M. Tereneva-Kataeva

Scientific activity Kataeva M. Yu. is mainly associated with the study of the gas composition of the atmosphere with various optical instruments, both ground, air or space-based. This work is necessary for the purposes of monitoring the environmental situation, studying the physics of the atmosphere, controlling technological production, and studying the problems of climate warming. Some tasks in this area are related to the processing various types one-dimensional or multidimensional signals. For the two-dimensional case (images) in last years a scientific direction arose, associated with the assessment of human motor activity (how the head, eyes, hands, body as a whole moves).

The application of this approach finds in various fields: medicine, sports, automotive industry. The developed mathematical approaches, in solving the above problems, have found application in economic task associated with the application of a process-oriented approach (based on business processes) in enterprise management. This is a new and promising direction. All tasks that are solved in the indicated areas of science and practice are associated with the development of software, mathematical approaches, and algorithms of various levels.

List of works of Kataev M. Yu.:

1. Kataev M.Yu., Boychenko I.V. Software and methodological support problems of lidar sounding of the atmosphere. - Tomsk: STT publishing house, 2009. - 236 p.
2. Kataev M.Yu., Rybalov B.A. Automated development, information support and registration of software products. Computational experiment. - V-Spectrum, Tomsk, 2007. - 130 p.
3. Kataev M.Yu. Object-Oriented Programming: Laboratory Workshop. - Tomsk, TMTsDO, 2006. -68 p.
4. Kataev M.Yu. High-level methods of informatics and programming. Tutorial. - Tomsk, TMTsDO, 2006. - 144 p.
5. Kataev M.Yu. High-level methods of informatics and programming. educational Toolkit. - Tomsk, TMTsDO, 2006. - 39 p.
6. Kataev M.Yu., Tkachenko D.V. Special course 1: Visual programming. Tutorial. - Tomsk, TMTsDO, 2006. - 98 p.
7. Kataev M.Yu., Tkachenko D.V. Special course 1: Visual programming: laboratory practice. - Tomsk, TMTsDO, 2006. - 44 p.
8. Kataev M.Yu., Sukhanov A.Ya. Visual programming in Delphi. - Tomsk, TUSUR, 2006. - 176 p.
9. Kataev M.Yu. Guidelines for the implementation term papers in the discipline High-level methods of informatics and programming. - Tomsk, TUSUR, 2006. - 37 p.
10. Kataev M.Yu., Ifutin Yu.B., Emelianenko A.A., Emelianenko V.A. Process-oriented approach to enterprise management. – News of TPU. - 2008, Vol. 313, No. 6. - P.20-23.
11. Kataev M.Yu., Nikitin A.V., Boychenko I.V., Mikhailenko S.N., Sukhanov A.Ya. Influence of the spectroscopic error on the solution of the problem of reconstructing the methane concentration. - Optics of the Atmosphere and Ocean, 2008, No. 1. - pp.13-18.
12. Kataev M.Yu., Klimenko D.N. Software complex for building three-dimensional models from photographs "D3M". – Certificate of industry registration and development No. 11353 (85249965.00001-01), Industry fund of algorithms and programs, 08/27/2008.
13. Kataev M.Yu., Lonchin A.V., Chugunov A.G., Penin S.T. Data processing software for a passive aircraft radiometer. - Devices and Automation, 2009, No. 3. - P.36-40.
14. Dolzhenko S.A., Kataev M.Yu. Expert system for analysis of aircraft failures and malfunctions. - Information systems: works of a permanent scientific and technical. Seminar / Vol. state University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Dep. problems of informatization Vol. scientific center of the SB RAS; under. ed. prof. A.M. Korikov. - Issue. 5. - Tomsk: Tom. state University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, 2008. – pp.114–121.
15. Kataev M.Yu., A.I. Petrov Lidar sensing data storage in a distributed information system. - TUSUR reports.
16. Kataev M.Yu., Nikitin A.V., Boychenko I.V., Mikhailenko S.N., Sukhanov A.Ya. Influence of the spectroscopic error on the solution of the problem of reconstructing the methane concentration. - Optics of the Atmosphere and Ocean, 2008, No. 1. - pp. 13-18.

The educational process of Kataeva M. Yu. is associated with all types of this activity: full-time, part-time, distant and optional. Reading lectures, holding seminars and laboratory. Lectures are given for all specialties at the department in program and mathematical disciplines:

1. Object Oriented Programming,
2. High-level methods of computer science and programming,
3. visual programming,
4. Processing of experimental data on a computer,
5. parallel programming,
6. artificial neural networks,
7. Educational research work.

Kataev M. Yu. is a corresponding member of the SAN Higher School of Medicine.

-) - Russian historian; father of writer Ivan Kataev, paternal uncle of mathematician A. N. Kolmogorov.

Biography

Son of a village priest. He graduated from the Vyatka Theological Seminary, then the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University ().

Then he worked in the Middle Volga (- gg.), Kuibyshev (- gg.) Pedagogical Institutes.

He headed the history department of the Magnitogorsk Pedagogical Institute (August - April), was the dean of the history department of the Moscow State Pedagogical University.

Scientific works of I. M. Kataev

Author of works on archeography, the history of Moscow, archival science, methods of teaching history.

Studies on the history of Moscow

• "Tushino" (M., 1913);
• "Fire of Moscow in 1812" (M., 1912);
• "Moscow in the 18th century" (M., 1915)

Essays on Russian history

• "Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and his time";
• "Daniil Romanovich Galitsky";
• "Bohdan Khmelnytsky";
• "Emperor Alexander I" (1901-1914).

Other works of Kataev

• "Description of the acts of the meeting of Count A. S. Uvarov" (M., 1905),
• "Review of handwritten monuments on the history of Sloboda Ukraine, stored in the military-scientific archive of the General Staff in St. Petersburg" (Kharkov, 1902),
• "Description of documents of the Moscow archive of the Ministry of Justice" (M., 1905-1917, vols. XVI-XX),
• "Archives of the Kuibyshev Territory" (Kuibyshev, 193 6y.))

