Yuri Markovich Nagibin is a Russian prose writer, journalist and screenwriter.

The real father of Nagibin - Kirill Alexandrovich Nagibin - died in 1920. He was a nobleman, and he was shot as a participant in the White Guard uprising in the Kursk province. Kirill Alexandrovich left his pregnant wife Ksenia Alekseevna to his friend lawyer Mark Leventhal, who adopted Yuri. Only in his mature years was Yuri Markovich told who his real father was. Yuri Nagibin's mother gave him a patronymic Markovich, so that no one would know about his noble origin. This allowed Yuri to graduate with honors from school and freely enter the screenwriting department of VGIK.

Vera Prokhorova, a close friend of Yuri Markovich, tells about Ksenia Alekseevna, the mother of Nagibina, in her memoirs “Four Friends Against the Background of the Century”, recorded by the writer and journalist Igor Obolensky:

Here is what Yu. M. Nagibin writes about his origin in his diary: “My personal existence differs very sharply from the real one. One of the two originators of my birth has so thoroughly disappeared among all sorts of mythical stepfathers that one might think that I arose only from an egg. But I succeeded in eradicating my father only from the existence of a questionnaire. In another, in flesh and blood, my existence, he constantly reminds of himself.

However, Nagibin's stepfather, Mark Leventhal, who worked as a lawyer in Moscow, was exiled to the Komi Republic in 1927 (where he died in 1952). Nagibin went to his stepfather secretly from his acquaintances and friends. Here is what he writes in his diary about this in 1952: “I should be grateful to him (Mark Leventhal) more than any other son - to his father, who fed, watered, dressed him. I fed him, watered him, dressed him. In this respect, my feeling is completely free. But thanks to him, I learned so much pain of all shades and births, as much as all the other people put together did not cause me. This is the only basis of my soul experience. Everything else in me is rubbish, a trifle.

In 1928, Nagibin's mother married the writer Yakov Rykachev, who encouraged Yuri's first literary experiments.

In 1938, Yuri entered the First Moscow Medical Institute, but soon transferred to VGIK, which he did not graduate due to the war. In 1940 he published his first story. His debut was supported by Yu. Olesha and V. Kataev. In 1940 he was admitted to the Writers' Union.

From January 1942 he was an instructor in the 7th Department of the Political Directorate of the Volkhov Front, from July 1942 he was a senior instructor in the 7th Department of the Political Department of the 60th Army of the Voronezh Front. After a severe shell shock in battle, he worked until the end of the war as a special war correspondent for the Trud newspaper. In 1943, the first collection of short stories was published.

Soviet literature

Yuri Markovich Nagibin

Biography

Nagibin Yuri Markovich (1920 - 1994), prose writer, journalist.

At the age of 8, after the divorce of his parents, he stayed with his mother, to whom he "owed the fundamental qualities of his human and creative personality." In literary education, he owes his stepfather, a writer.

Nagibin did not immediately find himself, his vocation. In his youth he was fond of football, he was even predicted a great future in this field. His stepfather advised him to write stories, drawing attention to his talent to convey his impressions of what he saw and heard easily and with humor. One day, the future writer made an attempt to write a story, which turned out to be unsuccessful, but the young man was captured by the process of writing.

However, after leaving school, he entered the medical institute (fulfilling the desire of his mother), but remains at the university only until the end of the first session. At this time, admission to the screenwriting department opens at VGIK, where Nagibin goes. Studying is given to him easily, time for writing stories, essays, reviews, articles - as much as you like. In 1940 his first story was published.

It was not possible to finish VGIK - the war began. Went to the front. Knowledge of the German language decided his fate - he was sent to the 7th department of the PU (counter-propaganda) of the Volkhov Front, where he had to not only fulfill his direct duties, but also fight with weapons in his hands and leave the encirclement. All impressions and observations of front-line life were later included in his military stories.

In November 1942 he was shell-shocked, returned to Moscow and worked for the Trud newspaper until the end of the war. As a correspondent, he visited Stalingrad, near Leningrad, during the liberation of Minsk, Vilnius, Kaunas.

In 1943 he published a collection of prose works, The Man from the Front. Admitted to the Writers' Union. Correspondent impressions were included in the stories that made up the collections "Big Heart", "Two Forces", etc.

After the end of the war, he was engaged in journalism, but did not leave to work on prose: the stories "Pipe", "Winter Oak" were very popular.

