Nikulin biography writer

Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the 3rd degree the future writer was born in an acting family. This phenomenon was born on May 8 20 in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir. His father was the theater actor and entrepreneur Veniamin Ivanovich Olkenitsky, baptized in the year in Lutheranism, and his mother was actress Sabina Rosental. The stage pseudonym of his father - Nikulin - took root thoroughly, and many of the children and them in the family were already eleven!

Later, all this large family was scattered in the Bel Light, - Osev, including abroad. Lev Nikulin himself could get stuck abroad. Being a student of a commercial school in Odessa, he crossed the Romanian border and “Hitchhiking” during the holidays, and he reached Paris. There, they traded newspapers and cigarettes for a couple, examined all cafes and cinemas, made a bunch of dating, reported in the “yellow press” ...

French language Leo Veniaminovich knew how his dear lecture in the Sorbonne was listening in the years. And this has repeatedly helped him in his future life in the implementation of especially delicate instructions from the field of "folk diplomacy". After graduating from the Moscow Commercial Institute, L. Nikulin did not elect a trade or acting path. Sensitive to the trends of the New Age, getting the right connections and acquaintances, he quickly realized that it was more profitable to trade a word.

Already in the year two brochures of his authorship - “On the Elder of Gregory and Russian History”, “On the Russian Destruction and the Hessian Fly” the author himself called them “fairy tales”. But in fact, these were political pamphlets. Verses Lev Nikulin began to indulge in adolescence. The author later collected early verses in his first collection under the female pseudonym “The History of Angelica Safyanova”, his second collection of “Streads” was dedicated to the political satire.

Even in the repertoire of A. Vertinsky there were several songs for the verses of Leo Nikulin. Leo Veniaminovich left a noticeable mark in the cinema as a screenwriter. As soon as the first “Cinema” began to open in Russia, the novice writer began to scribble at the order of private films scenarios of salon melodramas. In total, there are 36 films in his filmography, among which, by the way, there are fantastic ones - “Above the silence of eternity”, “Island of oblivion”, “Skherso Devil” and “President Samosadkin”, alas, all of them have not been preserved to our time.

And the most famous films according to his scenarios look alive today-this is an action-packed drama about the exposure of sabotage pests in the railway transport “Honor” and the spy series “Operation“ Trust ”in the year, Lev Nikulin became the head of one of the political control of the Baltic Fleet, later he proudly told everyone how he participated in the suppression of Kronstadt rebellion.

In the years, Nikulin visited the Soviet diplomatic mission in Afghanistan as a secretary of the Consulate General in Kabul, and according to the results of this trip, released his first prose book Fourteen months in Afghanistan. And then he took up artistic prose, publishing the novels “Diplomatic Secret” “No Accidents”, and “Hops”, which then read out young people. Spit in his writer's biography is the novel “Adjutants of the Lord God”, since a scandalous story is associated with it.

Varlah Shalamov later told her about her in his memoirs "several of my lives." In the camps, he met a certain Osipenko - former secretary of Metropolitan Pitirim, patron saint of Rasputin. And when he asked to tell about the old man, referring to the novel by L. Nikulin, he cursed with annoyance: “It all began with this damned book! It turns out that the Chekists arrested Osipenko, who had successfully settled by that time in the Leningrad police, precisely after they read about him in the novel "The Adventhists of the Lord God." At the same time, Shalamov emphasized: “This was the first case of the writer’s active invasion of the life that I watched.

Nikulin still does not know about this story. He worked on archives, according to other people's memories. " Nevertheless, since then, the unjust stigma of the “informer”, who collaborated with the Cheka, has stuck to Leo Nikulin. During the years of perestroika, when it was fashionable to destroy the former authorities, an evil, offensive epigram, which was attributed to E.

Kazakevich, walked: "Nikulin Lev, a snag-tower, recently released a two-volume one." However, contemporaries of the writer testified to the opposite. The artist Boris Efimov recalled: “This cannot be said about Nikulin. I believe that until the end of his life he remained decent and clean, as far as it was possible in the era, which can be characterized by the poet’s words: “There were worse times, but there were no sample.” Subsequently, Leo Nikulin switched to historical and memoir prose, in which he reached noticeable peaks.