Bibliography

• Autobiography of Professor I. M. Kataev // Archival Department of the Administration of Magnitogorsk (AOAM), f. 132, op. 3.
• Vendrovskaya R. B. school reform 1915-1916 and teaching history // Teaching history in school. - 1995. - No. 4. - S.22-26.
• Kataev I. M. The latest trends in teaching history in middle and high school high school// Question. history teaching in middle and elementary schools. - M., 1917. - Sat.2.
• Kataev I. M. The latest trends in teaching history in middle and senior classes of secondary school // Teaching history at school. - 1996. - No. 8. - P.4-6.
• Kataev I. M. Textbook of Russian history for secondary school. - SL. - 132 e.; 4.2. - 262 e.; Ch. Z. - 262 p. - M.: Sytin Publishing House, 1917.
• Enlightenment in the Urals. - 1928. - No. 11. - P.14.
• Kataev I. M. Questions of teaching social science: Method. essays. - M., 1926.
• Kataev I.M. New Marxist methodology of history // Social science in labor school. - 1929. - No. 3-4.
• Semenov VV 25th anniversary of the Magnitogorsk Pedagogical Institute MGPI. - Magnitogorsk, 1957. - Issue 5. - p.7.
• Kataev I.M. Usolskaya estate on the eve of the peasant reform of 1861 // Uchenye zap. MGPI. - Magnitogorsk, 1949. - Issue 2. - P.5-59.

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- And it can not be otherwise? she asked. Prince Andrei did not answer, but his face expressed the impossibility of changing this decision.
- It's horrible! No, it's terrible, terrible! Natasha suddenly spoke up and sobbed again. “I’ll die waiting for a year: it’s impossible, it’s terrible. - She looked into the face of her fiancé and saw on him an expression of compassion and bewilderment.
“No, no, I’ll do everything,” she said, suddenly stopping her tears, “I’m so happy!” The father and mother entered the room and blessed the bride and groom.
From that day on, Prince Andrei began to go to the Rostovs as a groom.

There was no betrothal, and no one was announced about Bolkonsky's engagement to Natasha; Prince Andrew insisted on this. He said that since he was the cause of the delay, he must bear the full burden of it. He said that he had forever bound himself with his word, but that he did not want to bind Natasha and gave her complete freedom. If in six months she feels that she does not love him, she will be in her own right if she refuses him. It goes without saying that neither the parents nor Natasha wanted to hear about it; but Prince Andrei insisted on his own. Prince Andrei visited the Rostovs every day, but not like a groom treated Natasha: he told her you and only kissed her hand. Between Prince Andrei and Natasha, after the day of the proposal, completely different than before, relatives were established, simple relationship. They didn't seem to know each other until now. Both he and she loved to remember how they looked at each other when they were still nothing, now they both felt like completely different beings: then pretended, now simple and sincere. At first, the family felt awkward in dealing with Prince Andrei; he seemed like a man from an alien world, and Natasha for a long time accustomed her family to Prince Andrei and proudly assured everyone that he only seemed so special, and that he was the same as everyone else, and that she was not afraid of him and that no one should be afraid his. After a few days, the family got used to him and did not hesitate to lead the old way of life with him, in which he took part. He knew how to talk about housekeeping with the count, and about outfits with the countess and Natasha, and about albums and canvases with Sonya. Sometimes the family Rostovs among themselves and under Prince Andrei were surprised at how all this happened and how obvious the omens of this were: both the arrival of Prince Andrei in Otradnoye, and their arrival in Petersburg, and the similarity between Natasha and Prince Andrei, which the nanny noticed on the first visit Prince Andrei, and the clash in 1805 between Andrei and Nikolai, and many other omens of what happened, were noticed at home.
The house was dominated by that poetic boredom and silence that always accompanies the presence of the bride and groom. Often sitting together, everyone was silent. Sometimes they got up and left, and the bride and groom, remaining alone, were also silent. Rarely did they talk about their future lives. Prince Andrei was scared and ashamed to talk about it. Natasha shared this feeling, like all his feelings, which she constantly guessed. Once Natasha began to ask about his son. Prince Andrei blushed, which often happened to him now and that Natasha especially loved, and said that his son would not live with them.
- From what? Natasha said scared.
“I can’t take him away from my grandfather and then…”
How I would love him! - said Natasha, immediately guessing his thought; but I know you want no pretexts to accuse you and me.
The old count sometimes approached Prince Andrei, kissed him, asked him for advice on the upbringing of Petya or the service of Nikolai. The old countess sighed as she looked at them. Sonya was afraid at any moment to be superfluous and tried to find excuses to leave them alone when they did not need it. When Prince Andrei spoke (he spoke very well), Natasha listened to him with pride; when she spoke, she noticed with fear and joy that he was looking at her attentively and searchingly. She asked herself in bewilderment: “What is he looking for in me? What is he trying to achieve with his eyes? What, if not in me what he is looking for with this look? Sometimes she entered into her insanely cheerful mood, and then she especially liked to listen and watch how Prince Andrei laughed. He rarely laughed, but when he did, he gave himself over to his laughter, and every time after that laughter she felt closer to him. Natasha would have been perfectly happy if the thought of the upcoming and approaching parting had not frightened her, since he, too, turned pale and cold at the mere thought of it.
On the eve of his departure from Petersburg, Prince Andrei brought with him Pierre, who had never been to the Rostovs since the ball. Pierre seemed confused and embarrassed. He was talking to his mother. Natasha sat down with Sonya at the chess table, thus inviting Prince Andrei to her. He approached them.
"You've known the Earless for a long time, haven't you?" - he asked. - Do you love him?
- Yes, he is nice, but very funny.
And she, as always talking about Pierre, began to tell jokes about his absent-mindedness, jokes that they even made up about him.
“You know, I confided our secret to him,” said Prince Andrei. “I have known him since childhood. This is a heart of gold. I beg you, Natalie,” he said suddenly seriously; I'm leaving, God knows what might happen. You can spill... Well, I know I shouldn't talk about it. One thing - whatever happens to you when I'm gone...
– What will happen?…
“Whatever the grief,” continued Prince Andrei, “I ask you, m lle Sophie, no matter what happens, turn to him alone for advice and help. This is the most scattered and funny man but the most golden heart.

