Pikul biography brief

Valentin Pikul-biography Valentin Pikul-a popular Soviet writer, author of works on naval and historical themes. It was published by millions of circulations. In the years of the last century, even before the start of perestroika, not only newspaper publications, but the past of the country were interested in the most reading nation in the world. Already well-known personalities and events from school textbooks were little satisfied with, the reader needed something new, unreleased.

It was with such a non-stepped approach that Valentin Pikul, the books of which were sold out by frantic circulations, burst into the literature of the self-taught writer. This trend has been preserved now, many years after the death of the writer, despite the fact that both historians and his colleagues in the workshop still have claims to his work. In this rejection of the works of Valentin Pikul, even Russophobes and Russophiles united.

But this is not important, but the fact that a person who has only five classes of school education behind him managed to arouse genuine interest in the history of several generations of readers. Childhood and youth were born Valentin Pikul in Leningrad on July 13. Some sources indicate the Ukrainian town of Kagarlyk, but this is a mistake, from there it is not Valentine, but his father Savva Pikul.

At one time, the writer's father was called upon to serve Baltic. He hit the destroyer Friedrich Engels as a sailor. After demobilization, he remained in the city on the Neva, got a job at the Skorokhod factory, then studied at the Economic Institute. Having received a university diploma, he found the work of a military engineer-shipbuilder of a shipbuilding plant, where he worked in the m years.

The mother of the writer was called Maria Pikul in the girlishness of Karenina. Her ancestors are the peasants of the Pskov province. Valentin Pikul in childhood with parents to the fourth grade Valentine and his parents lived in the northern capital. The boy went to school, showed outstanding abilities to study. In his free time he eagerly painted and was engaged in acrobatics.

In the year, the father of the family received a new appointment, and left for the city of Molotovsk Severodvinsk to work at a new shipyard. A year later, a wife with her son joined him. Valentine went to school, attended a young sailor circle in the Pioneers' House. After passing the exam for the fifth grade, Valentine and his mother went on a summer vacation in his native Leningrad.

The boy’s grandmother lived there. And then the war broke out, they did not have time to return home, ended up in the besieged Leningrad. The most terrible, first blockade winter of the year Valentine and his mother were in Leningrad. They could not be evacuated for a long time, and got out of the city only when the “road of life” began to operate, along the frozen Ladoga Lake, under the continuous fire of enemy mortars, every minute threatening to drown the car and its passengers.

Square and lack of vitamins have done their job, Valentine began to develop scurvy and dystrophy. Mom and her son were in evacuation in Arkhangelsk. The father of the family was already at the front, he was called up to the sea infantry. Valentina also wanted to do something to win, and he escaped from home, got to Solovkov and became a cadet of the Jung school. The study ended in M, and the young man received a direction for serving on the Terrible destroyer, in the Northern Fleet.

Once the crew of the vessel miraculously escaped death, under his bottom a torpedo passed. By that time, the family had received a notice that Savva Pikul went missing under Stalingrad. Valentin Pikul in his youth, Valentin fought until the very end of the war, managed to immediately become the commander of a military post, then rose to the navigator electrician. In the victorious year, he was seventeen years old.

The guy was filed in the personal business of the guy, which indicated that Yung Valentin Pikul could commit rash acts. In the year, Pikul received a direction, and became a cadet of the Leningrad preparatory naval school. However, the young man did not study there, in M ​​was expelled due to lack of knowledge. Officially, he no longer studied, limiting himself to the program of five classes of high school.

However, he continued to expand his knowledge on his own, read a lot. The literature creative biography of Pikul as a writer began with the fact that he came to the literary circle to the faith of Ketlinskaya, by that time already awarded the Stalin Prize. Valentine wrote two novels, but he did not like them himself, and were sent to the trash. He gave to print only his third brainchild, called the Ocean Patrol.

Valentin Pikul in the creative process in those years, he met and made friends with two Victors - Konetskoy and Kurochkin, also beginning writers. Young people became so friends that they received the nickname "Three Musketeers." The history of Russia has always aroused a genuine interest in Pikul, which over the years increased more and more. In the year, the writer released a novel called “Bayazet”, in which he described the siege of the fortress with the same name during the years of the Russo-Turkish war.

Pikul himself believed that it was with this book that his biography began, as a writer.After this novel, the writer regularly published his works, but real glory and all -Union love came to him in the year, after the publication of the novel “Per and sword” in the magazine “Star”. The next work, which attracted universal attention, was the novel "Bad Power." The first time they tried to print it in m, but a flurry of critics and emotions of readers led to the fact that it turned out to fully publish the work only ten years later.

The “unclean power” reflects the events preceding the sunset of the power of the Russian kings, the period when Grigory Rasputin lit up in the palace and in politics. Critics unanimously claimed that Pikul unreliably described the era, distorted historical figures, and inaccurately reflected the imperial family and their immediate environment. It so happened that the prose of Pikul annoyed representatives of the liberal circles, they said about him that the writer was trying to please those in power.

But after the release of “evil spirits”, even supporters of the authorities experienced very contradictory emotions. The close circle of the writer claimed that after the release of this novel, Valentine was attacked and severely beaten. In addition, Suslov gave a personal disposal, and they followed the Pikulah secretly. Another novel of the writer came out in the year, which describes the pre -revolutionary and revolutionary periods - "I have an honor." This time there were without excesses, the publication went unnoticed.

Valentin Pikul actively worked for forty years.

During this long period, he managed to publish three dozen large-scale literary works, an incredible number of stories-epics. In an interview with the writer’s wife, he said that he could work for a day on end, without sleep and rest. When he was inspired, Valentine did not just sit behind the machine and wrote, he spoke the text, and sometimes even played scenes from his future work.

Pikul had only one restriction, or superstition, he never sat down for a new job on Monday. Valentin Pikul at the desk, Valentin Savvich, very responsibly approached his work on each of his work. He tried to find as many sources of information as possible, and did not count only on the literature that the party approved. Each literary character of Pikul had a separate card, where the most important points about him were reflected - character, habits, tastes, description of appearance.

After the Pikul was gone, these cards were calculated, there were more than a thousand of them. The writer never completed his last idea called Barbarossa. It is about the history of World War II. It was assumed that this would be a two -volume, and after the release of the first volume, Pikul was going to start working on the book “When the Kings were Young”, and then return to Barbarossa again.

But these grandiose plans remained plans, before his death, he managed to finish only a small part of the first book. Pikul had still many ideas, he wanted to reflect in his works the biography of Mikhail Vrubel, the ballerina Pavlova, Sofia, the sister of Peter the Great. According to the works of Valentin Pikul, many scripts were written, which later became successful paintings and series.

The most Kassov was the film “Moonzund”, according to the writer's novel of the same name. The picture was released in the year, and received many praise reviews of critics and spectators. They may be familiar.