Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky(May 19 (31), Moscow - July 14, Moscow) - Russian Soviet writer, classic of Russian literature. Member of the Writers' Union of the USSR. K. Paustovsky's books have been repeatedly translated into many languages of the world. In the second half of the 20th century, his novels and short stories were included in the Russian literature curriculum for middle classes in Russian schools as one of the plot and stylistic examples of landscape and lyrical prose.
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Biography
His autobiographical “Tale of Life” in two volumes, 6 books in total, can help to understand the origins and development of K. G. Paustovsky’s work. The first book “Distant Years” is dedicated to the writer’s childhood there.
My whole life with early childhood before 1921 described in three books- “Distant Years”, “Restless Youth” and “The Beginning of an Unknown Century”. All these books form parts of my autobiographical “Tale of Life”...
Origin and education
Konstantin Paustovsky was born into the family of railway statistician Georgy Maksimovich Paustovsky, who had Ukrainian-Polish-Turkish roots and lived in Granatny Lane in Moscow. He was baptized in the Church of St. George in Vspolye. The entry in the church register contains information about his parents: “...the father is a retired non-commissioned officer of the second category from volunteers, from the bourgeoisie of the Kyiv province, Vasilkovsky district, Georgy Maksimovich Paustovsky and his legal wife Maria Grigorievna, both Orthodox people”.
The writer's pedigree on his father's side is connected with the name of Hetman P.K. Sagaidachny, although he did not attach any importance to this of great importance: “My father chuckled at his “hetman origin” and liked to say that our grandfathers and great-grandfathers plowed the land and were the most ordinary, patient grain growers...” The writer’s grandfather was a Cossack, had experience as a Chumakov, who transported goods from Crimea with his comrades deep into Ukrainian territory, and introduced young Kostya to Ukrainian folklore, Chumaks, Cossack songs and stories, of which the most memorable was the romantic and tragic story a former rural blacksmith and then a blind lyre player Ostap, who lost his sight from the blow of a cruel nobleman, a rival who stood in the way of his love for a beautiful noble lady, who then died, unable to bear the separation from Ostap and his torment.
Before becoming a Chumak, the writer’s paternal grandfather served in the army under Nicholas I, was captured by the Turks during one of the Russian-Turkish wars and brought from there his stern Turkish wife Fatma, who was baptized in Russia with the name Honorata, so that The writer's father's Ukrainian-Cossack blood is mixed with Turkish. The father is portrayed in the story “Distant Years” as a not very practical man of a freedom-loving revolutionary-romantic type and an atheist, which irritated his mother-in-law, another grandmother of the future writer.
The writer’s maternal grandmother, Vikentia Ivanovna, who lived in Cherkassy, was Polish, a zealous Catholic, who took her preschool-age grandson, with his father’s disapproval, to worship Catholic shrines in the then Russian part of Poland, and the impressions from their visit and the people met there also deeply sank into the writer's soul. My grandmother always wore mourning after the defeat of the Polish uprising of 1863, as she sympathized with the idea of freedom for Poland: “We were sure that during the uprising, my grandmother’s fiance was killed - some proud Polish rebel, not at all like my grandmother’s gloomy husband, and my grandfather, a former notary in the city of Cherkassy.”. After the defeat of the Poles from government forces Russian Empire active supporters of Polish liberation felt hostility towards the oppressors, and on a Catholic pilgrimage, the grandmother forbade the boy to speak Russian, while he spoke Polish only to a minimal extent. The boy was also frightened by the religious frenzy of other Catholic pilgrims, and he alone did not fulfill the required rituals, which his grandmother explained by the bad influence of his father, an atheist. The Polish grandmother is portrayed as strict, but kind and attentive. Her husband, the writer’s second grandfather, was a taciturn man who lived alone in his room on the mezzanine and his grandchildren’s communication with him was not noted by the author of the story as a significant factor influencing him, unlike communication with the other two members of that family - a young, beautiful , the cheerful, impetuous and musically gifted Aunt Nadya, who died early, and her older brother, the adventurer Uncle Yuzy - Joseph Grigorievich. This uncle received a military education and, having the character of a tireless traveler, a never-despairing unsuccessful entrepreneur, a restless person and an adventurer, disappeared from his parents’ home for a long time and unexpectedly returned to it from the farthest corners of the Russian Empire and the rest of the world, for example, from the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway or by participating in the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa on the side of the small Boers, who staunchly resisted the British conquerors, as the liberal-minded Russian public, which sympathized with these descendants of Dutch settlers, believed at the time. On his last visit to Kyiv, which occurred during the armed uprising that took place there during the First Russian Revolution of 1905-07. , he unexpectedly got involved in the events, organizing the previously unsuccessful shooting of the rebel artillerymen at government buildings and, after the defeat of the uprising, was forced to emigrate for the rest of his life to the countries Far East. All these people and events influenced the personality and work of the writer.
The writer's parental family had four children. Konstantin Paustovsky had two older brothers (Boris and Vadim) and a sister Galina.
After the breakup of the family (autumn 1908), he lived for several months with his uncle, Nikolai Grigorievich Vysochansky, in Bryansk and studied at the Bryansk gymnasium.
In the fall of 1909 he returned to Kyiv and, having recovered at the Alexander Gymnasium (with the assistance of its teachers), began independent life earning money by tutoring. After some time, the future writer settled with his grandmother, Vikentia Ivanovna Vysochanskaya, who moved to Kyiv from Cherkassy. Here, in a small outbuilding on Lukyanovka, high school student Paustovsky wrote his first stories, which were published in Kyiv magazines. After graduating from high school in 1912, he entered the Imperial University of St. Vladimir in Kyiv to the Faculty of History and Philology, where he studied for two years.
In total, Konstantin Paustovsky, “a Muscovite by birth and a Kievite by heart,” lived in Ukraine for more than twenty years. It was here that he established himself as a journalist and writer, as he admitted more than once autobiographical prose. In the preface to the Ukrainian edition of “Gold of Troyanda” (Russian " golden rose») In 1957 he wrote:
In the books of almost every writer, the image of native land, with its endless sky and the silence of the fields, with its brooding forests and the language of the people. Overall, I was lucky. I grew up in Ukraine. I am grateful to her lyricism in many aspects of my prose. I carried the image of Ukraine in my heart for many years.