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Valentin Petrovich Kataev(January 16, Odessa, Russian Empire - April 12, Moscow, USSR) - Russian Soviet writer, poet and playwright, screenwriter, journalist, war correspondent. Hero of Socialist Labor (1974).

Family

Valentin Kataev's paternal grandfather - Vasily Alekseevich Kataev (born 1819) - the son of a priest. He studied at the Vyatka Theological Seminary, then graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy. Since 1846 he worked as an inspector at the Glazov Theological School, was an archpriest of the Izhevsk arms factory. In June 1861 he was transferred to Vyatka Cathedral.

Father Pyotr Vasilyevich Kataev (d. 1921) - teacher at the diocesan school in Odessa. Mother Evgenia Ivanovna Bachey - daughter of General Ivan Eliseevich Bachey, from the Poltava small local noble family. Subsequently, Kataev gave the name of his father and the surname of his mother to the main, largely autobiographical hero of the story “The lonely sail turns white” Petya Bachey.

Mother, father, grandmother and uncle Valentina Kataeva are buried at the 2nd Christian cemetery in Odessa.

The younger brother of Valentin Kataev is the writer Yevgeny Petrov (1903-1942), named after his mother; He took his pseudonym from his father's name.

By the second marriage, Kataev was married to Esther Davydovna Kataeva (nee Brenner, 1913-2009). “It was an amazing marriage,” said a close friend of the Kataev family Daria Dontsova about him. There were two children in this marriage - Evgenia Valentinovna Kataeva (named after her grandmother, mother Valentina Kataev, born 1936) and children's writer and memoirist Pavel Valentinovich Kataev (born 1938).

Son-in-law of Kataev (second husband of Evgenia Kataeva) - Jewish Soviet poet, editor and public figure A. A. Vergelis (1918-1999).

Kataev's nephews (sons of E. P. Petrov) are cameraman P. E. Kataev (1930-1986) and composer I. E. Kataev (1939-2009).

Granddaughter of Kataev (daughter of Evgenia Kataeva from her first marriage) - Valentina Eduardovna Roy, journalist.

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Odessa

Odessa. Hotel "Londonskaya", where Valentin Kataev liked to stay

The language of Odessa has largely become literary language Kataev, and Odessa itself became not just a backdrop for many works by Valentin Kataev, but their full-fledged hero.

Kataev's father was very an educated person. Elementary education he received at the theological seminary, then graduated with a silver medal from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Novorossiysk University and for many years taught at the cadet and diocesan schools in Odessa. The Kataevs lived happily, six years after the birth of Valentin, they had another son, Evgeny, who later became (under the pseudonym "Petrov") one of the co-authors of the famous novels "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf". Shortly after birth younger son Evgenia Ivanovna Kataeva died of pneumonia, and her sister helped raise the children, replacing the mother of the orphaned children. The widowed 47-year-old father of Valentin and Evgeny never remarried.

The Kataev brothers grew up surrounded by books. The family had an unusually extensive library - complete works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Chekhov, Turgenev, Nekrasov, Leskov, Goncharov, many historical and reference literature- "History of the Russian State", Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Petri's atlas. Love for Russian classical literature from childhood was instilled in them by their parents, who loved reading aloud.

As Kataev himself later recalled, he began writing at the age of nine and from childhood he was sure that he was born a writer. Having drawn a school notebook into two columns, like Pushkin's one-volume collected works, he immediately began to write complete collection of his compositions, coming up with them right there all in a row: elegies, stanzas, epigrams, stories, short stories and novels. Unfortunately, samples of this very early stage Kataev's work has not been preserved.

And with early childhood in the character of Kataev, one can discern an adventurous streak combined with organizational skills:

When you remember now that frivolity, that suddenness, surprise for yourself, with which the most amazing ideas were suddenly born in my head, for no reason at all, requiring immediate implementation, you can’t help but smile, and partly even regret it, that you no longer have that diabolical energy, that former need for immediate action, even if sometimes very stupid, but still action!

The first publication of Kataev was the poem "Autumn", published in 1910 in the newspaper "Odessa Vestnik" - the official organ of the Odessa branch of the Union of the Russian People. Over the next two years, more than 25 poems by Kataev were published in the Odessa Herald. It is of interest that twice: in February 1912 and January 1913, Kataev published in the Odessa Bulletin the same poem dedicated to the anniversary of the Union of the Russian People, but in the first case, six years old, and in the second case, seven years.

In 1912, the first small humorous stories Kataev. This year individual publications two more voluminous stories by Kataev "Awakening" and "Dark Personality" are published in Odessa. The first of them described the departure young man from revolutionary movement under the influence of a love for a girl that broke out in him, and in the second Alexander Kuprin, Arkady Averchenko and Mikhail Kornfeld were satirically portrayed.

Shortly before the start of the First World War, Kataev met A. M. Fedorov and I. A. Bunin, who became the first literary teachers of the novice writer. In the same years, Kataev's friendship with Yuri Olesha and Eduard Bagritsky begins, which laid the foundation for the famous circle of young Odessa writers.

Due to participation in the First World War, the Civil War, the need to hide his participation in the White movement and the need for physical survival, Kataev’s education was limited to an unfinished gymnasium (5th Odessa gymnasium, 1905-1914).

World War I

Without graduating from the gymnasium, in 1915 Kataev joined the army as a volunteer. He began serving near Smorgon as a private on an artillery battery, then promoted to warrant officer. Twice he was wounded and gassed. In December 1916 he was admitted to the Odessa Military School, moving from artillery to infantry. In the summer of 1917, after being wounded in the thigh in the "Keren" offensive on the Romanian front, he was placed in a hospital in Odessa.

In emigration, Bunin did not publicly teach his teacher in relation to Soviet writer did not confirm, but in the 2000s, Kataev's widow Esther told about her meeting with her husband in the late 1950s with Bunin's widow:

... Bunin, he called his teacher with every right - Simonov brought from him in the forty-sixth year "Lika" with an inscription confirming that he followed Kataev most carefully. And in the late fifties, we visited Vera Nikolaevna, Bunin's widow, - we were visiting her in Paris, and I saw how she hugged Valya ... She was all crying. I bought meringues, which he adored - I even remembered that! And she met him so affectionately ... And she even knew that I was Esta, she immediately called me by name! She said: Bunin read "Sail" aloud, exclaiming - well, who else can do that ?! But he could never believe one thing: that Vali Kataev had children. How is Vali, young Vali, maybe two adult children? The husband asked to show Bunin's favorite ashtray in the form of a cup - she brought it and wanted to give it to Valya, but he said that he did not dare to take it. “Okay,” said Vera Nikolaevna, “then they will put her in a coffin with me.”

Poem Val. Kataev. Magazine "Yablochko", Odessa, April 1918

With regard to Kataev, Bunin spoke out more than unambiguously. From the diaries of Ivan Bunin for 1919:

There was V. Kataev (young writer). The cynicism of today's young people is downright incredible. He said: “For a hundred thousand I will kill anyone. I want to eat well, I want to have a good hat, great shoes…”

white movement

Little is known exactly about the participation of Valentin Kataev in the Civil War. According to the official Soviet version and his own recollections (“Almost a Diary”), Kataev fought in the Red Army from the spring of 1919. However, there is another view of this period of the writer's life, which is that he served on a voluntary basis in the White Army of General A. I. Denikin. This is evidenced by some hints in the works of the author himself, which seem to many researchers to be autobiographical, as well as the surviving memories of the Bunin family, who actively communicated with Kataev during the Odessa period of his life.

According to alternative version, in 1918, after being treated in a hospital in Odessa, Kataev joined the armed forces of Hetman P. P. Skoropadsky. After the fall of the hetman in December 1918, when the Bolsheviks appeared north of Odessa, in March 1919 Kataev volunteered for the Volunteer Army with the rank of second lieutenant. He served as an artilleryman on the Novorossiya light armored train of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia (VSYUR), commander of the first tower (the most dangerous place on an armored train). The armored train was attached to a detachment of volunteers by A.N. Rosenshild von Paulin and opposed the Petliurists, who declared war on the All-Union Socialist Republic on September 24, 1919. The fighting lasted throughout October and ended with the occupation of Vapnyarka by the Whites. The detachment advanced in the Kiev direction as part of the troops of the Novorossiysk region of the All-Union Socialist Republic of General N. N. Schilling (the actions of the troops of the Novorossiysk region of the All-Union Socialist Republic were part of Denikin's campaign against Moscow).

Before the start of the retreat of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union in January 1920, the Novorossiya armored train, as part of the Rosenshield von Paulin detachment, fought on two fronts - against the Petliurists, who were entrenched in Vinnitsa, and against the Reds, who were stationed in Berdichev.

Because of rapid growth in ranks in the All-Union Socialist Revolutionary Federation (orders for the fratricidal war were not given by Denikin in principle), Kataev graduated from this campaign, most likely with the rank of lieutenant or staff captain. But at the very beginning of 1920, even before the start of the retreat, Kataev fell ill with typhus in Zhmerinka and was evacuated to the Odessa hospital. Later, his relatives took him, still sick with typhus, home.

"Wrangel conspiracy at the lighthouse" and prison

By mid-February 1920, Kataev was cured of typhus. By that time, the Reds had occupied Odessa, and the recovered Kataev joined an underground officer conspiracy, the purpose of which was to prepare for a meeting of a probable landing from the Crimea of ​​the Russian army of Wrangel. This seemed all the more likely, since in August 1919 Odessa had already been liberated from the Reds once by a simultaneous strike by an airborne detachment and an uprising of underground officer organizations. The capture of the lighthouse to support the landing was the main task of the underground group, therefore, in the Odessa Cheka, the conspiracy was called the "Wrangel conspiracy at the lighthouse." The very idea of ​​a conspiracy could have been planted on the conspirators by a Cheka agent, since the Cheka knew about the conspiracy from the very beginning.

One of the conspirators Viktor Fedorov was connected with the lighthouse - former officer VSYUR, who escaped persecution by the Reds and got a job as a junior officer in the searchlight team at the lighthouse. He was the son of the writer A. M. Fedorov from a family friendly to Kataev and Bunin. The agent of the Cheka offered Fedorov a large sum of money for disabling the searchlight during the landing. Fedorov agreed to do it for free. The Cheka led the group for several weeks and then arrested its members: Fedorov, his wife, projectors, Valentin Kataev and others. At the same time, his younger brother Eugene was arrested, most likely, who had nothing to do with the conspiracy.

Grigory Kotovsky interceded for Viktor Fedorov before the chairman of the Odessa Cheka, Max Deutsch. Victor's father A. M. Fedorov in 1916 influenced the abolition death penalty by hanging against Kotovsky. It was Kotovsky who took Odessa in February 1920 and thanks to this he had big influence on what was happening in the city at the time. Fedorov and his wife Nadezhda, at the insistence of Kotovsky, were released by Deutsch.

