Warrior brothers. Vladimir Voinovich: biography, personal life
For more than half a century of his literary career, the writer Vladimir Voinovich has become accustomed to being in the center of readers' attention and constantly being in the zone of crossfire of literary criticism from ideologically opposite camps. Did the writer himself seek such a fate? Or did it happen by accident? Let's try to figure it out.
Vladimir Voinovich: biography against the background of the era
The future Russian writer was born in 1932 in the city of Stalinabad, as the capital of sunny Tajikistan, the city of Dushanbe, was called at that time. It will not be an exaggeration to say that Voinovich Vladimir Nikolaevich, whose biography began in a remote province, was initially predisposed to choosing just such a path.
The parents of the future writer were devoted to journalism all their lives. However, the path to independent literary creativity turned out to be very long for him. Despite the fact that his poems were published in provincial newspapers, the first poetic experiments should be recognized as very amateurish. The country was going through a historical period, now known as when Vladimir Voinovich made his debut with the first prose works. Behind was service in the army, work on the collective farm and construction sites, an unsuccessful attempt to enter the literary institute. It was a time of rapid renewal of the entire social and cultural life. A new generation quickly burst into literature, a prominent representative of which was Vladimir Voinovich. His books were sharply controversial and found a lively response from numerous readers.
Poetic creativity
However, Voinovich received his first fame as a poet. At the dawn of the space age, the song based on his poems "Fourteen minutes before launch" gained wide popularity. Khrushchev himself quoted it. For many years, this song was considered the unofficial anthem of the Soviet cosmonautics. But despite the fact that Vladimir Voinovich is the author of more than forty songs, prose has become the main direction of his work.
The end of the "thaw"
After the overthrow of Khrushchev, new times began in Soviet cultural life. In the conditions of ideological reaction, it became very difficult to tell the truth. And very disadvantageous. But Vladimir Voinovich, whose books managed to win respect from the widest range of readers, did not deceive his fans. He did not become opportunistic.
His new, sharply satirical works about Soviet reality were distributed in samizdat and published outside the Soviet Union. Often without the knowledge and permission of the author. The most significant work of this period is "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin". This novel, designed in an absurdist style, became widely known in the West and was considered anti-Soviet. The publication of this book in the Motherland was out of the question. This kind of literature was distributed in the Soviet Union only in typewritten form. And reading and distributing it was prosecuted.
Human rights activities
In addition to literature, Vladimir Voinovich declares himself as an active advocate for the rights of the repressed. He signs various statements and declarations, advocates for the release of political prisoners, and helps their families financially. For human rights activities, the writer was expelled from the members of the SP of the USSR in 1974, which deprived him of the opportunity to earn a living by literary work and practically left him without a livelihood.
Emigration
Despite lengthy persecution for political reasons, Vladimir Voinovich ended up abroad only after an attempt on his life by the special services. The writer survived after an attempt to poison him in a room at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow. In December 1980, by Brezhnev's decree, he was deprived of Soviet citizenship, to which he responded with a caustic satirical comment, which expressed confidence that the decree would not last long. Over the next twelve years, the writer lived in West Germany, France and the United States.
He broadcast on Radio Liberty, composed a sequel to Ivan Chonkin, wrote critical and journalistic articles, memoirs, plays and scripts. I had no doubts that I would soon return to my homeland. Vladimir Voinovich returned to Moscow in 1992, after the destruction of the Soviet Union. It was a difficult time for the country, but there were reasons to hope not for the best.
The famous novel by Vladimir Voinovich "Moscow 2042"
One of the most famous works of the writer is a satirical dystopian novel about the hypothetical future of Russia. Many consider him the pinnacle of Voinovich's work. The protagonist, on whose behalf the narration is being conducted, finds himself in a completely absurd, but easily recognizable world of Soviet reality, elevated to the highest degree of insanity.
Through the enchanting heap of various absurdities, familiar realities are everywhere visible to everyone. But in Voinovich's novel they are brought to their logical limit. This book turned out to be something that does not allow you to just laugh at its content and forget about it. Many readers consider the novel to be prophetic and every day they find an increasing similarity between the absurd world depicted in it and the real one. Especially as the distance to the year indicated by the author in the title of the book - "Moscow 2042" is gradually reduced.
