Sergey Alekseev: biography and literary activity

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Modern Russian writer Sergei Alekseev was born in the village of Aleyka, in the Zyryansky district of the Tomsk region. Taiga places, lands famous for fishing and hunting, which the future writer has been doing literally since childhood, therefore he still considers this small village, which is not on any map, to be the most native place on earth.

Childhood

Sergey Trofimovich Alekseev was born in 1952 in a cold Siberian January, in Epiphany frosts. The future writer did not have any entertainment that civilization gives children, and why are they there, where the air is thick in the taiga, even cut it with a knife, and in the taiga there are traces of animals and birds unseen by the city dweller, as if in paradise, sing, in the rivers fearless fish and berries on the sides. The boy grew up as a real taiga resident - he started fishing and hunting at the age of five.

In Siberia, the population density is such that in some places this figure tends to zero, for many kilometers people go to visit, and children go to school in the morning on skis, and in summer on foot or - in rare cases insixties - on a bicycle. So Sergey Alekseev ran seven kilometers every day to school and seven kilometers home.

Youth

Siberian children grow up solid, because they start taking care of the family early, helping their parents in everything: whether to get a garden, get food in the taiga, prepare hay for pets, firewood for the winter. This early responsibility brings up the best qualities in the younger generation and, most importantly, does not let them break away from the origins of the culture of everyday life, instills the best behavioral qualities.

So Sergey Alekseev, after the eighth grade of school, transferred to evening classes to help his family. The work of a blacksmith's assistant is not easy, but in Siberia no one is looking for easy ways. Because they don't exist. The future writer at the age of fourteen began his seniority with the work of a hammer.

Unbeaten Path

Sergey Alekseev could not imagine himself being cut off from nature, that's why he chose the appropriate profession. He entered the College of Geological Exploration in the regional ancient city of Tomsk. It is not for nothing that Tomsk is called the Siberian Athens - it is here that the oldest and most respected educational institutions are concentrated. Students then studied completely free of charge, but, regardless of we alth, only the most stubborn, the most quick-witted and burdened with the largest baggage of school knowledge.

Most of the students worked for a small scholarship, where they could. So the future famous author also worked at a confectionery factory, in addition to studying. However, the time has come to pay back to the Motherland, and in the midst ofacademic year, Sergei is drafted into the army. In those days, they did not know such a word, nor the concept - "slope", service in the ranks of the Soviet Army was both mandatory and honorable. Sergey served in a special battalion, after which he returned to the technical school and successfully graduated from it.

Becoming a writer

This man had a lot of determination. After graduating, Alekseev goes on a geological expedition to the polar Taimyr with a brand new diploma in his backpack. After a year of interesting work, Sergei felt that he had not yet learned everything in the world, and therefore entered Tomsk University at the Faculty of Law. In parallel with his studies, as always, he worked. This time - several years as a criminal investigation inspector.

Alekseev simply burned the first manuscripts in 1976: it is not befitting for a person who grew up in the Siberian taiga to engage in such pranks. In the taiga settlements, harsh men, usually extremely laconic, would probably laugh. Or vice versa, they would be imbued with unspeakable respect, amazed: wow, as he writes! However, if a person has a writer's streak, she will not let him write.

World of creativity

Since 1977, Sergei Trofimovich returned to hiking and expeditions. This time he scrupulously recorded all his observations, and many features of his travels are reflected in the novels Wolfgrip, Treasures of the Valkyries, The Word and others. His first experiments were quite traditional, in the genre of village prose, which was most suitable for the experience and occupation of the writer. Howeverless there were already the main features that the author Sergei Alekseev placed on the basis of subsequent books: these are Vedic symbolism, Russian epic, philosophy different from the mainstream, and even mysticism.

Unconventional views on the distant past and rather near future, which Sergey Alekseev carried in his books, were perceived ambiguously by Russia and its society of writers. A vivid example of heated discussions and stormy criticism is the novel "Repentance of the Prophets". Nevertheless, Alekseev was accepted into the Union of Writers of Russia and awarded all kinds of prizes. In 1987, the writer graduated from the Higher Literary Courses at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow.

Wandering

The writer needed his own philosophy, confirmed by experience, therefore Sergey Alekseev, whose stories had already begun to grope for a guiding thread, went to wander in the northern and polar regions of Siberia, as well as in the Urals, where the Old Believer sketes still retained the mysterious magic of the Russian language, prompted the writer to incredible discoveries in the archeology of the Russian word. As a result, a feeling of acute pain and longing for the lost and not saved was born. This was reflected in all subsequent novels.

The writer tries to grasp as many interesting skills as possible, which life is so rich in: he writes books about the etymology of the Russian language, about its history, tried his hand at painting, dramaturgy, organization of holidays, even in musical production. In his free time he goes to the Urals orVologda. Built several houses with his own hands, a chapel and more.

