Biography of Gaidanov

Years of life: with his father, Ivan Gazdanov, was a forester, and, along the duty of his service, the family had to move a lot. They lived in Siberia, in the Tver province, in Kharkov, in Poltava. In the year, Ivan Gazdanov died, which was a great shock for little George. In Poltava, the future writer was trained in the Cadet Corps. And from the year - in the Kharkov gymnasium, having studied to the seventh grade, and leaving it because of the outbreak of civil war.

In the year, Gaito Gazdanov entered the Volunteer Army, served as a soldier on an armored train. This act is by no means explained by political motives, but a desire to find out what war is and experience something new for yourself. Subsequently, with the retreating White Army, it is in the Crimea. In the year he leaves Sevastopol, forever saying goodbye to his homeland. About the events of these years, he will write an autobiographical novel “Evening at Claire”.

Gazdanov arrived in Turkey on a ship, in Constantinople he wrote his first story “The Hotel of the Coming”. After he lived in Bulgaria, in the city of Shumen, where he graduated from the Russian gymnasium. He moves to France in the year. The first year in exile was the hardest - Gazdanov had to work with a port loader, a steam locomotive, a worker at an automobile plant, a teacher of Russian and French.

Subsequently, he worked as a night taxi driver, which ensured its existence for many years. Periodically, he had to return to this work, even being a famous writer. The work of the night taxi driver allowed him to see the life of the Parisian bottom with his own eyes, which gave him a lot of food for thought. The novel "Night Roads" is just about these first years of Gazdanov’s life in France.

In the late twenties, Gazdanova manages to enter the University of Paris Sorbonne, where he studied for four years at the Faculty of Historical and Philology. At the same time, he writes stories and is published in French magazines. At the same time, the aforementioned novel “Evening at Claire” was written, which was highly appreciated by critics and Russian writers, such as Bunin and Gorky.

However, until literary work does not bring Gazdanov material profit. Then he takes part in the work of the literary association of Russian emigrants “Nomad”. In the year, Mikhail Osorgin, a writer and journalist sent from Russia, invited Gazdanov to the Masonic Lodge "Northern Star". Gazdanov was in the box until his death. In addition, he was a member of the Union of Young Writers and Poets since the year renamed the unification of writers and poets.

At this time, Gazdanov makes attempts to return to Russia - he learns about his mother's illness. For help, the writer turns to Maxim Gorky. Gorky expressed regret and was ready to help, but died in the year. Gazdanov remains in Paris. In the same year, the writer marries. Faina Dmitrievna Lamzaki, the daughter of Greek merchants from Odessa, became his bride. Gazdanov devotes the novel "Night Roads" to his wife.

The first three years after marriage - are very fruitful in the life of the writer. In addition to night roads, two more novels are written - “The History of one Journey” and “Flight”, and several stories. Gazdanov remains in Paris and during the Second World War. They enter the ranks of resistance with his wife, cover Jews in their apartment, help French and Soviet partisans.

He worked in an underground magazine. He wrote the documentary book “On French Land”, impressed by communicating with fugitive Russians who fought in France against fascism. Under the pseudonym, George Cherkasov worked as an editor, journalist and leading transfer of Russian literature at the American radio station "Freedom" since the year.

In the beginning of the x, two novels “The Ghost of Alexander Wolf” and “The Return of the Buddha”, which bring Gazdanov, world fame and material independence are published. Only now he can leave the work of a night taxi driver. Gazdanov also worked in Munich. From the year he held the position of senior and then editor -in -chief of the Russian service. He wrote on political and social topics.

Then he switched to literary and critical articles in which one can find an original approach to the scheme of perception of the literary hierarchy. He was buried near Paris, in the Saint-General cemetery de Bois. In the year, the “Society of Friends of Gaito Gazdanov” was created in Moscow, whose members are studying the work of the writer, his life, as well as a popularization of his works.

Rafael Gasparyants made the first film about Gaito Gazdanov called "The Fourth Life." Close called Tatyana called Nyushechka, or Claire, which is translated from French. The Pashkov family passed one outbuilding of the mansion in Kharkov to the Gazdanov family of then the widow Vera Nikolaevna with a little son. During this time, their families came closer. During the literary meetings in Paris, Gazdanov expressed an extremely peculiar point of view, did not recognize generally accepted authorities, which earned the reputation of an uncontrollable debater and pickup.At one of these meetings, Gazdanov spoke as follows about Valeria Bryusov: “It seems, indeed, there was such a poet, but it was completely mediocre, and who is now hunting to re -read it?

In the emigrant circles of Gazdanov, they christened the "Russian Prust."