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
Web links
- Literature by and about Juri Ossipowitsch Dombrowski in the catalog of the German National Library
- "Anatomy of Terror" Ilma Rakusa : Jurij Dombrowskijs "Faculty of Useless Things", in: Die Zeit , March 15, 1991
- Juri Dombrowski in the encyclopedia "Krugoswet" (Russian)
- Yuri Dombrowski on biografija.ru (Russian)
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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 |