The mid-1950s were very fruitful: one after another, collections of short stories "Man and the Road", "Clean Ponds", "Far and Near", "Early Spring" were published.

Once, at the invitation of his friend, he goes to Meshchera for duck hunting, and the Meshchera theme enters his life and work. Collections of short stories have been written: “Pursuit. Meshchersky were "(1963)," Green bird with a red head "(1966).

In the 1980s, Nagibin wrote a cycle of stories about the "great" (Goethe, Bach, Tyutchev, Leskov, etc.).

Nagibin devotes a lot of energy to cinema, writing scripts for such famous films as "Chairman", "Director", "Red Tent", "Tchaikovsky", "Night Guest", etc. Working for television, he made a number of programs about the life and work of Lermontov , Aksakov, I. Annenskaya, A. Golubkina.

Nagibin worked until the end of his days. After his death, the writer's autobiographical prose "Darkness at the End of the Tunnel" was published; "My golden mother-in-law." He died in Moscow on April 17, 1994.

Nagibin Yuri Markovich (1920 - 1994) is a famous prose writer and journalist, born on April 3 in Moscow. His parents divorced when the boy was 8 years old. Thanks to the upbringing of his mother, he became not only a wonderful person, but also a wonderful creative person. In his literary endeavors and in further work on his literary writings, he is grateful to his stepfather, who was a writer.

From an early age, he was fond of football, and perhaps something would have come of it if his stepfather had not once noticed his talent. The future writer had a beautiful manner of telling, conveying what surprised or delighted him. Having tried to write his first story, which turned out to be not successful, the guy liked the process of writing.

However, the life of a young man develops a little differently, at the request of his mother he enters a medical institute, but does not stay there for long. He decides to enter the screenwriting department and easily does it. Already in 1940 the world saw his first story. He failed to graduate from the institute, because the war began. Thanks to his knowledge of the German language, he ends up in the VII department of the PU (counter-propaganda) of the Volkhov Front. Later, everything he experienced in the war was reflected in his military stories.

In the autumn of 1942 he was shell-shocked and sent to Moscow. In 1943, a collection of prose works "A Man from the Front" was published. Later, correspondent stories appear in the collections "Big Heart", "Two Forces". Worked as a journalist. The stories "Pipe", "Winter Oak" brought the writer special fame.

Already after the death of Nagibin, “Darkness at the End of the Tunnel”, “My Golden Mother-in-Law” came out. This prose is considered autobiographical. The famous writer passed away on April 17, 1994.

born: 1920-04-03

Soviet writer and screenwriter

Version 1. What does the name Nagibin mean

Initially - patronymic from a nickname Nagiba. In the XVI century. lived boyar Fedor Yakovlevich Nagiba Tatishchev, in Astrakhan in 1607 - Cossack Nagiba(S. B. Veselovsky). Sl. Russian gov. SU gives two meanings: bending- "a man of very tall stature" and bend over- "deceive".

Version 2. The history of the origin of the name Nagibin

There is also a second version that the surname Nagibin (a) came from the adjective: Funny. In ancient Russia, it was customary to say: quote: "Oh, bend over, your jokes are beautiful, your cheeks are red from them." This is how the surname Nagibin appeared, that is, a person with a sense of humor or a funny one.

Version 3

"Do not be ashamed, but bend down and bow." From this proverb it is clear that Nagiba, and then Nagibin, hailed a modest, unprideful, obliging man. Nagibshchikov, Nagibalov, Naginalov (they said both bend and bend) - of the same row. Although such a surname could be obtained, on the contrary, for a strong temper: if a man knew how to bend the will of another and make him work for himself. In the XV-XVII centuries. there was also a nickname Nagiba with the meanings ‘a man of very tall stature, round-shouldered’, and in Old Ukrainian – ‘a find’. And the verb bend in some dialects meant ‘to deceive’.

Version 4

1. Initially - patronymic from the nickname Nagiba. In the XVI century. lived the boyar Fedor Yakovlevich Nagiba Tatishchev, in Astrakhan in 1607 - the Cossack Nagiba (S.B. Veselovsky). Sl. Russian gov. SU gives two meanings: bending - 'a person of very tall stature' and bending - 'to deceive'. (H)
2. In Onega dialects, a bend is a person of very tall stature who is forced to bend down when addressing someone.
3. In the Old Ukrainian language, bending is a find; in fact: in order to pick up what was found, one must bend down. (F).

