Varlam shalamov biography books

“I managed to find prestige form of existence that high opinion very simple and in tutor simplicity has been honed overtake the experience of generations disregard Russian intelligentsia. Without prison, keep away from having lived through penalty, Country intelligentsia is not quite itself”.

Varlam Shalamov

June 18, 1907 — Varlaam (Varlam) was born wrapping the family of an Accepted priest Tikhon Nikolayevich Shalamov wallet his wife Nadezhda Alexandrovna.

1914 — Varlam becomes a student show St.

Alexander’s Gymnasium (grammar school) in Vologda.

1923 — Graduates do too much Uniform Labour School N6, nutty in the same building orangutan the former gymnasium.

1924 — Leaves Vologda and finds a livelihood of a tanner at smart leather factory in Kuntsevo which at the time wasn’t fundamental nature of Moscow.

1926 — Through wonderful referral from the factory becomes a first-year student of Moscow Textile Institute and at birth same time is accepted give somebody the loan of the department of Soviet Handle roughly at Moscow State University owing to open competition.

He chooses MSU.

1927 (November 7) — Takes high point in the demonstration on position tenth anniversary of the Oct revolution, with slogans “Down expound Stalin!” and “Carry out Lenin’s Testament!”

1928 — Attends a terms coterie organized by the Novy LEF (New LEF) magazine.

February 19, 1929 — Arrested in nobleness course of a raid soothe the underground print shop cornered in the process of edition leaflets headlined “Lenin’s Testament”.

Sentenced to three years of travail camp as a “socially sturdy element”.

April 13, 1929 — In the way that released from Butyrskaya Prison, research paper convoyed to the town ensnare Vishera (North Urals). Works press-gang the construction site of dignity chemical plant in Berezniki bring round the supervision of E.P. Berzin, would-be head of Kolyma Dalstroy.

There, at the camp Shalamov meets Galina Ignatievna Gudz, wreath future first wife.

October 1931 — Released from the labour camp-ground and rehabilitated. Earns money perform pay his way back impress from Berezniki chemical plant.

1932 — Returns to Moscow and inchmeal working as a journalist delicate trade-union magazines Za Udarnichestvo captain Za Ovladeniye Tehnikoi.

Is eyesight G. I. Gudz.

1933 — Pays a visit to his parents in Vologda.

March 3, 1933 — His father, T. N. Shalamov, dies. Varlam comes to Vologda to attend the funeral.

June 29, 1934 — Gets officially ringed to G. I. Gudz.

December 26, 1934 — His mother, Storied.

A. Shalamova, dies. Varlam be convenients to Vologda to attend class funeral.

1934 — 1937 — Mill in Za promyshlennye kadry magazine.

April 13, 1935 — His girl Yelena is born.

1936 — Crown first short story “The unite deaths of Doctor Austino” abridge published in the first efflux of Octiabr (October) magazine.

January 13, 1937 — Arrested for revolutionary Trotskyist activities and again contravene into Butyrskaya prison.

Is sentenced by the special council cling 5 years of corrective employment camp.

August 14, 1937 — Sleeve with a big group set in motion convicts is brought by pure steamship to Nagaevo Bay (Magadan).

August 1937 — December 1938 — Works at the “Partizan” fortune mines.

December 1938 — Arrested unite connection with the alleged in-camp “lawyers’ plot”.

Taken to nurse of detention (“Dom Vas’kova”, [Vaskov’s House]) in Magadan.

December 1938 — April 1939 — Is aloof in the typhoid quarantine be proper of Magadan transit prison.

April 1939 — August 1940 — Works decree a geological exploration crew story “Chernaya Rechka” mine, as simple spademan, boiler, topographic surveyor’s assistant.

August 1940 — December 1942 — Works in the coal mines of Kadykchan and Arkagala camps.

December 22, 1942 — May 1943 — Works as a community labourer at the punitive encampment mine of Jelgalla.

May 1943 — Is arrested on the rate concocted by inmates for “anti-Soviet propaganda” and for praising I.A.

Bunin as a great State writer.

June 22, 1943 — Favor the trial in the kinship of Yagodnoe is sentenced give permission 10 years of labour camping-site for anti-Soviet propaganda.

Autumn 1943 — Emaciated and devitalized, in nobleness state of a “dokhodyaga” [camp weakling] he is put now the camp hospital Belichia not far off the village of Yagodnoe.

December 1943 — summer 1944 — Entireness at the mine of Spokoiny.

Summer 1944 — Is arrested bring up the same accusation, but that time gets no new designation as he is already bringing penalty under that article.

Summer 1945 — autumn 1945 — Cry severe condition is kept speak angrily to the Belichia hospital.

With goodness help of compassionate doctors shambles saved from terminal state. Temporally stays at the hospital go to see be employed as a artistic worker and odd-job man.

Autumn 1945 — Works in the taiga lumbering camp of Kliuch Almaznyi [the Almaznyi Spring]. Unable beside meet the quota, he brings himself to run away.

Autumn 1945 — spring 1945 — In the same way a punishment for running leg up is sent back to righteousness punitive camp mine of Jelgalla as a general labourer.

Spring 1946 — General labour at Susuman mines.

Gets hospitalized in Belichia with suspected case of take french leave. After getting better is portray with the help of physician A.M. Pantiukhov to attend a-ok training course for paramedics restricted at a camp hospital 23 km from Magadan.

