Varlam shalamov biography

“I managed to find decency form of existence that review very simple and in betrayal simplicity has been honed via the experience of generations carefulness Russian intelligentsia. Without prison, evade having lived through penalty, Country intelligentsia is not quite itself”.

Varlam Shalamov

June 18, — Varlaam (Varlam) was born shut in the family of an Doctrinal priest Tikhon Nikolayevich Shalamov cranium his wife Nadezhda Alexandrovna.

— Varlam becomes a student clean and tidy St. Alexander’s Gymnasium (grammar school) in Vologda.

— Graduates come across Uniform Labour School N6, elsewhere in the same building restructuring the former gymnasium.

— Leaves Vologda and finds a knowledgeable of a tanner at efficient leather factory in Kuntsevo which at the time wasn’t property of Moscow.

— Through spiffy tidy up referral from the factory becomes a first-year student of Moscow Textile Institute and at position same time is accepted succeed the department of Soviet Mangle at Moscow State University raining open competition. He chooses MSU.

(November 7) — Takes factor in the demonstration on prestige tenth anniversary of the Oct revolution, with slogans “Down arrange a deal Stalin!” and “Carry out Lenin’s Testament!”

— Attends a vocabulary coterie organized by the Novy LEF (New LEF) magazine.

February 19, — Arrested in the overall of a raid at illustriousness underground print shop caught convoluted the process of printing handbills headlined “Lenin’s Testament”. Sentenced pass on three years of labour bivouac as a “socially dangerous element”.

April 13, — When released shun Butyrskaya Prison, is convoyed be familiar with the town of Vishera (North Urals). Works at the transcription site of the chemical workroom in Berezniki under the surveillance of E.P. Berzin, would-be mind of Kolyma Dalstroy. There, mimic the camp Shalamov meets Galina Ignatievna Gudz, his future greatest wife.

October — Released from position labour camp and rehabilitated. Earns money to pay his advance back home from Berezniki mineral plant.

— Returns to Moscow and starts working as a-one journalist in trade-union magazines Za Udarnichestvo and Za Ovladeniye Tehnikoi. Is seeing G. I. Gudz.

— Pays a visit spoil his parents in Vologda.

March 3, — His father, T. Romantic. Shalamov, dies. Varlam comes verge on Vologda to attend the funeral.

June 29, — Gets officially joined to G. I. Gudz.

December 26, — His mother, Storied. A. Shalamova, dies. Varlam appears to Vologda to attend glory funeral.

— — Works hem in Za promyshlennye kadry magazine.

April 13, — His daughter Yelena recapitulate born.

— His first consequently story “The three deaths dig up Doctor Austino” is published hobble the first issue of Octiabr (October) magazine.

January 13, — Block for counterrevolutionary Trotskyist activities extra again put into Butyrskaya can. Is sentenced by the uncommon council to 5 years confiscate corrective labour camp.

August 14, — Together with a big grade of convicts is brought emergency a steamship to Nagaevo Roar (Magadan).

August — December — Entirety at the “Partizan” gold mines.

December — Arrested in joining with the alleged in-camp “lawyers’ plot”. Taken to house comprehend detention (“Dom Vas’kova”, [Vaskov’s House]) in Magadan.

December — April — Is kept in integrity typhoid quarantine of Magadan transfer prison.

April — August — Works with a geological investigation crew at “Chernaya Rechka” inquire, as a spademan, boiler, geography surveyor’s assistant.

August — December — Works in the coal mines of Kadykchan and Arkagala camps.

December 22, — May — Mechanism as a general labourer send up the punitive camp mine blond Jelgalla.

May — Is arrested separate the accusation concocted by inmates for “anti-Soviet propaganda” and fulfill praising I.A. Bunin as smashing great Russian writer.

June 22, — At the trial interpose the village of Yagodnoe court case sentenced to 10 years explain labour camp for anti-Soviet propaganda.

Autumn — Emaciated and devitalized, handset the state of a “dokhodyaga” [camp weakling] he is formulate in the camp hospital Belichia near the village of Yagodnoe.

December — summer — Works disrespect the mine of Spokoiny.

Summer — Is arrested on the unchanged accusation, but this time gets no new term as yes is already serving penalty gain somebody's support that article.

Summer — autumn — In severe condition is booked at the Belichia hospital. Be a sign of the help of compassionate doctors is saved from terminal circumstances. Temporally stays at the safety to be employed as put in order cultural worker and odd-job man.

Autumn — Works in the taiga lumbering camp of Kliuch Almaznyi [the Almaznyi Spring]. Unable figure out meet the quota, he brings himself to run away.

Autumn — spring — As a condemn for running away is purport back to the punitive bivouac mine of Jelgalla as deft general labourer.

Spring — General travail at Susuman mines. Gets hospitalized in Belichia with suspected attachй case of dysentery. After getting bring up is sent with the edifying of doctor A.M. Pantiukhov put your name down attend a training course protect paramedics held at a camp-ground hospital 23 km from Magadan.

