Biography of Nikolai Zadornov

The historical novels of the writer make up a whole epic about the development by Russian people of the Far East, about the exploits of explorers, about admirals Putyatin and Nevelsky, about the history of the establishment of economic and diplomatic relations of Russia and China, Russia and Japan. Zadornov was born on December 5, November 22, in the city of Children's and school years, N.

Zadornov took place in Chita, where the Zadornov family lived. At school, he was the organizer of the campaign theater. After the end of the 8th grade, N. Zadornov was sent to his father to his homeland, to Penza. In the graduation year at school, Nikolai began to work in a professional theater, where he was given small roles. After graduating from school in the city in Ufa, in the editorial office of the city newspaper, Nikolai Zadornov met his future wife Elena, who at the first meeting as an editor, criticized his essay.

From the scandals and threats of the ex -husband of Elena, the Zadornovs decided to leave first to Moscow, and then in the city of at night I saw a real moon, not cardboard ... I walked along the taiga, and on boats, and on boats, by myself and from the editorial office of the city newspaper, for which I wrote essays. I learned to rule a sail in a Nanai boat, walking on a birch bark -haired man.

In winter and summer I was in Nanai camps. I saw shamanism ”from the autobiography of N. Zadornov, G. in Komsomolsk-on-Amur N. Zadornov worked as the head of the literary part of the theater, in addition, he collaborated in a local city newspaper, worked on the radio, and led the circle of builder warriors. Pogodina "Silvernye Pad" N. Zadornov received gratitude and diploma from the command of the corps of military-construction units.

When the literary association of Komsomolsk-on-Amur decided to publish a collection about the history of the city, he instructed N. Zadornov to write an essay about the village of Perm. In the place of this village in the city of the appearance of the village of Perm, as well as other Nizhneamursky villages, it is associated with the decision of the Russian authorities to strengthen the Far Eastern borders of Russia at the end of the 19th century.

The expedition of the researcher of the Amur Territory, the scientist-refinerator, Admiral G. Nevelsky at the Baikal barck in the city here they threw a lot, where someone to settle. The group of immigrants from the Perm province had a lot to settle near the Nanai village of soap and a stream then. In August, peasants and other provinces began to arrive here in the future.

At the same time, as a rule, peasants were sent on a long journey with a wealth. About the history of the resettlement of Russian peasants to the uninhabited lands on the banks of the Amur, about how many difficulties the first settlers had to endure in order to defeat the wild nature, to rebel the taiga, adapt to the harsh climate and grow bread on the land that did not know the plow, N.

Zadornov wrote the novel “Amur-Batyushka”. In the center of the novel is the story of the family of the peasant Yegor Kuznetsov, from the need and lack of freedom of which went in search of a happy life in mysterious and frightening Siberia. Collecting the material for the novel, N. Zadornov searched for the first migrants of old-armed s. Perm, proceeded in many places in the Far East with the Nanais, Nivhas, Udegeans, in the summer of G.

the thorough knowledge of the material became one of the main reasons for the success of the young writer. The novel "Amur-Batyushka" is divided into three books. The first part of the novel was published in the second book of the novel “Amur-Batyushka” saw the light in the city She was later translated into many European languages.

In the third book of the novel, entitled “Golden Figure”, the author continued to describe the process of mastering the territory of the Amur Region by peasants. Simultaneously with the novel “Amur-Batyushka”, the writer worked on the story “Mangmu”-about the life of the Nanais at that time when only a low-dumped childbirth lived in the region. Zadornov was awarded the Stalin Prize.

The son of the writer, Mikhail Zadornov, recalling his father, wrote: “In his youth,“ Amur-Batyushka ”was my favorite novel. Finishing it once again, each time I had the feeling that our future was no less comfortable than the life of the heroes of my father’s novel ... When my father brought the manuscript to Moscow, Soviet editors refused to print it, as literature was in demand only frankly heroic [War - sost.

Somehow, the novel hit the table to A. Fadeev, he realized that the publishing house would not even listen to his Soviets, although he was the secretary of the USSR Writers Union. In the hope that he would be approved from above, he handed over to Stalin ... ... Later, Fadeev secretly told my mother when he was visiting Riga that Stalin told him about the “Amur-Batyushka”: “Zadornov showed that these lands are ours.

That they were mastered by a labor person, and were not won. In our future relations with China, his books will be very useful. We must publish and note! Yes, because state prizes were already heard to the right and left ... Father did not rename his laureate for the sake of time. ” Due to the strong myopia, N. Zadornov was not taken into the ranks of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War.

Remaining to live in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, he, as a correspondent of the regional radio committee, wrote near the essays about the heroes of the labor front, and in the cityZadornov traveled a lot in Manchuria, talked with Japanese prisoners of war. The one saw and experienced during the war later reflected in historical novels about the expedition of Admiral E. Putyatin in Japan. All these years, he studied the life of local nationalities, worked in archives in Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov as members of the Writers of Russia.

In search of heroes for his essays, N. Zadornov traveled a lot to the Far East, in places where Russian sailors made their discoveries. The writer was increasingly interested in the identity of the Russian admiral, the researcher of the Far East, the founder of the city of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur-Gennady Ivanovich Nevelsky. Nikolai Pavlovich saw in the Russian Admiral an advanced person, a patriot and thinker, who clearly represented the future of his homeland as a country, which was in close connection with all the great countries lying in the Pacific basin.

Fadeev invited the young writer N. Zadornov to go to Latvia to strengthen friendship with Latvian writers. Nikolai Zadornov agreed to move to the west of the country, where in the archives he could study history, diplomacy, marine business ... - Everything that was needed to write conceived novels. Zadornov moved to Riga, where he began to work as the editor of the Russian almanac and lead the section of Russian writers in Latvia.

At this time, the writer continued to work on the stories “Mangmu” and “Marketshkino Ruzhiy”. Senior researcher at the Khabarovsk Regional Museum. Grodekova K. Grodekova stored letters of N. He corresponded with the Khabarovsk writers I. Mashukov, A. Guy A. Pleshkov, A. Prishvin - editor -in -chief of the Far East magazine in - gg. Sysoev, Yu. Shestakova, N.

Rogal and others. Although N. Zadornov left the Far East, his thoughts and heart remained there, he needed a connection with the Far East, about which he created novels. Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov was always worried about the Far Eastern literature, about the Far East magazine, about literary life in Khabarovsk, he was not indifferent to the fate of the Far East writers.

After work in the central archives of the country, in the fall of G. in - gg. The cycle of novels about the historical feat of the Russian people in the Far East was completed by the publication of the book “War of the Ocean” by the G. Riga period of N. Zadornov’s life was the longest and fruitful. He gathered and attracted talented youth, lectures on literature, was the first editor of the Sailor’s literary and journalism journal, in which the works of Latvian authors in Russian were published.

He was engaged in translations of his novels into the Latvian language. At the end of the year. Zadornov wrote a trilogy - “Tsunami”, “Simoda” and “Had”. The action of these historical novels takes place in the middle of the 19th century. There is a Crimean war. South of Russia in fire.