Fourteen-year-old Ales Adamovich went through the anti-fascist underground and partisan camp. After becoming a writer, he reflected his feelings in many books. He was always principled, not always pleasing to the authorities, fought to preserve the memory of the war and against the nuclear race. No wonder his life is considered asceticism.
From biography
Belarusian Alexander (Ales) Mikhailovich Adamovich was born on September 3, 1927. His father is a participant in the war. In 1948, during a visit to the patient, the car could not move further, and while he was getting there, he caught a cold, and then fell ill and died. Together with his mother and brother, Ales participated in secret anti-fascist work. Mother delivered medicines to the partisan camp. When Ales went there, his mother gave him a loaf, and he replaced it with a volume of Pushkin. In one of the difficult battles, few, including him, managed to stay alive.
Subsequently, he studied in Altai at a technical school and worked at the same time. Then he acquired a philological education at the Belarusian University.
The beginning of creativity
A. Adamovich recalled what made him a writer:
The XX Congress of the CPSU was held in 1956. He is known for the condemnation of I. V. Stalin. The main creative task of the writer is to comprehend the inhumanity of military actions and actions of historical figures, and subsequently nuclear weapons.
Began to publish in 1960.
The prototype of the main character is his mother, whom he only got to know in an amicable way during the war. He set out to overcome the embellishment of partisan reality that was widespread in those years.
The true word of the writer
The constant creative credo of Adamovich is the desire to write not "as it should have been," but "as it was."
The writer formulated the idea of the book "Punishers" as follows:
The story was conceived as "the dreams of two tyrants." But due to censorship, the chapter on Stalin was published only 9 years later. The reader sees "dreams" of a tired, suspicious dictator.
A word about the blockade
The Book of Blockade was co-authored by D. Granin. The authors talked with witnesses and tried to record their experiences, names and addresses, to understand the origins of the resistance of the blockade. This work is about a quiet death and the heroic endeavors of life. Its creation was reflected in the physical condition of both writers, because they themselves went through this pain.
Territory "wormwood"
Worried about the writer and Chernobyl. This word is translated as "wormwood". There are biblical words about how "the waters became bitter." Adamovich wrote about this. When the first treaty was signed to begin the elimination of missiles, he was happy that the terrible type of weaponry began to turn away from each other. The truth about the tragic consequences of the Chernobyl disaster for Belarus was deliberately hushed up, but he was not silent. The theme of the nuclear apocalypse sounds in The Last Pastoral.
Undesirable to the authorities
If he was convinced that he was right, then he was irreconcilable. Despite the fact that he suffered from beliefs, he never gave up on them.
Adamovich was twice forced to leave Belarus. His works were too indifferent. He refused to sign a letter of condemnation of the dissidents Sinyavsky and Daniel and was forced to leave for his homeland. The second time he left Belarus because of a letter to M. Gorbachev about the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.
Film adaptation of creativity
A. Adamovich loved cinema, wrote scripts and actively participated in the adaptation of his works:
On the set of Come and See, the writer helped the director. For the massive roles of the partisans, local boys and girls were recruited. They could not tune in - they often laughed, had fun. Then Adamovich decided to put on military records. The music, which was heard throughout the forest, influenced the youth, and the shooting went on. The writer turned out to be a great psychologist. Adamovich explained the script of the film as follows:
From personal life
Alexander's wife was a real guardian angel. Daughter - Natalia. During his lifetime, he did not involve his daughter in his work. Protecting her from difficult topics, he told her to live her life.
Natalia is a museum worker. After the death of his father, he collects his archive, promotes the publication of books.
Remembering her father, the daughter says that he was very principled in matters important to him, very able-bodied, he loved big companies, although he himself led a sober lifestyle. Everyone knew that Ales was fond of milk, kefir. And this did not interfere with communication.
Adamovich's friend, the writer Vasil Bykov, compared him with a generator, and himself with a battery. The generator needs to throw out energy, and the battery stores it. But this did not interfere with their friendship, especially since they were friends with families.
Alexander was not only a humanist writer, but also by nature such a person. One day he saw a nest of storks on a pine tree. One of his friends offered to be photographed against this background. But next to the tank on a pedestal, Adamovich refused to film.
last years of life
The writer has been ill for the past two years. One of his friends, the artist Boris Titovich, came up with the idea of planting a park in honor of the participants in the war. And a few years later, he called the photographer Yevgeny Koktysh that the trees they had planted were getting stronger, and the beavers had dragged away the oak of their friend. When they found out about Adamovich's death, they felt uneasy. They thought - some kind of mysticism.
In early 1994, immediately after his speech, A. Adamovich died of a second heart attack. During the funeral service, his wife knelt in front of Father Filaret. He picked it up and said:
The writer was buried in his small homeland.
The activities of this famous person are characterized as ascetic. The writer strove to preserve the memory of the war. This man demonstrated to his contemporaries the perniciousness of the very concept of war and nuclear weapons.
