Ardamatsky Vasily Ivanovich: biography, books

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Absolutely different writers of the Soviet era have one thing in common. All of them were people who lived an interesting life and described the events to which they were witnesses or participants. Their heroes stepped onto the pages of books directly from the Komsomol construction sites of the first five-year plans or from the field barracks of the Red Army. Vasily Ardamatsky, a journalist and writer, whose works were read by several generations of Soviet people, can also be counted among the galaxy of such authors.

Part One: Childhood

Information about the childhood of this talented person is surprisingly sparse and faceless.

Born October 8, 1911. A small county town in the Smolensk province of Dukhovshchina, named after the Church of the Holy Spirit and the convent. Own house, three windows, from which a view of Smolenskaya street and a chestnut opened. His father put the writer under the window. The overgrown tree blocked the sunlight, but the hand did not rise to cut it down - it was a living familyvalue.

Data on parents is sketchy and brief. The family was a teacher - the writer's father worked as a singing teacher at a local school and as a church choir director. An educated and enthusiastic person. He knew history well and sometimes got into heated arguments with the local priest over the interpretation of certain historical events. The revolutionary upheavals of 1905 found him in St. Petersburg. The elder Ardamatsky, Vasily listened with interest to his memoirs, was a wonderful storyteller and an intelligent person.

Part Two: Pop Gapon and Komsomol

Mid 20s. His father's stories about the bloody events of 1905 nearly thwarted his son's entry into the Komsomol. At Christmas, a costume party was held in the People's House. There was a prize for the best costume. Without thinking twice, Vasily and his friend decided to dress up as the king and priest Gapon. A small scene in which they find out which of the heroes after death will go to heaven and which - to hell, ended with the appearance of the third character. Dressed in a suit of a worker, the judge sent the king and the priest to hell. Only the third character was late. When he came and started shouting out his text, the commission was already looking at other costumes. The meaning of the scene remained incomprehensible to the audience. When admitted to the Komsomol, the costume of priest Gapon was remembered to Vasily. The organization was accepted, but punished to engage in political self-education. And the young man from this incident made the right conclusion. Subsequently, Vasily Ardamatsky, whose books were eagerly awaited by admirers of his literary talent, always scrupulously and clearly conveyed to the readers the main idea of the author'sdesign.

Part Three: On the Threshold of Adulthood

The turbulent revolutionary events and the hectic life of the young Soviet country did not leave the boys of the 20s time for idleness. Grandiose plans, new construction projects, the revival of the village - inquisitive and active teenagers had to be in time everywhere. They were confident that they could build a new, just society. In this seething social whirlpool, Vasily Ardamatsky began his conscious life. The biography of a young country has become part of the biography of a guy entering life.

He goes on raids with the fighters of special forces. He takes part in the creation of collective farms and collectivization in the villages of the Smolensk province. After graduation, he enters the Smolensk Medical Institute. At the same time, Vasily Ardamatsky is already devoting a lot of time to social work, taking another important step towards his future profession.

Part Four: Smolensk Radio Newspaper

December 1929. A new employee appears in the Smolensk regional radio newspaper. By this time, it was no longer possible to call Vasily a newcomer to journalism. He wrote short notes for Komsomolskaya Pravda and for regional Smolensk newspapers. The heroes of his materials are living people with whom he was brought together by studies or social activities. Gradually, he came to the conclusion that journalism is a business worth dedicating his life to.

A radio correspondent is a special kind of activity. Constant business trips, meetings, events, new places andinteresting people. The young journalist travels throughout the Smolensk region. By 1931, he became the executive secretary of the editorial office and still travels a lot around the region. At this time, that journalistic style was born, which the writer Vasily Ardamatsky distinguished in his future work. The author's books have always been based on proven and true facts.

Part Five: Moving to Moscow

The beginning of the 30s is the time of the rise of the youth military-patriotic movement in Soviet Russia. The slogans that urged Komsomol members to go to military service were not accidental. The young country was preparing to defend its conquests. Ardamatsky did not shy away from military duty. Vasily was drafted into the army and did military service in 1931-1932.

After demobilization, he did not return to Smolensk. He firmly decided to become a journalist and continue to work on the radio. Moscow provided the greatest opportunities for the realization of this dream. The young man moves to the capital. Ardamatsky Vasily Ivanovich devoted the next 30 years of his life to his beloved work - radio journalism.

Part Six: The 1930s Through the Eyes of a Correspondent

In Russian history it is difficult to find another such period in which the elastic movement towards new discoveries, records, victories would be so concentrated. The fast pace of life pushed for accomplishments. The real heroes and idols of the country were Soviet pilots. Unprecedented record flights did not leave the pages of newspapers. On the radio, reports on the most significant eventsyoung journalist Ardamatsky.

