Mikhail Iosifovich Weller was born on May 20, 1948 in the city of Kamenetz-Podolsky in Ukraine in the family of an officer.
Until the age of sixteen, Mikhail constantly changes schools due to constant moving around the garrisons of the Far East and Siberia. Finishes gliding courses at the regional DOSAAF. In 1966 he graduated from school in the city of Mogilev with a gold medal and entered the department of Russian philology of the philological faculty of Leningrad University. Becomes the Komsomol member of the course and secretary of the Komsomol bureau of the university. In the summer of 1969, on a bet, without money, he gets from Leningrad to Kamchatka in a month, using all types of transport and by deceit receives a pass to enter the "border zone". In 1970, in order to receive an academic leave at the university, he feigned mental illness in a psychiatric clinic. In the spring he leaves for Central Asia, where he wanders until autumn. In the autumn he moves to Kaliningrad and takes an external accelerated course for a sailor of the second class. Leaves on a voyage on a trawler of the fishing fleet. In 1971 he was restored at the university, worked as a senior pioneer leader at the school. The story is "published" for the first time in the university wall newspaper. In 1972 he defended his diploma on the topic: "Types of composition of the modern Russian Soviet story."
In 1972-73, he worked as an educator in the extended day group of an elementary school and a teacher of Russian language and literature in a rural eight-year school by distribution in the Leningrad Region. Fired of his own accord.
Employed as a concrete worker in the ZhBK-4 prefabricated structures shop in Leningrad. In the summer of 1973, as a feller and a digger, he traveled with a brigade of "shabashniks" to the Kola Peninsula and the Tersky coast of the White Sea.
In 1974, he worked at the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (Kazan Cathedral) as a junior researcher, tour guide, carpenter, supplier and deputy director for the administrative and economic part.
In 1975, he was a correspondent for the factory newspaper of the Skorokhod shoe association, Skorokhodovsky Rabochiy, acting. head of the department of culture, acting head of information department. The first publications of stories in the "official press".
From May to October 1976, he was a driver of imported cattle from Mongolia to Biysk along the Altai Mountains. According to references in the texts, he recalled this time as the best in his life.
Returning in the autumn of 1976 to Leningrad, he switched to literary work, the first stories were rejected by all editors.
In the autumn of 1977 he entered the seminar of young Leningrad science fiction writers under the guidance of Boris Strugatsky. Receives first prize at the science fiction competition of the North-West for the story "The Button".
In 1978, the first publications of short humorous stories appeared in Leningrad newspapers. He moonlights as a literary processing of military memoirs at the Lenizdat publishing house and writing reviews for the Neva magazine. In the autumn of 1979 he moved to Tallinn (Estonian SSR), got a job in the republican newspaper Youth of Estonia. In 1980, he quits the newspaper and joins the "trade union group" under the Estonian Writers' Union, which gave him the right not to work officially. The first publications appear in the magazines Tallinn, Literary Armenia, Ural. From summer to autumn, he travels on a cargo ship from Leningrad to Baku, publishing reports from the journey in the newspaper Water Transport.
In 1982, he worked as a hunter-trader at the Taimyrsky State Industrial Farm in the lower reaches of the Pyasina River.
In 1983, the first collection of short stories “I want to be a janitor” was published; at the Moscow International Book Fair, the rights to the book were sold abroad. In 1984, the book is translated into Estonian, Armenian, Buryat languages, some stories are published in France, Italy, Holland, Bulgaria, Poland.
In the summer of 1985, he worked on an archaeological expedition in Olbia and on the island of Berezan, in autumn and winter - a roofing worker.
In 1988, the second book of short stories, Heartbreaker, was published. Admission to the Writers' Union of the USSR takes place. Works as head of the Russian literature department of the Tallinn Russian-language magazine Raduga.
In 1989, the book "Storytelling Technology" was published.
In 1990, the book "Rendezvous with a Celebrity" was published. The story "Narrow-gauge" is published in the magazine "Neva", the story "I want to go to Paris" - in the magazine "Star", the story "The Entombment" - in the magazine "Spark". Based on the story “But those shish”, a feature film was made at the Mosfilm studio “Debut”. Founder and editor-in-chief of the first in the USSR Jewish cultural magazine "Jericho". In October-November he lectures on Russian prose at the Universities of Milan and Turin.
In 1991, in Leningrad, but under the brand name of the Estonian publishing house Periodika, the first edition of the novel The Adventures of Major Zvyagin was published. The 100,000th edition sells out in three weeks.