World War I and Civil War
After both of his brothers died on the same day on different fronts, Paustovsky returned to Moscow to his mother and sister, but after some time he left there. During this period, he worked at the Bryansk Metallurgical Plant in Yekaterinoslav, at the Novorossiysk Metallurgical Plant in Yuzovka, at a boiler plant in Taganrog, and from the fall of 1916 in a fishing cooperative on the Sea of Azov. After the start of the February Revolution, he left for Moscow, where he worked as a reporter for newspapers. In Moscow, he witnessed the events of 1917-1919 associated with the October Revolution.
In 1932, Konstantin Paustovsky visited Petrozavodsk, working on the history of the Onega plant (the topic was suggested by A. M. Gorky). The result of the trip was the stories “The Fate of Charles Lonseville” and “Lake Front” and a long essay “The Onega Plant”. Impressions from a trip to the north of the country also formed the basis for the essays “The Country Beyond Onega” and “Murmansk”.
Having traveled around the north-west of the country, visiting Novgorod, Staraya Russa, Pskov, Mikhailovskoye, Paustovsky wrote the essay “Mikhailovsky Groves”, published in the magazine “Krasnaya Nov” (No. 7, 1938).
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “On awarding Soviet writers"On January 31, 1939, K. G. Paustovsky was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (“For outstanding successes and achievements in the development of Soviet fiction”).
Period of the Great Patriotic War
In mid-August, Konstantin Paustovsky returned to Moscow and was left to work in the TASS apparatus. Soon, at the request of the Committee on Arts, he was released from service to work on new play for the Moscow Art Theater and evacuated with his family to Alma-Ata, where he worked on the play “Until the Heart Stops,” the novel “Smoke of the Fatherland,” and wrote a number of stories. The production of the play was prepared by the Moscow Chamber Theater under the direction of A. Ya. Tairov, evacuated to Barnaul. While working with the Paustovsky Theater staff for some time (winter 1942 and early spring 1943) spent in Barnaul and Belokurikha. He called this period of his life “Barnaul months”. The premiere of the play “Until the Heart Stops,” dedicated to the fight against fascism, took place in Barnaul on April 4, 1943.
World recognition
In the 1950s, Paustovsky lived in Moscow and Tarusa-on-Oka. He became one of the compilers of the most important collective collections of the democratic movement during the Thaw, “Literary Moscow” (1956) and “Tarussky Pages” (1961). For more than ten years he led a prose seminar in , and was the head of the department. literary excellence. Among the students at Paustovsky’s seminar were: Inna Goff, Vladimir Tendryakov, Grigory Baklanov, Yuri Bondarev, Yuri Trifonov, Boris Balter, Ivan Panteleev. In her book “Transformations” Inna Goff wrote about K. G. Paustovsky:
I think about him often. Yes, he had a rare talent as a Teacher. It is no coincidence that there are many teachers among his passionate fans. He knew how to create a special, mysteriously beautiful atmosphere of creativity - this is precisely the lofty word I want to use here.
In the mid-1950s, Paustovsky came to global recognition. Having the opportunity to travel around Europe, he visited Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Sweden, Italy and other countries. Setting off on a cruise around Europe in 1956, he visited Istanbul, Athens, Naples, Rome, Paris, Rotterdam, Stockholm. At the invitation of Bulgarian writers, K. Paustovsky visited Bulgaria in 1959. In 1965, he lived for some time on the island. Capri. Also in 1965, he was one of the likely candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was eventually awarded to Mikhail Sholokhov. In the book “Lexicon of Russian Literature of the 20th Century,” written by the famous German Slavist Wolfgang Kazak, it is said about this: “The planned presentation of the Nobel Prize to K. Paustovsky in 1965 did not take place, since Soviet authorities began to threaten Sweden with economic sanctions. And thus, instead of him, the major Soviet literary functionary M. Sholokhov was awarded.” .
K. G. Paustovsky was among Marlene Dietrich’s favorite writers. In her book “Reflections” (chapter “Paustovsky”) she described their meeting, which took place in 1964 during her speech at the Central House of Writers:
- “...Once I read the story “Telegram” by Paustovsky. (It was a book where next to the Russian text there was his English translation.) He made such an impression on me that I could no longer forget either the story or the name of the writer, whom I had never heard of. I have not been able to find other books by this amazing writer. When I came on tour to Russia, at the Moscow airport I asked about Paustovsky. Hundreds of journalists gathered here, they didn’t ask stupid questions that they usually annoyed me with in other countries. Their questions were very interesting. Our conversation lasted more than an hour. When we approached my hotel, I already knew everything about Paustovsky. He was sick at the time and was in the hospital. Later I read both volumes of “The Tale of Life” and was intoxicated by his prose. We performed for writers, artists, artists, often there were even four performances a day. And on one of these days, preparing for a performance, Burt Bacharach and I were backstage. My charming translator Nora came to us and said that Paustovsky was in the hall. But this couldn’t be, I know that he is in the hospital with a heart attack, that’s what they told me at the airport on the day I arrived. I objected: “This is impossible!” Nora assured: “Yes, he is here with his wife.” The performance went well. But you can never foresee this - when you try especially hard, most often you do not achieve what you want. At the end of the show I was asked to stay on stage. And suddenly Paustovsky walked up the steps. I was so shocked by his presence that, being unable to utter a word in Russian, I found no other way to express my admiration to him than to kneel before him. Worried about his health, I wanted him to return to the hospital immediately. But his wife reassured me: “It will be better for him.” It took him a lot of effort to come to see me. He died soon after. I still have his books and memories of him. He wrote romantically, but simply, without embellishment. I'm not sure if he is known in America, but one day he will be “discovered.” In his descriptions he resembles Hamsun. He is the best Russian writer I know. I met him too late."
In memory of this meeting, Marlene Dietrich gave Konstantin Georgievich several photographs. One of them captured Konstantin Paustovsky and an actress kneeling before her beloved writer on the stage of the Central House of Writers.
Recent years
In 1966, Konstantin Paustovsky signed a letter from twenty-five cultural and scientific figures to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L. I. Brezhnev against the rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin. His literary secretary during this period (1965-1968) was journalist Valery Druzhbinsky.
For a long time, Konstantin Paustovsky suffered from asthma and suffered several heart attacks. Died on July 14, 1968 in Moscow. According to his will, he was buried in the local cemetery of Tarusa, the title of “Honorary Citizen” of which he was awarded on May 30, 1967.
