Biography of Arkady Averchenko

Even Lenin was forced to admit that “a dozen knives in the back of a revolution”-K.'s talented book, not so often, people who have a good sense of humor are born on earth, and even less often talented humorist writers. Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko is one of them. He was called the "king of laughter." The writer was born on March 27, in childhood, as a result of an accident, he greatly damaged his eyes and, because of poor vision and poor health, graduated from only two classes of the gymnasium.

He received a home education, read a lot. In a large family where the future satirist was born, 9 children-six girls and three boys, two of whom died in infancy. The writer's sisters, with the exception of one, survived their brother for a long time. Father, Timofei Petrovich, was a small entrepreneur and contained three grocery shops in Sevastopol. A. Averchenko began to work early, at fifteen years old he joined the younger scribe in a private transport office.

A year later, he left Sevastopol and began to work as a clerk in the Donbass at the Ugolno mine, where he served for three years, later wrote several stories about this “evening”, “lightning”, etc. In the city, after the closure of this magazine, he heads the following - “Sword”, also soon closed. It becomes a regular editor of this very popular publication. Arkady Averchenko had brilliant organizational abilities, he managed to attract talented writers and artists to work in the journal.

One of the first steps taken by Arkady Averchenko to attract readers was the release of a free book-album “Modern All-Petersburg” for subscribers. Averchenko was the author of this parody review of the sights of the capital, the exception was two poems by Sasha Cherny. The guidebook in St. Petersburg also had literary portraits of the most famous writers, made in a parody vein. Averchenko, who made it known to all reading Russia - “Funny Oysters”, “Humorous stories”.

Published in Gg. Averchenko repeatedly traveled to Europe with his Satyricon friends-artists Alexei Alexandrovich Radakov and Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov. These travels served the writer with a rich material for creativity and in the city of February bourgeois revolution A. Averchenko met positively, but the October one categorically did not accept. At first, the writer tried to joke: "Yes, to hell with him, with this socialism, which no one wants, from which everyone turns away, like the guys from a spoon with castor oil." But soon there were no jokes, everything changed dramatically for the worst, well -being disappeared, the apartment was “condensed”, the fun disappeared.

Hunger was approaching. The central theme of his first post -revolutionary publications: “Why are they so Russia? Averchenko even turned to Lenin: “My brother Lenin! Why do you need this? After all, all the same, everyone goes on to and all unhappy and all advised the leader: “Throw off these boring, dry duties, introduce them to the professionals, and become the same free, free person, the same carefree bird as I ...

We will walk along warm streets, look at fresh female delays, admire the lions, and there are barbecue in the Caucasus in the Caucasus The cellars and read the great wise dickens - this good layman with a smile of God on the lips ... ". If you bring together everything that Arkady Averchenko wrote about the leader of the revolution, starting from the feuilleton “Dar of the Danais” and ending with “kings at home”, you will get a kind of satirical Leninian.

Vladimir Ilyich did not pay attention to the two “friendly” letters of Averchenko addressed to him personally, also ignored the “dozen knives in the back of the revolution”, published in the Crimea in the city, but when this book was published in Paris a year later, he finally reacted to it with a short response, in which he praised “Pre -praised to the insanity of the White Guard, but the most unexpected was the conclusion.

Lenin: “Some stories, in my opinion, deserve reprints. Talent must be encouraged. ” Fulfilling the will of the leader, in the 10ths in Soviet Russia they began to reprint the works of Arkady Averchenko. The books “Rashed anthill”, “Humor of past days”, “Notes of the simple -minded”, “Gethods and two others” and many small books published in various humorous libraries.

In August, to return to his native Sevastopol, Crimea was busy with white, A. Averchenko had to survive numerous troubles, to make his way through Ukraine occupied by the Germans. In Sevastopol, A. Averchenko collaborated in the newspapers “Priazovsky Territory” and “South”, spoke with reading his stories, in charge of the literary part in the “Artist’s House”, wrote the plays “Medicine for Stupidity” and “Game with Death”, and in April, Sevastopol was taken red.

A few days before, Arkady Averchenko managed to sail on a steamer in Constantinople, where at that time there were many refugees from Russia, where he felt more or less comfortable. In April, G. began to be published in the Prager Press newspaper, write stories, perform touring in the Baltic states, Poland and Germany.In Prague, he wrote his last books “Tales of the Cynica” and the novel “The Joke of the Patroner” - essentially memories of a carefree bohemian St.

Petersburg life. Like many compatriots who emigrated after the revolution, Arkady Averchenko in a foreign land was very yearning for Russia.

Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko died at the age of 44 in the Prague City Hospital on March 12, He was buried in Prague in the Orthodox part of the Olshansky cemetery, where prominent figures of the first wave of Russian emigration rest. He died in a foreign land, an emigrant. Did such fate have a carefree soul? .. The day before his death, as they wrote about this from Prague, he joked and hoped to master his illness, live and work ...

Fate did not smile on his last joke and sternly put an end to Sasha Black, a poet of the Silver Age, a prose writer, a journalist. Averchenko; Enters. Sasha is black.