Valentin Kataev was saved by an even more fantastic accident. From a higher Cheka (from Kharkov or Moscow) Chekist Yakov Belsky came to the Odessa Cheka with an inspection. Belsky well remembered Kataev in the past, in 1919, at the Bolshevik demonstrations in Odessa - those for which Bunin blamed Kataev, not knowing that even at that time Kataev was in the White Guard underground:

After all, if I'm talking to you after all that you've done, it means that I'm overpowering you feeling good, because with Carmen now I do not bow and will not bow.

For Belsky, as well as for the Odessa Chekists, who did not know about Kataev's voluntary service in the All-Union Socialist Republic, this was a sufficient reason to let Kataev go. In September 1920, after six months in prison, Valentin Kataev and his brother left it. The rest of the conspirators were shot in the autumn of 1920.

Kharkiv

In 1921 he worked in the Kharkov press together with Yuri Olesha. I rented an apartment with him at number 16 at the intersection of Devichya Street (later renamed Demchenko Street, but in 2016 the historical name was returned to the street) and Chernoglazovskaya (Marshal Bazhanov Street) (“I live in Kharkov at the corner of Devichya and Chernoglazovskaya - this is impossible in no other city in the world" - "My Diamond Crown").

Moscow

In 1922 he moved to Moscow, where from 1923 he began working in the newspaper Gudok, and as a "topical" humorist he collaborated with many publications. He signed his newspaper and magazine humoresques with the pseudonyms “Old Man Sabbakin”, “Ol. Twist", "Mitrofan Mustard".

In a statement by the Secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR V. Stavsky in 1938 addressed to the People's Commissar of the NKVD N. I. Yezhov, it was proposed to “solve the issue of O. E. Mandelstam”, his poems were called “obscene and slanderous”, the poet was soon arrested. I. L. Prut and Valentin Kataev are named in the letter as "speaking sharply and openly" in defense of Osip Mandelstam. Nadezhda Mandelstam, in her memoirs, says that in the summer of 1937 Kataev helped the Mandelstams with money, and in the autumn of that year he organized a meeting between Mandelstam, who illegally arrived in Moscow, and Fadeev at his apartment.

Peredelkino

The Great Patriotic War

During the Great Patriotic War, Kataev was a war correspondent, wrote big number essays, stories, journalistic articles, poetic captions for posters. One of Kataev's stories of those years - "Our Father" - should rightfully be attributed to Russian literary classics.
At the very end of the war, on the eve of the Victory, he wrote one of his most "sunny" stories - "The Son of the Regiment". Her hero - the boy Vanya Solntsev - with a non-childish fate, but at the same time with purity and poetry of perception of the world.

post-war period

After the war, Kataev was prone to days of heavy drinking. In 1946, Valentina Serova told Bunin that Kataev “Sometimes he drinks for 3 days. He doesn’t drink, doesn’t drink, and then, after finishing a story, an article, sometimes a chapter, he goes on a spree.. In 1948, this almost led Kataev to divorce his wife. The writer's son, P. V. Kataev, describes this situation as follows:

Then my mother told me how she firmly and calmly informed my father that she was taking the children and leaving because she was tired and did not want to endure days of spree, incomprehensible guests, drunken scandals.<…>

And you don't have to go anywhere, - said dad. - I don't drink anymore.

Magazine "Youth"

Kataev became the founder and first editor-in-chief (1955-1961) of the new magazine Yunost. The magazine published many works that differed in style and content from the prevailing literary stereotypes " socialist realism", and was often criticized by conservative bodies.

Kataev relied on young and unknown prose writers and poets. The stories of Anatoly Gladilin, Vasily Aksyonov and others published on the pages of Yunost described the young generation’s search for their own path at the “construction sites of the century” and in personal life. Heroes attracted sincerity and rejection of falsehood.

After editing in Youth, Mikhail Suslov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, considered Kataev for the position of editor-in-chief. literary newspaper", but he failed to achieve the appointment.

Participation in collective letters

Illness and death

Grave of Valentin Petrovich Kataev Novodevichy cemetery Moscow.

At the end of his life, Valentin Petrovich underwent an operation to remove a cancerous tumor:

... Calmly for his life, although with undisguised admiration for the work of a surgeon, he talked about a difficult operation that he experienced on the verge of old age. The cancerous tumor was excised, but a problem arose - would the remaining healthy tissue be enough to prevent the suture from coming apart. There was enough fabric. The father in the faces conveyed the conversation of two surgeons arguing about him: the seam will spread or not. And he admired the filigree work of the operating surgeon, decisive and skillful woman, a participant in the war, which remained his good friend until the end of his life.

Valentin Petrovich Kataev died on April 12, 1986, at the age of 90. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (site No. 10).

Creation

He made his debut in print in 1910. In the 1920s he wrote stories about the Civil War and satirical stories. Since 1923, he contributed to the Gudok newspaper, the Krokodil magazine, and other periodicals.

The fight against philistinism is devoted to his story "Squanderers" (1926; play of the same name, 1928), comedy "Squaring the circle" (1928). Author of the novel "Time, Forward!" (1932; film adaptation, 1965). The story “The lonely sail turns white” (1936; film adaptation, 1937) brought wide popularity.

The small story "I, the son of the working people ..." (1937) told about tragic history, which occurred in one of the Ukrainian villages during civil war. The story was published, filmed, on its basis the play “A soldier was walking from the front” was written, which was staged at the E. B. Vakhtangov Theater and on other stages of the country.

After the war, he continued “The Lonely Sail Whitens” with the stories “For the Power of the Soviets” (1948; another name is “Catacombs”, 1951; film of the same name- 1956), "A Farm in the Steppe" (1956; film adaptation, 1970), "Winter Wind" (1960-1961), forming a tetralogy with the idea of ​​continuity of revolutionary traditions. Later, all four works (“The lonely sail turns white”, “Khutorok in the steppe”, “Winter wind” and “For the power of the Soviets” (“Catacombs”) came out as a single epic “Waves of the Black Sea”.

