Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov
Wladimir Ossipowitsch Bogomolow (Russian Влади́мир О́сипович Богомо́лов, born July 3, 1926 in Kirillowka, Moscow Governorate ; † December 30, 2003 in Moscow ) was a Soviet writer.
Career
Bogomolow experienced World War II as a schoolboy and became a soldier after only seven school years. At the end of the war he commanded a company . During the war he was wounded and awarded various medals. He continued to serve in the Red Army until he was deployed as a secret service agent in East Germany in 1950. He spent thirteen months in prison without charge in 1950 and 1951 . In 1952 he resigned and devoted himself to writing; from 1952 to 1958 he studied at the higher party school for journalism. One of his early short stories, Ivan (1957), was made into a film by Andrej Tarkowski in 1962 as Ivan's childhood (Иваново детство) .
His most famous work is August 44 , which tells of SMERSch agents and their activities - tracking down looters and saboteurs. The plot is partially interrupted by fictitious military documents such as orders, telegrams, circulars and reports. The novel was published more than a hundred times in different languages and filmed twice. The 2001 version by Mikhail Pashtuk is best known to the public. Bogomolov was dissatisfied with this work and asked not to be named as the source of the script; Bogomolov in particular complained about the director's lack of experience with warlike topics.
Today some journalists as well as historians doubt that Bogomolov even did military service and suspect that his entire military biography was a single invention.
Works
- Ivan's childhood (1957, Russian Иван ), filmed in 1962
- First love (1958)
- Zosja (1963, Russian Зося ), tells the love story between a Soviet officer and a Polish girl; filmed in 1967
- August 44 (1973, Russian В августе сорок четвертого ), filmed in 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vera Iwanowa / Michail Manikin: Vladimir Bogomolov. In: Russia IC. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Olga Kuchkina (Ольга КУЧКИНА): Автобиография вымышленного лица}. In: Komsomolskaya Pravda . September 13, 2005, accessed November 30, 2018 .
- ↑ FI Razzakow (2004): Life of the wonderful times. 1970-1874: Time, events, people. (Russian). ISBN 5-699-05394-8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bogomolov, Vladimir Osipovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Богомолов, Владимир Осипович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirillovka, Moscow Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 2003 |
| Place of death | Moscow |