In 1965, he signed a letter petitioning to provide A. I. Solzhenitsyn with an apartment in Moscow, and in 1967 he supported Solzhenitsyn, who wrote a letter to the IV Congress of Soviet Writers demanding the abolition of censorship literary works.
Shortly before his death, the seriously ill Paustovsky sent a letter to A. N. Kosygin with a request not to fire the chief director of the Taganka Theater Yu. P. Lyubimov. The letter was followed by telephone conversation with Kosygin, in which Konstantin Georgievich said:
Family
- Father, Georgy Maksimovich Paustovsky (1852-1912), was a railway statistician, came from Zaporozhye Cossacks. He died and was buried in 1912 in the village. An ancient settlement near the White Church.
- Mother, Maria Grigorievna, née Vysochanskaya(1858 - June 20, 1934) - buried at the Baikovo Cemetery in Kyiv.
- Sister, Paustovskaya Galina Georgievna(1886 - January 8, 1936) - buried at the Baikovo cemetery in Kyiv (next to her mother).
- The brothers of K. G. Paustovsky were killed on the same day in 1915 on the fronts of the First World War: Boris Georgievich Paustovsky(1888-1915) - lieutenant of a sapper battalion, killed on the Galician front; Vadim Georgievich Paustovsky(1890-1915) - ensign of the Navaginsky infantry regiment, killed in battle in the Riga direction.
- Grandfather (paternal side), Maxim Grigorievich Paustovsky- former soldier, participant in the Russian-Turkish war, one-palace; grandmother, Honorata Vikentievna- Turkish (Fatma), baptized into Orthodoxy. Paustovsky’s grandfather brought her from Kazanlak, where he was in captivity.
- Grandfather (maternal side), Grigory Moiseevich Vysochansky(d. 1901), notary in Cherkasy; grandmother Vincentia Ivanovna(d. 1914) - Polish noblewoman.
- First wife - Ekaterina Stepanovna Zagorskaya(2.10.1889-1969), (father - Stepan Alexandrovich, priest, died before Catherine's birth; mother - Maria Yakovlevna Gorodtsova, a rural teacher, died a few years after the death of her husband). On the maternal side, Ekaterina Zagorskaya is a relative of the famous archaeologist Vasily Alekseevich Gorodtsov, discoverer of the unique antiquities of Old Ryazan. About her (with a portrait) and her sister, buried in Efremov, see Shadows of an ancient cemetery - a former necropolis in Efremov and rural churchyards / Author: M. V. Mayorov Mayorov, Mikhail Vladimirovich, G. N. Polshakov, O. V. Myasoedova, T. V. Mayorova. - Tula: Borus-Print LLC, 2015. - 148 p.; ill. ISBN 978-5-905154-20-1 .
Paustovsky met his future wife when he went to the front as an orderly (First world war), where Ekaterina Zagorskaya was a nurse.
Name Hatice (Russian: "Ekaterina") E. Zagorskaya was given the gift of a Tatar woman from a Crimean village where she spent the summer of 1914.
Paustovsky and Zagorskaya got married in the summer of 1916, in Ekaterina’s native Podlesnaya Sloboda in the Ryazan province (now the Lukhovitsky district of the Moscow region). It was in this church that her father served as a priest. In August 1925, a son was born to the Paustovskys in Ryazan. Vadim(08/02/1925 - 04/10/2000). Until the end of his life, Vadim Paustovsky collected letters from his parents, documents, and donated many things to the Paustovsky Museum-Center in Moscow.
In 1936, Ekaterina Zagorskaya and Konstantin Paustovsky separated. Catherine admitted to her relatives that she gave her husband a divorce herself. She couldn’t stand that he “got involved with a Polish woman” (meaning Paustovsky’s second wife). Konstantin Georgievich, however, continued to take care of his son Vadim after the divorce.
- Second wife - Valeria Vladimirovna Valishevskaya-Navashina.
Valeria Valishevskaya (Waleria Waliszewska)- sister of the famous Polish artist Zygmunt (Sigismund) Waliszewski in the 20s (Zygmunt Waliszewski). Valeria becomes the inspiration for many works - for example, “The Meshchera Side”, “Throw to the South” (here Valishevskaya was the prototype of Maria).
- Third wife - Tatyana Alekseevna Evteeva-Arbuzova (1903-1978).
Tatyana was an actress of the theater named after. Meyerhold. They met when Tatyana Evteeva was the wife of the fashionable playwright Alexei Arbuzov (Arbuzov’s play “Tanya” is dedicated to her). She married K. G. Paustovsky in 1950. Paustovsky wrote about her:
Alexey Konstantinovich(1950-1976), son from his third wife Tatyana, was born in the village of Solotcha, Ryazan region. Died at the age of 26 from a drug overdose. The drama of the situation is that he was not the only one who committed suicide or poisoned himself - there was a girl with him. But her doctors resuscitated her, but he was not saved.
Creation
My writing life began with the desire to know everything, see everything and travel. And, obviously, this is where it ends.
The poetry of wanderings, merging with unvarnished reality, formed the best alloy for creating books.
The first works, “On the Water” and “Four” (in the notes to the first volume of the six-volume collected works of K. Paustovsky, published in 1958, the story is called “Three”), were written by Paustovsky while still studying in the last grade of the Kyiv gymnasium. The story “On the Water” was published in the Kiev almanac “Lights”, No. 32 and was signed with the pseudonym “K. Balagin" (the only story published by Paustovsky under a pseudonym). The story “Four” was published in the youth magazine “Knight” (No. 10-12, October-December, 1913).
In 1916, while working at the Nev-Vilde boiler plant in Taganrog, K. Paustovsky began writing his first novel, “Romantics,” work on which lasted seven years and was completed in 1923 in Odessa.
It seems to me that one of characteristic features my prose is its romantic mood...
... A romantic mood does not contradict an interest in and love for the “rough” life. In all areas of reality, with rare exceptions, there are seeds of romance.
They can be ignored and trampled, or, conversely, given the opportunity to grow, decorate and ennoble with their flowering inner world person.
In 1928, Paustovsky’s first collection of stories, “Oncoming Ships,” was published (“My first real book was the collection of stories “Oncoming Ships”), although individual essays and stories had been published before that. In a short period of time (winter 1928), the novel “Shining Clouds” was written, in which detective-adventurous intrigue, conveyed in magnificent figurative language, was combined with autobiographical episodes related to Paustovsky’s trips around the Black Sea and the Caucasus in 1925-1927. The novel was published by the Kharkov publishing house "Proletary" in 1929.
The story “Kara-Bugaz” brought fame. Written on the basis of true facts and published in 1932 by the Moscow publishing house “Young Guard,” the story immediately brought Paustovsky (according to critics) to the forefront of Soviet writers of that time. The story has been published many times different languages peoples of the USSR and abroad. The film “Kara-Bugaz”, shot in 1935 by director Alexander Razumny, was not allowed to be released for political reasons.
In 1935 in Moscow, the publishing house " Fiction“The novel “Romantics” was published for the first time, included in the collection of the same name.
Regardless of the length of the work, Paustovsky’s narrative structure is additive, “in selection,” when episode follows episode; The predominant form of narration is in the first person, on behalf of the narrator-observer. More complex structures with the subordination of several lines of action are alien to Paustovsky’s prose.
In 1958, the State Publishing House of Fiction published a six-volume collected works of the writer with a circulation of 225 thousand copies.
Bibliography
- Collected works in 6 volumes. - M.: Goslitizdat, 1957-1958
- Collected works in 8 volumes + extras. volume. - M.: Fiction, 1967-1972
- Collected works in 9 volumes. - M.: Fiction, 1981-1986
- Selected works in 3 volumes. - M.: Russian book, 1995
Awards and prizes
Film adaptations
Music
The first monument to K. G. Paustovsky was opened on April 1, 2010, also in Odessa, on the territory of the Sculpture Garden of the Odessa Literary Museum. Kyiv sculptor Oleg Chernoivanov immortalized the great writer in the image of a mysterious sphinx.
On August 24, 2012, a monument to Konstantin Paustovsky was inaugurated on the banks of the Oka River in Tarusa, created by sculptor Vadim Tserkovnikov based on photographs of Konstantin Georgievich, in which the writer is depicted with his dog Grozny.
The minor planet, discovered by N. S. Chernykh on September 8, 1978 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and registered under number 5269, is named in honor of K. G. Paustovsky - (5269) Paustovskij = 1978 SL6 .
Museums
Notes
- Nikolai Golovkin. Testament of Doctor Paust. To the 115th anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Paustovsky (undefined) . Internet newspaper “Century” (May 30, 2007). Retrieved August 6, 2014.
PAUSTOVSKY Konstantin Georgievich, Russian writer, master of lyrical-romantic prose, author of works about nature, historical stories, fiction memoirs.
Life Universities
Paustovsky was born into the family of an official of the South-Western Administration railway, graduated from high school. In 1911-13 he studied at Kiev University at the Faculty of Natural History, then at the Faculty of Law at Moscow University. The writer’s youth was not prosperous: his father left the family, his mother’s poverty, his sister’s blindness, then the death of two brothers during the First World War.
The revolution, which he accepted joyfully, quickly dissipated the initial romantic delight. The thirst for freedom and justice, the belief that after it unprecedented opportunities will open up for the spiritual growth of the individual, for the transformation and development of society - all these beautiful dreams collided with the harsh reality of violence and degradation of the previous culture, the devastation and entropy of human relations that Paustovsky , according to memoirists, he himself was soft, sympathetic, and old-fashioned intelligent, dreaming of seeing people completely different.
In 1914-1929, Paustovsky tried different professions: conductor and tram leader, orderly at the front of the First World War, reporter, teacher, proofreader, etc. He travels a lot around Russia.
In 1941-1942 he went to the front as a war correspondent for TASS, published in the front-line newspaper For the Glory of the Motherland, in the newspapers Defender of the Motherland, Krasnaya Zvezda, etc.
Romance
Paustovsky began as a romantic. A. Green had a great influence on his work.
Paustovsky's first story On the Water was published in the Kiev magazine "Ogni" in 1912. In 1925 he published his first book, Sea Sketches. In 1929 he became a professional writer. In the same year, his novel "Brilliant Clouds" was published.
Having wandered around the country, seen death and suffering, and changed a number of professions, Paustovsky nevertheless remained faithful to romance - as before, he dreamed of an exalted and bright life, and considered poetry to be life brought to full expression.
The writer was drawn to heroic or extraordinary figures, devoted either to the idea of art, like the artists Isaac Levitan or Niko Pirosmanashvili, or to the idea of freedom, like the unknown French engineer Charles Lonseville, who found himself in Russian captivity during the War of 1812. And these characters are usually characterized through their attitude to books, paintings, and art.
Exactly creativity it was in personality that most attracted the writer.
Therefore, many of the heroes closest to the author are creators: artists, poets, writers, composers... Happily gifted, they are, as a rule, unhappy in life, even if they ultimately achieve success. Drama creative personality, as Paustovsky shows, is associated with the artist’s special sensitivity to any disorder in life, to its indifference; it is the flip side of a heightened perception of its beauty and depth, longing for harmony and perfection.
Wandering (many of his heroes are wanderers) for Paustovsky is also creativity in its own way: a person, in contact with unfamiliar places and new, hitherto unknown beauty, discovers previously unknown layers of feelings and thoughts.
Birth of a legend
Daydreaming is an integral feature of many of Paustovsky's early heroes. They create their own independent world, separated from boring reality, but when faced with it face to face they often suffer defeat. Many early writings writer (Minetoza, 1927; Romantics, written in 1916-23, published 1935) are marked by exoticism, a foggy haze of mystery, the names of his heroes are unusual (Chop, Mett, Garth, etc.). In many of Paustovsky’s works, a legend seems to be born: reality is decorated with fiction and fantasy.
Over time, Paustovsky moves away from abstract romance, from the inflated claims of the heroes to exclusivity. His next period literary activity can be characterized as a romance of transformation. In the 1920s and 30s, Paustovsky traveled a lot around the country, engaged in journalism, publishing essays and reports in the central press. And as a result, he writes the stories Kara-Bugaz (1932) and Colchis (1934), where the same romance receives a social emphasis, although here too the motive of the transtemporal, universal desire for happiness is the main one.