Merit

For the novel "The Word" the author Alekseev Sergey was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize in 1985, and in 1987 for the novel "Roy" he received the prize of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Further, in 1995, the Sholokhov Prize after the release of the novel "The Return of Cain", and, finally, in 2009, Kuzbass awarded Sergei Alekseev with a prize for the novel "Russia: We and the World".

The author about time and the person in it

Man is destined to spend his life in search. He is looking for some space where there is no evil. But man by nature is evil. So, to seek happiness is to run away from yourself. How to reconcile man and the light of God? Is the task overwhelming, especially at this critical time that is imminently coming?

In all his books, the author seeks and most often finds answers to these global questions. It is not known whether humanity will agree with the conclusions of Sergei Alekseev, but the number of admirers not only of his literature, but also of philosophy, is steadily growing. Large groups are being created on social networks, the works from his publishing house are sorted out, as they say, "still puppies".

Worldview postulates

The writer says that the time at the turn of historical eras that we got is exceptionally interesting. The current period ends, according to the author, in 2021, and since 2007 we have already felt a turn towards a new period: we were pursued by man-made disasters, larger than humanitydid not know yet. Although Chernobyl happened in 1986… The human factor was to blame everywhere. Why is this happening?

Alekseev argues that technological progress in this case is detrimental to humanity, since its psychology changes much more slowly, with a lag, a kind of fatigue begins. A hundred years of real shock about the euphoria brought by the rapid development of science, all kinds of discoveries, inventions that the human psyche cannot master at such a pace.

Science and technology, according to the author of the books, is turning into the scourge of God. Overcoming such a high mortality that was inherent in mankind just a century ago, finally going into space, and everything that was not possible quite recently, imperceptibly turns euphoria into pride: why are we not gods? Such a plan "demonic", a feeling of omnipotence kills the religious consciousness. As a result - catastrophes, because without religious consciousness a person can do nothing. This is what Sergey Alekseev wrote novels about.

Care for descendants

Sergei Alekseev has a book - "Forty Lessons of Russian", a study of the syllable-root concept of the Russian language, which naturally caused a big splash to the topic of etymology, almost forgotten by the masses, which examines the true origin and meaning of Russian words, today erased by layers of newspeak. This is Sergey Alekseev for older children and, of course, for adults.

Kgiga is a success, many lovers of native Slavic words began their research in this regard and set out to find sources for a deeperstudying this topic. They were satisfied - Sergey Alekseev (photo attached) wrote the book "Vedic Grammar" with a high density of information about the meanings embedded in Russian words. There is a periodic table of the Gift of Speech (syllabic roots) and a unique dictionary with a brief interpretation of the meanings of syllabic roots.

Analytical work with the word

As a form of presenting the material of these books, an essay was the best fit, which traces the origin and development of the word from oral - sound - speech to the transition to writing, which had a sign system. An analysis of the syllabic-root basis of the Russian language returns the reader to the deep past, revealing the psychology of our ancestors with their ancient worldview, but at the same time, unspeakable cosmic patterns open up before the reader's eyes - the Gift of Speech as the highest cultural value of mankind.

Writer-historian Sergei Alekseev, whose photos are as original as his prose, has long and deeply taken a great interest in the subject of the Urals. This is where many of his books take place. Therefore, he supported the film project "Forgotten Villages of the Urals". This is how a film is created about the outback of Russia, which lives contrary to all popular opinions, is full of new people and ideas.

Among them is the writer Sergei Alekseev, who fell in love with the Urals. The films for which he wrote scripts: "Poems in the Sand", "Prolongation of the Family", "Return of Cain", there is a film novel "Rain from High Clouds", show him as a connoisseur of historical events, as well as a master of sharp andexciting plots, where realism is intertwined with mysticism, and historical realities with philosophical reflections. The respect of readers and viewers can be measured even by the fact that the total circulation of his books exceeded three million copies.

About books

Legends of the half-forgotten past, a return to Slavic roots await the reader, who first encountered the books written by Sergei Alekseev. Reviews sound the most enthusiastic, the ranks of followers are growing every day. Scythian stories, myths, the world of wise men, warriors, princes, maidens and wild tribes of nomads. Captivating plots, powerful energy, the language is magnificent in figurativeness, originality of style.

Mikhail Zadornov spoke exceptionally correctly about the books of Sergei Alekseev, expressing gratitude for the new things he learned from them, for the fact that the writing activity of this author became a launching pad for traveling in the wake of his novels - to the Urals, to Altai, where Mikhail Zadornov realized how much truth is in Alekseev's books and how insignificant fiction is.