His autobiographical novel “Time, Space, Movement” was widely fame for a historical novel about the liberation campaign of the Russian Army of the GG. The critics and readers also received a positive response from his epic romance from the life of the intelligentsia “Moscow Dawns” Prince. Kuprin ”, memoirs“ People and wanderings.Memories ”and the detective novel“ Dead Zyb ”is still read with unhappy interest.

The novel is based on the impudent-gray and cunning operation of the Chekists, organized and brilliantly carried out at the initiative of F. Dzerzhinsky against the monarchists, acting underground in a young Soviet country. It is worth mentioning other public merits of Leo Veniaminovich Nikulin. He was one of the founders of the magazine Foreign Literature, a member of the editorial board of the magazine Moscow.

And at the end, x Nikulin repeatedly traveled to France for negotiations with V. Murovtseva-Bunina on the transfer of the literary archive of Ivan Bunin to his homeland-which was carried out with his assistance. Among the writer’s closest friends were singers Alexander Vertinsky and Lidia Ruslanova, film actor Alexei Batalov and actress Ksenia Kuprina, the daughter of a famous writer.

And the film actor Valentin Nikulin was his own nephew. Lev Veniaminovich Nikulin died on March 9 in Moscow. The dead swell of oblivion, ultimately, swallowed the name of the writer. But in the history of Soviet science fiction, he still left his modest mark. It is interesting that already in the third millennium, Leo Nikulin became one of the main characters of the fantastic novel by E.

Vitkovsky “Alexandrite, or Power number six”, where he was bred under the name of writer Lev Davidovich Kunitsky. Fiction in the work of Leo Nikulin. Both like a cinema, and like a prose writer Lev Nikulin initially gravitated to the parable and phantasmagoria. This is also evidenced by his first story “On the Deaf Board”, published in the year in Satyricon, and his two fantastic stories, which appeared a year later in the “Blue Journal”, inspired by the First World War.

This is a short, but capacious political fantasy “traitor” and imbued with the mystical atmosphere of the old novel “in Poland”. In the year, Lev Nikulin took part in the collective project "Big Fires" for the magazine "Schonek". Nikulin was just the honor of promoting the tie, thrown by Alexander Green, - and he coped with this task, writing the second chapter “Pantal Pearl”.

The largest and noticeable work of Leo Nikulin in the genre of science fiction was the fascinating novel “The Secret of the safe” about the search for a charming ancient Egyptian Princess Amantayos, accidentally animated by Moscow Dr. Simov with the help of the rays invented by him. The search for a beauty with vampiric manners is held throughout Europe, in Moscow and in a distant Eritrea.

This allows the author to change genres and styles, trying on them like ties or like gloves. Apparently, Nikulin wanted to create a parody of the “Red Pinkerton novels” fashionable at that time. But the good half of the novel is perceived not as a parody, but as an exciting drama of the international spy and adventurer Casimir Strzhigotsky. In the year, the novel in an abbreviated and recycled form was reprinted under the name "Sellers of Secrets." By the way, one of the main characters of the novel, the inventor of the Sims is also found in other fantastic stories by Nikulin - “The Rays of Dr.

Simov” and “Fit happiness”.

In general, in his few fantastic stories scattered through the periodicals and in the copyright collections of those years, Leo Nikulin gravitated to the political and household satire on the anger of the day, and therefore their theme looks somewhat outdated. However, they are of interest as an artistic reflection of the mood of that time. For example, in the story “FREM brains”, two representatives of white emigration turn to Professor Degrez with a request to create the brain of an ideal dictator who could throw off the power of the Bolsheviks and return the old Russia to them.

However, the volunteers provided for a scientific experiment are completely brainless ... In the Bulgakovsky, according to the atmosphere of the story “Ghost of the Arbat Market”, the hanging owner of a requisitioned mansion wanders at night according to his possessions, and he is expelled from there with purely Soviet methods: they refuse to be registered. Events in the military story “Debt Patent”, where a scientist who gave his discovery to the service forces of evil, takes revenge for his tenants for the death of the student acquire the tragic coloring.

And a short sketch “So it will be! The writer also displayed the sprouts of the future in the form of all kinds of technical innovations and scientific achievements in his little-known poem for children “Radio-Tokhaka”, published by a small circulation in Ryazan.