The son of Boris Strugatsky Andrei: "In some way, the father foresaw the current situation." The son of Boris Strugatsky Andrei: "In some way, the father foresaw the current situation"

Interview with the son of Boris Strugatsky, Andrey, about the future of the creative heritage of great Russian science fiction, the upcoming collection of works, political views and a small family business.

- What is the further fate of projects, including literary related to the name of Strugatsky?

There is a series of "Time of Pupils", in which various authors wrote the continuation of the works of the Brothers Strugatsky. By the same principle, the series "Inhabited Island". The project "Stalker" is developing in the same way, though very remote, "Picnic on the sideline". In this series, more than a hundred books have been released. As for the journal "Noon XXI Century", then its existence is probably final completed. We went to the publishing house "around the world", but nothing happens there. The ABS Foundation continues to function, Sergey Arno is engaged in organizational matters. Now the Foundation is making every effort so that the ABS premium takes place this year. The selection of works is headed by Nikolai Romanetsky. The presentation of the award is planning to spend on June 21 in the Pulkovo observatory.

- Are there any plans to reprint the essays of the Strugatsky, which and in what form?

In the autumn publishing house, it is planned to release the first two volumes of the most graceful thirty collection of works, including, in addition to the works themselves, all documents related to the work of the Strugatsky brothers - correspondence, articles, interviews, etc. A huge merit in drawing up this meeting belongs to the Ludena Group (the International Network Group, the main purpose of which is the study and propaganda of Strugatsky's creativity, its fiction writers and famous literary criticism are approx. Ed.). In addition, no one canceled the reprint of the books of the Strugatsky brothers in the usual format. I also hope that the edition of writings in electronic form will also receive further development.

- Who now belongs to the rights to the literary heritage of Strugatsky?

- Maria Arkadyevna Strugatsky - Daughter Arkady Nathanovich, my mother Adelaide Andreevna Strugatsky and me.

- Lie after Boris Nathanovich some unfinished works, are you going to sell any manuscripts?

- incomplete things, most likely not. At least, I do not know anything about it. From the archive, we do not intend to sell anything.

How do you feel about "fungi" projects in Strugatsky? Who do you think the most outstanding sciences now?

The project is positive. I like Stolyarov, Lazarchuk, Izmailov, Uspensky, Lukin, Lukyanenko, Divov, Dychenko, Bulls. The list can be continued, not to remember everyone. I think that best works Our fiction is an advanced border of Russian literature.

- How do you feel about the coming shooting of the series on the book "Monday begins on Saturday"?

I have a positive effect on any screen vendors.

- Have you seen the latest film Alexey German Easternist on the novel "It's hard to be God"?

I did not see this film in general I saw, because work on it is not finished yet, as far as I know.

What else received applications for the decreement of the works of Strugatsky, are they often treated with this question?

The filming of the film "Baby" are planned. Other offers are still not finally decorated.

Do not plan to become a writer like the son of Frank Herbert, Brian, actively continuing the dune cycle? How do you feel about such practices from the descendants?

I treat this practice well, but myself ... "In the children of Geniyev, nature is resting."

What are the plots of books of the Father you like most? Do you prefer the individual creativity of the father or the joint Brothers Strugatsky?

I like the Brothers Strugatsky like almost all their creativity, together or separately - it does not matter. According to the "Flooding" of the plots, I highlight the "inhabited island", "Picnic on the side of the road", in the depths of thought - "snail on the slope" and "Hild of doom". According to emotional influence - "It's hard to be God," an attempt to escape "and" chrome fate "(including" shy swans ").

What do you think, did you get the prototype of those or other heroes in the compositions of Strugatsky? Do you have such familiar prototypes?

In the main hero of the teenage "Tale of Friendship and Needless" there are some of my features. As for other prototypes, the friends of the parents often recognized themselves in some characters.

- Boris Nathanovich was a seen opposition figure. Do you share his views?

My glances "cooler" than the Father. I belong to those who are our notebook patriots are called with negative connotation by liberal fundamentalists, and the Western political tradition determines as a libertarian. Less state, more private initiative, "How to Fall and Fall". Of course, complete freedom and the minimum of prohibitions. As for our current government, it does not deserve nothing but deep contempt.

- What do you yourself do, what is your profession?

My specialty is economic geography, but it did not work for it a single second, although I am interested in this issue and so on. I graduated from Geofak LSU in 1989, and here began new times. Since all my life I am fond of rock music, I decided to combine pleasant with useful and trading for a long time with discs. At the end of the zero years on reasons independent of me, I had to change the subject of trade. Take up selling books. Apparently, I'm a little late, the business goes neither Shake Narco. I have a modest department called "Books for large and small", located in the same house where I live. It is very convenient. We work with my wife, sometimes a daughter helps us. Such a family business.

Andrei Borisovich Strugatsky:

- Of course, I was alarming for the safety of the archive. If he had suffered, it would be very serious loss. That is why it was decided to export an archive. These folders of the father passed for a long time, starting from the 90s, Svetlana Bondarenko, which is one of the world's largest specialists in the work of the Strugatsky brothers. Manuscripts were needed to work for the preparation of the most complete collection of writers. Back in January of this year, Svetlana proposed to take the archive from Donetsk not to risk. I naturally agreed. It is very grateful for the fact that the papers are returned safe and preservation. Also very grateful to the journalists of the Russian Newspaper for assistance.