In 1964 he took part in writing a collective detective novel“The one who laughs laughs”, published in the newspaper “Nedelya”.

Author of the publicistic story "Little Iron door in the wall" (1964). Starting from this work, he changed his writing style and subject matter. Mine a new style called it “movism” (from French mauvais “bad, bad”), implicitly contrasting it with the smooth writing of official Soviet literature.

The lyric-philosophical memoirs The Holy Well (1966), The Grass of Oblivion (1967), The Cube (1969), Broken Life, or the Magic Horn of Oberon (1972), Cemetery in Skulyany were written in this manner. "(1974), the story "Werther has already been written" (1979), "The youthful novel of my old friend Sasha Pcholkin, told by himself" (1982), "Dry Estuary" (1984), "Sleeping" (1985).

The novel My Diamond Crown (1978) caused a wide resonance and abundant comments. In the novel, Kataev recalls literary life countries of the 1920s, without naming almost any real names (the characters are covered with transparent "pseudonyms").

In 1980, in the June issue of Novy Mir, his “anti-Soviet” story was published with the sanction of M. A. Suslov, secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, who patronized Kataev. "Werther has already been written" which caused a big scandal. In it (when the writer was already 83 years old), he revealed the secret of his participation in the white movement and his arrest. On September 2, 1980, KGB chairman Yuri Andropov sent a note to the Central Committee of the CPSU, assessing the story as a politically harmful work, which "misrepresents the role of the Cheka as an instrument of the party in the fight against counter-revolution." The result was a ban on mentioning the story in print.

Kataev's works have been repeatedly translated into foreign languages.

Poetry

Starting as a poet, Kataev remained a fine connoisseur of poetry all his life. Some of his prosaic works are called lines from poems by Russian poets: “ A lonely sail turns white" (M. Yu. Lermontov), ​​"Time, forward!" (V. V. Mayakovsky), “Werther has already been written” (B. L. Pasternak). His widow E. D. Kataeva recalled:

In any case, once he spoke in the sense that, surrounded by a galaxy of strong poets born in the twentieth century in Russia, one can not engage in poetry.

My father did not publish poetry collections, he did not print poems, but he remained a poet.

IN Lately the meaning of Kataev the poet is being revised. So, the poet and researcher of the life and work of Kataev, Alexander Nemirovsky, includes Valentin Kataev in the second ten of the most important Russian poets of the 20th century for himself.

Dramaturgy

Here is what Kataev's son says about his father's plays:

My father did not consider himself a playwright, although the number of plays written by him and staged in the theaters of the country and the world would be enough for the fate of a successful dramatic writer, who, in addition to creating plays. wouldn't do anything else.

The fate of some of the father's plays is not represented special interest. That is, he composed a play, offered it to the theater, it was staged there, it withstood a certain number of performances, say, one hundred or two hundred, after which it died safely, leaving no noticeable trace behind.

Screen versions of works

... When it came to the film adaptation of his works, Kataev said that he liked the first film adaptation of "The Lonely Sail Turns White" (then there were "Waves of the Black Sea", based on all four of his novels).<…>He said that it was possible to film the story "The Cube", but for this we need Federico Fellini.

Kataev's works in theater, film and television

Drama Theater

• 1927 - "Squanderers" - Moscow Art Theater, staged by K. S. Stanislavsky
• 1928 - "Quadrature of the Circle" - Moscow Art Theatre, staged by N. M. Gorchakov under the direction of V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. Academic Russian Drama Theater of Uzbekistan, production by T. M. Sharafutdinov (2014). The play is staged to this day in theaters in Russia, Europe and America.
• 1934 - "Road of Flowers" - Moscow Modern Theater
• 1940 - "House" - Comedy Theater, staged by N. P. Akimov. The play was banned; in 1972 (?) restored by director A. A. Belinsky
• 1940 - “A soldier was walking from the front” - Vakhtangov Theater
• 1942 - "Blue handkerchief" - theater (?)
• 1948 - "Day of rest" ("Where are you, Monsieur Miussov?") - Moscow academic theater satires
• 1954 (?) - “It was in Konsk” (“House”) - Moscow Academic Theater of Satire
• 1958 (?) - "It's time for love" - ​​Moscow City Council Theater, Tashkent Russian Youth Theater (1968)

Opera theatre

Filmography

Year		Name	Role
	f	Der brave Sunder	literary basis (story "Squanderers")
	f	Circus	written by together with Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov; all three had their last names removed from the credits of the film due to changes made to the script by the director
	f	Motherland is calling	written by together with A. V. Macheret
	f	A lonely sail turns white	written by
	f	A soldier walked from the front	written by
	f	Pages of life	written by together with A. V. Macheret
	f	son of the regiment	written by
	mf	Semi-flower	written by
	f	Crazy day	written by
	f	For the power of the Soviets	written by
	f	Poet	written by
	f	Time forward!	written by together with M. A. Schweitzer
	f	Semi-flower short	written by
	tf	Humoresque Valentina Kataeva concert film	literary basis (the story "The Diary of a Bitter Drunkard", the play "Road of Flowers", the fairy tale "Pearl")
	f	Happy Kukushkin short	literary basis (story "Knives")
	f	Farm in the steppe	written by
	tf	Waves of the Black Sea	literary basis
	tf	Violet film performance	literary basis
	mf	last petal	literary basis (fairy tale "Flower-semitsvetik")
	tf	Je veux voir Mioussov	literary basis (play "Day of rest")
	f	son of the regiment	literary basis
	tf	Monday is a hard day film performance	literary basis (the play "The Case of a Genius")
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Mikhail Kataev was born in 1903 in the village of Osmeryzhsk, Kachirsky district, Pavlodar region, in the family of a poor peasant. Russian. Due to material deprivation, Mikhail barely managed to finish primary school. In 1925 he was drafted into the Red Army. He served in the cavalry troops on one of the sections of the southern border, took part in the liquidation of the remnants of the Basmachi bands. After demobilization, in 1927, fellow villagers elected M. M. Kataev as chairman of the village council. He takes an active part in the creation of the collective farm "Red Plowman".

