Valentin Lavrov: “Literary creativity is like love. Valentin Lavrov: “Literary creativity is like love Lavrov writer of detective stories

The son of the popular pre-war football player Viktor Lavrov (Lokomotiv Moscow). In the 1950s he was a famous boxer; graduated State Institute physical education. The first profession is a boxing coach.

From the age of 19 (September) he was published in newspapers and magazines (about 1000 publications) - feuilletons, reports, interviews, stories about rare books. In January, the publishing house "Young Guard" published the first book - "Cold Autumn. Ivan Bunin in exile.

Since the year, the 6-volume fundamental anthology “Literature of the Russian Diaspora” has been published by the publishing house “Kniga” (Lavrov is the compiler, author of the notes).

From the years in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, Lavrov's books are published weekly - historical detective stories written on the basis of archival materials: "Bloody Block", "Fornication on Blood", "Secrets of the Court of the Sovereign", the series "Count Sokolov - the genius of the detective" and others - only eight books. These works were successful. Many were published in eight or nine editions.

In 1994, the historical novel "Catastrophe" was published - about the fate of the Russian emigration after the revolution (four editions in total).

Valentin Lavrov - Laureate of the State Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Sholokhov Prize, the Arcadia Koshko Prize for the best detective of the year, etc.

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A few days ago, on May 2, the legendary writer, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, holder of 18 awards from the Ministry of Internal Affairs Valentin Viktorovich Lavrov turned 80 years old. The author of such sensational historical novels as Scaffold and Money, Cold Autumn, Royal Treasures, Catastrophe, continues to work in the field of writing. Lavrov published 91 books in reprints. The novelty "Hatred of the leader and love of the robber" has just been released (Moscow, 2015. "Prose writer"). The story of the same name was written on the basis of the once secret materials of the OGPU. Ask at major stores. Read up!