Version 5

The surname Nagibin is derived from the nickname Nagiba. In Onega dialects, this was the name of a person of very tall stature, who is forced to bend down when addressing someone. Perhaps the nickname is based on the verb "to bend over" - "to deceive". Then a scammer could get it. Finally, in the Old Ukrainian language "nagiba" - "find". In this case, Nagiba could be called a long-awaited child, or a foundling.

The historical documents mention boyar Fyodor Yakovlevich Nagiba Tatishchev, Astrakhan, XV century, Cossack Nagiba, 1607.

Among the namesakes of contemporaries, one can name Yuri Markovich Nagibin (1920-1994), a Russian writer, author of the collections Before the Holiday, Far and Near, Lane of My Childhood. Nagiba, eventually received the name Nagibin.

Version 6

Just by the face of the writer, I could say that there is something "eastern" in his ancestry, something Udmurt-Tatar with a Kalmyk overflow)))
Among acquaintances in Perm, there are surnames of, say, SMALL, VISITORS ...
But don’t they have roots from the names of those landowners with whom they came and their serfs?
For example ... Whose will you be? Yes, we are a visiting gentleman ...
Whose, slave will you be? - so this is ... we are the Small master's servants ...

There was a NAGIBIN, which means that his lackeys ... NAGIBINS!
Test phrase - WHOM WILL YOU BE!))

Nagibin Yuri Markovich, whose biography is very diverse and sometimes even mysterious, is a well-known Soviet writer, journalist, screenwriter, author of many different works.

Childhood

Yuri Nagibin was born in 1920, after a terrible tragedy that happened in his family. His father, nobleman Kirill Alexandrovich Nagibin, was shot as a supporter of the White Guard movement. Before his arrest, the father asked his friend - lawyer Mark Leventhal - to take care of his pregnant wife and unborn child.

Leventhal proved to be a devoted comrade. He married Ksenia Alekseevna and adopted a newborn boy, giving him his middle name. This made it possible for the child to get rid of the label “son of a traitor” and lead an ordinary life in Soviet society.

Unfortunately, in 1927 the government exiled the Moscow lawyer to the Komi Republic. The boy has fond memories of his stepfather. As an adult, he even secretly traveled to him in exile, trying to help and support him.

The next stepfather of little Yuri, Yakov Rykachev, whom his mother married a year after the expulsion of her second husband, turned out to be a writer. He revealed the literary talent of his stepson and encouraged him in this.

The mother of the future writer was a beautiful extraordinary woman. She had a great influence on the development of her son and on his formation as a person. This is also recognized by Yuri Nagibin, whose diary reveals to us many secrets about his origin, youth, and personal life.

First beginnings

The young man did not immediately find his way along the literary path. He played football professionally, many even assured the guy that a great future awaited him in this.

Seeing that Yuri was able to convey his thoughts and feelings with rich, well-aimed words, his stepfather advised him to write a story. The work turned out to be unsuccessful, but the young man really liked the process of creation.

In 1938, according to his mother, Yuri Nagibin entered the medical institute. But realizing that he made a mistake with the choice of profession, he is transferred to VGIK, to the faculty of screenwriting. This decisive act abruptly changes the fate of a young man. Now he is the future writer Yuri Nagibin, whose biography is inextricably linked with creative efforts and labors.

Attending lectures, the guy is intensively engaged in literary activities - he writes stories, articles, reviews and essays. Begins to be printed in 1940. With the support of V. Kataev and Y. Olesha, he becomes a member of the Writers' Union.

Yuri failed to graduate from high school - the war began.

Military creativity

At the front, knowledge of the German language and innate skill came in handy. Nagibin works as a senior instructor of the political department, takes part in hostilities with weapons in his hands. He describes all his front-line impressions and adventures in stories that he writes hastily between hard work and responsible tasks.

In November 1942, Yuri received a severe concussion, after which he had to return to Moscow and begin to master a new type of activity - work as a war correspondent for the Trud newspaper. Thanks to his position, the young man had the opportunity to visit important hot spots - near Leningrad, during the liberation of Minsk and Vilnius, and also to engage in personal literary activities in parallel. In 1943, his first collection of short stories, A Man from the Front, was published. Correspondent notes and essays were included in other collected works - “Two Forces”, “Big Heart”, etc.

