Nikolai Blinov infinitely loved the sea. This resident of Smolensk lived in Murmansk for a long time, was a writer and sailor.
Biography
Blinov Nikolay Nikolaevich was born in February 1908. The city of Smolensk became his homeland.
This period was not easy for the country, as well as for its citizens. Growing up of a child was a time of difficult and troubled times. Father Nikolai Nikolaevich was a Bolshevik. Nikolai Demyanovich joined this party at the beginning of the 20th century. He worked in a printing house, corrected texts and typed them. The mother of the future writer worked for the countess. At the beginning of World War I, father Nikolai Nikolayevich was called to the front. And when the October Revolution began, then Nikolai Demyanovich began to fight on the side of the Bolsheviks in order to build a "bright future".
But this fact was a turning point in the Blinov family. Nicholas mother - Nadezhda Fedorovna, held different views than her husband. While her husband was on the military fronts, she met another man, married him. In 1920, Nadezhda Fedorovna, together with her new chosen one, with two little brothers of the future writer, moved to Estonia. Then this new family emigrated to Australia. Nikolai remained in Smolensk with his grandmother.
This twist of fate in the life of the future writer left a trace in his soul for life. When Nikolai Nikolayevich retired, he came to Australia to see his younger brothers, but he could not see his mother, because by this time the woman had already passed away.
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Nikolai Blinov has been tormented all his life with the question, why did his mother leave his father, go so far? He was looking for excuses for a loved one, he believed that Nadezhda Fedorovna was tired of constant waiting, gatherings, prisons, to sacrifice herself in the name of a ghostly "bright future". When my grandmother died, the thirteen-year-old Kolya went on a long journey to find his father. It was not an easy trip, during which the child managed to become a homeless child. But still he managed to get to Arkhangelsk, found his father.
