Михаил Дунаев - Лекции об Иване Шмелёве - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Ivan Sergeevich Shmelev was born in the Kadashevskaya settlement of Zamoskvorechye on September 21, 1873 (old style). Ivan Sergeevich’s grandfather, a state peasant from Guslitsy, Bogorodsky district, Moscow province, settled in Moscow after the fire of 1812. The writer’s father belonged to the merchant class, but was not involved in trade, but was a contractor, the owner of a large carpentry artel, and also ran bathhouses.

After graduating from high school, in 1894 Shmelev entered the law faculty of Moscow University. Shmelev's first story, “At the Mill,” was published in the magazine “Russian Review” in 1895. In the fall of 1895, he made a trip to the Valaam Monastery. The result of this journey was his book - essays “On the Rocks of Valaam”, published in Moscow in 1897. After graduating from university in 1898, he served in military service for a year, then served as an official in remote places of the Moscow and Vladimir provinces for eight years.

Particularly famous were the works written under the influence of the first Russian revolution (the stories “On a Urgent Business”, “Disintegration” (1906); the stories “Sergeant” (1906), “Ivan Kuzmin” (1907)). In 1911, Shmelev wrote one of his significant works, “The Man from the Restaurant,” which was a resounding success; it was filmed in the USSR in 1927 (dir. - Y. Protazanov, starring: M. Chekhov, V. Malinovskaya, I. Koval-Samborsky).

In 1912, the publishing house “Book Publishing House of Writers in Moscow” was organized, whose contributing members were I. A. Bunin, B. K. Zaitsev, V. V. Veresaev, I. S. Shmelev and others. All further work of Shmelev 1900- x is associated with this publishing house, which published his collected works in eight volumes. Novels and stories are published (“The Wall”, “Shy Silence”, “Wolf Roll”, “Rosstani”, etc.), published during 1912-1914.

During the First World War, the collections of his stories and essays “Carousel” (1916), “Hard Days”, “Hidden Face” (1917), in which the story “A Funny Adventure” appeared, stood out noticeably against the backdrop of official-patriotic fiction for their sincerity. He greeted the February Revolution with enthusiasm; he showed complete irreconcilability towards Oktyabrskaya, aggravated by the fact that his only son Sergei, an officer in the volunteer army of General Denikin, was taken from the infirmary in Feodosia and shot without trial. At the end of 1922, after a short stay in Moscow, Shmelev, together with his wife Olga Alexandrovna, left for Berlin, then to Paris, where he lived in exile. He created stories in which he described the morals of the new government through the eyes of an eyewitness - “The Sun of the Dead” (1923), “The Stone Age” (1924), “On the Stumps” (1925).

Over the years, memories of the past took a central place in Shmelev’s work (“Pilgrim” (1931), “Summer of the Lord” (1927-48)). Abroad, I. S. Shmelev published more than twenty books.

I. S. Shmelev died on June 24, 1950 near Paris from a heart attack. In 2000, on the initiative of the Russian public and with the assistance of the Russian Government, the ashes of I. S. Shmelev and his wife were transported to Moscow and reburied in the necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery.