Astafyev military biography

An educational online project “They went on that war. Frighting writers ”: Viktor Astafyev An educational online project“ They went on that war. The boy was 7 years old when his father was given a prison term under the article “Wrecking”. Then the mother of Victor died. The boy was taken to her grandmother. After release from prison, Peter Astafyev married again.

The family moved to Igarka of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Father became very ill and got to the hospital. The stepmother refused to keep Victor. He lost his shelter, wandering, then he got into an orphanage. The teacher of the boarding school Siberian poet I. Rozhdestvensky noticed a tendency to literature in Victor and helped with the publication in the school journal of his first story called “Alive” “Vasyutkino Lake”.

After graduating from school, the teenager earned himself on bread in the village of Kurike. After graduating from his studies, he worked as a trains at the Bazaikha station near Krasnoyarsk, while Astafyev served the whole war with the rank of ordinary, from a year at the front line, he was seriously wounded, and was shell -shocked. In the fall of the year, V.

Astafyev was demobilized from the army and, together with his wife, came to her homeland - the city of Chusova in the Western Urals. Victor worked as a locksmith, a laborer, a loader, a carpenter, a washer of meat carcasses, a meat processing vehicle watchman. From the year, Astafyev worked as a literary employee of the newspaper Chusovskaya Worker. In the year, the newspaper published the first story of the writer.

In the year, his first book of stories “Until the Future Spring” was published in Perm, and in the city of years he studied at the highest literary courses in Moscow. In the year, the family moved to Perm, and in the year to Vologda. From a year, stories appeared in the press, which subsequently composed the famous narrative in the stories of the King-Fish. They were subjected to rigid censorship, but in the year, Viktor Petrovich went to live in Krasnoyarsk in the year in the year.

In his homeland, Astafyev also created his main book about the war - the novel “Cursed and killed”, which took the writer a lot of strength and health and caused a violent reader polemic. In the year, this novel V. Astafyev was awarded the Russian State Prize. Viktor Petrovich Astafyev died on November 29, was buried in his native village of Ovsyanka of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

In the city, for an outstanding contribution to domestic literature, V. Astafyev was awarded: the Russian Independent Prize Triumph, the International Pushkin Prize, the Prize "For the Hoys and Dignity of Talent" of the International Little Fund, Apollo Grigoryev Academy of the Academy of Russian Modern literature, the State Prize of the Russian Federation posthumously, the award of Alexander Solzhenitsyn posthumously, the Fund was established in the year.

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