I remember how Strugatsky worked on their novels? I do not remember for a very simple reason: they never wrote at home, always met in the houses of creativity, and therefore, in the course of work, no one could see them. I am not an exception ... but not yet published a story in the manuscripts read repeatedly, and every time with a huge interest! My favorite works of Strugatsky I have a lot, and I love them in different ways. I consider the "deceit" and "snail on the slope" and the most closely powerful and "snail", and I am probably the "picnic on the side of the road" and "for a billion years ...". Well, of course, the most is the "inhabited island"! Perhaps because of all the books donated to me, this father was the very first, and maybe because in this novel Strugatsky predicted many events.

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Saved the world

On May 26, 2015, on the eve of the celebration of the "City Day", a press conference was held in the House of Writier.

People acted in front of journalists, thanks to which the invaluable cultural property of our country and around the world was saved - the archive of the manuscripts of the Strugatsky brothers: artwork, correspondence, drawings.

This historical event, some representatives of the "Free Press" tried to give a political tint, but did not work out!

Why? Yes, because the Strugatsky brothers themselves are global writers.

It would be interesting to know how they themselves would have reacted and as described this fairly adventure history of salvation from the fire of their manuscripts.

Since, as everyone is understandable, in each manuscript - the particle of their soul.

At this press conference it was told about Svetlana Bondarenko, a researcher of creativity of great sciences.

She was just the initiator of the return of Boris Nathanovich Strugatsky who were kept by her personal request, manuscripts from Donetsk to St. Petersburg.

What is the uniqueness of this event?

All wars will be run out, even such a bitter fratricidal war, which is now in Ukraine.

And then at your leisure, already those who dismantled, or their descendants with the same side, will take the book of Strugatsky and, perhaps, after that, something in their heads will change.

And, instead of endless wars, betrayal and stupidity, the thought of readers will be directed to another: to know the huge inner world of man, the implementation of a dream, to help people.

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In details:

Manuscripts really do not burn

"Luennica" (from left to right): Vladimir Borisov (Abakan), Yulia Etzova (Rostov-on-Don), Svetlana Bondarenko (Donetsk), Alexander Sidorovich (St. Petersburg) (below), Vadim Kazakov (Saratov), \u200b\u200bBoris Strugatsky (S.-Petersburg) (sits in the center), L. Rudman (USA), V. E (Archive: Bittytsky S. (Rostov-on-Don); Photo: Bittytsky S. (Rostov-on-Don); processed : Bittytsky S. (Rostov-on-Don))

- How did this story happen? A little mysterious, mysterious, as it should be when it comes to writers - science fiction, "-from such words began a press conference director of the St. Petersburg House of Writer V.Malyushev. - Personally, Boris Nathanovich Strugatsky transmitted 20 years ago manuscripts for studying the study of the creativity of the Brothers Strugatsky Svetlana Bondarenka. Svetlana transported them to Donetsk with the consent of B. Zhargatsky. When the war began in Ukraine, the archive was under a serious threat of destruction.

It became clear that manuscripts were supposed to be returned to Russia.

With a proposal for assistance in the transfer of archive to the Foundation, journalists of the Russian Newspaper were called.

Melnikov Ruslan Viktorovich - journalist

"Russian newspaper", writer - science fiction. He personally transported the archive of the Strugatsky brothers.

- Our task was, - told Sergey Arno., Director of Strugatsky Foundation - to do everything so that the transfer of the archive is transparent, avoid curved. So, we were offered assistance between the military from the DPR, but we counted that it would still be under a more reliable cover of not people with guns and guns, and people with handles and microphones. And we were not mistaken. Archive - now in front of you. He will be transferred by the right of inheritance to the son of Boris Strugatsky - Andrei

Vladimir Rady, Director of the Rostov branch of the Russian Gazette about Svetlana Bondarenko:

- Svetlana Bondarenko, a fan, editor and explorer Creativity Strugatsky, somehow told me:

"I thought all my life, what the Strugatsky wrote. They wrote still not about what the technique of the future will be, but about how the person changes, and what will be the people of the future. People of the future are and we are with you and the following generations "

Some writers, directors and musicians showed themselves due to the creative tandem. These include the Cohen brothers who have removed the Fargo's dismantry thriller, Sisters Vachovski, as well as, who pleased the pubers of book shops with works with participation.

It is also worth highlighting the Strugatsky brothers who know both adults and children. Writers became leaders in the world of fantastic Soviet literature. Surely lovers of books, where it tells about the technologies, the universe and scientific progress, they know such works as "hard to be God", "inhabited island", "Monday begins on Saturday," "Picnic on the side of the sideline", etc.

It is noteworthy that after the death of Brother Boris Strugatsky, whose biography is replete interesting facts, continued to "cut a thick log literature with a two-handed saw, but without a partner."

