Fadeev author biography

Quotes36 about the author Alexander Fadeev - Russian Soviet writer, journalist, military correspondent, editor. Public figure, vice president of the World Council of the World.

Born on December 10 in the city of Kimra of the Tver province, the Russian Empire. The life path Alexander was born in the Feldsher family, the parents of the future writer were professional revolutionaries. Father was sent to exile, Fadeev’s childhood passed in Ufa. Sasha was a gifted smart boy, at four already learned literacy. From early childhood he loved to read, those around him were amazed at the talent and fantasies of the child.

Early began to compose his own tales and stories. In the year, the Fadeevs moved to the South Ussuri Territory. The family needed funds, so it was decided to send Sasha to the aunt in Vladivostok. Since the year, the young man studied at the Vladivostok commercial school. He visited the literary circle, received several awards for his works. He was engaged in tutoring from the year.

At the same time, he is associated with the underground committee of the Bolsheviks, fulfills secret instructions. In the year, Fadeev joined the RCP B and became a party agitator. Since the year he was in a special communist detachment of red partisans. He participated in hostilities in the Far East. In the year, Alexander Fadeev entered the Moscow Mining Academy.

Then, as a delegate to the X, the Congress of the RCP B went to Petrograd, where he took part in the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising. He received the Order of the Battle Red Banner. He was wounded, demobilized, moved to live in Moscow. In the year he graduated from the Academy, was in party work in Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar. The author of the author in the year Fadeev finished the first story “Spill”, three years later - another, “defeat”, which brought the author a great popularity.

At this time, Alexander Alexandrovich decides to become a professional writer. The heroes of the author’s early novels are red partisans, the action takes place in the Ussuri Territory. Public and political activity took a lot of time, so the literature was almost failed to pay attention to the literature. During the Great Patriotic War, Fadeev was a military correspondent for the newspaper Pravda and Swinformburo, published a large number of journalistic articles and essays.

He visited the most dangerous sections of the front, collecting information for reports. He spent three months in the besieged Leningrad, the result was the book of essays “Leningrad on the days of the blockade”. Wrote a number of works included in the annals of classical Russian literature: “The Last of Udege”; "For thirty years"; "Young Guard." The last novel became a landmark in the work of the writer, although it was originally accepted critically by Soviet censorship.

Fadeev had to rewrite the book, changing many places for the sake of the ruling party. The novel was filmed. The writer was skeptical of the Khrushchev thaw, and in the year, at the XX Congress of the CPSU, he was severely criticized for writing and social activities. The official necrologist stated that the cause of the tragedy was the writer's alcohol dependence.

He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Similar authors.