Kara-Bugaz and other works
Along with the story Kara-Bugaz, fame comes to the writer. In the story - about the development of deposits of Glauber's salt in the Gulf of the Caspian Sea - romance is translated into a struggle with the desert: man, conquering the earth, strives to outgrow himself. The writer combines in the story an artistic and visual element with plot action, scientific and popularization goals with artistic comprehension different human destinies colliding in the struggle to revive a barren, parched land, history and modernity, fiction and document, for the first time achieving multifaceted storytelling.
For Paustovsky, the desert is the personification of the destructive principles of existence, a symbol of entropy. For the first time, the writer touches with such certainty on environmental issues, one of the main ones in his work. The writer is increasingly attracted to everyday life in its simplest manifestations.
It was during this period, when Soviet criticism welcomed the industrial pathos of his new works, that Paustovsky also wrote stories, simple in plot, with a full-bodied and natural sound of the author’s voice: Badger Nose, Thief Cat, The Last Devil and others included in the cycle Summer days(1937), as well as stories about artists ("Orest Kiprensky" and "Isaac Levitan", both 1937) and the story "Meshchora Side" (1939), where his gift for depicting nature reaches its highest peak.
These works are very different from his ceremonial short stories like Valor and the Guide, where the writer tried to show the ideal as something already existing, pathos overflowed, idealization turned into the notorious varnishing of reality."
Prose poetry
In Paustovsky’s work, it is poetry that becomes the dominant feature of prose: lyricism, reticence, nuances of mood, musicality of phrases, melody of narration - they contain the charm of the writer’s emphatically traditional style.
Tale of life
The main thing in the last period of Paustovsky’s work was the autobiographical “Tale of Life” (1945-63) - the story of the author-hero’s search for himself, the meaning of life, the most fulfilling connections with the world, society, nature (covers the period from the 1890s to 1920 's) and "Golden Rose" (1956) - a book about the work of a writer, about the psychology of artistic creativity.
It is here that the writer finds the optimal synthesis of the genres closest to him and artistic means- short story, essay, digression etc. The story here is imbued with a deeply personal, hard-won feeling, usually concentrated around creativity and moral quest personality. The legend fits quite organically into the fabric of the narrative as a natural element of the artistic structure.
Konstantin Paustovsky is a classic in twentieth-century literature. All works are read with pleasure by adults, and children personify human and literary nobility. Paustovsky was born in Moscow into an intelligent family, theatergoers who loved to play the piano and sing. He died at seventy-six years old. He studied in Kyiv at a classical gymnasium. His parents divorced and he had to work part-time as a teacher.
After graduating from high school, he entered Kiev University at the Faculty of Law, but dreamed of becoming a writer. He decided for himself, for writing activity you need to “go into life” and acquire life experience. In Moscow, he works as a carriage driver, then gets a job as an orderly on a rear train, changes many different professions, and was even a fisherman on the Sea of Azov.
In his free time from work, he wrote stories. During the revolution, he worked in Moscow as a newspaper reporter and described events. During Patriotic War he is a war correspondent. After the war, Paustovsky was engaged in literary activities and wrote: novels, stories, as well as stories and fairy tales for children. Book "Stories and Tales about Animals and Nature." It includes famous stories:
- The Adventures of the Rhinoceros Beetle;
- Tree frog;
- Steel ring;
- Badger's nose and other works.
Read Paustovsky's biography for grade 3
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky was born on May 31, 1892 in Moscow. He grew up in the family of Georgy Maksimovich Paustovsky and Maria Grigorievna Paustovskaya, had two brothers and a sister. In 1904 he entered the Kyiv gymnasium. My favorite subjects in the gymnasium were geography and literature.
In 1912, having changed places of residence and schools many times, the young man began studying at the Faculty of History and Philology of Kyiv University, completing 2 courses. After the outbreak of the First World War, he transferred to Moscow University, but soon left it and began to work. Having changed many professions, he gets a job as an orderly at the front and participates in the retreat of the Russian army. After the death of his brothers, he returns to Moscow to his mother and sister, but does not stay there for long. The young man travels throughout the south of Russia, lives in Odessa for two years, working at the Mayak newspaper, and then leaves Odessa, goes to the Caucasus, also visiting northern Persia.
In 1923 he returned to the capital. He works as an editor at a telegraph agency for a couple of years and begins publishing. He also spent the 1930s traveling around the country, publishing many essays and stories. During the Great Patriotic War he became a military journalist and served on the Southern Front. In August 1941, he completed his service to work on a play for the Moscow Theater. art theater, moves to Alma-Ata, where he sits down to write the play “Until the Heart Stops” and the novel “Smoke of the Fatherland.”
In the 1950s he lived in Moscow and Tarusa, becoming one of the compilers of the collections “Literary Moscow” and “Tarussky Pages”. After receiving worldwide recognition travels around Europe, lives on the island of Capri. In 1966, he signed a letter from scientists and cultural figures about the inadmissibility of Stalin’s rehabilitation. Dies on July 14, 1968 in Moscow after a prolonged illness with asthma.
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Biography of Konstantin Paustovsky
The writer was born on May 19 (31), 1892 in Moscow. Paustovsky admitted that from his youth his life was subordinated to achieving a single goal - to become a writer. Went. Paustovsky serves as a front train orderly. Then - revolution. An aspiring writer works as a newspaper reporter. He lacks sleep and is malnourished, attends rallies. However, due to his youth, Paustovsky likes this life.
After Kyiv and Odessa, wandering around the cities of Transcaucasia, there was Moscow. Bolshaya Dmitrovka, corner of Stoleshnikov Lane - this is Paustovsky’s address. The family, of course, was forced to live in a communal apartment. Paustovsky became editor of ROST. He wrote a lot, rushing home after work. I wrote all my free time, even at night. In the early 30s. Paustovsky traveled to Central Asia.
Why was he attracted to this particular corner of the country? Kara-Bugaz is a little-known bay on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, where there is bitter salt, rocks and sands. This must already be from the field of creativity psychology, which is sometimes impossible for us, readers, to penetrate. Ominous places, as if specially designed for a romantic. A river flows from the Caspian Sea - not into the sea, but from it. And its name is appropriate - Black Mouth. Gradually, a decisive change occurs in Paustovsky’s worldview: he is no longer attracted by distant distances, for he discovers middle Russia for himself. This is what becomes sacred ground for a mature master.
20 years of Paustovsky’s life were spent in Solodcha. Recent years Paustovsky lived in the same place - in the depths of Russia, in the small town of Tarusa, on the hills near the Oka. A river gurgled nearby. Here, in this silence, where everything was so familiar, understandable, dear, the writer invariably returned from frequent trips. The artist's keen eye opened Meshchora for readers - a protected region between Ryazan and. Paustovsky asserted a new ideal of beauty - in the ordinary, the familiar, the most ordinary. Paustovsky defended the right of literature to depict nature. His books made many people see the beauty of the earth.
Over the years, Paustovsky again remembered the craft of a war correspondent. He served on the Southern Front and was not kind. From the motto of his youth, “Accept everything and understand everything,” he came to another, “Understand everything, but not forgive everything.” He defended everything that was dear to him with the uncompromising spirit of a fighter. Under all circumstances, Paustovsky remained himself. He amazed many with his mental fortitude. During the time of unbridled praise of Stalin, Konstantin Georgievich seemed to have filled his mouth with water. He never became a member of the CPSU. I never signed any letters of protest.
On the contrary, he always stood up for the persecuted and persecuted - as best he could, he stood up for Solzhenitsyn, who had fallen into disgrace, and defended the Taganka Theater, being already on the brink of the grave. Everything created by Paustovsky is an attempt to answer the question of questions - what values are imperishable, what cannot be lost? He was understandable in his worries, passions, and earthly joys. Konstantin Georgievich died on July 14, 1968 in Moscow.
Works of Konstantin Paustovsky
Paustovsky was then drawn to write in a romantic spirit, about extraordinary love and exotic seas. However, a clear inner voice told him more and more insistently that it was time to wake up from the colorful dreams of youth. Followers first reader reviews- people thought about his books, worried, cried and laughed. During the years of the first Soviet five-year plans, Paustovsky’s talent strengthened so much that its owner himself realized: it was time to speak out loud. He did not write a story about construction in the literal sense of the word, trying to quickly respond to the topic of the day. His “Kara-Bugaz” is rather a book about a dream come true. Something new and unusual wafted from the pages of the book. You could feel the artist's eye, the poet's inspiration and the scientist's inquisitiveness.
Lyricism coexisted with scientificism. An amazing alloy for those times! Paustovsky was convinced: happiness is given only to those who know. And he himself amazed his contemporaries with the universality of his knowledge. It was not for nothing that his friends jokingly and respectfully called him “Doctor Paust.” He had a dual vision of the world - at the intersection of document and fiction. Thus, Paustovsky expanded the traditional boundaries of poetry and put new continents on the map of literature. “Kara-Bugaz” became one of the first books of Soviet scientific and artistic prose. The success of the book was stunning. The author himself did not know about it for some time.
In solitude, new plans matured. Books appear about the collision of dreams and reality, about the pathos of transforming life - “Colchis”, “Black Sea”. Paustovsky said more than once that the sea made him a writer. He even prepared to become a sailor. He didn’t become a sailor, but wore a naval vest all his life. For youngest son Paustovsky even painted a watercolor landscape-memory of Koktebel. At the Literary Institute, which is located not far from the monument in Moscow, Paustovsky led a creative seminar for more than ten years. He never tired of repeating to young prose writers: essentially, we do not live for ourselves. A writer is a service to the people. It belongs to history.
The Literary Institute seminars provided a lot of material and food for thought. No one took shorthand notes, and memory is too unreliable a substance. So Paustovsky had a need to put on paper his thoughts about the work of an artist of words. For many years, in Dubulti on the Baltic, and then in Tarus on the Oka, he worked on a story about how books are written. It was called "Golden Rose". Paustovsky left a rich literary heritage. Numerous collections of stories, books about great painters and poets, plays about Pushkin and several volumes of autobiographical narrative. Paustovsky received praise from Bunin himself in 1947. Romain Rolland singled him out. Years later, a motor ship named after the writer will be launched from the stocks.
- Two of Paustovsky's brothers died on the same day of the First World War, but on different fronts.
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Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky. Born May 19 (31), 1892 in Moscow - died July 14, 1968 in Moscow. Russian Soviet writer, classic of Russian literature. Member of the USSR Writers' Union. K. Paustovsky's books have been repeatedly translated into many languages of the world. In the second half of the 20th century, his novels and short stories were included in the Russian literature curriculum for middle classes in Russian schools as one of the plot and stylistic examples of landscape and lyrical prose.
Konstantin Paustovsky was born into the family of railway statistician Georgy Maksimovich Paustovsky, who had Ukrainian-Polish-Turkish roots and lived in Granatny Lane in Moscow. He was baptized in the Church of St. George on Vspolye.
The writer's pedigree on his father's side is connected with the name of Hetman P.K. Sagaidachny. The writer’s grandfather was a Cossack, had the experience of being a Chumakov, transporting goods from Crimea with his comrades deep into Ukrainian territory, and introduced young Kostya to Ukrainian folklore, Chumakov, Cossack songs and stories, of which the most memorable was the romantic and tragic story of a former rural blacksmith that touched him, and then the blind lyre player Ostap, who lost his sight from the blow of a cruel nobleman, a rival who stood in the way of his love for a beautiful noble lady, who then died, unable to bear the separation from Ostap and his torment.
Before becoming a Chumak, the writer’s paternal grandfather served in the army under Nicholas I, was captured by the Turks during one of the Russian-Turkish wars and brought from there his stern Turkish wife Fatma, who was baptized in Russia with the name Honorata, so The writer's father has Ukrainian-Cossack blood mixed with Turkish. The father is portrayed in the story “Distant Years” as a not very practical man of a freedom-loving revolutionary-romantic type and an atheist, which irritated his mother-in-law, another grandmother of the future writer.
The writer’s maternal grandmother, Vikentia Ivanovna, who lived in Cherkassy, was Polish, a zealous Catholic, who took her preschool-age grandson, with his father’s disapproval, to worship Catholic shrines in the then Russian part of Poland, and the impressions of their visit and the people they met there also sank deeply into her soul writer.
My grandmother always wore mourning after the defeat of the Polish uprising in 1863, as she sympathized with the idea of freedom for Poland. After the defeat of the Poles by the government forces of the Russian Empire, active supporters of Polish liberation felt hostility towards the oppressors, and at a Catholic pilgrimage, the boy, warned by his grandmother about this, was afraid to speak Russian, while he spoke Polish only to a minimal extent. The boy was also frightened by the religious frenzy of other Catholic pilgrims, and he alone did not fulfill the required rituals, which his grandmother explained by the bad influence of his father, an atheist.
The Polish grandmother is portrayed as strict, but kind and attentive. Her husband, the writer’s second grandfather, was a taciturn man who lived alone in his room on the mezzanine and communication with him was not noted by the author of the story as a factor that significantly influenced him, unlike communication with two other members of that family - a young, beautiful , cheerful, impetuous and musically gifted Aunt Nadya, who died early, and her older brother, the adventurer Uncle Yuzya - Joseph Grigorievich. This uncle received a military education and, having the character of a tireless traveler, a never-despairing, unsuccessful entrepreneur, a restless person and an adventurer, disappeared from his parents’ home for a long time and unexpectedly returned to it from the farthest corners of the Russian Empire and the rest of the world, for example, from the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway or by participating in the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa on the side of the small Boers, who staunchly resisted the British conquerors, as the liberal-minded Russian public, which sympathized with these descendants of Dutch settlers, believed at the time.
On his last visit to Kyiv, which occurred during the armed uprising that took place there during the First Russian Revolution of 1905-07, he unexpectedly got involved in the events, organizing the previously unsuccessful shooting of the rebel artillerymen at government buildings and after the defeat of the uprising he was forced to emigrate for the rest of his life to the countries of the Far East. All these people and events influenced the personality and work of the writer.
The writer's parental family had four children. Konstantin Paustovsky had two older brothers (Boris and Vadim) and a sister Galina. In 1898, the family returned from Moscow to Ukraine, to Kyiv, where in 1904, Konstantin Paustovsky entered the First Kyiv Classical Gymnasium.
After the breakup of the family (autumn 1908), he lived for several months with his uncle, Nikolai Grigorievich Vysochansky, in Bryansk and studied at the Bryansk gymnasium.
In the fall of 1909, he returned to Kyiv and, having been restored to the Alexander Gymnasium (with the assistance of its teachers), began an independent life, earning money by tutoring. After some time, the future writer settled with his grandmother, Vikentia Ivanovna Vysochanskaya, who moved to Kyiv from Cherkassy.
Here, in a small outbuilding on Lukyanovka, high school student Paustovsky wrote his first stories, which were published in Kyiv magazines.
After graduating from high school in 1912, he entered the Kiev University at the Faculty of History and Philology, where he studied for two years.
In total, Konstantin Paustovsky, “a Muscovite by birth and a Kievite by heart,” lived in Ukraine for more than twenty years. It was here that he established himself as a journalist and writer, as he admitted more than once in his autobiographical prose.
With the outbreak of World War I, K. Paustovsky moved to Moscow to live with his mother, sister and brother and transferred to Moscow University, but was soon forced to interrupt his studies and get a job. He worked as a conductor and counselor on the Moscow tram, then served as an orderly on the rear and field ambulance trains.
In the fall of 1915, with a field medical detachment, he retreated along with the Russian army from Lublin in Poland to Nesvizh in Belarus.
After both of his brothers died on the same day on different fronts, Paustovsky returned to Moscow to his mother and sister, but after some time he left there. During this period, he worked at the Bryansk Metallurgical Plant in Yekaterinoslav, at the Novorossiysk Metallurgical Plant in Yuzovka, at a boiler plant in Taganrog, and from the fall of 1916 in a fishing cooperative on the Sea of Azov.
After the start of the February Revolution, he left for Moscow, where he worked as a reporter for newspapers. In Moscow, he witnessed the events of 1917-1919 associated with the October Revolution.
During civil war K. Paustovsky returns to Ukraine, where his mother and sister moved again. In Kyiv in December 1918, he was drafted into the Hetman's army, and soon after another change of power he was drafted into the Red Army - into a guard regiment recruited from former Makhnovists.
A few days later, one of the guard soldiers shot and killed the regimental commander and the regiment was disbanded.
Subsequently, Konstantin Georgievich traveled a lot around the south of Russia, lived for two years in Odessa, working for the newspaper “Moryak”. During this period, Paustovsky became friends with I. Ilf, I. Babel (about whom he later left detailed memories), Bagritsky, and L. Slavin.
Paustovsky left Odessa for the Caucasus. Lived in Sukhumi, Batumi, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku, visited northern Persia.
In 1923, Paustovsky returned to Moscow. He worked as an editor at ROSTA for several years and began publishing.
In the 1930s, Paustovsky actively worked as a journalist for the Pravda newspaper, 30 Days, Our Achievements and others magazines, and traveled widely around the country. The impressions from these trips were embodied in works of art and essays.
In 1930, essays were first published in the magazine “30 Days.”: "Fish Talk" (No. 6), "Chasing Plants" (No. 7), "Blue Fire Zone" (No. 12).
From 1930 until the early 1950s, Paustovsky spent a lot of time in the village of Solotcha near Ryazan in the Meshchera forests.
At the beginning of 1931, on instructions from ROSTA, he went to Berezniki for the construction of the Berezniki chemical plant, where he continued the work on the story “Kara-Bugaz” that had begun in Moscow. Essays on the Berezniki construction were published in a small book, “The Giant on the Kama.” The story “Kara-Bugaz” was completed in Livny in the summer of 1931, and became key for K. Paustovsky - after the story was published, he left the service and switched to creative work, becoming a professional writer.
In 1932, Konstantin Paustovsky visited Petrozavodsk, working on the history of the Petrozavodsk plant (the topic was suggested). The result of the trip was the stories “The Fate of Charles Lonseville” and “Lake Front” and a long essay “The Onega Plant”. Impressions from a trip to the north of the country also formed the basis for the essays “The Country Beyond Onega” and “Murmansk”.
Based on the materials from the trip along the Volga and Caspian Sea, the essay “Underwater Winds” was written, published for the first time in the magazine “Krasnaya Nov” No. 4 for 1932. In 1937, the newspaper Pravda published the essay “New Tropics,” written based on the impressions of several trips to Mingrelia.
Having traveled around the north-west of the country, visiting Novgorod, Staraya Russa, Pskov, Mikhailovskoye, Paustovsky wrote the essay “Mikhailovsky Groves”, published in the magazine “Krasnaya Nov” (No. 7, 1938).