The heyday of literary activity

After the war, Yuri Nagibin traveled a lot around the country as a correspondent, he embodied his observations and reflections in vivid, lively notes published in various periodicals, as well as in his own works.

Now he is not just a journalist, but a self-sufficient well-known writer Yuri Nagibin, whose stories are pragmatically poetic and charmingly realistic, they are read by the entire Soviet Union. Among his famous creations, it is impossible not to mention such works as:

• "At the cost of life" (1944);
• "Grain of Life" (1948);
• "State Affairs" (1950);
• "Pipe" (1953);
• "Stories about the war" (1954);
• "Night visitor. Fight for heights. Difficult happiness." (1958);
• "The Last Storm" (1959);
• "Pavlik" (1960);
• "Pursuit" (1963);
• "Alien Heart" (1969);
• "My Africa" ​​(1973);
• "You will live" (1974);
• "Peak of Luck" (1975);
• "Love Island" (1977);
• "Abandoned Road" (1979);
• "Musician" (1986);
• "In the rain" (1988);
• "The Prophet will be burned" (1990).

In addition to military and patriotic themes, Yuri Nagibin writes beautiful lyrical stories that make you think and rethink your life in a new way. His stories about childhood and adolescence amaze with touching descriptions of first love and boyish friendship, non-childish problems and violent teenage joys.

Yuri Nagibin, whose stories are still relevant today, talentedly and subtly portrayed in his works human ties and relationships, the impulses of the soul and the prosaic nature of everyday life, the ardor of the heart and the coldness of the mind. He writes about different people, different in social and cultural status, age and education. He does not describe fates and epics, but short episodes and incidents that occur daily and every minute. After all, what surrounds a person everywhere is the beauty of being, the poetry of reality.

The descriptions of nature found in the works of Nagibin are colorful and colorful, they are psychologically accurately intertwined with the feelings and emotions of the characters and the events taking place.

"Clean Ponds"

One of such gentle pleasant works is the story “Clean Ponds”. Yuri Nagibin describes in it the friendship of four children, their first small joys and sorrows, their growing up and becoming in life. The war scattered friends along different roads, it tormented them and killed some, but it could not drown out in them either love for the motherland, or devotion to comrades, or the cheerfulness of youth, or a sense of happiness.

"Daphnis and Chloe..."

Another amazing work written by Yuri Nagibin is “Daphnis and Chloe of the era of the cult of personality, voluntarism and stagnation”, it still excites the imagination and arouses interest in erotic literature among the modern reader. The story is taken from Greek literature but modernized and improved by Nagibin himself. This story is not only about tragic passion and burning intimacy, but also about tender affection and affectionate love that endures all difficulties, not even subject to death. The story was published posthumously in 1995. She made an unprecedented sensation in literary circles and presented the author from a completely different side, unusual for many of his admirers.

The fact is that for many years the outstanding writer and journalist lived, adapting to the regime and the people around him. He published what the authorities wanted to publish, he published what strict censorship allowed to publish, he wrote what he did not think about and what he did not want to. Patriotic praise and chanting of the leader of the people, both in works of art and in journalism, was not easy for the writer. Even then, in his “Diary”, published only in 1994, Nagibin frankly exposed the falsity and self-deception of the social system of that time, the people he encountered both at home and abroad, and even himself.

The writer explained why he pretended: he could only earn money by writing, so he had to write what he paid for, to order.

Public life

Yuri Nagibin, whose works in the USSR were considered the standard of socialism, held responsible high positions in the state apparatus of that time. For ten years, starting in 1955, he worked on the editorial board of the Znamya magazine, and since 1966, for 15 years, in the Our Contemporary magazine. - Board of the Writers' Union of the USSR Nagibin was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Culture of Poland.

Travels

In connection with his public appointments and creative activities, as well as in accordance with personal desires, the famous writer traveled a lot. Since 1955, he has traveled to countries such as Turkey, Greece, Egypt (1962), Italy, Austria, Luxembourg (1965), Japan, Hong Kong (1966), USA, Nigeria (1969), Hungary, France ( 1971), Singapore, Bulgaria, Australia (1974), Yugoslavia, India (1977) and others, visiting some states more than once and making foreign trips until 1985. Such tours provided the writer with unprecedented food for thought and made it possible to reflect his observations in subsequent works.