Before the Great Patriotic War M. M. Kataev worked in Pavlodar as an accountant of the city health department. At the front since 1941.

In the battles near Moscow, the heroic chronicle of the front-line life of Mikhail Maksimovich Kataev began. For his courage and bravery, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Overcoming the stubborn resistance of the enemy, units of the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps, in which Guards Sergeant Kataev fought as a gunner of the 7th Guards Anti-tank Fighter Division, approached the Dnieper at the end of September 1943. On the night of September 26-27, 1943, the guard foreman Kataev, with three crews of anti-tank rifles, having built a raft from improvised material, began crossing to the western bank of the Dnieper under heavy machine-gun fire from the enemy. Almost in the middle of the river, the raft was broken. But the brave warrior did not lose his head, in full combat gear, Mikhail Maksimovich rushed into the water, captivating the rest of the fighters with his personal example. Having reached the shore first, the foreman of the guard entered into an unequal battle with the enemy. Under the cover of night, Kataev, with a group of daredevils who came to the rescue, crawled to the trenches, threw grenades at them and destroyed 8 German soldiers from his personal weapons. The boundless love for the Motherland, the courage and bravery shown by M. M. Kataev during the crossing of the Dnieper ensured the successful overcoming of the water barrier.

The motherland highly appreciated the feat of our fellow countryman. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council USSR January 15, 1944 Mikhail Maksimovich Kataev was awarded the high title of Hero Soviet Union.

In January 1944, our troops fought for the liberation of southeastern Belarus from the fascist evil spirits. On January 26, units of the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps, having broken the stubborn resistance of the enemy, broke into the city of Mozyr. Fierce fighting ensued on the streets of the city. Under the onslaught of Soviet troops, the enemy began to leave the city. Fascist tanks tried to leave along one of the streets. Mikhail Kataev ordered his soldiers to go around, and he himself threw two grenades into the front tank one after another. But the tank continued to move forward. Then the Hero of the Soviet Union M. M. Kataev with the remaining grenades rushes under the tank. The hero died, but the blazing tank also stopped, a traffic jam formed, and the armor-piercers who came to the rescue knocked out several Vrayases vehicles. Soon over Belarusian city Mozy-rem raised the scarlet banner of the country of the Soviets.

The feat of M. M. Kataev is not forgotten. One of the streets of Mozyr bears the name of the Hero of the Soviet Union M. Kataev. In the center of the city there is a shield with a portrait of the Hero and a description of his feat.

The memory of the Hero is also sacredly revered by Pavlodar residents. One of the streets of the city is named after him. A memorial plaque was installed on the building where M. M. Kataev worked before the war.

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Kataev Valentin Petrovich is a talented writer, playwright, prose writer, poet, screenwriter, military journalist, whose popularity was at its peak in the Soviet years.

Kataev Valentin Petrovich was born in Odessa in 1897 in ordinary family. The grandfather of the future pen master was the son of a priest. Father Pyotr Vasilyevich Kataev was also associated with Orthodox Church, as he taught at the Odessa diocesan school. It is worth emphasizing the special education of Father Valentin, who, in addition to the theological seminary, also graduated from the Novorossiysk University of the Faculty of History and Philology.

Evgenia Ivanovna Bachey, mother of the future famous playwright-screenwriter, was general's daughter. The boy grew up in cultural family in an atmosphere of love and understanding. The future genius of the pen treated his parents with special trepidation. Later, when he began his career as a screenwriter, his love and reverent attitude towards his parents manifested itself in the fact that he gave the main character of the story “The lonely sail turns white” the name of his father and the name of his mother.

The fate of the mother was tragic - she could not live to see the children come of age, as she fell ill with pneumonia in her youth, from which she died. The upbringing of two boys was carried out by the mother's sister, who was able to replace her own mother for the boys.

The father encouraged the boys' interest in literature in every possible way. That is why their family had a huge library, which kept books of different genres and the most varied content.

Photo: Valentin Kataev in his youth

Parents, grandmother and uncle Valentina are buried at the Second Christian Cemetery in Odessa, which the talented screenwriter often visited during his lifetime to reunite with his loved ones and mentally ask for advice in difficult life situations.

Valentin also had a younger brother, Eugene, whom nature also rewarded with the talent of a writer. Brother Valentin took the pseudonym Petrov. Glory and Eugene did not pass by. It was he who was the co-author of the works “The Golden Calf” and “12 Chairs” known to a wide audience.

First works

From his early years, Valentin Kataev was in love with classic literature without which he could not live a day.

Kataev himself, already a great man, said that with early years dreamed of becoming outstanding writer and believed that his wish would come true.

Readers got acquainted with his first touching poem in 1910. It was called "Autumn". This work was published by the Odessa Herald, which was popular among Odessans. Seeing the interest of readers in his first literary masterpiece, Valentine even more fired up. So in two years the world saw another 25 of his amazing poems.

In 1912 Valentine tried to change the genre. As a result, humorous stories began to appear. In parallel, two serious voluminous works “Awakening” appear, as well as “ Bad character". The first story described great love a young man to a girl whom he heroically left for the sake of the revolutionary movement. The second work carried a satirical connotation, ridiculing A. Kuprin, A. Averchenko and M. Kornfeld.

Personalities who influenced the development of creativity

Before the events of the First World War, the beginning writer Kataev was lucky enough to meet I.A. Bunin, as well as A. M. Federov, who later became Kataev's faithful literary mentors. A few years later, Kataev's circle of friends began to expand - E. Bagritsky and Yu. Olesha were among his associates.

