Literature Biography of Shalamov

News newsletter Authentic electronic publication of manuscripts V. Russian intelligentsia without prison, without prison experience - not quite Russian intelligentsia. ” Kuntsevo, Moscow Region. Selects Moscow State University. He receives for this as a “socially dangerous element” 3 years of imprisonment in the camps. He works on the construction of the Bereznikovsky chemical plant under the leadership of E.

Berzin, the future head of the Kolyma Dalstroy. In the camp, he meets Galina Ignatievna Gudz, the future first wife.

October G. earns money for departure from the Bereznikovsky chemical plant. It meets with G. comes to Vologda for the funeral. A special meeting was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment in correctional and labor camps using hard work. August - December of December G. is in an investigative prison in the Magadan "Vaskov House." December - April April - August of May, Yagodnoy, was convicted of anti -Soviet campaign for 10 years of camps.

Autumn of December - Summer Summer G. Summer - Autumn G., with the help of sympathetic doctors, emerges from a dying state. It remains temporarily in the hospital with a culture and auxiliary worker. Unable to withstand the load, it is decided to escape. Autumn - Spring in Spring G. with suspicion of dysentery again enters the Belichye hospital. After recovery with the help of a doctor, A.

Pantyukhov goes to study for paramedic courses at the camp hospital for a kilometer from Magadan. PHIB, km from Magadan. Spring - Summer G. begins to write poetry, which then included in the Colyma notebooks cycle. In the next two years, in the direction of the Dalstroy trust, he works as a paramedic in the villages of Baragon, Kubum, Liryukovan Oymyakonsky district, Yakutia.

The goal is to make money for leaving Kolyma. He continues to write poetry and the written sends through a friend of the doctor E. Mamuchashvili to Moscow, he receives an answer to B.. The correspondence of two poets begins. Pasternak, which helps to establish contacts with literary circles. Lives in the village of Turkmen, 15 km from Reshetnikov.

He divorces a marriage with G. marriage with O. continues to work on “Kolyma stories” and “essays of the criminal world”. He meets I. Sirotinskaya, at that time, an employee of the Central State Archive of Literature and Art. He writes a letter to the Literary Gazeta with a protest against unauthorized publications that violate the author’s will and law.

Many colleagues of the literature perceive this letter as a rejection of the Kolyma Stories and break relations with Shalamov. In connection with the Letnie, he is presented to the Order of the Badge of Honor, but does not receive a reward. The publication was also carried out outside the will of the author. Shalamov’s health worsens sharply. Hearing and vision begins, the attacks of Meniere's disease with the loss of coordination of movements are becoming more frequent.

In moments of rise, he reads poems by A. Envisor to the poetry, A. The latter publishes them in Paris, in the "Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement." The biography was buried in the Kuntsevsky cemetery of the city of Sirotinskaya, clarifications and additions - V. In addition to this brief biographical summary, about the fate of Shalamov, you can read his autobiography “Several of my lives”, as well as Irina Sirotinskaya’s book “My Friend Barlah Shalamov”.

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