov in the leadership of the republic. Among the Dashnakov you can also meet people by the name of Amatuni. Are they relatives of the author of Gayana? I found an unexpected mention of Petronia Amatun in the book of Olga and Sergei Buzinovsky, dedicated to the Red Baron - Roberto Oros di Bartini about him "who was the main one" in November last year.

The advisory aircraft designer of Italian origin Bartini believed that the time is three-minute, invented invisible aircraft. In general, he was not a man from this world that he was a progressor - a man sent by other civilizations for the commission of a scientific and technical revolution on Earth. So, in the Buzinovsky book we are talking about a certain circle led by Bartini.

Circle - it existed in Moscow in the years - united writers, filmmakers, artists, scientists. He was considered the embodiment of the great god Ra, his visible body. Altshuller, Yu. Dolgushin, A. Poleshchuk, P. Most of the Buzinovsky names know - “But who are the G. And at the meeting of the Rostov club fantasy lovers of Petronius and the founded, he once said:“ I think that Einstein was mistaken in his theory of relativity, and I believe that history will confirm my innocence.

Most fantasy lovers were in ordinary life in ordinary life physicists, engineers. Well, I think you later recognize my innocence.

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