Vladimir Voinovich - writer, screenwriter, public figure. Six films have been made based on his works. About the writer himself, thanks to his vivid biography, several documentaries were shot. The life and work of Vladimir Voinovich is the topic of the article.
Childhood
Vladimir Voinovich, whose biography began in 1932, was born in Dushanbe. Then this sunny city was called Stalinabad. Voinovich Vladimir Nikolaevich was almost always in conflict with the authorities. And this is quite natural, given the early period of his life.
The father of the future writer - an employee of one of the republican newspapers - was arrested. This happened in 1936. Once the father of the future prose writer and public figure had a leisurely conversation over tea about how difficult it is to build communism. Voinovich Sr. answered one of the remarks in the affirmative. The third participant in the conversation did not have an opinion, but the very next day he wrote a denunciation of his "comrades". This situation is illuminated by the writer in one of his autobiographical works very clearly. Vladimir Voinovich in the seventies gained access to his father's case. And later he considered it necessary not to hide the name of the scammer.
They wanted to shoot my father, but they did not. Moreover, Voinovich Sr. was granted an amnesty and returned home. Memories of many hours of interrogation and imprisonment, he passed on to his son. Thus, the political self-consciousness of the future writer began to take shape, which later brought him many troubles.
Youth
Before the war, Vladimir lived with his mother in Zaporozhye. In 1941 they were evacuated to the Stavropol Territory. In 1951, Voinovich was drafted into the army. During the service, he began to write. At first, these were poems on a military theme. Then - small essays. In the meantime, the parents moved to Kerch, where the son went after demobilization. In this city, he worked for several years in one of the local newspapers.
The beginning of creativity
In 1956, Vladimir Voinovich left for the capital, where he made an attempt to become a student. He did not succeed in the first and second year. Voinovich studied at the Faculty of History of one of the capital's pedagogical universities for just over a year. Then he got a job as a radio editor. But one day an incident happened that changed his fate. Namely, he wrote poetry for a song dedicated to Soviet cosmonauts. Perhaps no one would pay attention to this work. But the song was once sung by Khrushchev himself. Soon Vladimir Voinovich became famous.
In 1962, Voinovich began to publish in Novy Mir. His poems and stories were published in a literary magazine. One of the early works is "Here We Live". In 1969, a novel about the adventures of the soldier Chonkin was published. However, it was published in Germany.
Social activity
At the beginning of his writing career, Voinovich was admitted to the Writers' Union. Official writers favored him. But in the early sixties, the writer suddenly took up social activities. Moreover, he began to write satirical notes denouncing the Soviet regime. Voinovich's social position was drastically shaken. He was expelled from the Writers' Union and even periodically began to be summoned to unpleasant conversations at the KGB. The employees of this organization, according to the writer, are guilty of poisoning him, after which he spent a long time in the hospital and could not even complete one of his novels. He mentions this sad event in the story "Self-Portrait". Voinovich also devoted a separate work to poisoning by KGB officers.
In 1980, Vladimir Voinovich was expelled from the country. Returned after twelve years. In 1990, he submitted his version of the anthem to the competition, which was not accepted due to its very satirical content. In this creation, the author called the Fatherland free, cited one of the president's statements in a veiled form. In a word, he said everything for which, more than half a century ago, employees of the state security agencies would have sent him on a long journey without the right to correspond.
Today he is actively engaged in social activities, sharply criticizing the current government. Below is a list of works that Vladimir Voinovich wrote at different periods of his life.
Books
- "Zero Decision"
- "I want to be honest."
- "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of the Soldier Ivan Chonkin".
- "Intention".
- "Monumental Propaganda".
- "Two plus one in one bottle."
- "Two Comrades".
- "Crimson Pelican".
Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich - prose writer, screenwriter, playwright, publicist - was born September 26, 1932 in Dushanbe. Father is a journalist, mother is a teacher.
The first poetic experiences date back to the time of service in the army ( 1951-1955 ); after demobilization, Voinovich, who once studied carpentry, works as a carpenter in Moscow. Twice - in 1956 and 1957- entered the Literary Institute, but was not accepted. Then he entered the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, but after studying there for a year and a half, he left for virgin lands. After returning to Moscow, he worked on the radio, in 1960 wrote the words "Songs of the astronauts", which very soon became famous. After Yu.A. Gagarin sang a few words from this song from the podium of the Mausoleum of N.S. Khrushchev, Voinovich was, in his words, "with great fanfare" received in 1962 in SP.
Voinovich did not become a poet: in 1961 headed by A.T. Tvardov's magazine Novy Mir published his first story, We Live Here, which was well received by critics. But the short story “I want to be honest” that appeared soon ( 1963 ) testified to the appearance in the writer's work of a sharp critical note, which sounded even more clearly in the story "Two Comrades" ( 1967 ). The independent position of the writer, who was not going to agree with the increasingly loud reproaches addressed to him, who took part in numerous protest campaigns against the massacre of dissidents, made the position of Voinovich in his homeland all the more difficult. When first in samizdat, and then abroad (in Frankfurt am Main, 1969 ) appeared the 1st part of the satirical anecdote novel “The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin”, they saw in it a mockery of the Soviet Army and its soldier, the author was accused of a frivolous attitude to the tragic events in the life of the people - to the Patriotic War. In 1975 the novel was published in full, in 2 parts; the continuation of the events associated with the image of the unlucky soldier was the novel "The Pretender to the Throne" ( 1979 ).
According to Voinovich, “every writer is a dissident. If he thinks like everyone else, then what is the interest in him? ”, But he does not consider himself a political dissident: the state and the citizen, Voinovich is convinced, should be mutually loyal to each other. However, this went against the order inherent in a totalitarian state, which explains the fate of Voinovich: in 1974 he was expelled from the joint venture and at the same time accepted into the international PEN club.
The main place in the writer's work since that time has been occupied by satire. The works of Voinovich could no longer see the light in their homeland, criticism against him took on a threatening character, unambiguous threats began to be heard, incl. physical violence. About how he was literally pushed out of his native land, endlessly subjected to humiliation, Voinovich told in the book "Case No. 34840" ( 1994 ). All this forced Voinovich December 12, 1980 leave the country. Soon he was deprived of Soviet citizenship, which was restored 10 years later. Now Voinovich spends most of his time in Russia, without breaking at all with the country that sheltered him at the time of exile - with Germany.
The absurdity of the actions that drive the plot in every satirical work of Voinovich lies at the foundation of life itself. The meek and trusting Vanya Chonkin gets into ridiculous situations not out of stupidity, but only because he does not perceive the rules of the game accepted in society.
Voinovich does not invent the plots of his satirical works - they are generated in abundance by reality itself. So there was "Ivankiada" ( 1976 ), in the center of which is a lawsuit for an apartment vacated in a writers' cooperative house, which a certain Ivanko wants to take over, who considers himself a member of a creative union, but works not in literature, but in the KGB field. This is how “The Hat” appeared - a story about the torment a Soviet writer can experience because in the atelier of the writers' union they have to sew a hat for him, but only from cat fur, which testifies to him - in the eyes of the leadership - third-rate. This is how the book of artistic journalism "Anti-Soviet Soviet Union" appeared ( 1985 ): much of what those who lived in the Land of the Soviets got used to appears here in an unexpected perspective, revealing its really completely non-Soviet essence. This also applies to actively - by all possible means - ongoing propaganda, which, as you know, often had an effect on a person that was directly opposite to its purpose.
The most significant of the created by Voinovich after leaving Russia is the satirical dystopian novel "Moscow 2042" ( 1987 ).
The future depicted here appears to be the focus of amazing - well recognizable - absurdities. Here is the coup of the generals, who decided by purely army methods - orders - to change life for the better, and the situation of total control from above over the life of every citizen, and the substitution of the true content of concepts with symbols, and finally, general impoverishment, with the help of loud words masquerading as prosperity.
Voinovich left Russia, refusing to “adapt very much,” but even while in exile, he spoke with conviction: “I am a Russian writer. I write in Russian, on a Russian theme and in the Russian spirit. I have a Russian worldview."
The latest works of Voinovich are the novel "The Idea" and the documentary story "Case No. 3480", which is based on a detective story about the assassination attempt on Voinovich by KGB officers. The plot of the novel is branched. One of the lines is the biography of Voinovich himself. The other is a woman's manuscript, which accidentally got to the author of the novel. The third line is the current life of the writer, excerpts from his works, observations of contemporary life and memories. In the final chapter of the novel, the temporal and spatial planes suddenly shift, the characters of the work meet with each other.
The biography of Vladimir Voinovich at times resembled the pages of an adventure novel about dissidents and spies, a literary star and a boy with a difficult childhood. A modern classic, a person with a firm social position, not afraid to express his own opinion, even if it threatens him with obvious problems.
Childhood and youth
Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich was born on September 26, 1932 in Tajikistan, in the city that was called Stalinabad, and now Dushanbe, the capital of the republic. When Voinovich had already become a popular writer, he received a book about the origin of the surname from an admirer of talent. As it turned out, the family comes from a noble Serbian princely branch.
The father of the future writer served as executive secretary and editor of republican newspapers. In 1936, Nikolai Pavlovich allowed himself to suggest that it was impossible to build communism in a single country, and that this could only be done all over the world at once.
For this opinion, the editor was sentenced to five years in exile. Returning in 1941, Voinovich Sr. went to the front, where he was wounded almost immediately, after which he remained an invalid. The mother of little Vladimir worked in her husband's editorial offices, and later as a mathematics teacher.
The boy's childhood can hardly be called cloudless and easy. The family often changed their place of residence. Vladimir Nikolaevich was never able to get a full-fledged education, attending school from time to time. Voinovich graduated from a vocational school, first getting an education as a carpenter (the young man did not like painstaking work), and then as a carpenter. In his youth, he changed many working specialties, until he left for the army in 1951.
Demobilized in 1955, the young man graduated from the tenth grade of the school, studied for a year and a half at the Pedagogical Institute. Without receiving a diploma, he left for virgin lands. Stormy youth eventually brought the writer to the radio, where in 1960 Voinovich got a job as an editor.
Paintings
“A talented person is talented in everything” - these words can be safely attributed to Voinovich. Since the mid-90s, the writer became interested in painting. Back in 1996, the first personal exhibition of Vladimir Nikolaevich opened.
Voinovich painted paintings that are exhibited and successfully sold. The painter embodied landscapes of cities on canvas, painted still lifes, self-portraits and portraits.
Literature
Voinovich turned to creativity, even when he served in the army, where a young man writes his first poems for an army newspaper. After the service, they were published in the newspaper "Kerch Worker", where Vladimir Nikolayevich's father worked at that time.
The first prose works were written by Voinovich while working on the virgin lands in 1958. All-Union fame overtook the writer after the appearance on the radio of the song "Fourteen minutes before the start", the verses to which belong to the pen of Vladimir Nikolaevich. Lines cited meeting the astronauts. Later, the work became a real anthem for astronauts.
After recognition of his merits at the highest level, Voinovich was admitted to the Writers' Union, he was favored not only by the authorities, but also by the most famous authors of the country. This recognition did not last long. Soon the views of the writer, the struggle for human rights stood in the way of the political course of the country.
Vladimir Voinovich. "Moscow 2042". Part 1The beginning was the release in samizdat, and later in Germany (without the permission of the author) of the first part of the novel "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin". The author was placed under KGB surveillance. Shortly after the publication of Ivan Chonkin's adventures abroad, the writer was summoned to a meeting with committee agents at the Metropol Hotel.
According to the author, he was poisoned with a psychotropic substance there, after which he felt unwell for a long time. In 1974, the prose writer was expelled from the Writers' Union. However, almost immediately accepted into the international PEN club. In 1980, the author was forced to leave the USSR, and in 1981 Voinovich lost his citizenship.
Vladimir Voinovich. "Crimson Pelican" Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the prose writer lives in Germany, then in the USA, where he continues his writing career. During this period, the books "Moscow 2042", a satirical dystopia, the writer's vision of communist Moscow, "The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union" (published a few years later) were written.
With a sharp sense of humor inherent in the author, he ridicules not only the political regime in the Union, but also his colleagues in the pen. Voinovich speaks negatively about, making him the prototype of the character of the novel "Moscow 2042". After that, until the end of the latter's life, the writers experienced mutual dislike for each other. It is not surprising that after such works the author was included in the list of dissidents.
In 1990, the writer's citizenship was restored, and he returned to his beloved homeland. By the way, in an interview, Voinovich repeatedly stated that, in spite of everything, he never sought to leave Russia, until the last he tried to stay in the country.
After returning, Voinovich did not stop participating in social and political events taking place in Russia, as well as speaking sharply about them. The liberal, opposition side was occupied by the author in matters of power, expressing his opinion about the regime of government, about Crimea and its annexation. Vladimir Nikolayevich announced that, in his opinion, the president is "going crazy", as well as the duty of the authorities "to bear responsibility for crimes."
The opposition has repeatedly compiled open letters - in support of the NTV channel, against military operations in Chechnya, in support, with a request to release the girl from custody.
The writer was a favorite guest of the radio "Echo of Moscow". The interview and the position of the writer regarding what is happening in the country and the world were published by him on the pages
Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich Born September 26, 1932 in Stalinabad (now Dushanbe, Tajik SSR) - died July 27, 2018 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian prose writer, poet, screenwriter, playwright, public figure. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000).
Vladimir Voinovich was born on September 26, 1932 in Stalinabad (now Dushanbe, Tajik SSR).
Father - Nikolai Pavlovich Voinovich (1905-1987), journalist, executive secretary of the republican newspaper "Communist of Tajikistan" and editor of the regional newspaper "Worker Khojent", originally from the county town of Novozybkov, Chernigov province (now Bryansk region).
Mother - Rosalia Klimentyevna (Revekka Kolmanovna) Goykhman (1908-1978), an employee of the editorial offices of the newspapers "Communist of Tajikistan" and "Worker Khojent", later a mathematics teacher, originally from the town of Khashchevatoe, Gaivoron district, Kherson province (now the Kirovograd region of Ukraine).
According to Voinovich, he came from a noble Serbian family of Voinovich (in particular, he is a relative of the counts Voinovich), who gave Russia several admirals and generals. This, in particular, is discussed in the book of the Yugoslav author Vidak Vujnovic “Voy (and) novices - Vuy (and) novices: from the Middle Ages to the present day” (1985).
In 1936, my father was repressed. After his father's arrest in 1936, he lived with his mother, grandparents in Stalinabad.
In early 1941, the father was released, and the family moved to his sister in Zaporozhye. In August 1941, he was evacuated with his mother to the Severo-Vostochny farm (Ipatovsky district of the Stavropol Territory), where, after sending his mother to Leninabad, he lived with his father's relatives and entered the second grade of a local school. Due to the German offensive, the family soon had to be evacuated again - to the Administrative town of the Kuibyshev region, where in the summer of 1942 his mother arrived from Leninabad.
His father, who joined them after demobilization, found a job as an accountant at the state farm in the village of Maslennikovo (Khvorostyansky district), where he moved his family. In 1944, they moved again - to the village of Nazarovo (Vologda region), where the mother's brother Vladimir Klimentievich Goykhman worked as the chairman of the collective farm, and from there - to Yermakovo.
Vladimir Voinovich said about his childhood: “My childhood fell on the pre-war and war years. Life in the country was very difficult then, and for many people it was simply terrible. Perhaps the atmosphere of the time influenced my mother’s attitude towards me and my attitude towards her. What exactly did this manifest itself in? First of all, in restraint of feelings. Or maybe she just had such a character. When I was not even four years old, my father was arrested. We lived in Tajikistan. Pedagogical institute, and worked in the evenings, supported me and my grandmother. It was hard for her. And at the same time, she was still the wife of an enemy of the people, which at that time was a sentence, and she was reluctantly hired. I was brought up by my grandmother, a kindergarten and a little - the street.
