Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich Born September 26, 1932 in Stalinabad (now Dushanbe, Tajik SSR) - died July 27, 2018 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian prose writer, poet, screenwriter, playwright, public figure. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000).
Vladimir Voinovich was born on September 26, 1932 in Stalinabad (now Dushanbe, Tajik SSR).
Father - Nikolai Pavlovich Voinovich (1905-1987), journalist, executive secretary of the republican newspaper "Communist of Tajikistan" and editor of the regional newspaper "Worker Khojent", originally from the county town of Novozybkov, Chernigov province (now Bryansk region).
Mother - Rosalia Klimentyevna (Revekka Kolmanovna) Goykhman (1908-1978), an employee of the editorial offices of the newspapers "Communist of Tajikistan" and "Worker Khojent", later a mathematics teacher, originally from the town of Khashchevatoe, Gaivoron district, Kherson province (now the Kirovograd region of Ukraine).
According to Voinovich, he came from a noble Serbian family of Voinovich (in particular, he is a relative of the counts Voinovich), who gave Russia several admirals and generals. This, in particular, is discussed in the book of the Yugoslav author Vidak Vujnovic “Voy (and) novices - Vuy (and) novices: from the Middle Ages to the present day” (1985).
In 1936, my father was repressed. After his father's arrest in 1936, he lived with his mother, grandparents in Stalinabad.
In early 1941, the father was released, and the family moved to his sister in Zaporozhye. In August 1941, he was evacuated with his mother to the Severo-Vostochny farm (Ipatovsky district of the Stavropol Territory), where, after sending his mother to Leninabad, he lived with his father's relatives and entered the second grade of a local school. Due to the German offensive, the family soon had to be evacuated again - to the Administrative town of the Kuibyshev region, where in the summer of 1942 his mother arrived from Leninabad.
His father, who joined them after demobilization, found a job as an accountant at the state farm in the village of Maslennikovo (Khvorostyansky district), where he moved his family. In 1944, they moved again - to the village of Nazarovo (Vologda region), where the mother's brother Vladimir Klimentievich Goykhman worked as the chairman of the collective farm, and from there - to Yermakovo.
Vladimir Voinovich said about his childhood: “My childhood fell on the pre-war and war years. Life in the country was very difficult then, and for many people it was simply terrible. Perhaps the atmosphere of the time influenced my mother’s attitude towards me and my attitude towards her. What exactly did this manifest itself in? First of all, in restraint of feelings. Or maybe she just had such a character. When I was not even four years old, my father was arrested. We lived in Tajikistan. Pedagogical institute, and worked in the evenings, supported me and my grandmother. It was hard for her. And at the same time, she was still the wife of an enemy of the people, which at that time was a sentence, and she was reluctantly hired. I was brought up by my grandmother, a kindergarten and a little - the street.
In May 1941 I finished the 1st grade. Fortunately, my father returned from the camp, took me, and the two of us left for Ukraine, while my mother remained in Leninabad to graduate from the pedagogical institute. In June, the war began, my father went into the army, and my father's relatives and I went to the evacuation in the Stavropol Territory.
At the age of 11, I started working on a collective farm, then at a factory, at a construction site, served in the army, and studied in fits and starts, skipping classes. In the end, by the age of 14, I graduated from the 4th grade and was going to the 5th, but my parents suggested that I go to a trade school to study as a carpenter, because it was difficult for them to support me and my little sister. “There you will get a working specialty, and it will always come in handy for you,” my mother said. She thought it was better to be a good carpenter than a bad professor. I went to trade, although if life had turned out differently, I would have been more likely to become a good professor than a good carpenter.
In November 1945 he returned to Zaporozhye with his parents and younger sister Faina. There, his father got a job in the For Aluminum newspaper, and his mother (after graduating from the Pedagogical Institute) worked as a mathematics teacher in an evening school.
He graduated from a vocational school, worked at an aluminum plant, at a construction site, studied at an aero club, jumped with a parachute.
In 1951 he was drafted into the army, first serving in Dzhankoy, then until 1955 in aviation in Poland (in Chojne and Shprotava). During his military service, he wrote poems for an army newspaper.
In 1951, his mother was fired from the evening school and his parents moved to Kerch, where his father got a job in the newspaper "Kerch Worker" (in which, under the pseudonym "Grakov", in December 1955, the first poems of the writer sent from the army were published).
After demobilization in November 1955, he settled with his parents in Kerch, finished the tenth grade of high school. In 1956, his poems were again published in the Kerch Rabochiy.
In early August 1956, he arrived in Moscow, entered the Literary Institute twice, studied for a year and a half at the Faculty of History of the N.K.
In 1960 he got a job as a radio editor. A song written soon on his poems "Fourteen minutes before the start" became the favorite song of the Soviet cosmonauts (in fact, their anthem).
After the song was quoted by those who met the astronauts, she gained all-Union fame - Vladimir Voinovich "woke up famous." The “generals from literature” immediately began to favor him, Voinovich was accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR (1962).
The publication of the story "We Live Here" in the "New World" (1961) also contributed to the strengthening of the writer's fame. Voinovich rejected the proposals that followed with the rise of fame to publish poetry in the central journals, wanting to focus on prose. In 1964, he took part in the writing of the collective detective novel Laughs He Who Laughs, published in the newspaper Nedelya.
Novel "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of the Soldier Ivan Chonkin", written since 1963, went to samizdat. The first part was published (without the permission of the author) in 1969 in Frankfurt am Main, and the entire book in 1975 in Paris.
In the late 1960s, Voinovich took an active part in the human rights movement, which caused a conflict with the authorities. For his human rights activities and satirical depiction of Soviet reality, the writer was persecuted: he was put under surveillance by the KGB, and in 1974 he was expelled from the Writers' Union of the USSR. He was admitted to the PEN club in France.
He recalled: "If my first story was still favorably received, then the second one -" I want to be honest "- came out already when the ideological studies began: Khrushchev's meeting with artists in the Manege, the reception of writers in the Kremlin. And so the secretary for ideology, Ilyichev, said: " What is it - "I want to be honest"? Is this Voinovich trying to say that it is difficult to be honest in our country?" In short, then I already fell into disgrace - the book that I had at the publishing house "Soviet Writer" was first slowed down. In the end, it was released, but everything that was possible was thrown out of it. And then, already in 66- m, when I spoke in defense of Sinyavsky and Daniel, more serious things began.
In 1975, after the publication of "Chonkin" abroad, Voinovich was summoned for a conversation at the KGB, where he was offered to publish in the USSR. Further, to discuss the conditions for lifting the ban on the publication of some of his works, he was invited to a second meeting - this time in room 408 of the Metropol Hotel. There, the writer was poisoned with a psychotropic drug, which had serious consequences, after which he felt unwell for a long time and this affected his work on the continuation of Chonkin.
After this incident, Voinovich wrote an open letter, a number of appeals to foreign media, and later described this episode in the story "Case No. 34840".
In December 1980, Voinovich was expelled from the USSR, and in 1981, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was deprived of Soviet citizenship.
In 1980-1992 he lived in Germany and the USA. Collaborated with Radio Liberty.
In 1990, Voinovich was returned to Soviet citizenship, and he returned to the USSR. Member of the Russian PEN club.
He was a critic of the Russian government.
He wrote his own version of the text of the new Russian anthem with a very ironic content.
In 2001, he signed a letter in defense of the NTV channel. In 2003 - a letter against the war in Chechnya.
In February 2015, he wrote an open letter to the President of Russia asking for his release. In October of the same year, on his birthday, he said that Putin was "going crazy" and that he should be held accountable for his crimes.
Personal life of Vladimir Voinovich:
Was married three times.
First wife - Valentina Vasilievna Voinovich (nee Boltushkina, 1929-1988). The marriage produced two children.
Daughter - Marina Vladimirovna Voinovich (1958-2006).
Son - Pavel Vladimirovich Voinovich (born 1962), writer, author of the book "Warrior under the St. Andrew's Flag".
The second wife is Irina Danilovna Voinovich (née Braude, 1938-2004). She was first married to the writer Kamil Akmalevich Ikramov (1927-1989). They have been married since 1964. The couple had a daughter, Olga.
Daughter - Olga Vladimirovna Voinovich (born 1973), German writer.
Vladimir Voinovich and second wife Irina with daughter Olga
The third wife is Svetlana Yakovlevna Kolesnichenko, her first marriage was to journalist Thomas Anatolyevich Kolesnichenko.
He was engaged in painting - the first personal exhibition opened on November 5, 1996 in the Moscow gallery "Asti".
He lived in his house near Moscow.
Filmography of Vladimir Voinovich:
2006 - Gardens in Autumn (dir. O. Ioseliani) - episode
Bibliography of Vladimir Voinovich:
1961 - We live here
1963 - Half a kilometer distance
1963 - We live here
1964 - The one who laughs laughs
1967 - Two comrades
1969 - The life and extraordinary adventures of a soldier Ivan Chonkin
1972 - We live here; Two comrades, Lady
1972 - Degree of trust. The Tale of Vera Figner
1973 - Through mutual correspondence
1975 - The life and extraordinary adventures of a soldier Ivan Chonkin
1975 - Incident at the Metropole
1976 - Ivankiada, or the story of the writer Voinovich moving into a new apartment
1979 - Pretender for the throne
1983 - Writer in Soviet society
1983 - Fictitious marriage
1984 - If the enemy does not surrender ...: Notes on socialist realism
1985 - Anti-Soviet Soviet Union
1986 - Moscow 2042
1989 - I want to be honest
1990 - Zero Decision
1994 - Vladimir Voinovich
1995 - Concept
1996 - Tales for adults
1997 - The smell of chocolate: Stories
2000 - Monumental Propaganda
2002 - Anti-Soviet Soviet Union: Documentary phantasmagoria in 4 parts
2008 - Wooden apple of freedom: A novel about a turning point in the history of Russia
2010 - Self portrait
2010 - Two plus one in one bottle
2016 - Crimson Pelican
Screen versions of the works of Vladimir Voinovich:
1973 - “Not even a year will pass ...” (dir. L. Beskodarny)
1990 - "Hat" (dir. K. Voinov)
1994 - "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin" (dir. Jiri Menzel)
2000 - "Two Comrades" (dir. V. Pendrakovsky)
2007 - "The Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin" (dir. A. Kiryushchenko)
2009 - “Just not now” (dir. V. Pendrakovsky)
To take revenge on his mistress, who gave birth to a son from another, the writer began to seduce all her friends
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Yuri Mikhailovich, who has not dismounted from his "iron horse" since his youth, dutifully complied with the demand of the police officer. And then, taking a bouquet of wild flowers, he went to bow to the deceased and express condolences to the inconsolable widow - the third wife Voinovich SvetlanaKolesnichenko. The one that became a lifeline for Vladimir Nikolayevich after the death of his second wife, Irochka, the main woman of his entire long life.
And the first wife of the writer was ValentineBoltushkin. He met her in a working hostel. One evening, seeking the location of a village girl, Vladimir frivolously promised to marry her. In the morning, Valentina released the guy from this promise. But he suddenly realized that, as an honest person, he was obliged to take Valya to the registry office: loyalty to this word in Voinovich was brought up by his mother.
After the newlyweds had a daughter, Marina, they were given half a room in a communal apartment for 50 families with one kitchen and a shared toilet. The family shared a living space of 16 "squares" with a bricklayer ArkadyKolesnikov, his wife, two children and mother-in-law. Voinovich himself worked as a carpenter during the day, and wrote poetry and prose at night.
Having traveled to the virgin lands, Vladimir got a job at the All-Union radio and in the magazine Tvardovsky"New world". Wrote the text of the song "14 minutes before the start", which became a hit. Two years later, when these words were sung from the podium of the Mausoleum NikitaKhrushchev, Voinovich was pompously accepted into the Writers' Union. Neighbors began to envy Valentina, who by that time had also given birth to her son Pavel. And Vladimir, meanwhile, fell into a love triangle.
At the wedding of a close friend, publicist CamilaIkramova, With IrinaBraude Voinovich was invited as a witness. And this despite the fact that the groom knew: Volodya is in love with his Ira, a teacher of elementary grades. The three of them spent all their free time. And when Kamil went on business trips, Voinovich also visited Ira - he took him to restaurants and took him for a walk outside the city. On their secret dates, he came in a used Zaporozhets, which he bought specifically for this. Voinovich was going to cut off the vicious connection more than once, but as soon as he found out that Ikramov was away on business, he immediately rushed to Irina. Even the birth of a son by Ikramov and Braude did not stop Vladimir.
If I had a gun at that time, I think the life of the three of us would be in serious danger, - Vladimir Nikolaevich wrote in his autobiography. - The first thing I hurried to do was sleep with her closest friends, and I didn't have to push them too hard. Then I started an affair with a pretty artist. I deliberately did not inform Ira about my achievements, but I knew that someone would convey the necessary information to her.
