Yuri Ossipowitsch Dombrowski

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Yuri Ossipowitsch Dombrowski

Yuri Ossipowitsch Dombrowski ( Russian Юрий Осипович Домбровский ; * May 12, 1909 in Moscow ; † May 29, 1978 ibid) was a Soviet writer.

During the rule of Stalin he was arrested four times and sent into exile. After the first two arrests in 1933 and 1936, he ended up in Alma-Ata , the then capital of Kazakhstan . After the third arrest in 1939, he was sent to a camp in the Kolyma region , which he was able to leave in 1943 due to invalidity. He was arrested again in 1949 after a criminal trial in which the testimony of the journalist Irina Strelkova played a key role. Dombrowski ended up as a prisoner in the OserLag in Siberia. In 1956 he was rehabilitated and was allowed to return to Moscow.

His novel The Guardian of Antiquities takes place in Alma-Ata, where Dombrowski lived as a teacher during his exile in the 1930s. The novel The Faculty of Useless Things , also located in Alma-Ata, first appeared in France in 1978, whereupon Dombrowski was beaten up on the street and died as a result of the politically motivated assault. In 1989 and 1990 the novel was published in the Soviet Union by various publishers with a print run of 900,000 copies.

Works (in German translation)

  • The dark lady. Novellas, Volk und Welt Spectrum Publishing House , Berlin 1980
  • The faculty of useless things. Roman, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • The keeper of the antiquities. Roman, Claassen, Hildesheim 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Dombrowski, Yuri Osipovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Домбровский, Юрий Осипович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1978
Place of death Moscow