In May 1941 I finished the 1st grade. Fortunately, my father returned from the camp, took me, and the two of us left for Ukraine, while my mother remained in Leninabad to graduate from the pedagogical institute. In June, the war began, my father went into the army, and my father's relatives and I went to the evacuation in the Stavropol Territory.
At the age of 11, I started working on a collective farm, then at a factory, at a construction site, served in the army, and studied in fits and starts, skipping classes. In the end, by the age of 14, I graduated from the 4th grade and was going to the 5th, but my parents suggested that I go to a trade school to study as a carpenter, because it was difficult for them to support me and my little sister. “There you will get a working specialty, and it will always come in handy for you,” my mother said. She thought it was better to be a good carpenter than a bad professor. I went to trade, although if life had turned out differently, I would have been more likely to become a good professor than a good carpenter.
In November 1945 he returned to Zaporozhye with his parents and younger sister Faina. There, his father got a job in the For Aluminum newspaper, and his mother (after graduating from the Pedagogical Institute) worked as a mathematics teacher in an evening school.
He graduated from a vocational school, worked at an aluminum plant, at a construction site, studied at an aero club, jumped with a parachute.
In 1951 he was drafted into the army, first serving in Dzhankoy, then until 1955 in aviation in Poland (in Chojne and Shprotava). During his military service, he wrote poems for an army newspaper.
In 1951, his mother was fired from the evening school and his parents moved to Kerch, where his father got a job in the newspaper "Kerch Worker" (in which, under the pseudonym "Grakov", in December 1955, the first poems of the writer sent from the army were published).
After demobilization in November 1955, he settled with his parents in Kerch, finished the tenth grade of high school. In 1956, his poems were again published in the Kerch Rabochiy.
In early August 1956, he arrived in Moscow, entered the Literary Institute twice, studied for a year and a half at the Faculty of History of the N.K.
In 1960 he got a job as a radio editor. A song written soon on his poems "Fourteen minutes before the start" became the favorite song of the Soviet cosmonauts (in fact, their anthem).
After the song was quoted by those who met the astronauts, she gained all-Union fame - Vladimir Voinovich "woke up famous." The “generals from literature” immediately began to favor him, Voinovich was accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR (1962).
The publication of the story "We Live Here" in the "New World" (1961) also contributed to the strengthening of the writer's fame. Voinovich rejected the proposals that followed with the rise of fame to publish poetry in the central journals, wanting to focus on prose. In 1964, he took part in the writing of the collective detective novel Laughs He Who Laughs, published in the newspaper Nedelya.
Novel "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of the Soldier Ivan Chonkin", written since 1963, went to samizdat. The first part was published (without the permission of the author) in 1969 in Frankfurt am Main, and the entire book in 1975 in Paris.
In the late 1960s, Voinovich took an active part in the human rights movement, which caused a conflict with the authorities. For his human rights activities and satirical depiction of Soviet reality, the writer was persecuted: he was put under surveillance by the KGB, and in 1974 he was expelled from the Writers' Union of the USSR. He was admitted to the PEN club in France.
He recalled: "If my first story was still favorably received, then the second one -" I want to be honest "- came out already when the ideological studies began: Khrushchev's meeting with artists in the Manege, the reception of writers in the Kremlin. And so the secretary for ideology, Ilyichev, said: " What is it - "I want to be honest"? Is this Voinovich trying to say that it is difficult to be honest in our country?" In short, then I already fell into disgrace - the book that I had at the publishing house "Soviet Writer" was first slowed down. In the end, it was released, but everything that was possible was thrown out of it. And then, already in 66- m, when I spoke in defense of Sinyavsky and Daniel, more serious things began.
