Soviet-era writers left an invaluable legacy to their descendants. The pen and word masters did not write their works, but created them. Created in the framework of a unique genre - socialist realism. Yes, today bookstore shelves are littered with fantasy-style books. This style was invented by writers with a timid soul, those who are timid to face reality. Yuri Markovich Nagibin was not afraid. He looked at the surrounding reality with open eyes and evaluated events according to the Hamburg account.
Failed surgeon
As one of the famous critics put it, Yuri Nagibin managed to be born in 1920. Civil War. Devastation and hunger. The family is moving from bread to kvass. Three months before the appearance of the baby, the father was shot. Yes, this is a tragedy for family and friends. However, at that time, the Russian people energetically and enthusiastically engaged in self-destruction. Ksenia Alekseevna, mother of the future classic of Soviet literature, soon married. But, as it turned out, unsuccessfully. When the boy was seven years old, his stepfather was sent to places not so remote for his inability to keep his mouth shut.
A new man appeared in the house who was a member of the Writers' Union. He willingly studied with the boy and instilled in him a taste for working on text and literature in general. It is known that a professional writer should read a lot. A lot and systematically. Yuri easily studied at school and was distinguished among classmates by a wide erudition. The teenager did not seriously think about the career of a writer. To get a serious education after school, he entered the Moscow Medical Institute. A good doctor can always earn a piece of bread. However, after attending classes in the morgue, Nagibin once and for all realized that medicine was not his path.
And at that moment he was advised to enter the VGIK scenario faculty. Yuri could not complete the training because the war began. The student was assigned the officer rank and sent to the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army. The biography of the political instructor was successful. He had to be at the forefront. Cook flyers. Participate in the interrogation of prisoners. Once came under fire from enemy artillery and received severe shell shock. They did not commit Nagibin’s army, but were transferred to the post of war correspondent for the Trud newspaper.
