The history of the Russian state can be studied from the biographies of writers and poets. At a certain stage in the country's development, literary work could lead the author to serious trouble. A good example of this is the fate of Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich.
Difficult childhood
Children always imitate their parents. This is how nature works on our planet. Of course, this thesis does not imply a one-to-one correspondence. Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich was born in the fall of 1932 to a journalistic family. Parents lived in a city called Stalinabad. Today it is the city of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. His father worked as an editor of the newspaper "Communist of Tajikistan", and his mother was a proofreader. The head of the family was regularly transferred from one region to another, and the family followed him.
The biography of Vladimir Voinovich evolved depending on external circumstances. Frequent travel was not conducive to good school performance. The child did not have time to really get to know his classmates and remember the name of the teacher, but he was already transferred to another educational institution. In the whirlwind of places and events, Volodya observed and remembered how his peers lived and what goals they set for themselves in life. He never received a secondary education, but he graduated from a vocational school. The acquired skills were very useful to him in the future.
In 1951, Voinovich was drafted into the army. The service of the future writer took place in different places. He spent two years at an Air Force base in Poland. In the drill lessons, he began to write poetry. He wrote and sent his poetic tests to his father, who by that time worked in the editorial office of the Kerch Rabochy newspaper. It was on the pages of this edition that the poems of Vladimir Voinovich were first printed.
Profession costs
After demobilization, Voinovich lived for some time with his parents in Kerch. Graduated from high school. He studied two courses at a local pedagogical institute and gave up this occupation. He picked up and drove off to the virgin lands. Impressed by the Kazakh expanses and labor achievements, he wrote his first works in prose. Then he "waved" to Moscow and worked for some time at the All-Union Radio. In 1961, at the right time, he wrote the words of the famous song "14 minutes before the start." Several rhymed couplets became for Vladimir Voinovich a pass to "big literature".
At first, the writer's creative career was developing positively. His stories and stories were published in "thick" magazines. However, the love of power structures for Voinovich soon passed. The prose writer managed to write a novel about the adventures of the soldier Chonkin. It would seem that a novel is like a novel. But the censorship, as they say, reared up. The writer also did not want to admit his "mistakes." Then Vladimir Nikolaevich signed a letter in defense of human rights. In 1980, the writer and his family were expelled from the Soviet Union.
For twelve years Voinovich wandered overseas. He returned already to the renewed Russia. The writer's personal life was uneven. Several times he was legally married to good women. But a stable family was formed only on the third attempt. Husband and wife lived for more than fifteen years under one roof until the death of the writer. Vladimir Voinovich died in July 2018.
