Gleb Alekseev Biography

Born in the family of People's Teachers Vasily Dmitrievich Alekseev. Mother, Varvara Arkhipovna Ivanova, was a woman a sensitive soul and musically gifted. It was she who supported her son in his timid literary undertakings. He studied at the 1st Moscow gymnasium at one time with I. since the year he collaborated with Moscow newspapers, was close to Sergey Klychkov. The first publication of Alekseev was a story in the Kopeyka newspaper in the year.

After the gymnasium ended in the year, he joined the army, served in Tver, in the Tver newspaper published his essays and feuilletons. In the “Autobiographical Notes” of Alekseev, “Governor von Bunting is mentioned, which publicly threatened to carve on the Cathedral Square for the briskness of the pen.” Then Alekseev, having not worked for a long time in the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Volgar, in became the assistant editor of the department in the Russian Word newspaper, listened to lectures at Moscow University.

A participant in the First World War: “In the year, X years old, with a suitcase, in which my mother laid two pairs of linen and her tears, and I - Pushkin and Bunin, I went into war, in the lodges, into the world, to the blood and alien, to return ten years later.” Twice wounded, he returned from the hospital to the front. He left the infantry to the aviation detachment. He flew to the old "Moran" - airplanes supplied by the Allied France.

Once his plane scattered in the air only miraculously can explain the incredible salvation of the pilot, who received severe injuries of the skull. Subsequently, recalling wartime, Gleb Alekseev will write: “The war [during the civil war served in the White Army, was the assistant editor of the News News in Kyiv, the editor of the Kyiv literary newspaper Our Monday, and the assistant editor of the Rostov Free Speech.

In December of the year, he, who was ill with a rash typhus, along with his first wife, L. Kravchenko, leaves Russia on an English steamer, who left Novorossiysk to Constantinople. Long wandering began on the roads of the European continent. In Athens, he worked as a guide in Acropolis. After some time, his wife arrived from Turkey with Greek shanda.

Soon Gleb Alekseev went with his wife to Hungary, where he tried to organize the fishing artel. Then he moved to Yugoslavia, where he worked as a cleaner of boots; In the cities of Croatia, Serbia, Banata, Bosnia and Herzegovina lectures on Pushkin. In search of earnings, Alekseev found himself on the Italian ship "Brioni", visited the ports of Africa and Asia Minor. He almost died in the city of Drevor, where he was mistaken for the Dalmatian spy when he examined the palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian.

In Trieste, Alekseev, without documents, fled from the ship and only thanks to the saving assistance of T. Galushkina, the Russian emigrant, the former nun of the Theodosian monastery, he crossed to Dalmatia. He rented abandoned vineyards there, raised melons, baked Swedish bread. Living in Yugoslavia, Alekseev listened to lectures at the University of Zagreb, translated the Croatian poet I.

Gundulich, the Serbian proseals L. Lazarevich and Y. Veselinovich, Ukrainians I. Franko, V. Stefanik, M. Kotsyubinsky; He collaborated with the newspaper “Common Case”, which was published in Paris, and with the Berlin newspaper “The Steering”. At the beginning of the year he sent four essays to the Russian Book magazine created in Berlin under the general title “Living Meetings I.

Bunin, L. Ratgauz, B. Lazarevsky and A. Kamensky.

" At the end of the year he moved to Berlin, organized the “Book publishing of writers in Berlin”, which was one of the first to print Soviet authors; He collaborated with the magazines "New Russian Book", "Spolokhi", "Firebird", "Theater and Life". Only in the year essays were published about the revolutionary village “Earth Awakening”, written in Russia earlier by passages were printed in the newspapers “Tauride Voice”, “Free Speech”, “Dawn of Russia”, in the Belgrade Russian Newspaper.