Cinema

Since 1955, a talented prose writer has been trying his hand at a new field - he is offered to write scripts for films. Living literary language, bright colorful descriptions and realistic colorful characters are now displayed not only on a sheet of paper, but also on the set. Films based on Nagibin's script are interesting and unique in their own way. They are watched and enjoyed to this day.

Here is some of them:

• "Guest from the Kuban" (1955);
• "Night Guest", "Difficult Happiness" (both - 1958);
• "Brothers Komarov" (1961);
• "Chairman" (1964);
• "Indian kingdom" (1967);
• "Director", "Tchaikovsky" (both - 1969);
• "Dersu Uzala", "Yaroslav Dombrovsky" (both - 1975);
• "Late meeting" (1978);
• "Childhood of Bambi", "Youth of Bambi" (1985 and 1986);
• "Midshipmen, forward!" (1987, 1991, 1992).

Nagibin as a screenwriter is very gifted and multifaceted. He managed to create many beloved beautiful characters, so different in character and worldview, but the words and actions of his characters make the viewer experience the whole range of feelings and emotions at the same time: cry and laugh, worry and rejoice. In his films, Yuri Nagibin skillfully depicts different historical eras and different destinies of people. His stories never make you bored, but, on the contrary, make you think, imagine yourself in the place of the characters, worry and dream.

"Midshipmen"

Few people know that Nagibin is the screenwriter of the entire trilogy in collaboration with N. Sorotokina and S. Druzhinina. "Midshipmen-3" is the latest work of the writer in cinematography (1992). In them, Yuri Markovich embodied many of the swords of his youth - youthful enthusiasm and boundless courage, ingenuity and prowess, passionate love and tender affection, concepts of honor, friendship and love for the motherland ... A wonderful scenario is harmoniously intertwined with musical arrangement, picturesque landscapes, high-quality shooting stunts and special effects, excellent cast.

Personal life

Any writer is the creator of intimate life, therefore Yuri Nagibin, whose personal life was bright and dynamic, was in a constant process of creating his individual happiness.

Yuri Markovich was a passionate and ardent nature, he was captivated by fatal beauties many times and, in turn, turned the heads of more than a dozen beautiful women.

The writer was officially married six times. Married at the age of twenty to Maria Arnus and having lived with her for only two years, he immediately married Valentina, the daughter of the director of a car factory. After five years of marriage, the couple broke up. The next wives of the famous writer were Elena Chernousova, pop artist Ada Paratova, the famous poetess Bella Akhmadulina. Many quarrels and strife in the family life of the prose writer had quite extensive publicity. His divorces were dissatisfied at the top, sometimes because of this, Nagibin was considered restricted to travel abroad.

The last wife of Yuri Markovich was a simple translator Alla, with whom he lived for a long time - from 1968 until the end of his life in 1994.

None of the women of Nagibin gave him a child, which all his life gave him some pain and worries.

Nagibin Yuri Markovich, whose biography is presented in this article, is a famous writer and screenwriter. The years of his life - 1920-1994. He was born in Moscow on April 3, 1920. Kirill Alexandrovich, the father of the future writer, was shot shortly before the birth of Yuri - he participated in the White Guard uprising in the Kursk province. Kirill Alexandrovich managed to "bequeath" Ksenia Alekseevna, his pregnant wife, to a friend Mark Leventhal. He adopted Yuri, who only in his mature years found out who his real father was. Soon Mark Leventhal was also repressed (he was exiled). The second stepfather for Yuri Markovich was Yakov Rykachev. He was the first literary writer who awakened in him a taste for verbal creativity.

Study, war years

Nagibin graduated from high school with honors in 1938, and then continued his studies at the Moscow Medical Institute. He did not have an interest in the medical profession, and he decided to go to VGIK, to the screenwriting department. However, he failed to graduate from the institute. VGIK at the beginning of the war was evacuated to Alma-Ata, and Yuri Nagibin was drafted into the army. He was sent to the political administration department on the Volkhov Front in the autumn of 1941. His first stories appeared in print shortly before the war. These are "Double Fault" (1940) and "Knut" (1941).

In 1942, Yuri Markovich was on the Voronezh front, he was an "instructor-writer". In the same year he was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR. Nagibin's front-line duties were as follows: broadcasting, publishing propaganda leaflets, and analyzing enemy documents. He was twice shell-shocked at the front, and after recovering for health reasons, he was commissioned. After that, Yuri Nagibin worked in the newspaper "Trud". His front-line experience was reflected in the stories published in 1943 in the collection "Man from the Front", in 1944 - "Two Forces" and "Big Heart", and in 1948 - "Grain of Life".

Friendship with Andrey Platonov

In the late 40s - early 50s, Yuri Nagibin became friends with Andrei Platonov (years of life - 1899-1951). As he later recalled in his autobiography, as a result, the whole period of his literary studies was marked by the fact that his stepfather etched Platonov from his phrases.

Nagibin becomes famous

In the early 1950s, Nagibin became famous as an author. Readers have noticed such stories as "Pipe" (1952), "Komarov" and "Winter Oak" (both written in 1953), "Chetunov" (1954), "Night Guest" (1955). And "Light in the Window" and "Khazar Ornament", published in 1956 in "Literary Moscow", aroused anger in the party press (together with "Levers". But literally a year later, stories made according to laws of social realism, and the writer was “rehabilitated.” Yuri Kuvaldin noted that Nagibin had to constantly balance on the verge of orthodoxy and dissent.

Cycles of works by Nagibin

Most of Yuri Markovich's stories, united by "cross-cutting" characters, a common theme and image of the narrator, make up cycles: historical and biographical, hunting, military, a cycle of travel stories, etc. The author for many years was considered mainly as a short story writer who seeks to tell about big things in small things. .

military cycle

Nagibin's military stories are marked by the search for an individual author's style. In the last, 11-volume, collected works, the author included the best of them, among which the following can be noted: "Signalman Vasiliev" (first published in 1942 in the newspaper "Red Star" under the name "Line"), "On Khortitsa", " Translator" (1945), "Vaganov" (1946). In addition, military material was used by Yuri Markovich in the following stories: 1957 "The Way to the Front Line", 1959 "Pavlik" and 1964 "Far from the War". The disclosure of the heroism of a simple soldier and military everyday life becomes more and more dramatic and psychologically profound, relief and subtlety appear in the contours of characters. Among the works of this subject, the story "Pavlik" stands out. Its main character overcomes the fear of death with the help of reason.

"Hunting" cycle

The "hunting" cycle took shape over a decade - from 1954 to 1964. It includes over twenty stories. They owe their birth to the landscapes of the surroundings and Meshchera. Yuri Nagibin's stories are noticeably influenced by the classical tradition in literature dating back to Turgenev's Notes of a Hunter. The story is told in the first person. These are such works by Yuri Nagibin as "The Chase" and "The Night Guest" (1962), "The Newlyweds" and "Meshcherskaya Side" (1964). Here Nagibin acts as a subtle artist of the natural world and a tester of people's characters in the natural environment. In the relationship between nature and man, both the ecological side and the social and moral side are considered.

Village theme, the first screenplay for the film

These stories prepared the development of the village theme. The observations and materials of the post-war journalistic years, the time of writing essays on collective farm life for Smena, Socialist Agriculture, Trud, and Pravda, were used. As a result, in 1962, the story "Pages of Trubnikov's Life" appeared. It was she who became the basis of the script for the film "Chairman", staged by director A. Saltykov in 1964. This film was a real highlight. Behind the clashes of Semyon Siluyanov and Yegor Trubnikov, people obsessed with their ideas, one could read the clash of two opposing systems of views, life principles - individualistic and social.

New scenario

The work of Yuri Markovich organically fit into the trends of rural prose, which were gaining momentum in the 1950-1960s. However, immediately after the release of the first picture, Yuri Nagibin tried to repeat the cinematic success. Films based on his scripts began to appear one after another. Yuri Markovich soon proposed a draft of a new painting "Director". The author in the application directly stated that, by the will of fate, at one time he entered the family of Ivan Likhachev, one of the founders of the automotive industry in our country, a former Chekist and revolutionary sailor, a party nominee. Yuri Nagibin married his daughter. Thus, the plot basis was the life of father-in-law Nagibin, whose affair with his wife, that is, with his mother-in-law, will be frankly described a little later by Yuri Nagibin.

The biography of the writer is of interest to many, especially his personal life, which should be discussed separately.

Nagibin's personal life

Yuri Markovich was married six times. One of his spouses was Yuri Markovich, who said that with every woman he was happy in his own way. Each of them brought something special to his life, as Yuri Nagibin admitted. Wife Alla Grigorievna, a translator - the last wife of the writer - lived with him the longest. They were happy together for almost 25 years. Nagibin expressed his love for her in a romantic tale called "The Blue Frog's Tale", which we will talk about a little later.