In 1993, the Estonian Cultural Foundation published in Tallinn a book of short stories "Legends of Nevsky Prospekt" with a circulation of 500 copies.
The top ten of the "Book Review" in 1994 is headed by the next hundred thousandth edition of "The Adventures of Major Zvyagin". He lectures on modern Russian prose at the University of Odense (Denmark).
In 1995, the St. Petersburg publishing house "Lan" published the book "Legends of Nevsky Prospekt" in mass cheap editions - about 800,000 copies were sold. Reprints of all books follow in "Lani", publishing houses "Vagrius" (Moscow), "Neva" (St. Petersburg), "Folio" (Kharkov). At the autumn Moscow Book Fair, Weller is recognized as the most published Russian writer of the year.
In the summer of 1996, with the whole family, he leaves for Israel for a long time. In November, a new novel "Samovar" is published by the Jerusalem publishing house "Worlds". He lectures on modern Russian prose at the University of Jerusalem. In April 1997 he returned to Estonia.
In 1998, an eight-hundred-page philosophical "general theory of everything" "Everything about Life" was published.
Traveled across the USA in 1999 with speeches to readers in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago. A book of short stories "Monument to Dantes" is published.
A literary scandal was caused by the mini-novel "The Knife of Serezha Dovlatov". The best-selling novel The Messenger from Pisa (2000) went through 11 editions in a year.
The most published of the Russian "non-commercial" writers today - in 2000 alone, his books were published 38 times with a total circulation of about 400 thousand copies.
According to critics, “Weller's prose is one of the most thoroughbred specimens of the literary variety of mass culture. At the same time, Weller's books demonstrate that mass culture is born in the struggle against the old author's philosophy based on the category of self-expression. Now it is being replaced by the idea of success and conscious manipulation of the reader's interest" ("Moscow News", 1994, No. 56).
Mikhail Weller's works have been translated into English, Chinese, German, French, Swedish, Estonian and other languages.
In his free time, Mikhail Veller lives in Moscow, but continues to work in Tallinn.
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Mikhail Veller
Date of birth: May 20, 1948
Place of birth: Kamenetz-Podolsky, Khmelnytsky region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Citizenship: USSR → Estonia
Occupation: novelist, philosopher
Awards: Order of the White Star 4th class (Estonia)
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Mikhail Iosifovich Weller (born May 20, 1948, Kamenetz-Podolsky, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian writer, philosopher, member of the Russian PEN Center and the Russian Philosophical Society and the International Big History Association, winner of a number of literary awards.
Until the age of sixteen, Mikhail constantly changes schools in connection with moving around the garrisons of the Far East and Siberia.
In 1966 he graduated from school in Mogilev with a gold medal and entered the department of Russian philology of the philological faculty of Leningrad University. Becomes the Komsomol member of the course and secretary of the Komsomol bureau of the university. In the summer of 1969, on a bet, without money, he gets from Leningrad to Kamchatka in a month, using all types of transport and by deceit receives a pass to enter the "border zone". In 1970 he received an academic leave from the university. In the spring he leaves for Central Asia, where he wanders until autumn. In the autumn he moves to Kaliningrad and takes an external accelerated course for a sailor of the second class. Leaves on a voyage on a trawler of the fishing fleet. In 1971 he was restored at the university, worked as a senior pioneer leader at the school. His story is published for the first time in the university wall newspaper. In 1972 he defended his diploma on the topic "Types of composition of the modern Russian Soviet story."
Job
In 1972-1973, he worked as an educator of an extended day group in an elementary school and a teacher of Russian language and literature in a rural eight-year school by distribution in the Leningrad Region. Fired of his own accord.
Employed as a concrete worker in the ZhBK-4 prefabricated structures shop in Leningrad. In the summer of 1973, as a feller and a digger, he traveled with a brigade of "shabashniks" to the Kola Peninsula and the Tersky coast of the White Sea.
In 1974, he worked at the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (Kazan Cathedral) as a junior researcher, tour guide, carpenter, supplier and deputy director for the administrative and economic part.
In 1975 - correspondent of the factory newspaper of the Leningrad shoe association "Skorokhod" "Skorokhodovsky worker", and. O. head of the department of culture, and. O. head of information department. The first publications of stories in the "official press".
From May to October 1976, he was a driver of imported cattle from Mongolia to Biysk along the Altai Mountains. According to references in the texts, he recalled this time as the best in his life.
Since 2006, he has been broadcasting a weekly program on Radio Russia “Let's Talk” with Mikhail Veller.
Creation
Returning in the autumn of 1976 to Leningrad, he switched to literary work, the first stories were rejected by all editors.
In the autumn of 1977 he entered the seminar of young Leningrad science fiction writers under the guidance of Boris Strugatsky.
In 1978, the first publications of short humorous stories appeared in Leningrad newspapers. He moonlights as a literary processing of military memoirs at the Lenizdat publishing house and writing reviews for the Neva magazine.
In the autumn of 1979 he moved to Tallinn (Estonian SSR), got a job in the republican newspaper Youth of Estonia. In 1980, he quits the newspaper and joins the "trade union group" under the Estonian Writers' Union. The first publications appear in the magazines Tallinn, Literary Armenia, Ural. From summer to autumn, he travels on a cargo ship from Leningrad to Baku, publishing reports from the journey in the newspaper Water Transport.
In 1981, he writes the story "Reference Line", where he first draws up the foundations of his philosophy.
In 1982, he worked as a hunter-trader at the Taimyrsky State Industrial Farm in the lower reaches of the Pyasina River.
In 1983, the first collection of short stories “I want to be a janitor” was published; at the Moscow International Book Fair, the rights to the book were sold abroad. In 1984, the book is translated into Estonian, Armenian, Buryat languages, some stories are published in France, Italy, Holland, Bulgaria, Poland.
In the summer of 1985, he worked on an archaeological expedition in Olbia and on the island of Berezan, in autumn and winter - a roofing worker.
In 1988, the story "The Testers of Happiness" was published in the Aurora magazine, outlining the foundations of his philosophy. The second book of short stories, Heartbreaker, is published. Admission to the Writers' Union of the USSR takes place. Works as head of the Russian literature department of the Tallinn Russian-language magazine Raduga.
In 1989, the book "Storytelling Technology" was published.
In 1990, the book "Rendezvous with a Celebrity" was published. The story "Narrow-gauge" is published in the magazine "Neva", the story "I want to go to Paris" - in the magazine "Star", the story "The Entombment" - in the magazine "Spark". Based on the story “But those shish”, a feature film was made at the Mosfilm studio “Debut”. Founder and editor-in-chief of the first in the USSR Jewish cultural magazine "Jericho". In October-November he lectures on Russian prose at the Universities of Milan and Turin.
In 1991, in Leningrad, under the brand name of the Estonian publishing house Periodika, the first edition of the novel The Adventures of Major Zvyagin was published.
In 1993, the Estonian Cultural Foundation published in Tallinn a book of short stories "Legends of Nevsky Prospekt" with a circulation of 500 copies. In this book, stylized as "urban folklore", along with fictional characters, the author also depicts real characters, attributing to them sometimes fictional stories, but readers perceive this fiction as truth and laugh at what was not, but could be in accordance with the spirit time..
The top ten of the "Book Review" in 1994 is headed by the next hundred thousandth edition of "The Adventures of Major Zvyagin". He lectures on modern Russian prose at the University of Odense (Denmark).
In 1995, the St. Petersburg publishing house "Lan" published the book "Legends of Nevsky Prospekt" in mass cheap editions. Reprints of all books follow in "Lani", publishing houses "Vagrius" (Moscow), "Neva" (St. Petersburg), "Folio" (Kharkov).
From September 1996 to February 1997. spends six months with his family in Israel. In November, a new novel "Samovar" is published by the Jerusalem publishing house "Worlds". He lectures on modern Russian prose at the University of Jerusalem. In the spring of 1997 he returned to Estonia.
In 1998, an eight-hundred-page philosophical “general theory of everything” “Everything about Life” was published, outlining the theory of energy evolutionism.
Traveled across the USA in 1999 with speeches to readers in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago. A book of short stories "Monument to Dantes" is published.
In 2000, the novel The Messenger from Pisa (Zero Hours) was published. Moving to Moscow.
2002: "Cassandra" - the next iteration of Weller's philosophy, written in thesis and sometimes even academically. The name of the philosophical model also appears: “energy-vitalism”. But two years later the collection “B. Babylonian”, where in the story “The White Donkey” it is corrected for “energy evolutionism”. In the same place, the author gives the distinctive features of his model.
On February 6, 2008, by decision of the President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Mikhail Veller was awarded the Order of the White Star, 4th class. The order was presented on December 18, 2008 at an informal meeting at the Estonian Embassy in Moscow.
In 2009, the book "Legends of the Arbat" was published.
In 2010 - the sociological treatise "Man in the System". In 2011 - "notes of a Soviet tramp" "Mishaherazade".
Currently lives in Moscow.
Philosophical views. Energy evolutionism
The philosophical views of Mikhail Weller were expounded by him in various works, starting from 1988, until they were generalized by the author into a single theory, eventually called energy evolutionism. The foundations of energy evolutionism are that the existence of the Universe is seen as the evolution of the primary energy of the Big Bang, and this energy is bound into material structures, more and more complex, which, in turn, disintegrate with the release of energy, and these cycles go with acceleration. The existence of a person is considered by Weller subjectively as the sum of sensations and the desire to obtain the most powerful sensations, and objectively - as the desire to perform maximum actions to change the environment, since a person receives sensations through actions. Thus, humanity, increasing the progress of civilization, captures free energy and, transforming, releases energy outward on an increasing scale and at an increasing speed, transforming the surrounding matter and thereby being at the forefront of the evolution of the Universe. The categories of morality, justice, happiness and love are considered as psychological and social support for the biosystem's aspiration to perform maximum actions to transform the accessible part of the Universe. The end of history is extrapolated as the action of post-humanity to release all the energy of the matter of the Universe, that is, in fact, the New Big Bang, which will destroy our Universe and be the birth of a New one.
Weller himself names many philosophers as his predecessors in the article “Information-Theoretical Precedence of Energy Evolutionism” (“Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical Society” No. 2, 2012) and other works, primarily Arthur Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Wilhelm Ostwald, Leslie White and Ilyenkov Evald Vasilyevich
In 2010, at the International Philosophical Forum in Athens, he delivered a report on his theory, which was awarded the medal of the forum.
In 2011 at the London International Book Fair there is a presentation of M. Weller's four-volume book "Energy Evolutionism", "Sociology of Energy Evolutionism", "Psychology of Energy Evolutionism", "Aesthetics of Energy Evolutionism".
Within the framework of Philosophy Days-2011 in St. Petersburg, he speaks at the plenary symposium "Power and Values" with the report "Society's Striving for Structurization as a Cause and Source of Power" and at the international conference "The Meaning of Life: Gaining and Losing" with the report "The Need for the Sense life as a social backbone instinct.
The Russian Philosophical Newspaper (2011, No. 9) publishes Weller's essay "The Collapse of Civilization".
The journal "Philosophical Sciences" (2012, No. 1) opens with Weller's article "Power: Synergetic Essence and Social Psychology".
In February 2012, at the opening of the International Congress "Global Future 2045" he makes a plenary report on the essence of energy evolutionism and the role of man in the Universe.
In April 2012, he makes a presentation on "Energy Evolutionism" at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In June 2012, at the 4th All-Russian Philosophical Congress, he makes a report "Historical and sociological aspects of energy evolutionism." In August 2012, he takes part in the Founding Conference of the International Big History Association in the USA. Over the years, he lectured on philosophy, presenting his theory at the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University, the Department of Philosophy of MGIMO, the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Jerusalem.
From 1972 to 1973 he worked as an educator of an extended day group in an elementary school, a teacher of Russian language and literature in a rural eight-year school.
In 1974 he was a junior research fellow, tour guide, carpenter, supplier and deputy director for the administrative and economic part of the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (Kazan Cathedral).
In 2010, the sociological treatise "Man in the System" was published, in 2011 - the collection "Mishaherazade".
In the same year, a series was filmed based on the story of Mikhail Weller "The Ballad of the Bomber".
In December 2011, the writer performed on the small stage of the "School of Modern Play" theater in a solo performance of his own production based on his book "All About Life".
In 2016, Weller's book "On the Eve of the Unknown What" was presented.
In April 2018, his book-reflection on Russian and world literature "Fire and Agony" was published.
The total circulation of all Weller's books exceeds one million copies.
Mikhail Veller is a member of the Russian PEN Center, the International Big History Association and the Russian Philosophical Society.
The writer is married to journalist Anna Agriomati, they have a daughter, Valentina.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
From 1972 to 1973 he worked as an educator of an extended day group in an elementary school, a teacher of Russian language and literature in a rural eight-year school.
In 1974 he was a junior research fellow, tour guide, carpenter, supplier and deputy director for the administrative and economic part of the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (Kazan Cathedral).
In 2010, the sociological treatise "Man in the System" was published, in 2011 - the collection "Mishaherazade".
In the same year, a series was filmed based on the story of Mikhail Weller "The Ballad of the Bomber".
