Vasily Ivanovich Below

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Vasily Ivanovich Below

Wassili Ivanovich Below ( Russian Васи́лий Ива́нович Бело́в ; born October 23, 1932 in Timonicha , Soviet Union , today Vologda Oblast ; † December 4, 2012 in Vologda ) was a Russian writer and representative of Soviet village prose .

Life

After the father stayed in the war , Below grew up with four siblings with the mother. He attended the seven-grade school and learned the trade of carpenter in the collective farm . After military service, he studied from 1955 at the Moscow Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature . He later returned to his “quiet country” with his wife and daughter and in 1964 became a freelance writer in Vologda .

Due to the connection with the fate of his home village, Below witnessed the dramatic change in the whole country that was connected with the general rural exodus . In his work he championed the theme of the village , which he made a fundamental theme of all of the country's literature in poems, stories, novels and numerous essays. His carpenter stories appeared in the magazine Novij Mir from 1968 . His main work is the three-volume Chronicle Vorabende .

Below's works appeared in the Soviet Union and Russia with a total circulation of over seven million copies. The East German social philosopher Rudolf Bahro quoted Below's work “Are we used to” in his book “The Alternative” to portray the real situation of the Soviet-Russian peasants. The topic was largely taboo in the GDR. His novel Год великого перелома (roughly: The Year of Great Upheaval ) regards the so-called deculakization as a campaign directed against the Russian people.

Political activity

Since 1963 a member of the Writers 'Union of the USSR , Wassili Below was part of its management from the early 1980s and from 1982 was also secretary of the largest sub-organization, the Writers' Union of the RSFSR .

Between 1989 and 1992 Below was a deputy or member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, then of Russia. Below represented national-conservative positions and was one of the critics of Yeltsin's reform policy. Like Valentin Rasputin , Below was part of the leadership of the National Salvation Front .

Below was an admirer of Ivan Ilyin's philosophy and financed the publication of Ilyin's Collected Writings and wrote the foreword.

Awards

In 1981 Below was awarded the State Prize of the USSR . In 1982 he received the Order of the Red Labor Banner , in 1984 the Order of Lenin .

In 2003 Below was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th Class, and in 2004 the State Prize of the Russian Federation .

Since 1997 he was an honorary citizen of Vologda.

Works

  • My little forest village (1961, Деревенька моя лесная , poems)
  • The Gossip Base (1962, Short Stories)
  • At home (1962, prose poem)
  • A hot summer (1963, Знойное лето , short stories)
  • River turns (1964, Речные излуки )
  • Three Ways From Here (1965, short story)
  • Are we used to (1966, Привычное дело )
  • Am Biberhang (1967, short story)
  • Hill (1968)
  • Carpentry Stories (1968, Плотницкие рассказы , Powest )
  • Vologdaer Eulenspiegeleien (1969, Бухтины вологодские , Powest)
  • My life (1974)
  • Education according to the system of Dr. Spock (1974, Воспитание по доктору Споку , short stories)
  • Shot or Grain (1976)
  • Goodbye in the Morning (1977)
  • Целуются зори / Zelujutsja sori (1978, screenplay )
  • Eves (1978-1995, Кануны , trilogy)
  • Diary of a narcologist (1980)
  • The Order of Things (1981, Лад. Очерки о народной эстетике , collection of essays)
  • Бухтины вологодские завиральные (1995, Powest, continuation of the Vologdaer Eulenspiegeleien )
  • The year of great change (1989–1991, Год великого перелома , novel)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report from the RIA Novosti news agency (Russian)
  2. ^ Kerstin Holm : Russian evenings. Village writer Below died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 6, 2012, p. 31.
  3. ↑ http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_b/belov_vi.php
  4. ↑ Котельников, В .: Василий Иванович Белов . Большая энциклопедия русского народа .. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
  5. ↑ Русские писатели и поэты. Краткий биографический словарь. Москва, 2000. Василий Белов.
personal data
SURNAME Below, Vasily Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Белов, Василий Иванович (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Timonicha , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2012
Place of death Vologda , Vologda Oblast , Russia