Then their dates resumed. In the fall of 1965, Voinovich left for Peredelkino, where he began to work on the story Two Comrades in seclusion. And suddenly one day he was called to the central building to the telephone. “I am free,” Ira burst into tears into the phone. Since then, they began to live together and soon got married.
The writer left the first wife and their children a three-room apartment, which was bought for him by the then head of the Moscow police, General NicholasSizov.
Braude gave Voinovich a daughter, Olya. She became a strong rear for her husband for a long 40 years. Together they survived the emigration to Germany, after Vladimir was deprived of Soviet citizenship for being anti-Soviet. And when his wife fell ill with cancer, the writer touchingly looked after her and took her for treatment to Munich, which was familiar to both, where they met Irinin's last New Year together in the clinic ward.
After the death of his beloved in 2004, Voinovich himself almost fell ill. He was plagued by pain in the lower back, besides, his heart ached very much. He started drinking. I woke up reluctantly with the thought that I would have to live all day again. Olga looked after her father, who worked in two schools, and her son Pavel from his first marriage, who, like his father, became a writer.
But only Svetlana Kolesnichenko, the widow of an international journalist, could get Vladimir Nikolayevich out of this hell. ThomasKolesnichenko, who became the last wife of Voinovich. Two loneliness introduced writer VictoriaTokarev.
After the wedding with Svetlana, the writer no longer needed to constantly raise money. Kolesnichenko owned a restaurant and shops selling elite alcohol. In her arms, Vladimir Nikolaevich died of a heart attack.
He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery.
Member of the Russian PEN Center.
Vladimir Voinovich was born in Stalinabad, in the family of Nikolai Pavlovich Voinovich (1905-1987), a journalist, executive secretary of the Republican newspaper "Communist of Tajikistan" and editor of the regional newspaper "Worker Khojent", partly of Serbian origin and originally from the county town of Novozybkov, Chernigov province (now Bryansk region). ), and an employee of the editorial office of these newspapers, and later a mathematics teacher Rozalia Kolmanovna (Klimentievna) Goykhman (1908-1978), originally from the town of Khashchevatoe, Gaivoron district, Kherson province (now the Kirovograd region of Ukraine).
In 1941, together with his recently released father and mother, he moved to Zaporozhye. After the war, he often changed his place of residence, worked as a shepherd, joiner, carpenter, mechanic and aircraft mechanic.
In 1950, he was drafted into the army for 4 years, while serving (Poland) he tries to master the art of versification.
In 1956 he came to Moscow, entered the Literary Institute twice, but was not accepted. He studied for a year and a half at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute (1957-1959), traveled to the virgin lands in Kazakhstan, where his first prose works were written (1958).
The publication of the story "We live here" ("New World", 1961 No. 1) contributed to the strengthening of the writer's fame.
Since 1962, Voinovich was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR.
The novel "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin", written since 1963, went to samizdat. The first part was published (without the permission of the author) in 1969 in Frankfurt am Main, the entire book - in 1975 in Paris.
In the late 1960s, he took an active part in the human rights movement, which caused a conflict with the authorities. For his human rights activities and satirical presentation of Soviet reality, the writer was persecuted - in 1974 he was expelled from the Writers' Union of the USSR, but accepted as a member of the PEN club in France.
In 1975, after the publication of "Chonkin" abroad, Voinovich was summoned for a conversation at the KGB, where he was offered to publish in the USSR. To discuss the conditions for lifting the ban on the publication of some of his works, a second meeting was held - this time in room 408 of the Metropol Hotel, where the writer was poisoned with a psychotropic drug, after which he felt unwell for a long time, which affected his work on the continuation of Chonkin . After this incident, Voinovich wrote an open letter to Andropov and a number of appeals to foreign media.
In December 1980, he was expelled from the USSR, and in 1981 he was deprived of Soviet citizenship by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (in 1990 he was returned by decree of M. Gorbachev). In 1980-1992 he lived in Germany, then in the USA. Collaborated with Radio Liberty.
According to Wolfgang Kazak, "a realist writer who wonderfully depicts human characters and has a special gift for vividly capturing individual scenes."
Engaged in painting - the first solo exhibition opened on November 5, 1996 in the Moscow gallery "Asti".
I believe, friends, rocket caravans
Rush us forward from star to star.
