Stepan Zlobin - the famous Soviet writer, laureate of the Stalin Prize, awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War. He created mainly historical prose. His most famous works were the novel Stepan Razin, Buyan Island, Salavat Yulaev.
Stepan Pavlovich was born in Moscow in 1903. The grandson who was born on November 11 (24) was raised by his grandmother. A twelve-year-old future writer went to Ufa to his father. There he was caught by the outbreak of the First World War. Pavel Vladimirovich went to the front. Styopa returned to Ryazan again. Here he entered a real school.
Vocation
By the fourth grade, the boy decided on future activities. His biography made a sharp turn: the boy was accepted into the squad of Baltic sailors. In the provincial newspapers, the novice writer published poetry under the pseudonym Argus.
At the same time, he studied the art of painting in the studio of the famous artist Philip Malyavin. Then Zlobin entered the theater studio. In 1920, the future prose writer began to work statistics, then began to work at the grocery warehouse. At the same time, he was educated at the industrial-economic college.
In 1921, Stepan Pavlovich became a student in the Bryusov Literary and Art Institute. During his studies, Zlobin became interested in linguistics, creative psychology.
After graduation, the future writer went to Ufa as a teacher of Russian language and literature at school. He had to give up work because of a sharp deterioration in his health. He moved to a more relaxed post of statistics of the Ufa State Planning Commission.
Stepan Pavlovich went on expeditions to remote corners of Bashkiria. He studied local dialects, collected folklore, songs, and traditions.
They were very useful to him while working on an essay about Salavat Yulaev. In 1928, according to the results of the trip, literary and ethnographic travel notes "In Bashkiria" were written.
Literary work
The real literary debut took place in 1924. The author presented a children's poetic tale "The Trouble". In 1927, the first prose book, the novel Roads, was completed. It examined events unfolding in the Southern Urals from the end of the century before last to the contemporary author of the period.
The publication of the book has been delayed. In 1929, the writer won recognition. He presented his novel "Salavat Yulaev" to readers.
The critic perceived the large-scale historical work ambiguously. By 1940, the novel was revised. Together with his wife Galina Spevak, the book was transformed into a script for the drama of the same name by Yakov Protazanov.
She narrated about the national hero of the Bashkirs, who led their peasant uprising led by Pugachev. In the thirties, Zlobin worked on the radio in the editorial office of children's broadcasting. He headed the historical literature section of the Writers' Union from the late thirties. Zlobin finished writing courses a fortnight before the start of World War II.
He was sent to the "writing" company with the capital's militia. Then he ended up in a divisional newspaper. A prose writer and poet near Vyazma in the battle received a shell shock, was wounded and was taken prisoner. Until the spring of 1942, he was engaged in preparing the escape. The attempt failed, and Zlobin was in a camp on the Elbe. He stayed there until October 1944, becoming the head of the local underground. After exposing the seriously ill, he was sent to the Lodz district.
Major works
The prisoner was released in January 1945. The writer recalled the memories of that time in one of his most impressive creations, the novel The Risen Dead. In 1948, the author presented the historical large-scale novel "Buyan Island" about the uprising of the Pskov population in the middle of the seventeenth century.
In 1951, the work "Stepan Razin" saw the light. Within a few years, a real epic was created. In 1852, Zlobin received the Stalin Prize for his literary work. The impressive epic included two volumes. The author recreated in his books the biography of Razin, his struggle. The uprising of the seventeenth century became one of the largest in Russian history. The image of Stepan was presented as a proud and confident person in the power of truth.
By 1962, the autobiographical work, Missing, was published. The work was dedicated to the struggle of captured Soviet soldiers.
The work was dedicated to the struggle of captured Soviet soldiers. It turned out to be especially necessary for their subsequent rehabilitation. Characters endure hardships steadily, finding strength to resist circumstances. Regularly, soldiers organized shoots, destroyed traitors, and prepared uprisings. The first book was published by the Soviet Writer.