Continued work on scripts

During the creation of the first version of the film "Director", a famous actor died. The second version, filmed after a long break, was not much remembered. Nevertheless, Nagibin continued to create scenarios that were profitable at the time. Akira Kurosawa, a well-known Japanese director, based on his screenplay adaptation of Vladimir Arseniev's work, made the film "Dersu Uzala", which was awarded an Oscar (albeit for directorial work). Yuri Nagibin had more than thirty paintings in total: "Girl and Echo", "Indian Kingdom", "Tchaikovsky", "The Slowest Train", "Red Tent", "Kalman's Mystery", etc.

"Urban" cycles

Writer Yuri Nagibin did not limit himself to industrial and rural topics. He also created city cycles, which made up the following books: "Clean Ponds" (1962), "Book of Childhood" (years of creation - 1968-1975), "Lane of My Childhood" (published in 1971). Here Yuri Nagibin refers to the origins of the formation of the character of Serezha Rakitin, his lyrical hero, as well as his generation as a whole.

Not only the background, but also the "hero" of the cycle becomes Moscow itself with its urban customs and way of life. In many further journalistic articles, the theme of the capital was developed. They were collected in the 1987 book "Moscow... How much is in this sound". He considered this city his only affection, although Nagibin traveled almost the whole world, with the exception of South America. He lived in Moscow almost all his life. Yuri Markovich was an excellent connoisseur of the history of the squares, lanes and streets of the capital. It is no coincidence that his last book was "The Flash Ring" - a work dedicated to his native city. The success of Nagibin's works in the 60s and 70s as a whole is explained by the natural sincerity of intonations, lyrical confession, clarity and lightness of the style, rich metaphor, unusual rhythmic structure with a final chord, in which the story told from a moral and ethical point of view was necessarily assessed.

The theme of creativity

In the 1970s, Yuri Nagibin was attracted by the theme of creativity based on historical, cultural and contemporary material. This was reflected in the cycle of artistic micro-epics "Eternal Companions" (the years of creation - 1972-1979). Their heroes were Lermontov, Pushkin, archpriest Avvakum, Tchaikovsky, Tyutchev, Annensky, Rachmaninov and others. These works are not particularly original. According to the author himself, he was not brought closer, but only repelled from the task in hand by complete knowledge of the material. Creative flight appeared when the memory was freed from the facts that fettered the imagination. In order to recreate the "spiritual landscape", it was necessary, first of all, to rely on "first visions", on feelings and "memory of vision". Hence the accusations of authorial arbitrariness and subjectivism.

Love in the work of Nagibin

Among the stable themes of Nagibin's work, which varied in different ways at different times, are diverse and vibrant love, as well as the drama of missed or failed happiness. Whether Nagibin wrote a fairy tale or a realistic thing, in the relationship between a man and a woman he developed a fairly stable system of characters: he is always defenseless and vulnerable, and she is more stable and stronger in this world. In the early 1980s, bright prose with nostalgic motifs was replaced by great sharpness and topicality, tragic tension, and a tendency to social and philosophical digressions. His satire with parody and farce, as well as erotica, came as a surprise. "Tales of the Blue Frog" is the confession of "a frog with a human memory and longing", which he has left from his former life. And his beloved in posthuman existence turned into a graceful roe deer. Critics condemned Nagibin's new prose for "lack of moral certainty."

Latest works

The "blue frog" in the last years of his life not only changed his skin once again, but turned himself inside out. The author, with a demonstrative self-exposing, not devoid of buffoonish narcissism, showed the most hidden pages of his own biography. He decided to recreate the story of his father's life and his relationship to this man ("Get up and go", 1987), remembered his first love in the 1994 work "Daphnis and Chloe ...". In the same year, he described his affair with his mother-in-law in the book "My Golden Mother-in-Law", and also left a testamentary story called "Darkness at the End of the Tunnel", an extremely pessimistic one. The "Diary" of 1995, published posthumously, is full of extreme frankness and impartial assessments of the writer's entourage.

Death of Nagibin

On June 17, 1994, Yury Markovich Nagibin died in Moscow. His biography is still interesting to many today. It is his last works that continue to be popular with our contemporaries. Critics break spears from time to time, discussing the books of Yuri Nagibin. For example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Viktor Toporov were seen in "nagibin fighting".