On the dusty paths of distant planets
Our footprints will remain...
Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich - Soviet and Russian prose writer and poet, screenwriter, playwright. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Vladimir Voinovich was born on September 26, 1932 in Stalinabad, in the family of Nikolai Pavlovich Voinovich (1905-1987), a journalist, executive secretary of the republican newspaper "Communist of Tajikistan" and editor of the regional newspaper "Worker Khojent", originally from the county town of Novozybkov, Chernigov province (now Bryansk region). ). In 1936, his father was repressed, after his release - in the army at the front, was wounded and remained disabled (1941). Mother - an employee of the editorial offices of the same newspapers (later a mathematics teacher) - Rozalia Klimentyevna (Revekka Kolmanovna) Goykhman (1908-1978), originally from the town of Khashchevatoe, Gaivoronsky district, Kherson province (now the Kirovograd region of Ukraine).
Based on the book by the Yugoslav author Vidak Vujnović “Voj(i) novichi - Vuj(i) novichi: from the Middle Ages to the present day” (1985), Vladimir Voinovich claims in his books and interviews that he comes from a noble Serbian family of Voinovich (in particular , is a relative of the Voinovich counts), who gave Russia several admirals and generals.
After his father's arrest in 1936, he lived with his mother, grandparents in Stalinabad. In early 1941, the father was released, and the family moved to his sister in Zaporozhye. In August 1941, he was evacuated with his mother to the Severo-Vostochny farm (Ipatovsky district of the Stavropol Territory), where, after sending his mother to Leninabad, he lived with his father's relatives and entered the second grade of a local school. Due to the German offensive, the family soon had to be evacuated again - to the Administrative town of the Kuibyshev region, where in the summer of 1942 his mother arrived from Leninabad. His father, who joined them after demobilization, found work as an accountant at the state farm in the village of Maslennikovo (Khvorostyansky district), where he moved his family; in 1944 they moved again - to the village of Nazarovo (Vologda region), where the mother's brother Vladimir Klimentievich Goykhman worked as the chairman of the collective farm, from there to Yermakovo.
In November 1945, he returned to Zaporozhye with his parents and younger sister Faina; his father got a job in the large-circulation newspaper "For Aluminum", his mother (after graduating from the Pedagogical Institute) - a mathematics teacher in an evening school. He graduated from a vocational school, worked at an aluminum plant, at a construction site, studied at an aero club, jumped with a parachute.
In 1951 he was drafted into the army, first serving in Dzhankoy, then until 1955 in aviation in Poland (in Chojne and Shprotava). During his military service, he wrote poems for an army newspaper. In 1951, his mother was fired from the evening school and his parents moved to Kerch, where his father got a job in the newspaper "Kerch Worker" (in which, under the pseudonym "Grakov", in December 1955, the first poems of the writer sent from the army were published). After demobilization in November 1955, he settled with his parents in Kerch, finished the tenth grade of high school; in 1956 his poems were re-published in the "Kerch worker".
In early August 1956, he arrived in Moscow, entered the Literary Institute twice, studied for a year and a half at the Faculty of History of the N.K.
In 1960 he got a job as a radio editor. The song “Fourteen Minutes Before Launch”, written soon after on his poems, became the favorite song of the Soviet cosmonauts (in fact, their anthem).
I believe, friends, rocket caravans
Rush us forward from star to star.
On the dusty paths of distant planets
Our footprints will remain...
After the song was quoted by Khrushchev, who met the astronauts, she gained all-Union fame - Vladimir Voinovich "woke up famous." The “generals from literature” immediately began to favor him, Voinovich was accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR (1962). Voinovich is the author of lyrics for more than 40 songs.
The publication of the story "We Live Here" in the "New World" (1961) also contributed to the strengthening of the writer's fame. Voinovich rejected the proposals that followed with the rise of fame to publish poetry in the central journals, wanting to focus on prose. In 1964, he took part in the writing of the collective detective novel Laughs He Who Laughs, published in the newspaper Nedelya.
The novel "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin", written since 1963, went to samizdat. The first part was published (without the permission of the author) in 1969 in Frankfurt am Main, and the entire book in 1975 in Paris.
In the late 1960s, Voinovich took an active part in the human rights movement, which caused a conflict with the authorities. For his human rights activities and satirical depiction of Soviet reality, the writer was persecuted: he was put under surveillance by the KGB, and in 1974 he was expelled from the Writers' Union of the USSR. At the same time, he was accepted as a member of the French PEN Club.