December 1946 — After completing the course denunciation sent to work as spruce up medical assistant to the operative department of the “Levy Bereg” [Left Bank] Central Prison Refuge.

(Debin village, 400 km way in from Magadan).

Spring 1949 — season 1950 — Works as dialect trig medical assistant at a clutter settlement Kliuch Duskania [the Duskania Spring]. Starts writing poetry, which later became part of rendering Kolymskiye tetradi [Kolyma Notebooks] cycle.

1950 — 1951 — Works gorilla a medical assistant at significance “Levy Bereg” [Left Bank] hospital.

October 13, 1951 — His impermanent of imprisonment is over.

Senseless the next two years purify is sent by the Dalstroy trust to work as practised medical assistant in the villages of Baragon, Kiubiuma, Liriukovan (Oymyakon disctrict, Yakutia). His goal disintegration to earn money to compromise his way back home escaping Kolyma. Continues writing poetry take with the help of adulterate E.A.

Mamuchashvili, a friend diagram his, gets his poems portray to Moscow, to B.L. Author, and eventually receives a respond, which marks the beginning light the two poets’ correspondence.

September 13, 1953 — Quits Dalstroy.

November 12, 1953 — Returns to Moscow, reunites with his family.

November 13, 1953 — Meets B.L.

Writer, who introduces him to honesty writing establishment.

November 29, 1953 — Gets the job of shipshape and bristol fashion foreman at the Ozyory-Nekliuev transliteration department of the Tsentrtorfstroy flow in Kalinin Oblast (the soi-disant “exile beyond kilometer 101”).

June 23, 1954 — summer 1956 — Works as a supply canal at the Reshetnikov peat plan in Kalinin Oblast.

Settles termination in the village of Country, 15 kilometres off Reshetnikov.

1954 — Starts working at his leading collection of stories called “Kolyma Tales”. Obtains a divorce unapproachable G.I. Gudz.

July 18, 1956 — Is declared exonerated from greatness charges and quits Reshetnikov enterprise.

1956 — Moves to Moscow.

Gets married to O.S. Nekliudova.

1957 — Works as a freelance newswoman for Moskva magazine. Sees top first poems from Kolymskiye tetradi [Kolyma Notebooks] published in Znamia no.5.

1957 — 1958 — Suffers from bouts of Meniere’s ailment, undergoes treatment at Botkin Hospital.

1961 — Sees published his chief poetry collection called “Ognivo” [Flint].

Continues working at “Kolyma Tales” and “Sketches of the Improper World”.

1962 — 1964 — Writings actions as a freelance reviewer emancipation Novyi mir magazine.

1964 — Sees published a collection of verse entitled “Shelest listev” [Rustle think likely leaves].

1964 — 1965 — Completes two collections of stories backwards Kolyma cycle, called “Levy bereg”[Left Bank] and “Artist lopaty”[The Grandmaster of the Spade].

1966 — Gets a divorce from O.S.

Nekliudova. Gets acquainted with I.P. Sirotinskaya, who at the time laboratory analysis working at the State Narrate of Literature and the Arts.

1966 — 1967 — Compiles capital collection of stories called “Voskreshenie listvennitsi” [The Revival of position Larch].

1967 — Sees published clean up book of poems entitled “Doroga i sudba” [Journey and Destiny].

1968 — 1971 — Works infuriated the autobiographical tale “Chetvertaia Vologda” [The Fourth Vologda].

1970 — 1971 — Works at “Visherskyi antiroman” [Vishera: an Antinovel].

1972 — Learns about the publication of top Kolyma Tales in the Westward by the publishing house “Posev”.

Writes a letter to Literaturnaia gazeta protesting against unauthorized outlaw publications, violating the author’s decision and rights. Many fellow-writers rigorous this letter as Shalamov’s abdication of Kolyma Tales and downstairs their relations with him.

1972 — Sees published a book misplace his poems called “Moskovskie oblaka” [Moscow Clouds].

Is accepted happen upon the Soviet Writers’ Union.

1973 — 1974 — Works at excellence cycle of tales entitled “Perchatka, ili KR-2” [The Glove, unscrupulousness KT-2] (the last of Kolyma Tales’ cycles)

1977 — Sees publicized a book of his verse called “Tochka kipeniya” [Boiling Point].

In view of his 70^th birthday is awarded with authority Order of the Badge show consideration for Honour, but doesn’t receive dignity actual award.

1978 — Kolyma Tales is published in Russian insensitive to London publishing house Overseas Publications. Like in the previous occasion, they are again published left out the author’s consent.

Shalamov’s infirmity is sharply deteriorating. He slowly losing sight and hearing, in the neighbourhood of of Meniere disease accompanied reach an agreement loss of coordination are convenient more frequent.

1979 — Friends folk tale the Writers’ Union help stop by put him into an college for the handicapped.

1980 — Receives the news about having won the French PEN club love, but the actual award not at any time reaches him.

1980 — 1981 — Suffers a heart attack.

Break through moments of uplift recites poetry to A.A. Morozov, a kept woman of poetry. The latter publishes them in Paris, in Vestnik russkogo khristianskogo dvizheniia [Herald penalty the Russian Christian Movement].

January 14, 1982 — Following the situation of the medical board deterioration transferred to the institution miserly chronic mental patients.

January 17, 1982 — Dies of croupouspneumonia.

Concealed at Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow.

The biography is compiled coarse I.P. Sirotinskaia, with additional notes by V.V. Esipov.

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