Vasily often travels around the country, meets with many people. Heroes-aviators became during this period his favorite characters. Through his work, he personally knows many of them. Accompanying the conquerors of the sky on foreign trips, he has the opportunity to get acquainted with the life of people in other countries. Gradually, the baggage of knowledge is filled with experience and impressions, which later will form the basis of his literary works. But it will be in the future. And in the 1930s the whole country knew the voice of the young correspondent. It was he who introduced the Soviet people to the heroes of the most significant events.

Part Seven: Blockade Microphone

Meeting with different people, Ardamatsky understood that the tension around the Soviet Union was growing. He makes reports with participants in the events on Lake Khasan, tells the audience about the hot sands of Khalkhin Gol. A business trip to the B altic states in 1940 made it possible for the first time to meet face to face with the real opponents of the USSR. Vasily Ivanovich had the opportunity to talk with the identified saboteurs.

The summer of 1941 brought a big disaster. Journalists are rushing to the front, to the active army. Among them was Vasily Ardamatsky. His first front-line correspondence was published in national newspapers two days after the Nazi invasion.

On the instructions of the editors, Ardamatsky is sent to Leningrad. He spent more than a year in the besieged city, having survived the difficult winter of the siege of 1941-1942. After many years, the impressions of this time foundreflection in the book "Leningrad Winter" (1970).

Part Eight: Book One

In 1943, a collection of short stories "The ability to see at night" was published. The author is Vasily Ardamatsky. The biography of the work began all in the same besieged Leningrad. This book was dedicated to the defenders and inhabitants of the unconquered city. The accumulated impressions and meetings no longer fit within the framework of newspaper pages and in the radio broadcast format. The “godfather” of the first collection was the writer Yevgeny Petrov, who at that time worked as the editor-in-chief of Ogonyok. He published short stories in the Ogonyok Library and opened the way to great literature for a young author.

The next book appeared only after 10 years. Starting from the mid-50s, Vasily Ivanovich began to write a lot and fruitfully. New works appear on the shelves of bookstores with surprising speed. During the period from 1956 to 1970 he wrote more than 10 works. Heroes are brave and honest people who defend their country. Scouts and counterintelligence officers, pilots, partisans are ordinary people whose fates passed before Ardamatsky's eyes during his journalistic work. In total, more than 20 books came out from the writer's pen.

Part Nine: Entering the Movie Screen

By the beginning of the 70s, all fans of the "spy genre" in the USSR already knew the name of the author of fascinating action-packed works - Ardamatsky. Vasily Ivanovich, whose books disappeared from the shelves of bookstores in a matter of hours, gets the opportunityprepare your work for screening. Heroes of literary works stepped onto the big screen. The beginning of this was laid by the film adaptation of the novel "Saturn is almost invisible." The film trilogy about scouts, which was based on this work, became the leader in the box office of those years. More than 120 million people watched this film epic about Soviet intelligence agents.

The popularity of Ardamatsky's works is easily explained. The author had a good command of factual material, which became the basis of the plot of the new book. In most cases documentary material was used. A clearly stated and built plot, a large number of details that raised the artistic narration to the level of documentary. In the future, other authors began to use this technique, but Ardamatsky was the first to use it in his work. Vasily Ivanovich, whose biography was closely intertwined with the prototypes of his heroes, treated his characters carefully. Perhaps this happened because many of them were part of his own life for him. A total of nine works of the writer were filmed. The scripts for the production were written by V. I. Ardamatsky himself.

Part Ten: Epilogue

At first glance, it may seem that the life of a famous writer was straight and successful. From a young age, he was in the thick of things. He flew in an airship and accompanied famous pilots. On warships, he sailed the southern seas and raced to the ends of the earth to tell about the rescue of the Chelyuskinites. Several generations of Soviet people recognized the voiceArdamatsky on the radio, when he talked about the most interesting events taking place in the country. A member of the Writers' Union, winner of the State Prize of the RSFSR and the Prize of the State Security Committee, Ardamatsky was not an untouchable celestial. After the publication of the feuilleton Pinya from Zhytomyr (1953), he was accused of anti-Semitism. The trail of this accusation dragged on for Vasily Ivanovich for a long time.

B. I. Ardamatsky was an honest and principled person. Both in life and in his books, he defended the ideals in which he selflessly believed. And the feeling of this faith was conveyed to the readers - Ardamatsky's prose was so convinced of its correctness. In 1989, he completed his last book, Before the Storm. By some coincidence, this was a study of events during the period of revolutionary unrest in 1905. The same priest Gapon, about whom his father once told little Vasya and because of which he was almost denied admission to the Komsomol. Soon Vasily Ivanovich died. His heart stopped on February 20, 1989.