Childhood and youth

The writer appeared in the spring, April 15, 1933. This event happened in Leningrad. The future of Boris Strugatsky was predetermined, because the writer was brought up in an intelligent and educated family. His father Nathan Zarmavolovch Strugatsky was in positions of art historian, bibliograph and iconograph. At the time of the birth of the son, the man was appointed a scientific employee of the museum.

Love for literature Boris Nathanovich and his brother absorbed together with Mother's Milk: Alexander Ivanovna, in the Maiden Litvinchev, taught Russian literature at school. For their efforts, this woman was awarded the title of "Honored Teacher of the RSFSR" and was awarded the "Honor Sign".

The Strugatsky family was considered exemplary, and the Arkady and Boris brothers had a happy childhood. However, in the blink of an eye, the familiar existence has changed beyond recognition: with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Bright colors of life were blocked, and the joy was replaced by tears, depression and grief.

Strugatsky found themselves in a deposited Leningrad, and in 1942 Nathan Zalmanovich went along with Arkady in evacuation together, as Boris was sick. Unfortunately, a tragedy occurred in the Strugatsky family: the head of the family died of hunger on the road, in Vologda.

In 1943, thanks to Arkadia Boris, together with his mother moved to the Chkalov region. After the end of the war, in 1945, the incomplete family returned to Leningrad, where the future writer graduated from school with a silver medal.

It is noteworthy that a person who pleased the books of works, tied his life with non-macatic paths. Boris was going to become a student of the Faculty of Physics, but was not enrolled. Next, the choice fell on the Mathematics and Mechanical Faculty. In 1955, a young man received a diploma in which the specialty "astronomer" was.

After receiving higher education Strugatsky continued the "untention path". He entered the graduate school of the Pulkovo observatory, and also worked as an engineer and was a member of the Astroclimatic Expedition in the Caucasus.

Literature

While alone believes that all writers were engaged in writing stories in childhood and knew their future vocation from a small age, the biography of the Strugatsky brothers proves the opposite.

Two geniuses of literature were born at the moment because of the bottle of champagne. This alcoholic drink was a prize that stood on the horse in the dispute: young scientists stated the spouse of Arcadia, Elena Ilinichna, which will be able to show their literary talent. That evening the subject of the discussion was the weakness of modern fiction.

Thus, in 1959, the Strugatsky brothers left the first book called "Country of Baghrov Tuch": Chernovik was ready already in 1957, and the book itself entered the "World War" cycle.

The debut product of writers is dipping the reader in the era of the Union of Soviet Communist Republics. The main acting hero specialist in transport vehicles Alexey Bykov - receives an offer to participate in the expedition in Venus.

The writers endowed their work by a detective element: in the plot of the book there is a mystery of the death of the geologist Tahmasiba, who, together with his team, died in the previous expedition. The novel considers not only technological progress, but also the relationship between public good and individual desires of a person.

Boris Nathanovich worked only over the final part of the novel, which is called "on Venus". The "Country of Bagrov Tuch" became the first work in the Strugatsky brothers' service list, which is written in parts. In the future, writers agreed on the Fabulus of the Roman or the story and constituted a certain storyline. Men are used to working in tandem, but they composed small works separately from each other.

The booklers believe that most of the writings of the brothers are written in the genre of science fiction, but Boris preferred to talk about "realistic fiction." The writer tried to make the main characters not computing machines, robots and other technological innovations, but a person, revealing his character and fate: Cosmos, planets and technique of the future served as a scenery.

After the death of Brother Boris Nathanovich continued to engage in literature, taking the pseudonym S. Vititsky. From under Pen Strugatsky came out two full novels. The first "search for the destination, or the twenty-seventh theorem of ethics" (1994-1995) tells about the engineer programmer Stanislav Krasnogorov, who believes that fate protects it from an inevitable death and saves in various situations.

Another work of Boris is called the "powerless world of this" (2003), which S. Bondarenko called the most difficult in the bibliography of Strugatsky. The book has three storylines that intersect with each other, and the names and nicknames of the main characters are intentionally mixed. All the events of the novel are stacked in one week of the winter month.

In addition, Strugatsky engaged in translation foreign literature, introducing Russian readers with Andre Norton, Holly Clement and John Windem.

Personal life

Boris Nathanovich Strugatsky was a monochombus. Most of his time the writer spent with a woman who met, being a student. Adelaide Carpelyuk became the love of his life. In 1959, the happy spouses had a son Andrei.

Outside the literary activities, Boris Strugatsky was interested in politics and had a clearly pronounced civil position: he voted for and wanted to give his voice of the "Apple" party, and also in 2010 spoke about the ten-year-old government, calling Russia a "authoritarian country".

In addition, contemporaries recalled that Boris Strugatsky did not say under any circumstances, what he works, guided by the rule "Never Say - I do, always say - did." Otherwise, according to the writer, all the work goes to the pump.

Death

The writer died in November 2012 from lymphoma. According to Boris Strugatsky's will, his body was cremated, and the dust was dispelled from the helicopter over the air over Pulkovsky heights. The writer's wife survived the spouse for one year, one month and one day. Adelaide Carpelyuk died of oncological disease.