In 1975, after the publication of "Chonkin" abroad, Voinovich was summoned for a conversation at the KGB, where he was offered to publish in the USSR. Further, to discuss the conditions for lifting the ban on the publication of some of his works, he was invited to a second meeting - this time in room 408 of the Metropol Hotel. There, the writer was poisoned with a psychotropic drug, which had serious consequences, after which he felt unwell for a long time and this affected his work on the continuation of Chonkin. After this incident, Voinovich wrote an open letter to Andropov, a number of appeals to foreign media, and later described this episode in the story Case No. 34840.
In December 1980, Voinovich was expelled from the USSR, and in 1981, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was deprived of Soviet citizenship.
Voinovich's address to Brezhnev in 1981. In 1980-1992 he lived in Germany and the USA. Collaborated with Radio Liberty.
In 1990, Voinovich was returned to Soviet citizenship, and he returned to the USSR. He wrote his own version of the text of the new Russian anthem with a very ironic content. In 2001, he signed a letter in defense of the NTV channel. In 2003 - a letter against the war in Chechnya.
In February 2015, he wrote an open letter to the President of Russia asking for the release of Nadezhda Savchenko. In October of the same year, on the occasion of Putin's birthday, he said that Putin was "going crazy" and that he should be held accountable for his crimes.
He was engaged in painting - the first personal exhibition opened on November 5, 1996 in the Moscow gallery "Asti".
Vladimir Voinovich was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Vera Moscow Charitable Hospice Fund.
Vladimir Voinovich at the presentation of the book "Self-Portrait", 2010. Photo: Dmitry RozhkovAmong his most famous works are the anti-utopia "Moscow 2042", the story "Hat" (the film of the same name was made on it), "Two Comrades" (also filmed in 2000), "Portrait Against the Background of a Myth" - a book dedicated to Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the prevailing myths around him (2002), "Pretender for the Throne", "Displaced Person", "Monumental Propaganda". The novel The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin was filmed twice: as a film in 1994 and as a TV series in 2007.
Films based on the works of Vladimir Voinovich:
1973 - “Not even a year will pass ...” (dir. L. Beskodarny) - co-author of the script, together with B. Balter, based on the story “I want to be honest”
1990 - "Hat" (dir. K. Voinov)
1994 - "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin" (dir. Jiri Menzel)
2000 - "Two Comrades" (dir. V. Pendrakovsky)
2007 - "The Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin" (dir. A. Kiryushchenko)
2009 - “Just not now” (dir. V. Pendrakovsky)
Actor:
2006 - Gardens in Autumn (dir. O. Ioseliani) - episode
Films about V. Voinovich:
2003 - "The incredible adventures of V. Voinovich, told by himself after returning to his homeland" (author and director Alexander Plakhov).
2012 - “Vladimir Voinovich. Be yourself” (director V. Balayan, 39 min., Mirabel film studio at the Mosfilm film studio
1993 - Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Arts
1994 - Prize of the Znamya Foundation
1996 - Triumph Award
2000 - State Prize of the Russian Federation (for the novel "Monumental Propaganda")
2002 - Prize to them. A. D. Sakharova "For the Civil Courage of a Writer"
2016 - Lev Kopelev Prize
Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
First wife - Valentina Vasilievna Voinovich (nee Boltushkina, 1929-1988).
Daughter - Marina Vladimirovna Voinovich (1958-2006).
Son - Pavel Vladimirovich Voinovich (born 1962), writer, author of the book "Warrior under the St. Andrew's Flag".
The second wife (since 1964) is Irina Danilovna Voinovich (née Braude, 1938-2004).
Daughter - German writer Olga Vladimirovna Voinovich (born 1973).
The third wife is Svetlana Yakovlevna Kolesnichenko.
He died on July 27, 2018 at the age of 86 from a heart attack, in his house near Moscow.
The biography of Vladimir Voinovich at times resembled the pages of an adventure novel about dissidents and spies, a literary star and a boy with a difficult childhood. A modern classic, a person with a firm social position, not afraid to express his own opinion, even if it threatens him with obvious problems.
Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich was born on September 26, 1932 in Tajikistan, in the city that was called Stalinabad, and now Dushanbe, the capital of the republic. When Voinovich had already become a popular writer, he received a book about the origin of the surname from an admirer of talent. As it turned out, the family comes from a noble Serbian princely branch.