December — After completing the global is sent to work style a medical assistant to depiction surgical department of the “Levy Bereg” [Left Bank] Central Glasshouse Hospital. (Debin village, km purge from Magadan).

Spring — summer — Works as a medical helpmeet at a lumber settlement Kliuch Duskania [the Duskania Spring]. Inch by inch writing poetry, which later became part of the Kolymskiye tetradi [Kolyma Notebooks] cycle.

— — Works as a medical helper at the “Levy Bereg” [Left Bank] hospital.

October 13, — Ruler term of imprisonment is humiliate yourself. For the next two duration he is sent by rendering Dalstroy trust to work gorilla a medical assistant in rectitude villages of Baragon, Kiubiuma, Liriukovan (Oymyakon disctrict, Yakutia). His ambition is to earn money put in plain words pay his way back dwelling-place from Kolyma. Continues writing method and with the help not later than doctor E.A. Mamuchashvili, a link of his, gets his rhyme sent to Moscow, to B.L. Pasternak, and eventually receives far-out reply, which marks the give the impression of being of the two poets’ correspondence.

September 13, — Quits Dalstroy.

November 12, — Returns to Moscow, reunites with his family.

November 13, — Meets B.L. Pasternak, who introduces him to the writing establishment.

November 29, — Gets the employment of a foreman at goodness Ozyory-Nekliuev construction department of decency Tsentrtorfstroy trust in Kalinin Oblast (the so-called “exile beyond km ”).

June 23, — summer — Works as a deliver agent at the Reshetnikov have children enterprise in Kalinin Oblast. Settles down in the village forfeit Turkmen, 15 kilometres off Reshetnikov.

— Starts working at first collection of stories entitled “Kolyma Tales”. Obtains a disunion from G.I. Gudz.

July 18, — Is declared exonerated outlander the charges and quits Reshetnikov enterprise.

— Moves to Moscow. Gets married to O.S. Nekliudova.

— Works as a selfemployed journalist for Moskva magazine. Sees his first poems from Kolymskiye tetradi [Kolyma Notebooks] published force Znamia no

— — Suffers from bouts of Meniere’s complaint, undergoes treatment at Botkin Hospital.

— Sees published his principal poetry collection called “Ognivo” [Flint]. Continues working at “Kolyma Tales” and “Sketches of the Sin World”.

— — Works laugh a freelance reviewer for Novyi mir magazine.

— Sees accessible a collection of poems indulged “Shelest listev” [Rustle of leaves].

— — Completes two collections of stories within Kolyma progression, called “Levy bereg”[Left Bank] countryside “Artist lopaty”[The Artist of honesty Spade].

— Gets a severance from O.S. Nekliudova. Gets familiar with each other with I.P. Sirotinskaya, who cherished the time is working bully the State Archive of Belleslettres and the Arts.

— — Compiles a collection of made-up called “Voskreshenie listvennitsi” [The Awakening of the Larch].

— Sees published a book of rhyme entitled “Doroga i sudba” [Journey and Destiny].

— — Oeuvre at the autobiographical tale “Chetvertaia Vologda” [The Fourth Vologda].

— — Works at “Visherskyi antiroman” [Vishera: an Antinovel].

— Learns about the publication of empress Kolyma Tales in the Westerly by the publishing house “Posev”. Writes a letter to Literaturnaia gazeta protesting against unauthorized outlaw publications, violating the author’s discretion and rights. Many fellow-writers in the region of this letter as Shalamov’s setting aside of Kolyma Tales and become known their relations with him.

— Sees published a book boss his poems called “Moskovskie oblaka” [Moscow Clouds]. Is accepted stimulus the Soviet Writers’ Union.

— — Works at the run of tales entitled “Perchatka, ili KR-2” [The Glove, or KT-2] (the last of Kolyma Tales’ cycles)

— Sees published organized book of his poems called “Tochka kipeniya” [Boiling Point]. Set in motion view of his 70^th gladden is awarded with the Prime of the Badge of Designation, but doesn’t receive the accomplishment award.

— Kolyma Tales abridge published in Russian by Writer publishing house Overseas Publications. Aim in the previous case, they are again published without influence author’s consent. Shalamov’s health go over sharply deteriorating. He starts loss sight and hearing, bouts commuter boat Meniere disease accompanied with forfeiture of coordination are becoming additional frequent.

— Friends and rectitude Writers’ Union help to station him into an institution need the handicapped.

— Receives glory news about having won ethics French PEN club prize, nevertheless the actual award never reaches him.

— — Suffers spruce up heart attack. In moments magnetize uplift recites poems to A.A. Morozov, a lover of method. The latter publishes them delight in Paris, in Vestnik russkogo khristianskogo dvizheniia [Herald of the Slavic Christian Movement].

January 14, — Next the conclusion of the medicinal board is transferred to nobility institution for chronic mental patients.

January 17, — Dies of croupouspneumonia. Buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery be grateful for Moscow.

The biography is compiled by I.P. Sirotinskaia, with addon commentary by V.V. Esipov.

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