Also, nine stories were published in the Almanac of the Literary Association "Verateno"; The playful poem “Geranium Happiness” is in “Anthology of Satire and Humor”; Many publications were in the periodical press, in the same time, a wartime collection “Living Tup”, the novel “Under the Ministry of Defense”, was published. Literary success was accompanied by an increase in Alekseev’s authority in the public life of “Russian Berlin”.

In the initiative of A. Drozdov, the literary association of the “spindle” was called upon to rally writers of various political views living both in exile and in Russia Alekseev was a comrade of the chairman. But soon a split occurred in the association, one of the main perpetrators of which was A. Tolstoy, who planned to return to Russia. Alekseev tried to reconcile the writers, but I.

Bunin, G. Struve, V. Sirin Nabokov left the “spindle” in the fall, and Alekseev himself left the Commonwealth a month later. In the year, Alekseev published the book “Living Meetings”, the collection of “The Tale of Foreign Years”, the story “Dead Running” and the translation of the book of the Ukrainian writer M. Kotsyubinsky “What is written in the book of life”. But, falling under the strong influence of A.

Tolstoy and M.Gorky, Alekseev began to change his orientation and became close to publishers, where writers who did not break with the Soviet regime mainly participated. In the fall of the year, Alekseev unexpectedly left Berlin and on November 7, among other "shifters" appeared in Moscow. Russia initially met Alekseeva affably. Already in the year of his arrival in Petrograd, the book “Dead Running” was reprinted, new books were printed one after another.

In the year, the novel “Underground Moscow” was published, then - the story “Residential House” and a collection of stories “Other Eyes” in these books, Alekseev spoke about those changes in the life of the province and the village that he managed to notice. According to the writer, these changes are by no means optimistic, which is confirmed by his next “fur coat” story and the novel “Shadows of Standing Ahead”, therefore, the literary encyclopedia of 11 tons was already in the year.

Alekseev took on all literary work: he made up the propaganda brochure “Against Anti -Semitism”, traveled around the country and released a collection of essays “things and people Competitions ”, but immediately received in response that under the flag of an essay he tried to drag his alien and hostile to the proletariat. Alekseev wrote the stories about the revolution - “Carpet”, “In the eighteenth”, the staging Alekseev were adopted by theaters, but were banned by censorship and did not go on the stage.

In the year, Alekseev wrote the book “The Rose of the Wind”, which was positioned as “The Search of the Roman” - it consists of heterogeneous parts. Here is a journalistic report, and excitingly written historical excursions into the past, and bright household sketches. Nevertheless, in the year, Alekseev, with a brigade of writers, on behalf of the organizing committee of the SSS, went north "to participate in the works on the reorganization of the literary movement, to hold a regional plenum and the regional congress of the writers of the north." There, together with Artem Vesny and Ivan Molchanov, he was engaged in the collection and study of folklore of the northern nationalities - Nenets and Komi.

In May, G. But his own for “Soviet writers”, Alekseev, did not become a line from the letter of Alekseev L. Kaganovich of April 21, reveal the situation in which the writer had to work: “I was beaten up [I could give examples of dishonest criticism when extracts from my text were disturbed to accuse me of this text. And when there was nothing to beat for, my works were stopped or simply not missed, and then it was impossible to find the reasons why they were not missed.

” The personal life of G. Alekseev was surrounded by many puzzles, his friendship with the famous Chekist Y. Agranov, on which, as well as the writer’s communications with the GPU bodies, hinted at the testimony of R. Gulya K. Fedin and I. still revealed the mysterious circumstances of the tragic tragic for G. Alekseev of the year. Alekseev was arrested on April 26 in the case of B.

Pilnyak and A. Veselogo, convicted of the ATC on charges of participating in an anti -Soviet terrorist organization. The death date of G. Alekseev, indicated in the certificate of rehabilitation from the year - the year, is falsified. In the publication "Archive of A. Gorky" T. Gorky and Soviet seal. According to Blum, in the city of Alekseev died under investigation or was shot; According to Kvakin, the writer graduated from suicide.