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “On rewarding Soviet writers” dated January 31, 1939, K. G. Paustovsky was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (“For outstanding successes and achievements in the development of Soviet fiction”).
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Paustovsky, who became a war correspondent, served on the Southern Front. In a letter to Reuben Fraerman dated October 9, 1941, he wrote: “I spent a month and a half on the Southern Front, almost all the time, not counting four days, on the line of fire...”.
In mid-August, Konstantin Paustovsky returned to Moscow and was left to work in the TASS apparatus. Soon, at the request of the Committee for Arts, he was released from service to work on a new play for the Moscow Art Theater and evacuated with his family to Alma-Ata, where he worked on the play “Until the Heart Stops,” the novel “Smoke of the Fatherland,” and wrote a number of stories.
The production of the play was prepared by the Moscow Chamber theater under the leadership of A. Ya. Tairov, evacuated to Barnaul. While working with the theater staff, Paustovsky spent some time (winter 1942 and early spring 1943) in Barnaul and Belokurikha. He called this period of his life “Barnaul months.”
The premiere of the play “Until the Heart Stops,” dedicated to the fight against fascism, took place in Barnaul on April 4, 1943.
In the 1950s, Paustovsky lived in Moscow and Tarusa-on-Oka. He became one of the compilers of the most important collective collections of the democratic trend during the Thaw, “Literary Moscow” (1956) and “Tarussky Pages” (1961).
For more than ten years he led a prose seminar at the Literary Institute. Gorky, was the head of the department of literary excellence. Among the students at Paustovsky’s seminar were: Inna Goff, Vladimir Tendryakov, Grigory Baklanov, Yuri Bondarev, Yuri Trifonov, Boris Balter, Ivan Panteleev.
In the mid-1950s, Paustovsky gained worldwide recognition. Having the opportunity to travel around Europe, he visited Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Sweden, Italy and other countries. Setting off on a cruise around Europe in 1956, he visited Istanbul, Athens, Naples, Rome, Paris, Rotterdam, and Stockholm. At the invitation of Bulgarian writers, K. Paustovsky visited Bulgaria in 1959.
In 1965, he lived for some time on the island. Capri. Also in 1965 was one of the likely candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was eventually awarded to Mikhail Sholokhov.
K. G. Paustovsky was among his favorite writers.
In 1966, Konstantin Paustovsky signed a letter from twenty-five cultural and scientific figures to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L. I. Brezhnev against the rehabilitation of I. Stalin. His literary secretary during this period (1965-1968) was journalist Valery Druzhbinsky.
For a long time, Konstantin Paustovsky suffered from asthma and suffered several heart attacks. Died on July 14, 1968 in Moscow. According to his will, he was buried in the local cemetery of Tarusa, the title of “Honorary Citizen” of which he was awarded on May 30, 1967.
Personal life and family of Paustovsky:
Father, Georgy Maksimovich Paustovsky, was a railway statistician and came from Zaporozhye Cossacks. He died and was buried in 1912 in the village. An ancient settlement near Bila Tserkva.
Mother, Maria Grigorievna, née Vysochanskaya (1858 - June 20, 1934) - buried at the Baikovo cemetery in Kyiv.
Sister, Paustovskaya Galina Georgievna (1886 - January 8, 1936) - buried at the Baikovo cemetery in Kyiv (next to her mother).
The brothers of K. G. Paustovsky were killed on the same day in 1915 on the fronts of the First World War: Boris Georgievich Paustovsky (1888-1915) - lieutenant of a sapper battalion, killed on the Galician front; Vadim Georgievich Paustovsky (1890-1915) - ensign of the Navaginsky infantry regiment, killed in battle in the Riga direction.
Grandfather (from the father's side), Maxim Grigorievich Paustovsky - a former soldier, participant in the Russian-Turkish war, a fellow palace; grandmother, Honorata Vikentievna, is Turkish (Fatma), baptized into Orthodoxy. Paustovsky’s grandfather brought her from Kazanlak, where he was in captivity.
Grandfather (on the mother’s side), Grigory Moiseevich Vysochansky (d. 1901), notary in Cherkassy; grandmother Vincentia Ivanovna (d. 1914) - Polish noblewoman.
First wife - Ekaterina Stepanovna Zagorskaya (2.10. 1889-1969). On her mother's side, Ekaterina Zagorskaya is a relative of the famous archaeologist Vasily Alekseevich Gorodtsov, the discoverer of the unique antiquities of Old Ryazan.
Paustovsky met his future wife when he went as an orderly to the front (World War I), where Ekaterina Zagorskaya was a nurse.
Paustovsky and Zagorskaya got married in the summer of 1916, in Ekaterina’s native Podlesnaya Sloboda in the Ryazan province (now Lukhovitsky district of the Moscow region). It was in this church that her father served as a priest. In August 1925, in Ryazan, the Paustovskys had a son, Vadim (02.08.1925 - 10.04.2000). Until the end of his life, Vadim Paustovsky collected letters from his parents, documents, and donated many things to the Paustovsky Museum-Center in Moscow.
In 1936, Ekaterina Zagorskaya and Konstantin Paustovsky separated. Catherine admitted to her relatives that she gave her husband a divorce herself. She couldn’t stand that he “got involved with a Polish woman” (meaning Paustovsky’s second wife). Konstantin Georgievich, however, continued to take care of his son Vadim after the divorce.
The second wife is Valeria Vladimirovna Valishevskaya-Navashina.
Valeria Waliszewska is the sister of the famous Polish artist Zygmunt Waliszewski in the 20s. Valeria becomes the inspiration for many works - for example, “The Meshchera Side”, “Throw to the South” (here Valishevskaya was the prototype of Maria).
Third wife - Tatyana Alekseevna Evteeva-Arbuzova (1903-1978).
Tatyana was an actress of the theater named after. Meyerhold. They met when Tatyana Evteeva was the wife of the fashionable playwright Alexei Arbuzov (Arbuzov’s play “Tanya” is dedicated to her). She married K. G. Paustovsky in 1950.
Alexey Konstantinovich (1950-1976), son from his third wife Tatyana, was born in the village of Solotcha, Ryazan region. Died at the age of 26 from a drug overdose. The drama of the situation is that he was not the only one who committed suicide or poisoned himself - there was a girl with him. But her doctors resuscitated her, but he was not saved.
