Kir Bulychev - scientist, orientalist, translator, journalist. He is also a children's writer, on whose magic books several generations have grown. He believed in the "Beautiful Far Away" that humanity is waiting for just now, very soon. He invented incredible stories, fantasized about distant worlds, not forgetting the wonders of his native planet.
Biography
In 1934, on October 18, in the noble family of the Belarusian gentry Vsevolod Mozheiko, who hid his origin, and Maria Bulycheva, the daughter of a White Guard officer who became an orphan after the revolution, a child was born - the long-awaited son, who was named Igor.
The boy’s childhood was rather difficult. The pre-war years, deprivation, persecution of the nobility - all this was enough in his life. But he received a brilliant home education, thanks to an intelligent mother. Unfortunately, his father left when Igor was four years old, and in the future he was little interested in how his family lives.
Maria soon married a prominent Soviet scientist, Jacob Bokinik. This once and for all put an end to the persecution by the authorities, in addition, the new husband had a real fatherly love for a talented boy and played a big role in his formation. Soon, Igor's sister appeared in the family, Natalya, and at the end of the war, his stepfather died.
Education and career
After school, in 1957, Igor Mozheiko graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and left for Burma to act as a translator, and at the same time to work as a correspondent for the Sovinformburo. Returning home, he becomes a columnist for the magazine "Around the World". It was during this period that Igor first tried himself as a writer by publishing the story "Maung Jo will live."
In 1965, Igor Vsevolodovich became a candidate of historical sciences. Along with this, he publishes stories, poems and essays, subscribing with various pseudonyms: Maun Sein Ji, S. Fan, Thomas Purkine and others. In the same year, the first stories about Alice Selezneva and the well-known name Kir Bulychev appear.
Igor’s wife was called Kira, Bulycheva - the mother of the writer in girlhood, Alice - the daughter of Igor Mozheiko, born in 1960. Surname Selezneva also borrowed from the family, this is the maiden name of Alice's grandmother.
Working a lot abroad as an orientalist, Igor actively wrote short stories and stories from the cycle about Alice Selezneva, painted vivid watercolor landscapes, collected badges as a hobby, was fond of archeology and history. He has written hundreds of scientific works, critical and historical essays, serious journalism, poetry collections, guides to the East, as well as many translations of foreign classics and science fiction.
Since 1976, Mozheiko began writing scripts for his books, on which more than 20 films were shot. In 1981, he received a doctorate in oriental studies, and in 1982 he won the State Prize for the screenplay "Through thorns to the stars."
After that he was able to disclose to the public the real name of Kira Bulychev - until the state recognition of the writer they could be fired because of classes with "frivolous literature", which was then considered fiction. And from that moment Mozheiko devoted himself entirely to literary activity. He believed that caring and smart people would make the future truly bright.
