Valery Mikhailovich Nikolayevsky
Valery Michailowitsch Nikolajewski ( Russian Валерий Михайлович Николаевский , scientific transliteration Valerij Mihajlovič Nikolaevskij ; born July 31, 1939 in Moscow ) is a Russian journalist, writer and theater director.
Life
At the age of fifteen, he followed an appeal by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and moved to Altai and Siberia as a worker . He worked in the Urals and the Arctic as a miner, loading and construction worker, ship heater and seaman. In Chukotka he was elected Secretary of the Komsomol Committee. Because of his criticism of Nikita Khrushchev's appearance before the 15th UN General Assembly in 1960, he was expelled from the Komsomol and shadowed by the KGB .
From then on he devoted himself to culture and worked as a journalist and director of the literary theater of the city of Togliatti . He rose to the chair of the local literary association, the "Club of Creative Intelligence" and the council of the "Soviet Fund of Culture". In 1987 he was appointed head of the Art and Documentation Center " Ilja Efimowitsch Repin ". As an organizer of public events in the Soviet Union , he has received several awards.
His novel about Russia Az, grešnyj so slovami istiny ... (German: I, sinner, in the words of the truth ) was not published for 22 years and was banned. It was first published under Gorbachev , but withdrawn from production after his resignation. His book Kremlin Secrets: From the secret archives of the KGB is banned in Russia for political reasons.
“ That is the name of the book that was published in Austria in German. The author, the famous Russian writer Valery Mikhailovich Nikolayevsky. The story of the book is full of drama. It is based on documents collected by the writer Nikolayevsky for over 30 years, which he received from the Stalin Prize winner Orest Maltsev. VM Nikolayevsky had to hand over most of the documents after a certain period of time, as he was under constant surveillance by the KGB. Nikolayevsky was forbidden to leave the country. The materials were brought to England, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, etc. and administered by his true friends. When he was able to go to Europe himself, he began to pick up those rare documents ... The fact-based journalistic novel "Kremlin Secrets" was sold very quickly in various European countries and received very good reviews. "“
He wrote historical works about ancient Rome and the Russian Empire that were published in Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, China, Israel, and the United States. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he moved to Israel. After stops in England, France, Belgium and Germany, he settled in Austria in 1996 . In 1997 he had an open heart operation in Vienna .
Nikolajewski is a member of the Association of Independent Writers of Russia, the Association of Israeli Writers and the Austrian PEN Club.
Works
- The Republic of Youth - 1969 / Russia, Brjansk
- Silhouettes - 1986 / Russia, Moscow - Pravda
- Az, grešnyj so slovami istiny ... (I, sinner, in the words of the truth) - 1990 / Russia, Moscow - Mysl
- Strašnyj patricij - 1989 / Russia, Moscow - Mysl
- Strašnyj patricij - 1990 / Russia, Moscow - Mysl
- Strašnyj patricij - 1991 / Israel, Jerusalem - Leksikon
- Strašnyj patricij - 1993–1994 / Russia, Togliatti – Moscow - Sovremennik
- Helmuth A. Niederle (ed.): The stranger in me. Poetry and prose of the Austrian minorities and immigrants (anthology) - 1999 / Austria, Klagenfurt - Hermagoras (texts by approx. 100 authors who either belong to a so-called minority or who more or less voluntarily live in Austria.)
- Kremlin secrets: From the secret archives of the KGB - 2000 / Austria, Vienna - Löcker, ISBN 3-85409-305-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Valery Michailowitsch Nikolajewski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Catalog of the EBSEES
- Stanford University
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nikolayevsky, Valery Mikhailovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nikolaevskij, Valerij Michailowitsch; Николаевский, Валерий Михайлович (Russian spelling); Nikolaevskij, Valerij Mihajlovič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian author, journalist and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |