Averchenko Taffy Biography

Born on March 15, March 15 in Sevastopol in the family of the merchant of the 2nd guild Timofei Petrovich Averchenko and Susanna Pavlovna Sofronova, the daughter of a retired soldier from the Poltava region. Averchenko did not receive any primary education, since due to poor vision he could not study for a long time. But the lack of education over time was compensated by a natural mind.

Averchenko began to work early, at the age of 15, when he entered the service in the private transport office. He did not last long, a little over a year. In the year, Averchenko leaves to work as a clerk in the Donbass, on the Bryansk mine. He worked on the mine for three years, subsequently writing several stories about the life there “evening”, “Lightning”, etc.

In the beginning of the X, he moves along with the board of the mines to Kharkov, where his first story appears in the South Territory on October 31. B - he, “completely abandoning the service,” edits the satirical magazines “Bayonet” and “Sword”, and in the year he is finally fired from the rule with the words: “You are a good person, but do not go to hell.” After that, in January of the year, A.

Averchenko leaves for St. Petersburg. So, in the year, Averchenko becomes the secretary of the satirical magazine "Dragonfly" subsequently renamed Satyricon, in the same year - its editor. For many years, Averchenko has been successfully working in a journal of a magazine with famous people-Taffy, Sasha Black, Osip Dymov, N. Remizov REMI, etc. It was there that his most brilliant humorous stories appeared.

During the work of Averchenko in Satyricon, this magazine became unusually popular, based on his stories were played in many theaters of the country. After the October Revolution, everything changed dramatically. In August, the Bolsheviks closed the New Satyricon along with other opposition publications. Averchenko and the entire team of the magazine took a negative position in relation to the Soviet regime.

In order to return to his native Sevastopol in the Crimea, occupied by the White, Averchenko had to go through numerous troubles, in particular, to make his way through Ukraine occupied by the Germans. Since June, Averchenko worked in the South newspaper subsequently South of Russia, campaigning for the help of the Volunteer Army. A few days before, Averchenko left for Constantinople on one of the last steamboats.

In Constantinople, Averchenko felt more or less comfortable, since at that time there were a huge number of Russian refugees, the same as he. In the year in Paris, he published a collection of pamphlets “Dozen Knives in the back of a revolution”, called Lenin “a high -taxed book ... embittered to the insanity of the White Guard”. It was followed by the collection "Dozen of portraits in the format of the boudoir." In none of these cities, Averchenko did not remain for a long time, and moved on June 17 to Prague to a permanent place of residence.

I rented a room at the Zlata Hus Hotel on Vaclavskaya Square. In the year, in the Berlin publishing house "North" his collection of emigrant stories "Notes of the Odrokoynoye" was published. In the Czech Republic, Averchenko immediately gained popularity; His creative evenings enjoyed a noisy success, and many stories were transferred to Czech. Working in the famous newspaper Prager Presse, Arkady Timofeevich wrote many sparkling and witty stories, in which nostalgia and a huge longing for old Russia, which had gone into the past, was still felt.

In the year, after the operation to remove his eyes, Arkady Averchenko seriously fell ill. They could not save him, and in the morning of March 12, he died.

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