The father of the future writer served as executive secretary and editor of republican newspapers. In 1936, Nikolai Pavlovich allowed himself to suggest that it was impossible to build communism in a single country, and that this could only be done all over the world at once.
For this opinion, the editor was sentenced to five years in exile. Returning in 1941, Voinovich Sr. went to the front, where he was wounded almost immediately, after which he remained an invalid. The mother of little Vladimir worked in her husband's editorial offices, and later as a mathematics teacher.
The boy's childhood can hardly be called cloudless and easy. The family often changed their place of residence. Vladimir Nikolaevich was never able to get a full-fledged education, attending school from time to time. Voinovich graduated from a vocational school, first getting an education as a carpenter (the young man did not like painstaking work), and then as a carpenter. In his youth, he changed many working specialties, until he left for the army in 1951.
Demobilized in 1955, the young man graduated from the tenth grade of the school, studied for a year and a half at the Pedagogical Institute. Without receiving a diploma, he left for virgin lands. Stormy youth eventually brought the writer to the radio, where in 1960 Voinovich got a job as an editor.
“A talented person is talented in everything” - these words can be safely attributed to Voinovich. Since the mid-90s, the writer became interested in painting. Back in 1996, the first personal exhibition of Vladimir Nikolaevich opened.
Voinovich painted paintings that are exhibited and successfully sold. The painter embodied landscapes of cities on canvas, painted still lifes, self-portraits and portraits.
Voinovich turned to creativity, even when he served in the army, where a young man writes his first poems for an army newspaper. After the service, they were published in the newspaper "Kerch Worker", where Vladimir Nikolayevich's father worked at that time.
The first prose works were written by Voinovich while working on the virgin lands in 1958. All-Union fame overtook the writer after the appearance on the radio of the song "Fourteen minutes before the start", the verses to which belong to the pen of Vladimir Nikolaevich. Lines cited meeting the astronauts. Later, the work became a real anthem for astronauts.
After recognition of his merits at the highest level, Voinovich was admitted to the Writers' Union, he was favored not only by the authorities, but also by the most famous authors of the country. This recognition did not last long. Soon the views of the writer, the struggle for human rights stood in the way of the political course of the country.
Vladimir Voinovich. "Moscow 2042". Part 1The beginning was the release in samizdat, and later in Germany (without the permission of the author) of the first part of the novel "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin". The author was placed under KGB surveillance. Shortly after the publication of Ivan Chonkin's adventures abroad, the writer was summoned to a meeting with committee agents at the Metropol Hotel.
According to the author, he was poisoned with a psychotropic substance there, after which he felt unwell for a long time. In 1974, the prose writer was expelled from the Writers' Union. However, almost immediately accepted into the international PEN club. In 1980, the author was forced to leave the USSR, and in 1981 Voinovich lost his citizenship.
Vladimir Voinovich. "Crimson Pelican" Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the prose writer lives in Germany, then in the USA, where he continues his writing career. During this period, the books "Moscow 2042", a satirical dystopia, the writer's vision of communist Moscow, "The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union" (published a few years later) were written.
With a sharp sense of humor inherent in the author, he ridicules not only the political regime in the Union, but also his colleagues in the pen. Voinovich speaks negatively about, making him the prototype of the character of the novel "Moscow 2042". After that, until the end of the latter's life, the writers experienced mutual dislike for each other. It is not surprising that after such works the author was included in the list of dissidents.
In 1990, the writer's citizenship was restored, and he returned to his beloved homeland. By the way, in an interview, Voinovich repeatedly stated that, in spite of everything, he never sought to leave Russia, until the last he tried to stay in the country.
After returning, Voinovich did not stop participating in social and political events taking place in Russia, as well as speaking sharply about them. The liberal, opposition side was occupied by the author in matters of power, expressing his opinion about the regime of government, about Crimea and its annexation. Vladimir Nikolayevich announced that, in his opinion, the president is "going crazy", as well as the duty of the authorities "to bear responsibility for crimes."
The opposition has repeatedly compiled open letters - in support of the NTV channel, against military operations in Chechnya, in support, with a request to release the girl from custody.
The writer was a favorite guest of the radio "Echo of Moscow". The interview and the position of the writer regarding what is happening in the country and the world were published by him on the pages