In December 2011, the writer performed on the small stage of the "School of Modern Play" theater in a solo performance of his own production based on his book "All About Life".
In 2016, Weller's book "On the Eve of the Unknown What" was presented.
In April 2018, his book-reflection on Russian and world literature "Fire and Agony" was published.
The total circulation of all Weller's books exceeds one million copies.
Mikhail Veller is a member of the Russian PEN Center, the International Big History Association and the Russian Philosophical Society.
The writer is married to journalist Anna Agriomati, they have a daughter, Valentina.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
One of the most emotional and scandalous writers of our time is Mikhail Veller. There is a lot of controversy around his work, political views and philosophical statements even now.
Mikhail Iosifovich Weller was born in Kamenetz-Podolsky on May 20, 1948. The family often changed their place of residence, since the father, on duty, was obliged to travel around the garrisons of the Far East and Siberia. The parents of the future writer and Mikhail himself are Jews by nationality. I. A. Weller worked as a military ophthalmologist, his mother was also a graduate of the medical institute in Chernivtsi.
Joseph Weller became famous for his works in the field of medicine. One of them: "Side effects of psychotropic drugs on the organs of vision." The son did not follow in the footsteps of numerous relatives connected with the medical business. Having received a gold medal and a certificate of excellent graduation from the Mogilev 3 school, Mikhail became a student of the philological faculty of Leningrad University.
During his studies, Weller showed leadership qualities, becoming the Komsomol organizer of the course, and also holding the position of secretary of the Komsomol bureau of the university. In 1969, the future writer went on a bet to Kamchatka from Leningrad without a livelihood. He traveled without money and by cunning drove into the "border zone".
Mikhail Veller near the Institute In 1970, Mikhail Veller took an academic leave at the university and moved to Central Asia, where he wandered for about six months, and then to Kaliningrad. There, after special courses, Mikhail Iosifovich went on a voyage on a fishing boat.
Since 1971, Weller has been continuing his higher education. In the same year, he showed his first work in a student wall newspaper. In 1972, Mikhail Iosifovich graduated from Leningrad University with a thesis on the topic "Types of composition of the modern Russian Soviet story."
After studying, Mikhail Veller was called up for military service. In the artillery unit he received the position of an officer and served for about 6 months, then he was commissioned. In 1972, the future writer worked at the Leningrad School, where the university gave him a place. Mikhail led an extended day group, as well as lessons in Russian language and literature in the eight-year-old.
Mikhail Veller in the army Mikhail Weller's career continued in Leningrad. He left school voluntarily and got a job at the local workshop of prefabricated structures ZhBK-4 as a worker. From 1973 to 1976, Mikhail Iosifovich changed his place of work several times, and also moved frequently. With a group of workers he went to the Kola Peninsula, and then a year later to Leningrad, where he worked at the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism.
Weller's first works were published in 1975 on the pages of Skorokhodovsky Rabochiy, a printed edition of the Leningrad Shoe Association Skorokhod. The writer himself admitted that an important period for future creativity came in 1976, when he moved around the Altai mountains, driving cattle from Mongolia to Biysk. In the same year, Weller's literary activity began. However, not a single editorial office agreed to cooperate with the young talent.
At the same time, Mikhail decided to gain experience at the seminars of a popular writer. A year later, attending classes for novice science fiction writers in Leningrad bore fruit: small stories of humorous content began to appear in city newspapers. Along with this, Weller collaborated with the Neva magazine: he wrote reviews.
Since the autumn of 1976, Mikhail Iosifovich lived and worked in Tallinn (the writer has Estonian citizenship), became a member of the Estonian Writers' Union. At the same time, his works saw the light, appearing in local magazines ("Tallinn", "Literary Armenia", "Ural") and the newspaper "Water Transport". By the way, Weller wrote reports for the latter from the board of a cargo ship during his travels from Leningrad to Baku.
In 1981, Weller first introduced the reader to the basics of his philosophical views in the story "Report Line". Another successful work was done in 1983. The work “I want to be a janitor” has been translated into Estonian, Armenian and Buryat languages. The book was a success not only within his native country, but also in Italy, France, Holland, Bulgaria and Poland.
One of Weller's latest and high-profile publications is the book "Tales of the Ambulance", a humorous work about the life of medical personnel. This work aroused special interest among the public and many discussions of the writer's subtle, peculiar humor. By the way, on the Internet you can find jokes written by Mikhail Iosifovich.
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