The creative development of Kataev was interrupted by the difficult events of 1915, in connection with which Kataev went into the army. Moreover, he himself expressed a desire to serve for the good of the Fatherland.

Kataev's biographical data suggests that in those difficult years he worked as ensigns, then he was seriously injured and even once was poisoned with gases.

The wound mentioned above was received by Kataev in the difficult year of 1917, when he fought on the Romanian front. The resulting injury was very serious, so Valentine was immediately sent to the hospital, which was located in Odessa. For heroism, he was repeatedly awarded the St. George Crosses. He was also awarded the Order of St. Anna IV, valuable at that time, as well as the title of a nobleman, which could not be inherited.

Continuation of the creative path

Kataev's love for literary art was so strong and all-consuming that even in the tragic years of the war he managed to write fascinating stories and amazing essays illustrating the hardships of front-line everyday life. In 1915, in the most popular magazine "The World", which was read by everyone, including the elite of the capital, Kataev's story "Nemchik" appeared. Later, to everyone who praised Kataev's talent, the writer said that he obtained masterpieces thanks to I. Bunin's invaluable parting words.

Return to the front

Having come to his senses after being wounded, Kataev in 1918 again finds himself in the service. This time, fate brought him into the ranks of the army of the famous hetman P. Skoropadsky. But after the hetman committed a betrayal and fled to the German capital, Kataev joined the volunteer army with the rank of second lieutenant. Later, Kataev served on the Novorossiya armored train. There is in the biography of Kataev and information that the genius of the pen fought against the Petliurists.

A heavy imprint on the writer was postponed in 1920, when Kataev caught typhus and almost died from this terrible disease. Then he was again sent to the Odessa hospital. After lying for a short time in the walls of this medical facility, relatives took him home. There, thanks good care and the constant care of his relatives, he quickly recovered. When the forces returned again, Kataev decides to become an underground member of an officer conspiracy against P.N. Wrangel. For this, he and his brother were arrested. Two writer brothers stayed in prison until the autumn of 1920. Soon the brothers were released, and the rest of the conspirators were brutally shot in the same rainy autumn.

Approval in the capital

Significant for Kataev was 1921, when he, working in the Kharkov official publishing house, together with Yu. Olesha, rented a living space. It was during that period that Kataev decided that the time had come to conquer the capital. He went there a year later. In the capital city, Valentin begins to work fruitfully for the Gudok newspaper. His articles of a satirical and humorous nature systematically appear there. Under them he signed in different ways. Often under his works were pseudonyms Mitrofan Mustard, Ol. Twist, and also Sabbakin the Old Man.

The events of 1938 left a heavy imprint on Kataev. He witnessed how the talented poet O. Mandelstam was arrested Soviet authority naming it all literary works obscene and slanderous. Watching with pain in his heart the arrest of his colleague, Kataev decided to systematically help the Mandelstam family with money.

Activities during the war

During the years of our country's war with the fascist invaders, Kataev worked as a war correspondent. But even during that tense period, when one trip followed another, Kataev did not stop writing essays, fascinating stories and exciting journalistic articles. It was in those tense years that the talented Valentine presented the world with the delightful work "Our Father".

Immediately before the Victory, the genius of the pen gives readers the story "The Son of the Regiment", which eventually gained resounding popularity, for which it was awarded the State Prize.

After the war, Kataev began to suffer from alcoholism. Passion for alcoholic beverages bound him so much that the genius of the pen almost lost his beloved wife, who made a firm decision to divorce. But, realizing the catastrophic nature of his situation, Kataev came to his senses and never touched a glass again.

Books of the great genius of the pen

From 1955 to 1961, Kataev headed the Yunost magazine, holding the post of editor-in-chief. During these years, his publishing house was helped to maintain a high rating by little-known young poets, who were then referred to as "sixties".

During this period, the story "Squanderers" appears, which shocked lovers of literature with a life story and beautiful language presentation. Then, in 1928, the story “Squaring the Circle” appeared. This was followed by many more works that demonstrated the versatility of Valentin Kataev's talent.

In parallel with the books, Kataev replenished his filmography. The first film "Squanderers" was directed by Kataev in 1931. This was followed by the film "Circus", after it - the work "The Motherland Calls". It is worth emphasizing that Kataev created films based on many of his works. Valentin put his whole self into each stage work. Therefore, his films were beautiful, interesting and professionally staged. Spectators looked through them always with special rapture.

The all-round development of Kataev manifested itself once again when the genius of the pen gave children and young men the excellent fairy tales "The Dove", as well as "Tsvetik-Semitsvetik". In 1945, the fairy tales "Stump" and also "Pearl" appeared, which delighted the children's audience. But these works were admired not only by kids, but also by their parents, who saw the ability of the genius of the pen to subtly and accurately reveal topical moral issues in their works.

Very carefully and carefully, Valentin Kataev instructed children in his works, unobtrusively pointing out the special significance of kindness, responsiveness and respect for parents.

Over a multi-year period of creative activity Kataev gave connoisseurs of literature more than a hundred beautiful works, which illustrate the realities of life, are instructive and instructive for a person of any era.

Personal life

Kataev was married twice. First happy marriage ended due to the death of his wife from pneumonia. The second wife of a talented poet, writer and screenwriter was Esther Davydovna Brenner. In this marriage, in 1936, the couple had a daughter, Eugene, and two years later, a boy, Pavel.

Death

The heart of Valentin Petrovich Kataev stopped beating on April 12, 1986. Doctors explained the onset of the death of the genius of the pen by the exhaustion of the body, which manifested itself against the background of a long struggle with a cancerous tumor and its removal.

Photo: grave of Valentin Kataev

The great writer, poet and screenwriter was buried in Moscow. The body of the genius of the pen rests at the Novodevichy cemetery.

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