Brief biography of Lebedinskaya

Libedinsky with her sister Rakhil Yu. Libedinsky with his wife Lydia with Chelyabinsk local historians I. Gorokhov on the left and P. Meshcheryakov on the right. Chelyabinsk, Libedinsky at work. Libedinsky with the family of Yu. Libedinsky with the family of the grave of Libedinsky in the Novodevichy cemetery of Moscow. Libedinsky’s childhood and youth passed in the Southern Urals.

He was born in Odessa on December 10, November 28, according to the old style of G. Father Yuri, was a graduate of Vienna University. When the boy was two years old, Nikolai Lvovich Lebedinsky according to the documents - Libedinsky was sent as a senior doctor to the Miass plant that was then called G. Father often traveled to the patients to the patients and took his son with him.

Since childhood, Yuri fell in love with the Urals: "I have been grateful to my father all my life, and I rejoice that the Urals became my second homeland." The very word "Ural" seemed to him "calm, important and sounding, like a mountain echo." When the boy grew up, the family moved to Chelyabinsk so that the children in their family could study them. In the city of Yuri entered a real school.

The wide yard adjoined the edge of the pine forest "in this building on the street. Red, 38 is now one of the faculties of the Agro Engineering University. There were very good teachers at the school. For the first time, the literary abilities of Yuri Libedinsky were manifested there. He took part in the publication of the student literary magazine "First Steps", wrote stories under the pseudonym Yu.

First World War. There are many refugees in Chelyabinsk, illness, hunger. Yuri's father worked in a military hospital. A wave of revolutionary movement rose in the city. It is no accident that Yuri, who grew up in a prosperous family, reached out to the revolutionaries: "The obesity and wealth of some and the hopeless poverty of others were striking all the time and the young conscience took place." He was friends with the younger brother and sister of the Yelkin revolutionaries, visited their house.

Together with his friends, he watched from the balcony in the city of listening to those whose names later the streets of Chelyabinsk would be called: Zvilling, Kolyushchenko, Vasenko in April G. Mikhail Golubykh, a friend of Yuri in the school, called him to work in Zlatoust, to the newspaper. But the civil war began. He was a political officer. In Kolchakovsky underground he led a revolutionary propaganda among soldiers.

His satirical poem "The Gray Patfinder" of the Mark of the car, on which Kolchak traveled, corresponded by hand. In September, in the same year, Yuri Nikolaevich lost his father, who was always the ideal of high morality for him. During the epidemic and typhoid, the father cured many of the illness, but could not save himself. Nikolai Lvovich buried the whole city. In the fall, G. Yuri Nikolaevich returned to Chelyabinsk, served in the political department of the provincial enlistment office, worked in the Sovetskaya Pravda newspaper Later Chelyabinsk Worker, began to write his first book, which played an important role in his life.

There he began work on the story "Week" about the hardest week in Chelyabinsk after the Civil War in the Urals in the spring of G. The story does not have the name "Chelyabinsk", but the city is guessed according to many descriptions. In some images of the heroes of the story, the features of specific Chelyabinsk residents are recognized. A very difficult situation in the city: hunger, the danger of an attack by kulak gangs.

A small group of the Communists died, protecting the city. The story ends tragically, but leaves a feeling of hope. The book is permeated with revolutionary romance. No one ordered this book to Libedinsky. He simply could not help but write about what he was experienced. He has an interesting job: he conducts classes with the Red Army. There is not enough time, you can write only in the evenings.

There is no papers, writes on the wrapping sheets of the Vysotsky Chaiwort Factory. Hungry, the ration was reduced to grams of bread per day. But Yuri is young, in love. He dreams of writing a book and throwing her at the feet of his beloved girl. He made a "trip to the Crimea." Не случайно в первых изданиях есть посвящение: "Марианне Герасимовой - любимому другу и верному товарищу", в последних - "Памяти Марианны Либединский к этому времени переведен на работу в Москву преподавать в Высшей военной школе связи.

Критика восторженно встретила книгу. Автор не ожидал такого успеха. Эта статья в последующих изданиях стала предисловием к книге. Ее переводили на иностранные языки: французский, The German Henri Barbus wrote that this is the “revolution through the eyes of the revolution.” He came to him, as a teacher, with the first book "Spill" Alexander Fadeev. They became friends forever and even related, having married the sisters of the Gerasimovs - our fellow countrymen of the cousins ​​Sergei Gerasimov, daughters of the revolutionary Anatoly Gerasimov: Libedinsky - Fadeev - at Valeria, both marriages were short -lived.

The Chelyabinsk journalist Mikhail Phonotov told us about the difficult writer's fate of friends. Yuri Nikolaevich continued to write. In addition to success, there were also failures. He realized that he lacks knowledge, experience.

The writer went to the machine, worked as a turner of the Moscow Electromechanical Plant named after Vladimir Ilyich, but did not leave creativity. After 43 years, when Yuri Nikolayevich was gone, the film will be put on the book.Libedinsky moved to Leningrad, led a writer. New books, articles appeared. But Stalin did not forgive him for the good review of Nikolai Bukharin about the "week".

The writer began to criticize. Especially got the story "The Birth of the Hero", in which he spoke about the rebirth of the party apparatus into the bureaucratic apparatus. Fadeev persuaded his friend to move to Moscow and this saved him from the arrest. But in the city of Yuri Nikolaevich, he was expelled from the party "for communication with the enemies of the people." His books, published before G., the writer experienced this time heavily, did not sleep at night for two years, was waiting for his arrest.

The heart became sick. He turned gray early. But he continued to work, write books, translate from the Caucasian languages ​​in the same year he was restored in the party. When the Great Patriotic War began, Yuri Nikolaevich volunteered for the militia, but soon became the front -line correspondent of the newspapers Red Warrior, Red Star. His essays became known: “Guards”, “Yugov’s gun” has been to advanced positions, near Kursk, in Stalingrad more than once.

Got a heavy concussion. During treatment in Moscow, he met Lidia Tolstoy, who was much younger than the writer. But you can’t order love, a good family appeared: “I was his nurse, secretary, beloved,“ these words became the name of the interviews of Lydia Borisovna, published in the “Chelyabinsk worker” on June 30, Yuri Nikolaevich ended the war with the rank of major. In the post -war years, he worked on a large trilogy: "Mountains and People", "Cathery", "Morning of the Soviets"