In 1975, after the publication of "Chonkin" abroad, Voinovich was summoned for a conversation at the KGB, where he was offered to publish in the USSR. Further, to discuss the conditions for lifting the ban on the publication of some of his works, he was invited to a second meeting - this time in room 408 of the Metropol Hotel. There, the writer was poisoned with a psychotropic drug, which had serious consequences, after which he felt unwell for a long time and this affected his work on the continuation of Chonkin.
After this incident, Voinovich wrote an open letter, a number of appeals to foreign media, and later described this episode in the story "Case No. 34840".
In December 1980, Voinovich was expelled from the USSR, and in 1981, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was deprived of Soviet citizenship.
In 1980-1992 he lived in Germany and the USA. Collaborated with Radio Liberty.
In 1990, Voinovich was returned to Soviet citizenship, and he returned to the USSR. Member of the Russian PEN club.
Socio-political position of Vladimir Voinovich
He was a critic of the Russian government.
He wrote his own version of the text of the new Russian anthem with a very ironic content.
In 2001, he signed a letter in defense of the NTV channel. In 2003 - a letter against the war in Chechnya.
In February 2015, he wrote an open letter to the President of Russia asking for his release. In October of the same year, on his birthday, he said that Putin was "going crazy" and that he should be held accountable for his crimes.
Personal life of Vladimir Voinovich:
Was married three times.
First wife - Valentina Vasilievna Voinovich (nee Boltushkina, 1929-1988). The marriage produced two children.
Daughter - Marina Vladimirovna Voinovich (1958-2006).
Son - Pavel Vladimirovich Voinovich (born 1962), writer, author of the book "Warrior under the St. Andrew's Flag".
The second wife is Irina Danilovna Voinovich (née Braude, 1938-2004). She was first married to the writer Kamil Akmalevich Ikramov (1927-1989). They have been married since 1964. The couple had a daughter, Olga.
Daughter - Olga Vladimirovna Voinovich (born 1973), German writer.
Vladimir Voinovich and second wife Irina with daughter Olga
The third wife is Svetlana Yakovlevna Kolesnichenko, her first marriage was to journalist Thomas Anatolyevich Kolesnichenko.
He was engaged in painting - the first personal exhibition opened on November 5, 1996 in the Moscow gallery "Asti".
He lived in his house near Moscow.
Filmography of Vladimir Voinovich:
2006 - Gardens in Autumn (dir. O. Ioseliani) - episode
Bibliography of Vladimir Voinovich:
1961 - We live here
1963 - Half a kilometer distance
1963 - We live here
1964 - The one who laughs laughs
1967 - Two comrades
1969 - The life and extraordinary adventures of a soldier Ivan Chonkin
1972 - We live here; Two comrades, Lady
1972 - Degree of trust. The Tale of Vera Figner
1973 - Through mutual correspondence
1975 - The life and extraordinary adventures of a soldier Ivan Chonkin
1975 - Incident at the Metropole
1976 - Ivankiada, or the story of the writer Voinovich moving into a new apartment
1979 - Pretender for the throne
1983 - Writer in Soviet society
1983 - Fictitious marriage
1984 - If the enemy does not surrender ...: Notes on socialist realism
1985 - Anti-Soviet Soviet Union
1986 - Moscow 2042
1989 - I want to be honest
1990 - Zero Decision
1994 - Vladimir Voinovich
1995 - Concept
1996 - Tales for adults
1997 - The smell of chocolate: Stories
2000 - Monumental Propaganda
2002 - Anti-Soviet Soviet Union: Documentary phantasmagoria in 4 parts
2008 - Wooden apple of freedom: A novel about a turning point in the history of Russia
2010 - Self portrait
2010 - Two plus one in one bottle
2016 - Crimson Pelican
Screen versions of the works of Vladimir Voinovich:
1973 - “Not even a year will pass ...” (dir. L. Beskodarny)
1990 - "Hat" (dir. K. Voinov)
1994 - "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin" (dir. Jiri Menzel)
2000 - "Two Comrades" (dir. V. Pendrakovsky)
2007 - "The Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin" (dir. A. Kiryushchenko)
2009 - “Just not now” (dir. V. Pendrakovsky)
