Writer Vadim Kozhevnikov: Biography

Vadim Kozhevnikov is a writer and journalist of the Soviet era. In those days there were a lot of films about the war, this topic was number one in the cinema. Writers one by one created their masterpieces and received awards from the state for this. Plots really touched for life and nurtured courage and patriotism in the younger generation. Vadim Kozhevnikov, one of such famous Soviet writers and journalists, is laureate of the USSR State Prize and Hero of Socialist Labor (photo below). In his arsenal are many beautiful works, which are collected in 9 volumes. In literary circles this writer is certainly a very talented and famous person.

Vadim Kozhevnikov: Biography

He was born in a remote Russian pre-revolutionary Siberia - in the Tomsk province of the Narym region in the village of Togur - April 9, 1909 in a family of exiled social democrats. Virtually all his childhood and youth he spent in Tomsk with his parents. But the time has come, he fled from his parent's nest and in 1925 went to conquer Moscow. There he enrolled at the Moscow State University at the Literary Department of the Ethnological Faculty, which he graduated in 1933.

The first professional steps of the beginning writer Vadim Kozhevnikov made in 1930, publishing his first story "Port". In 1933 he found a journalist in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, then worked in popular socio-political magazines "Smena", "Ogonek" and "Our Achievements". Having gained an invaluable experience, six years later, in 1939, he released a collection of "Night Talk". A year later Kozhevnikov was already a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR.

War

However, in 1941, peacetime ended when fascist Germany began bombing the borders of the Soviet Union. The Great Patriotic War began, and people who could fight not only with weapons, but also with a feather, called up for the army, so that they could pass on the hot news in time and professionally from the foremost, because they were very impatiently awaited by the people.

Vadim Kozhevnikov after a while was on the battle line as a military correspondent for one of the front-line newspapers. In 1943 he became a correspondent of the publishing house Pravda. But the most important event in his military journalistic life, as well as for any Soviet man, and even more so the front-line soldier, was the capture of Berlin, when he relayed many hot reports from the center of events.

After the war, life began to gradually begin to flow into its course, and Vadim Kozhevnikov from 1947 to 1948 began to work as editor of the department of literature and art in the newspaper Pravda. And since 1949 and already until his death, Kozhevnikov will be the editor-in-chief of the journal Znamya.

Since 1967 he is secretary of the board of the USSR and RSFSR JV, a delegate to the 26th CPSU Congress (1981), a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

He died on October 20, 1984. His body was buried at Peredelkino Cemetery.

Vadim Kozhevnikov: interesting facts

A lot of hype and gossip caused news that Kozhevnikov, while holding the post of editor of "Znamya", handed over to the KGB (according to other information - to the CPSU Central Committee) the pages of the manuscript of the novel "Life and Fate" by V. Grossman. Most likely, the manuscript was requested from the editorial office by one of these bodies. Kozhevnikov's daughter denies this information in every possible way. She believes that his father could not transfer the manuscript to the "punitive organs", because it was filled with dangerous insights, where the parallels between Hitler-Stalin and fascism-communism were traced. Most likely, it could be sent to the ideological center of the Central Committee. There were people who supported this view, since there was still no evidence or documents on this score. But Solzhenitsyn also wrote in one of his books that he remembered how Grossman's novel was seized from the safe of the Novy Mir publishing house.

Works by Kozhevnikov

The main works of Vadim Kozhevnikov were stories and novels, his prose fiction, which he created throughout the Great Patriotic War, was even more successful. However, from his pen came out and several novels. The most famous among them: "The Shield and the Sword" and "Meet Baluyev" (it was for them that they shot the same feature films), as well as the novels "Zare to meet" (1956), "Roots and Krona" (1983) , "At noon on the sunny side" (1973), at one time so adored by millions of Soviet people. The most popular among the readers can be identified the story: "The Great Call" (1940), "The Day Flying" (1963), "Special Unit" (1969), "Military Happiness" (1977), "So Was "(1980)," Polyushko-pole "(1982); Stories "Port" (1930), "Night Talk" (1939), "The Heavy Arm" (1941), "Stories about the War" (1942), "The Roads of War" (1955) , "The Tree of Life" (1979), "March - April" (1942), which also was shot a magnificent feature film with the same name.

The novel "The Shield and the Sword"

In order to have an idea of what Vadim Kozhevnikov wrote about, we will dwell in detail on the work "The Shield and the Sword", which was a tribute to such deadly and heroic work as the Soviet intelligence of the Second World. In the plot, a young and well-trained Russian intelligence agent, Alexander Belov, was abandoned from Riga to Germany in 1940, just before the outbreak of the war, under the guise of the German immigrant Johann Weiss. He began uncertainly and at first worked as an ordinary truck driver, gradually getting used to the Germans and studying their style of work and behavior. With him was a friend - Henry Schwarzkopf. By 1944, serving in the exploration of the Third Reich, Weiss had made a dizzying military career and rose to the rank of SS Hauptsturmfuhrer. Then he was transferred to Berlin to the Security Service of the Reichsfuehrer SS. From that moment he got access to the most valuable securities and information.

Alexander Belov

There are several hypotheses from whom Kozhevnikov wrote off his legendary hero. One refers to the scout Rudolph Abel, and the other - to Alexander Svyatogorov. But, however that may be, the novel is very interesting, although its structure is not at all similar to the usual style of such masters as Julian Semenov. This work is dominated by a deep psychology based on the experiences of Sasha Belov, who tries to get used to the skin of a thoroughbred Aryan, devoted to the national socialist cause.

Continuation

Belov learned to be absolutely calm, whatever happened, as well as the ability not to betray himself, not to be irritated and confidently move towards his goal. And he was able to overcome his first "I".

In the second part, thirty percent is given to the slowly developing near-political situation. Weiss gets acquainted with a huge number of Hitlerites and ordinary Germans. And only twenty percent of the plot is given to the action plot, which is observed in other well-known authors, in general, for what they like this genre: operations, chases, bases, interrogations, etc.

As a result, the romantic idealist will turn into a cold-blooded professional.

There is another curious moment: according to Stanislav Lyubshin, the main actor in the film "The Shield and the Sword", this picture at one time made a very strong impression on Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and influenced his choice of a scout profession.

A family

Many readers are interested in Vadim Kozhevnikov. His personal life is also no exception. Although the curtain was slightly opened on this issue, the daughter of the writer Nadezhda Kozhevnikova very much helped. She remembered that her father had big bright green eyes with long eyelashes. He was not just handsome, but the destroyer of women's hearts. And he conquered many women's hearts, but the last conquest ended on her mother Victoria. Suddenly, an inveterate bachelor surrendered. When they got married, he was thirty-six, and his wife-twenty-six.

In Victoria, it was the second marriage, before that her husband was a polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union Ilya Mazuruk. With her daughter Irina from the first marriage, she went to Vadim. Although they said that he was a henpecked man, he was not a weak person in this matter, but rather a cunning one, everything that concerned home, life and upbringing lay on Victoria, since this sphere practically did not interest him.