Kir Bulychev is a scientist, orientalist, translator, journalist. He is also a children's writer, on whose magic books several generations have grown up. He believed in "Beautiful far away", which is waiting for humanity just about, very soon. He came up with incredible stories, fantasized about distant worlds, not forgetting about the wonders of his home planet.
Biography
In 1934, on October 18, in the noble family of the Belarusian gentry Vsevolod Mozheiko, who concealed his origin, and Maria Bulycheva, the daughter of a White Guard officer, who became an orphan after the revolution, a child was born - a long-awaited son, who was named Igor.
The boy's childhood was rather difficult. The pre-war years, deprivation, persecution of the nobility - all this was enough in his life. But he received an excellent education at home, thanks to an intelligent mother. Unfortunately, his father left when Igor was four years old, and in the future he was little interested in how his family lived.
Maria soon married a prominent Soviet scientist, Yakov Bokinik. This once and for all put an end to the persecution by the organs, moreover, the new husband experienced true paternal love for the talented boy and played a big role in his formation. Soon, Igor's sister, Natalya, appeared in the family, and at the end of the war, his stepfather died.
Education and career
After school, in 1957, Igor Mozheiko graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and left for Burma to act as an interpreter, and at the same time work as a correspondent for the Sovinformburo. Returning home, he becomes a columnist for the magazine "Around the World". It was during this period that Igor first tried himself as a writer, publishing the story "Maung Joe Will Live".
In 1965 Igor Vsevolodovich became a candidate of historical sciences. Along with this, he publishes stories, poems and essays, signing various pseudonyms: Maun Sein Ji, S. Fan, Thomas Purkine and others. In the same year, the first stories about Alisa Selezneva and the well-known name Kir Bulychev appeared.
Igor's wife's name was Kira, Bulycheva was the writer's mother's maiden name, Alisa was Igor Mozheiko's daughter, who was born in 1960. Seleznev's surname is also borrowed from the family, this is the maiden name of Alice's grandmother.
Working a lot abroad as an orientalist, Igor actively wrote novels and short stories from the cycle about Alisa Selezneva, painted living watercolor landscapes, collected badges as a hobby, and was fond of archeology and history. He penned hundreds of scientific works, critical and historical essays, serious journalism, poetry collections, guides to the East, as well as many translations of foreign classics and fiction.
Since 1976, Mozheiko began writing scripts for his books, based on which more than 20 films have been shot. In 1981 he received his doctorate in oriental studies, and in 1982 he won the State Prize for the screenplay Through Thorns to the Stars.
After that, he was able to reveal to the public the real name of Kir Bulychev - before the state recognition, the writer could have been fired because of the practice of "frivolous literature", which was then considered a fantasy. And from that moment on, Mozheiko devoted himself entirely to literary activity. He believed that caring and intelligent people would make the future really bright.
Personal life
With his wife, Kira Alekseevna Soshinskaya, Igor met in Moscow, where the girl studied to be an architect. Kira became a loyal fan of her science fiction husband's talent. She helped edit his books, illustrated many of them, and then began writing herself. The wife's daughter, born in 1960, was named Alice in honor of Carroll's heroine.
The fairy tale has always gone hand in hand with the people in this amazing family. The cycle of works about Alisa Selezneva became the main legacy of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko, who invented the world of the future in which one wants to live, endlessly admiring its miracles, diversity and kindness.
The collapse of the USSR and perestroika did not affect Kira Bulychev in the best way. The books have become darker and harsher, and health has fallen into disrepair. On September 5, 2003, after a protracted oncological illness, Kir Bulychev, a writer who gave many of his readers a Real Dream, quietly passed away.
