Remembering Boris Strugatsky

In St. Petersburg, at the 80th year of life, the science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky died. According to Echo of Moscow , the last few days the writer was in the hospital, the doctors evaluated his condition as difficult. The cause of death, according to the director of the Brothers Brothers, Sergei Arno, could be a strong cold, which the writer recently suffered.

Boris Strugatsky. 1960s. Photo: Lidia Kamionko

Boris Strugatsky was born on April 15, 1933 in Leningrad. The Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, translator, he created in collaboration with his brother Arkady Strugatsky dozens of works that have become a classic of modern scientific and social fantasy. Among them: "Monday begins on Saturday", "It is difficult to be a god" and "picnic on the sidelines." The most fame among the film -filled works of Strugatsky received the film "Stalker", shot by Andrei Tarkovsky on the Picnic on the sidelines in 1979. In 1988, Alexander Sokurov based on the story of the Strugatsky brothers "A billion years before the end of the world" shot the movie "Eclipse Days".

Arkady (left) and Boris (right) Strugatsky. 1973. Photo: RIA "News"

After the death of Arkady Strugatsky in 1991, Boris Strugatsky, under the pseudonym, S. Vititsky published two independent novels. Since 2002, he was the editor -in -chief of the journal "Noon. XXI century". He was awarded the Order of Honor, the medal "Symbol of Science", the presidential award in the field of literature and art, the State Prize of the RSFSR named after Vasilyev brothers, was the laureate of the award named after Vysotsky "his own track". Founder of the Bronze Snail Award.

Boris Strugatsky is a member of the Russian science fiction forum. 1999. Photo: ITAR-TASS

In the last years of his life, the writer carefully monitored what was happening in the country. In 2005, Strugatsky signed a letter calling for the international human rights community to recognize the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky by a political prisoner. In February 2010, summing up the Putin decade, the writer described him as "returning to a scoop, to the Brezhnev type stagnation."

Boris Strugatsky, 2004. Photo: ITAR-TASS

Politics and bloggers responded to the death of the writer.

Dmitry Medvedev , Prime Minister: "Boris Natanovich Strugatsky passed away. The great writer and thinker. Immovable loss for our and world literature."

Sergey Calvar , actor: "There can be no half friends. Half friend is always half the enemy. The Strugatsky brothers."

Gleb Pavlovsky , political scientist: “The Brothers Strugatsky died on October 12, 1991, along with Arkady. Today the person died behind him. Shadow, but fraternal shadow. Let them connect. Rip

All the main thing is Boris - he helped Arkady invent ABS, "Strugatsky". Arkady created a thing in the Union politically unthinkable - the autonomous territory of "science fiction" and was a leader in both projects, but would not have been able to cope without the youngest. "

Vladimir Bartholomev , deputy chief editor of Echo of Moscow: “An evening of endless quotes. Here, in LiveJournal, and even on Twitter. Thanks to Strugatsky for having left us.

Not only books will remain with us, but also the memory of his actions . Until recently, Boris Natanovich, despite poor health, tried to help those who needed support.

00 - protest against the return of the "Stalin" anthem;

01 - letter in defense of NTV;

03 - a letter in defense of the Curonian braid from Lukoil;

04 - a petition for the pardon of the scientist I. Sutyagin;

05 - a letter of protest against the verdict M. Khodorkovsky;

06 - a letter to the governor Matvienko against the anti -Georgian campaign;

07 - call to vote for ATP;

08 - a call to create a memorial of memory of victims of political repression;

08 - a letter to Dmitry Medvedev with an appeal to release lawyer S. Bakhmin;

09 - a letter to Yuri Luzhkov "Against the public rehabilitation of Stalinism";

10-protest against the decision of the Government of St. Petersburg on perpetuating the memory of G. Romanov;

10 - appeal against "spiritual censorship" and in defense by A. Erofeev and Yu. Samodurov;

11 - support for the nomination of apple candidates in the elections in St. Petersburg;

12 - appeal with the call to release the members of the Pussy Riot group;

12 - the requirement to free those arrested in the "Swamp case on May 6".

Alexei Venediktov , editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow: “I promised to Boris Natanovich to make a radio post on the“ ugly swans ”and got the rights. I tried to cut the text for the radio, but I didn’t succeed. It was a pity for every phrase, every paragraph. And he said to me:“ Yes, they cut it, I promised, but I promised everything, I put it off. Set up for later, there is no "later".

I will do this, Boris Natanovich. For me, the debt is in front of you. "

Grigory Yavlinsky , politician: "Very bitter news about the death of Boris Strugatsky!

Reading the Strugatsky, we received the first idea of ​​the tragic personal choice and responsibility, that freedom does not depend on the authorities, but on its inner sensation and on the need for it. They saw a lot in a person, which could not inspire optimism, but they still believed that the human would defeat both in man and in life. Boris Strugatsky was a free man whose influence on life did not stop with the death of his brother, their presence will not leave us now. "

Mikhail Budaragin , journalist: “Oh, now, as I understand it, Boris Natanovich is smart, original, whole and brave people will write to us how the Strugatsky was boring, not so, sovkovo, naive and all that.

I look forward to the feast of creative, interesting and all understanding bloggers, alas. "

Dmitry Olshansky , journalist: “I am deeply indifferent to the prose of the Strugatsky (my absolute hero in Soviet literature is Trifonov), but for me it is important that the Strugatsky brothers are symbols myself ... I would say the most joyful era in Russian history - the sixties. And maybe the most joyful era in world history in general. Joy has long died.