Memory. Benjamin Kaverin

On April 19 (6), 1902, Veniamin Kaverin, the smartest Russian writer, was born.

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Benjamin Kaverin

Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin (Zilber, 1902-1989) was born in the family of the capter of the 96th Infantry Omsk Regiment Abel Abel Zilber and his wife-the nee Khan Girshevna (Anna Grigoryevna) Desson, the owner of music stores.

The elder sister of Kaverina - Leia Ablevna Zilber (in the marriage of Elena Aleksandrovna Tynyanova, 1892-1944) - married Yu. N. Tynyanova, whose classmate was the elder brother of Kaverin Lev Zilber, later - a large Soviet virologist. Wife - children's writer L. N. Tynyanova (1902-1984), younger sister Yu. N. Tynyanova.

What is famous

Russian Soviet writer and screenwriter. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946). The adventure novel “Two Captains”, which was repeatedly filmed, was widely known.

What you need to know about

Why Kaverin?

The pseudonym was taken in honor of the hussar, a friend of the young Pushkin, who was brought out by him under his own surname in Eugene Onegin.

It's dark: he sits down in a sled.
"Fall, fall!" - there was a cry;
Frost dust is silver
His beaver collar.
He rushed to Talon: he is sure
What is waiting for his Caverin.
Entered: and a cork in the ceiling,
The current clicked the current,
Before him Roast-Beef is bloodied,
And trefley, the luxury of the young years,
French cuisine is the best color
And Strazburg Pies is incorporated
Between the cheese of the Limburg living
And pineapple gold. "

The most popular book

Two Captains, Roman (Books 1-2, 1938-1944)

One of the best but almost unknown books

"Scandalist, or evenings on Vasilyevsky Island" (1928)

More books

"Masters and apprentices", collection (1923)
"Nine Tenths of Fate", Roman (1925)
The end of the Khaza, the story (1925)
“The artist is unknown”, Roman (1931) is one of the last formal experiments in early Soviet literature
“Fulfillment of desires”, Roman (Books 1-2, 1934-1936; New editorial office 1973)
"Open Book", Roman (1949-1956)
"A piece of glass", a story, (1960)
"Seven pairs of unclean", the story (1962)
"Slopic rain", the story (1962)
"Double Portrait", Roman (1963-1964).
“O.I. SNKOVSKY (Baron Brahmbeus): Life and Activities”, based on the dissertation (1929; 1964 - new edition)
"In front of the mirror", Roman (1972)
"Two -hour walk", Roman (1978)
"The science of parting", Roman (1983)
Many books of memoirs and documents - from “Unknown Friend” (1957-1959) to “Epilogue” (1989)

The most famous quotes (the choice of readers at the Livelib.ru forum)

Fight and look, find and not give up.
There are not so many people in the world, without whom, although it is possible, but I don’t really want to live.
Behind the grief, a joy comes, for separation is a date. Everything will be fine, because the fairy tales in which we believed still live on Earth.
Freedom is expensive.
I think so much about you that it’s even strange for me where the time comes from for everything else. This is because everything else is also somehow you.
The sky will not let me down. I can’t vouch for the earth.
We met - and thank God! And there is no need to deceive yourself that we will meet again.
“House” is not an economy, not “joint apartment”, as you said, not even children. “House” is when nothing is hidden from each other.
They say that they get old when they want it. Not true! When they do not want to, they get even more old.
It is difficult to change the embankment, because it is composed of the sky, shore and sea.

Direct speech (excerpt from the "Scandalist or evenings on Vasilyevsky Island"):

“They are easy, like in the theater, the stairs of a public library. The crucible, as in the monastery, are the arches of her cryphones.

Here are dilapidated and grated folios in bindings from oak boards.
Here is Gutenbergov Bible, the first book in the world.
Here the prayer book, with whom Maria Stuart came to the scaffold.
And the Qur'an from the Khoja-Ahrar mosque, over which the son-in-law of Mohammed was killed.
Here, the manuscripts compressed by metal fasteners are suffocating behind the glasses, in ash cabinets, observing the slow change of their keepers.
The letters fade, paper turns yellow.
There are books purchased and conquered from Persia, Turkey, Poland.
The extraction of wars, revolutions, rebellions.
There are books that grew up from books, and books invented for the first time.
And just books.
And again books.
There is a Faust’s office here - with the red emblems of the first typographic workers.
In it, incunabulas are stored - lullabies, the first -born of printing art.
Arabic green globe with astrolabia stands above the scum for writing, and the books are chained in a chain.
And on the architrav, above the capitals of the columns, an inscription is placed, borrowed from the charter of the monastery libraries:
"Do not make any noise, do not elevate the voices here where the dead say."
Here people go a quiet tie, people who relate to books as equal.
They come young, leave the elderly. ”

Facts about Benjamin Caurine

He was a member of the literary group “Srapionovs brothers” (the name was taken from the Novell E. T. Hoffmann “Serapion brothers” from the cycle, the literary community of the sheds of Serapion is described there. Initially, the group consisted of the circle of students of E. Zamyatin and V. Shklovsky, who studied in the “House of Arts”, and then in the “Literary Studio” under the leadership under the leadership, under the leadership of the literary studio. K. Chukovsky, N. Gumilyov and B. Eichenbaum . Posner, Elizabeth Polonskaya, Konstantin Fedin, Nikolai Tikhonov, Vsevolod Ivanov.
In 1958, he was perhaps the only older writer in the USSR who refused to participate in Boris Pasternak's persecution in connection with the publication of the novel “Doctor Zhivago” in the West and the award of the Nobel Prize. He signed the appeal in defense of Yu.M. Daniel and A.D. Sinavsky.
Prepared for the fourth congress of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1967) speech “pressing issues of literature”, which he was forbidden to read out
In 1968, in an open letter announced a break with K.A. Fedin when he did not allow the publication of Solzhenitsyn’s “Cancer Corps”.
“Nord-Ost”-a musical based on the novel “Two Captains”, was put in Moscow by the authors of the Libretto and Music of the musical, producers A. Ivashchenko and G. Vasiliev. The premiere took place on October 19, 2001. It was assumed that the performance would go in Moscow for at least three years, but after a year the performance and about a thousand of its spectators became hostages of the gang of Chechen extremists. Further - well known, after that it was impossible to restore the performance.
The son of Veniamin Kaverin -Nikolai Veniaminovich (1933 - 2014) - was a famous virologist. He participated in the project "Public Lectures " Polit.ru " .

Memory. Benjamin Kaverin

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