- Valentin Viktorovich, you recently turned 80 years old. Is it difficult to write at that age?
- I do it with pleasure when I want to say something or when I care about a certain topic. The fact is that literary creativity is like love. It's good when you really want it. And when love is mutual - the author and readers. The body is faithful to young habits. This is about love and physical education (not to be confused with sports). Writing is always hard - for me, for example. I write for fifteen hours a day, this is not a trifle for the body.
Moreover, this continues for months: one book - one year. And, of course, this is not very healthy for health. But what kind of health can you worry about when there are good, in the opinion of the author, correct thoughts that are dressed in beautiful Russian words. Of course, this is a rapture, both a rapture in battle and in literary affairs.
- When did this bacillus of writing first settle in you, as the classic used to say?
- Actually, I was a graphomaniac with early age. I still have two letters that I wrote to my father. One in 1939, when I was 4 years old, the other - in the fortieth. The fact is that my father was a famous football player. He played for Lokomotiv. He went down in history as the one who scored the first goal in the USSR championships. When in the spring they went south for training, I wrote to my father. He drew football postcards and sent them to me.
- How do you remember what happened to you at 4 years old?
“I have a surprisingly early memory. For example, I remember learning to speak. I was just over a year old.
- Probably his own military childhood remember?
“When the war started, we children were evacuated from Moscow. So my grandmother and I ended up in the Chuvash village of Ilyinskoye on the Volga. But in early October, at the request of my father, we returned to the capital: "The family should be together!" By the way, I helped adults: I dug trenches in our yard with my child's shovel. It’s a pity I didn’t take a certificate from the house management: “I contributed to the defense capability of Moscow.” It would be great fun to read it now. By the way, many years later I happened to get acquainted with the German order, if I am not mistaken, No. 114. Nazi troops were strictly forbidden to enter the city. Perhaps Hitler learned something about the fact that our command was supposedly going to flood Moscow by opening the floodgates. In thirty-degree frosts, the Nazis would have had a bad time. And at the same time, Muscovites who failed to leave the capital. But at the end of November 1941, I again had to leave the capital: my father worked at military plant No. 315 and he, along with the workers and their families, was evacuated to Perm.
What do you remember about the war?
- Terrible hunger terrible frosts, lice and rats that just stopped being afraid of people. In Perm, we were placed with an old woman who worked at the local theater. Here is located Leningrad Theater opera and ballet Kirov. She often took me with her. I was at the historical premiere of Vano Muradeli's ballet Spartacus, it happened in January 1942. But he was in love with Tchaikovsky. "Eugene Onegin" listened to fifteen times.
We lived in house number 92 on Bolshevik street in an old wooden house. (Now it is Catherine). The market is two steps away. It was a favorite place for children's walks. We admired the cans of milk, potatoes, onions, which the collective farmers put on the counters. They never steal, let alone beg.
Sometimes there were raids. The soldiers suddenly surrounded the market, lining up along the perimeter along the fence. Documents were checked to identify those who shied away from being sent to the front. What can I say - not everyone was in a hurry to defend Comrade Stalin, they preferred to be rear workers.
Yes, from the material side, life was like a terrible dream. But we were children, and we knew how to find entertainment and even happiness through mere trifles. What are children without games? Chizhik, bast shoes, football with a home-made rag ball, baubles (lyapkas), pristenochka, Cossack robbers, leapfrog, volleyball, chasing, measurers, pebbles, towns, bouncers ... The cards were cut into a goat, a borax, a point. Well, and, of course, war games, however, everyone wanted to be Red Army soldiers.
And for the children of our Perm yard it was an almost daily pleasure to go to the minizoo, which was in the mentioned market. Penetrated into the "lapping", that is, without tickets. However, the ticket attendant pretended not to notice us. Looks like she herself had kids - hungry, cold. Grief makes people softer and kinder. And kindness is the most important human quality... During the war, people were softer and kinder.
After seven decades, I purposely came to Perm to visit the places where I once lived. The houses were new, but the yard remained the same. Alas, there were no children to be seen. New times!
With a smile, I remember hiking with my grandmother to the local bathhouse - once a week. It cost a penny, everyone was given a bar of soap. I ended up with my grandmother, of course, in the women's department. And since from an early age the boy was curious, then this washing of the women's department gave me the greatest platonic pleasure. This continued until the aunt, who was checking tickets at the entrance, told her grandmother: “You should have brought a man here!” I had to go to the bathhouse with my father, and he could not get out every Sunday. On one of these visits to the baths, I witnessed a terrible sight. About 10-15 blockaders were brought into the washing department. They barely moved the bones (it was difficult to call it with their legs and hands), covered with yellow parchment skin. And only deeply sunk eyes remained alive. It was then that I realized what it is - a blockade. Today they say that someone ate human flesh. Who will judge these unfortunate people?
- Yes, you yourself had a chance to starve ...
— It was very hungry in winter. In summer it is easier - they cooked a soup of sorrel and nettle, for mushrooms, rose hips and cranberries they went to the opposite bank of the Kama. Now everything is built up there, and then there were forests and swamps in which one could drown. Caught fish - the bite was, but weak. Not all of the children survived; a three-year-old neighbor died of exhaustion and disease. In October 1942, with catarrhal jaundice, I was admitted to the 2nd department of the Clinic for Children's Diseases of the Medical Institute. My grandmother managed to collect parcels for me, but, as it turned out, the nannies pretty much reduced them.
My mother donated blood several times. For this, a food coupon was put in the dining room. With these coupons, my mother fed me.
By the way, already today I visited the local football museum, and there is not a word about the fact that in the summer of 1942 football games were held in Perm. The stands were packed to capacity. The team administrator Shurygin (before the war he was the supply manager of the capital's Lokomotiv) gave out 15 meat pies to the players, including my father, for each meeting - I still remember their great taste. Alas, the Ural summer is short, and there are few games ...
Yes, you got...
- Happiness came in March 1943. We returned to Moscow, where I saw white bread for the first time in many months. Three months later, we were given housing in Bitsy (then it was still outside Moscow). Not far away was a field on which large wild strawberries grew in large quantities, which we collected. And only in our days three times the general (of the police, the KGB, and later the FSNK) Alexander Georgievich Mikhailov, speaking on television, admitted that the executed "enemies of the people" were buried at the training ground in Bitsy. And strawberries were planted on top. Why this was done, no one knows. But we ate this strawberry. It was a terrible time! Basil the Great said: "Painful is patience, blissful is perception." The people simply say: “If you don’t know the bitter, you won’t understand the sweet!” It's right. My generation knows the bitter, that's why it knows how to appreciate the good.

Interviewed Vitaly KARYUKOV

Biography

The son of the popular pre-war football player Viktor Lavrov (Lokomotiv Moscow). In the 1950s he was a famous boxer; Graduated from the State Institute of Physical Education. The first profession is a boxing coach.

From the age of 19 (September) he was published in newspapers and magazines (about 1000 publications) - feuilletons, reports, interviews, stories about rare books.

In January, the publishing house "Young Guard" published the first book - "Cold Autumn. Ivan Bunin in exile.

Since 1990, the 6-volume fundamental anthology "Literature of Russian Abroad" has been published by the publishing house "Kniga" (Lavrov - compiler, author of notes).

From 1998 to 1998, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper published weekly Lavrov's books - historical detective stories written on the basis of archival materials: "Bloody Block", "Fornication on Blood", "Secrets of the Court of the Sovereign", the series "Count Sokolov - a genius of detective" and others are eight books in all. These works were successful. Many were published in eight or nine editions.

In 1994, the historical novel "Catastrophe" was published - about the fate of the Russian emigration after the revolution (four editions in total).

Valentin Lavrov - Laureate of the State Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Sholokhov Prize, the Arcadia Koshko Prize for the best detective of the year, etc.

Reviews

V. Lavrov “creates a historically accurate biography, with all the complexities of the hero's character, with his attractive and negative qualities. The book very convincingly debunks the myths about the writer as a callous, selfish person. “He was an amazingly pure man who passionately loved Russia and its people” - we endure such an impression after reading the book ...

V. Lavrov managed to collect a huge amount of historical material. And he owns it freely, depicting through the prism of the hero various aspects of emigrant existence, open and behind-the-scenes struggle ... In any case, there has never been a similar book about I. A. Bunin - either here or abroad.

Sergei Makashin, Doctor of Philology, laureate of the State Prize.

(From the preface to the novel by Valentin Lavrov "Cold Autumn. Ivan Bunin in exile", M. 1989. Shooting gallery. 250 thousand. The first version of the historical novel "Catastrophe").

“Once Roman Gul said about A. I. Solzhenitsyn: “For me, he is an exceptional phenomenon ... It is hard to imagine how such a spiritually untouched person and writer could appear in the Soviet Union. This word about the classics and the sufferer involuntarily comes to mind when reading "The Catastrophe". You close the work with firm conviction - yes, this work is a rare and spiritually joyful phenomenon in the timeless days of our elegant literature. In Lavrov's book, facts are ascending currents on which the author's inspiration soars, the power of creative imagination ...

The novel is multifaceted and associative. Dozens and dozens of characters pass before the reader - from a St. Petersburg cab driver to a Russian lady selling herself on the panels of Istanbul, from Trotsky and Lenin to Mussolini and Stalin, from Rachmaninov to Alexei Tolstoy. But the most striking figure is the hero of the novel - the great Bunin. Under the pen of Lavrov, this writer grows into a kind of symbol of the Russian intelligentsia, the essence of which has always been the same - service to the Fatherland.

Any episode of the "Catastrophe" withstands the test for complete historical accuracy and documentary evidence ... "

A. F. Smirnov, professor, doctor historical sciences. (Preface to the fourth edition of the historical novel "Catastrophe". M. 2003)

“To Lavrov is like a mausoleum. On the television program "Vremechko" there was a stunning story: a kilometer-long line freezes in the cold for autographs on the detective "Count Sokolov - the genius of the detective." Unfortunately, many left with nothing - several thousand copies were instantly sold out. After all better reading And you won't find a better gift!

“Valentin Lavrov has written many books, and all of them are bestsellers. To call Lavrov's works simply popular would be to say nothing. There are kilometer-long queues for his books.”

“Lavrov is the king of the Russian thriller. His books are a real sensation. Lavrov made a career in historical chronicles. In the genre of historical thriller, he has no competitors.

“Valentin Lavrov has had a fantastic career. At the age of fifty-three, he made his debut with the novel "Cold Autumn", immediately printed with a circulation of 250,000 copies. And then every year it produces a full-length volume, which is sure to become a bestseller.

("Human & Career", No. 45, 1996)

“The novel-chronicle by Valentin Lavrov “Cold Autumn. Iv. Bunin in exile". The fascination of the plot, the lively figurative language, the abundance of factual material, the publication of previously unknown materials brought success to this work. The world's largest publishing house Progress is preparing Cold Autumn in English.

("Fatherland", No. 9, 1991)

“For the books of Academician Lavrov - this is also shown on television - long queues line up. In our days! Everything that he has published, the press unanimously recognizes as bestsellers: "Catastrophe", "Fornication on Blood", Russian Power", the series "Count Sokolov - a Genius of Investigation", "Bloody Block" and others. The foreign press awarded him the title of King of the Russian Thriller " .

("Gong", No. 2, 1997)

“After reading, as if exhaling,“ Count Sokolov ”, I thought:“ Well, finally, here is our worthy answer to Conan Doyle! ”Here he is, the domestic Sherlock Holmes, acting in the same unconventional (from the point of view of the police) methods as his English counterpart, but only with a racial bias-span. Most importantly, the book is well written. It is read with a bang. "

("Playboy", October, 1997)

“A large auction of manuscripts and rare books was held at the Photo Center on Gogolevsky Boulevard - almost four hundred lots. The greatest excitement was caused by the layout with numerous revisions of the first complete edition of Valentin Lavrov "Count Sokolov - the genius of the detective." 12 million rubles were paid for this lot! According to rumors, a representative of an American university became generous, apparently deciding ahead of time to collect autographs of Russian writers - while they are still alive.

Book records of Valentin Lavrov. 4800 autographs were signed by Valentin Lavrov on the corresponding number of his books during the MK festival in Luzhniki. Achievement, unfortunately, is not recorded in the book of records. But in vain! However, it is not yet evening. The writer continues to train: in the Moscow Biblio-Globus store, such a line of people who want to get an autograph has lined up for him that, as a result, about a thousand more readers will put books with dedicatory inscriptions of the master of historical detective on their shelves.

“The ideal case is when a writer writes and publishes himself. The famous writer Valentin Lavrov founded his own publishing house this spring. “When you publish yourself, you think not so much about commerce as about readers. I truly love my readers. Open any book of my publishing house, you will see an unprecedented case for modern times: the books are printed on the best and most expensive paper, interestingly designed. The main reviews of my books are long lines of readers,” said the writer. Indeed, even three hours before the meeting with Lavrov, the most reading people are already patiently waiting for autographs.

"Not a single literary hero in last years did not conquer the readership of Russia so quickly and so comprehensively as the genius of detective Count Sokolov. Academician Valentin Lavrov's series about the adventures of this famous detective has become the favorite reading of millions of people."

(InterPOLICE. 1999. No. 1)

“Lavrov masterfully manages to convey the flavor of a bygone era. According to his books, one can study Moscow life at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. You open Lavrov’s book and hear the rumble of the Sukharevsky market, the bells of horse-drawn horses, the clatter of horseshoes on the pavement, you see cabbies and merchants, high school students and schoolgirls, policemen and filers, and you get used to a bygone era so much that after reading the book you don’t immediately return to boring reality.

“Legends of old Moscow ... Valentin Lavrov - Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, laureate of the State Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Sholokhov Prize, the Arkady Koshko Prize for the best detective of the year, the author of historical novels Cold Autumn, Catastrophe, Scaffold and Money, amazing in strength and veracity, "Royal Treasures" He is the creator of the series about the genius of the Russian detective Sokolov. In his books, the author writes with love and with the most curious everyday details about the old, long-gone Moscow. And not by chance! His ancestors are Muscovites from the end of the seventeenth century!”

("Culture healthy life. 2010. No. 4")

Notes

“V. Lavrov managed to collect a huge amount of historical material. And he owns it freely, depicting through the prism of the hero various aspects of emigrant existence, the open and behind-the-scenes struggle of forces hostile not only to the Land of the Soviets, but also to the manifestation of all sorts of progressive tendencies within the emigration itself. In any case, there has never been a similar book about I. A. Bunin - neither here nor abroad, ”- Sergey Makashin, member of the editorial board of the Literary Heritage, Doctor of Philology, laureate of the USSR State Prize.

(Cold Autumn M, 1989. Foreword)

Valentin Viktorovich LAVROV
(b. 1935)

Valentin Viktorovich Lavrov(born 1935) - Russian literary critic and writer; academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, professor. Author of 21 books, in reprints until December 2007 - 68 books.
The son of the popular pre-war football player Viktor Lavrov (Lokomotiv). In the 1950s he was a famous boxer; Graduated from the State Institute of Physical Education. The first profession is a boxing coach.
From the age of 19 (September 1954) he was published in newspapers and magazines (about 1000 publications) - feuilletons, reports, interviews, stories about rare books. In January 1989, the publishing house "Young Guard" published the first book - "Cold Autumn. Ivan Bunin in exile.
Since 1990, the 6-volume fundamental anthology "Literature of the Russian Diaspora" has been published by the publishing house "Kniga" (Lavrov - compiler, author of notes).
From 1990 to 1998, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper published weekly Lavrov's books - historical detective stories written on the basis of archival materials: "Bloody Block", "Fornication on Blood", "Secrets of the Court of the Sovereign", the series "Count Sokolov - a genius of detective" and others, eight books in all. These works were successful. Many were published in eight or nine editions.
In 1994, the historical novel "Catastrophe" was published - about the fate of the Russian emigration after the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks (four editions in total).
Valentin Lavrov - Laureate of the State Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Sholokhov Prize, the Arcadia Koshko Prize for the best detective of the year, etc.
(From Wikipedia)

Novel-chronicle "Cold Autumn. Ivan Bunin in exile 1920-1953." - sent by David Titievskiy

Publisher's annotation:
The name of I. A. Bunin is one of the most glorious in the history of Russian literature. His life is full of sharp dramatic turns. Fate either raised the writer to the crest of world fame, or forced him to drag out a miserable existence in a foreign land. This book for the first time tells in detail about Bunin's life abroad against the colorful background of literary and political emigration. The book contains many new documents - diary entries, Bunin's letters, memoirs about him.

S. Borovikov: Mikhail Roshchin. Prince. Book about Ivan Bunin, Russian writer
"The method by which the book "Prince" was worked out was once formulated by Tatyana Tolstaya: "with glue and scissors." Well, collage is probably legitimate in literature, but it would not be necessary to make it look like something else. , about Bunin was Valentina Lavrova "Cold Autumn", the worst thing is that Lavrov, unlike Roshchin, to the best of his weak strength, also fictionalized the text, which was completely terrible.

Fragments from the book:

"- It is necessary that every literate person read Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Chekhov. Otherwise, the fashion for all sorts of decadents has gone, from them only the disintegration of the word, its destruction, its innermost meaning, sound and weight," Ivan Alekseevich said to Bukovetsky. - I meet yesterday Osipovich, a writer after all.
- Are you home? He answers:
- Not at all!
How can I explain to him that they don't speak Russian like that? Doesn't understand, doesn't hear. He is asking:
- How should I say it? Do you think not at all? But what's the difference?
“He doesn’t understand the difference. He, of course, is excusable, he is from Odessa. It is also forgivable because in the end he modestly admits this and promises to remember that one must say "by no means." And what an incredible number of self-confident insolent people in literature now, who imagine themselves to be terrible connoisseurs of the word! How many fans of the old ("vigorous and juicy") vernacular, a word in the simplicity of those who do not speak, exhausting with their arch-Russianness!
The latter (after all the international "searches", that is, some Young Turk imitations of all Western models) is beginning to come into great fashion. How many poets and prose writers make the Russian language nauseating by taking precious folk tales, fairy tales, “golden words” and shamelessly passing them off as their own, defiling them with retelling in their own way and with their additions, rummaging through regional dictionaries and compiling some obscene its arch-Russianism is a mixture that no one has ever spoken in Russia and which is even impossible to read! How they rushed about in Moscow and St. Petersburg salons with various Klyuevs and Yesenins, even dressed as wanderers and good fellows, singing through their noses “about candles” and “rivers” or pretending to be “daring little heads”!

“The neighborhood with the Merezhkovskys soon got tired. They liked to talk about the “high mental stress” in which they allegedly constantly live. But it turned out that there was no tension nearby. They talked most of all about money, about someone else’s mediocrity, about food and other trifles. , Zinaida Nikolaevna loved to argue, but this love, in the words of Vera Nikolaevna, was "sports."

"... Bunin wrote down in his diary words that explain a lot in his character:
One who is called a "poet" should be felt as a rare person in terms of mind, taste, aspirations, etc. Only in this case can I listen to his intimate, loving, etc. Why do I need the outpourings of the soul of a fool, a plebeian, a lackey, even physically repulsive to me? In general, once the writer did so that he lost my respect, that I did not believe him - he was lost for me. And sometimes two or three lines do this ... "

"The way to Stockholm lay through Germany, in which the guys in brown shirts were rapidly introducing" new order". Stormtroopers busily walked along the platforms, and small children, seeing the train, threw up their little hands in a fascist greeting.
We had to spend the night in Hamburg. "Herr ober" in the restaurant offered them only sausages with cabbage, but on each table there were flags with a swastika. Not far from the station, Bunin saw a man in a decent black overcoat with a lambskin collar. He was selling skinny bunches of chrysanthemums. A gold pince-nez trembled pitifully on his nose.
- Are you Jewish?
The question made the man flinch. But, seeing that there were foreigners in front of him, he answered French: "Former professor of law ..." Bunin put a large bill in the basket.

Links:

Valery Burt: interview with Valentin Lavrov "Blood Block" in Literaturnaya Gazeta, 2003