Vsevolod Vitalievich Vishnevsky

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Vsevolod Vitalievich Vishnevsky

Vsevolod Vishnevsky ( Russian Всеволод Витальевич Вишневский ; born December 8 . Jul / 21st December  1900 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 28. February 1951 in Moscow ) was a Russian-Soviet journalist and playwright.

Life

He was born into a family of professors. At the age of 14 he gave up high school without his parents' knowledge and joined the tsarist fleet. Even as a sailor in the Baltic Fleet , during the revolution and civil war , he was a combative writer-correspondent, publicist and novelist. At the end of the twenties he became well known for his civil war drama The First Cavalry Army . In the mid-1930s he was one of the organizers of the International Anti-Fascist Congress in Defense of Culture and took part in the work of this congress in Madrid and Valencia . At the beginning of the Second World War , the writer was in Leningrad . Vishnevsky returned to the ranks of the Baltic Fleet and took an active part in the defense of Leningrad as a naval officer and correspondent of Pravda . For a number of years he was Deputy Secretary General of the Union of Writers of the USSR and also editor-in-chief of the Soviet literary magazine Znamia ("The Banner"). He died after a long and serious illness.

He was married to Sonja Vishnevskaya. Already sick herself, she edited and published her husband's entire estate after Vishnevski's death in 1951. She died in March 1962.

Works

  • The judgment of the Kronstadt rioters (play, 1921)
  • The first cavalry army (play, 1929)
  • The last stand (play, 1931)
  • There is struggle in the west (play, 1931)
  • The last decisive one ... (drama)
  • Optimistic tragedy (play, 1932)
  • We from Kronstadt (screenplay, 1933)
  • Spain (screenplay, 1939)
  • We - The Russian People (Novella)
  • The sea spreads endlessly (drama)
  • Outside the walls of Leningrad (drama)
  • The unforgettable year 1919 (drama)

Works in German

  • Optimistic tragedy. - Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1977.
  • War. - Publishing house of the Ministry for National Defense of the GDR, Berlin 1959.
  • Sailors - Fighting Art. - Publishing house of the Ministry for National Defense, Berlin 1960

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berliner Zeitung of February 28, 1956
  2. ^ Berliner Zeitung of March 2, 1951
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 11, 1962
  4. ^ Berliner Zeitung of February 28, 1956
  5. ^ New Times of November 21, 1952
  6. ^ Berliner Zeitung of April 3, 1958
  7. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 21, 1964
  8. ^ Berliner Zeitung of March 2, 1951
  9. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 3, 1958
  10. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 30, 1948
  11. ↑ Neue Zeit from August 12, 1986
  12. ↑ Neue Zeit from March 2, 1972
  13. ^ Berliner Zeitung of March 2, 1951
  14. ^ Berliner Zeitung of February 28, 1956
  15. ^ New Times from September 9, 1952
  16. ^ Document of the award for WW Wischnewski, Order of the Red Star. Retrieved April 27, 2018 (Russian).
  17. ^ Document of the award for WW Wischnewski, Order of the Red Banner. Retrieved April 27, 2018 (Russian).
  18. ^ Document of the award for WW Vishnevsky, Order of Lenin. Retrieved April 27, 2018 (Russian).
  19. ^ New Times of March 2, 1952
personal data
SURNAME Vishnevsky, Vsevolod Vitalievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Вишневский, Всеволод Витальевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet playwright and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1951
Place of death Moscow