Boris field - biography, information, personal life. Polevoy Boris Nikolaevich A successful career as a writer and two Stalin Prizes

Boris Kampov

Soviet prose writer and journalist. The most famous work is "The Tale of a Real Man" (1946).

Born in the family of a lawyer, a graduate of the Vladimir Theological Seminary, Nikolai Kampov. In 1913 the family moved to Tver.
He graduated from a technical school in Tver and worked as a technologist at a textile factory. He began his career as a journalist in 1928 under the patronage of Maxim Gorky.
Boris Polevoy worked for the newspapers Tverskaya Derevnya, Tverskaya Pravda, Proletarskaya Pravda, and Smena.
In 1927, the first book of essays by Boris Polevoy "Memoirs of a lousy man" was published in Tver - about the life of people of the "bottom". This is the only edition signed with the name of B. Kampov. The pseudonym Polevoy was born as a result of the proposal of one of the editors to “translate the name Kampov from Latin” into Russian. The book was marked by Gorky.
Since 1928 he has become a professional journalist.
In 1939, Boris Polevoy's first story, The Hot Shop, was published in the Oktyabr magazine, which brought him literary fame.
In 1941 he moved to Moscow.
During the Great Patriotic War, B.N. Polevoy was in the army as a correspondent for Pravda, including on the Kalinin Front (1942). He was the first to write about the feat of the 83-year-old peasant Matvey Kuzmich Kuzmin, who repeated, according to the writer, the feat of Ivan Susanin.
Glory and the Stalin Prize were brought to him by the “The Tale of a Real Man” written in 19 days (a story in 4 chapters), dedicated to the feat of the pilot A.P. Maresyev. Until 1954 alone, the total circulation of its publications amounted to 2,340,000 copies. Based on the story, the opera of the same name by Sergei Prokofiev was staged.
Military impressions formed the basis of the books:
"From Belgorod to the Carpathians" (1945)
"The Tale of a Real Man" (1946)
"We are Soviet people" (1948)
"Gold" (1949-1950)
Author of four books of military memoirs "These Four Years". Less well known are the materials about his presence at the execution by the verdict of the Nuremberg Trials "In the end" (1969).

From 1969 until his death, he served as chairman of the board of the Soviet Peace Fund.
In 1961-1981 he was the editor-in-chief of the Yunost magazine. Member of the Bureau of the Higher Council of Youth and the Presidium of the Soviet Peace Committee. Since 1967, he was the secretary of the board of the Union of Writers of the USSR, since 1952 he was vice-president of the European Society of Culture. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (1946-1958).

He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (plot No. 9).

prizes and awards

Hero of Socialist Labor (1974)
3 orders of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
2 Orders of the Red Banner
2 Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Order of the Red Star (1942).
medals
foreign awards
Stalin Prize of the second degree (1947) - for "The Tale of a Real Man" (1946)
Stalin Prize of the second degree (1949) - for the collection of essays and stories "We are Soviet people" (1948)
International Peace Prize (1959) - for collections of essays "American Diaries"
World Gold Medal (1968)

Leading Researcher

OEPP, Ph.D.

WRITER BORIS POLEVOI,

OUR COUNTRYMAN

Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy (Kampov), a well-known front-line writer and public figure. Laureate of the International Peace Prize, was born on March 17, 1908 in Moscow. When the boy was 5 years old, the Polevoy family moved to the ancient Russian city of Tver.

Many years of the life of the author of the famous Tale of a Real Man passed in this city. In his autobiography, he writes: “My father was a lawyer, he died in 1916. I hardly remember him. But, judging by the good library that remained after him, where all the Russian and the best foreign classics were collected, he was a well-educated person. After the death of her father, her mother worked as a doctor at a textile factory owned by the merchants Morozov (now Proletarka). Subsequently, the world of the factory yard, the Morozov barracks, pictures of working life, images of Tverites will appear on the pages of his works.

st. B. Polevoy, 12, where the writer lived in his childhood.

Boris Polevoy was a true patriot of our city, more than once he emphasized that "he grew up, studied, joined the journalistic profession, wrote the first book in Tver, and therefore now, not without reason, I consider myself a Tver" ..

Nowadays, when it comes to where our famous fellow countryman studied, they usually call gymnasium No. 6, from the walls of which many outstanding people came out (poet Andrei Dementiev, economist Shatalin, etc.)

Tver

School No. 6 (now Gymnasium No. 6)

However, according to the Tver literary critic, the future writer first studied at an elementary school of the second stage (on Proletarka), read a lot, and actively participated in the work of a circle of young naturalists. And only later he graduated from the industrial and economic technical school (now the gymnasium No. 6 is located in this building). He began his working biography with work as a laboratory assistant, then as a shift foreman, head of a shop at Proletarka.

From his school years, he was attracted to journalism. In 1922, the Tverskaya Pravda newspaper published a short note by sixth grader Boris Polevoy, in which the author wrote about a visit to the school by the peasant poet Spiridon Drozhzhin.

Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy belongs to the glorious galaxy of writers who were given a ticket to great literature by Alexei Maksimovich Gorky.

Working at Proletarka, he publishes articles and essays about working people in local newspapers. In 1927, his essays received a positive review from Gorky and at the same time good advice to the young author to work hard on the word: “Just like a wood or metal turner, a writer must know his material well - language, word, otherwise he will not be able to portray your experience, your feelings, thoughts; will not be able to create pictures, characters.

Since 1928, Polevoy has moved to a permanent job in the regional youth newspaper "Smena", published in "Tverskoy Pravda" and other publications. One of the summer months, while on vacation, he leaves for Selizharovsky district. There, Polevoy works in logging, becomes a timber rafter. He writes his essays about lumberjacks and timber raftsmen at night, sitting by a fire laid out on a raft.

Already from the first steps, he develops a line that he will follow rigorously - to write only about what you know well, what he himself saw.

Boris Polevoy, newspaperman, journalist, writer, has always lived by what his native country lived. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, the story "Hot Workshop" was published in the literary magazine "October". It was dedicated to the Stakhanov movement at the Kalinin Carriage Works. During the Great Patriotic War, Boris Nikolayevich was a war correspondent for Pravda. From the first days of the war until Victory Day, he was in the active army, in the most dangerous areas, where there were bloody battles. Recalling these terrible years, the famous writer Vadim Kozhevnikov writes: “Boris Polev and I, two Pravdists, are getting to the front line on the emk. Soldiers, officers, generals usually recognized Polevoy and, what can I say, were very happy that Polevoy would write about them and write well, and they would read it, if, of course, both they and he, the war correspondent, remained alive.

More than once this fatal “if” hung over Polevoy, because he obtained material about soldiers and events in the very heat of battles, it is no coincidence that we see two Orders of the Red Banner on his chest. It is known that Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev was very fond of Polevoy. He admired Polevoy's courage, as a seasoned warrior can admire and appreciate her.

and Konev

War correspondent Boris Polevoy in our literature is on a par with such famous front-line writers as Konstantin Simonov, Alexei Surkov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Alexander Fadeev, Alexei Tolstoy. "With a watering can and a notebook, or even a machine gun" and his main weapon - a pen, he helped our people bring victory over the enemy closer. During the war years, Polevoy kept front-line diaries, and after it, in the hot pursuit of front-line impressions and meetings with veterans, he wrote the novel "Deep Rear", the books "Gold", "Doctor Vera", "Commander" (about the marshal).

Readers all over the world know the famous Tale of a Real Man. Undoubtedly, this is the main book of Boris Polevoy. Not everyone knows that it was created in the days when the Nuremberg Trials were going on - the trial of the peoples over the fascist leaders. According to the memoirs of Andrei Dementiev, a well-known journalist and then still a young writer came to us in Kalinin. The meeting took place in the House of Officers, in one of the most beautiful halls in our city. There was a tense silence in the hall, because every listener was re-experiencing the recent war. was about to leave, he was surrounded by familiar journalists. Questions began and among them - "What are you working on now?". And here for the first time Polevoy called "The Tale of a Real Man." The writer took material for his books from life. It was he who was the first in our literature to call the pilot Alexei Maresyev, the hero of the war, “a real person.” This expression has become catchy.

Polevoy's book "The Tale of a Real Man" came to the reader in the post-war 1946.

Pilot A. Maresyev

It was read in unsettled homes, in libraries that were housed in temporary premises, in cold schools and, of course, in families who had lost relatives and friends in the war. The author convincingly revealed the harsh hardships of the war, showed what a person is capable of when it comes to the fate of the Fatherland. It is known that for many people who found themselves in the most difficult life situations, the heroes of Polevoy became an example of courage, helped to endure "all deaths in spite", returned the will to live, despite the cruel trials of fate.

More recently, The Tale of a Real Man was one of the most popular books not only in our country, but also in the world. It has gone through more than 180 editions in 49 languages ​​with a total circulation of about 10 million copies.

Honored teacher Kulikova from Ozerny ZATO bitterly says: “Before perestroika in our country, the story of military pilot Alexei Maresyev, a “real man”, thanks to Polevoy’s book, was known to every schoolchild.” And he adds: “It is a pity that now she is excluded from the school curriculum. But history cannot be ruled out by any decree, people's memory can neither be erased nor rewritten.

In the post-war years, the writer lived among those who restored the Dneproges, built hydroelectric power plants on the Volga and Angara. And as a result - his new books "Contemporaries" and "On a wild shore."

Great are the merits of our famous countryman in educating a worthy literary successor. For many years, Boris Polevoy was the editor-in-chief of the youth magazine Yunost.

B. Polevoy and A. Dementiev

He loved and knew how to work with young authors. Among his pupils are the Tverites - the poet Andrei Dementiev, the prose writer Alexei Pyanov, the journalist Boris Badeev and many others. One cannot but agree with the writer Albert Likhanov when he claims that, of course, it is no coincidence that "the author of a book about courage, a book that is humane and therefore anti-war, became one of the main organizers of the struggle for peace." Polevoy stood at the origins of the peace movement, and for many years headed the board of the Soviet Peace Fund. For military merits, for merits in the literary and public field, he was awarded many orders and medals, he was awarded the honorary title of Hero of Socialist Labor, and State Prizes were awarded.

In 2008, the centenary of the birth of Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy was celebrated. In connection with this anniversary, exhibitions were devoted to him in libraries, and in schools, lyceums and gymnasiums, discussions were held about the life and work of the writer. A competition of drawings and essays based on his works was announced for young students. Long before the anniversary of Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy in ZATO Ozerny, students of school No. 2 under the guidance of the honored teacher of Russia, as part of a course on literary local history in Tver, conducted a search work “In the footsteps of pilot Alexei Maresyev, a “real person”. In the process of this work, materials on the history of the creation of Polevoy's book were studied; schoolchildren learned a lot about the post-war life of the legendary pilot. They made an unforgettable trip to the village of Plav on the shores of Lake Shlino and visited the "Maresyevskaya glade" in a dense spruce forest, where during the war days the village children Sasha Vikhrov and Seryozha Malin found a wounded pilot. Now in this clearing you can see a slab set up by local historians, and a stele, which was installed by the soldiers of the missile division and the youth of the military town of ZATO Ozerny.

In the autumn of 2007, on the initiative of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation, a competition of school works dedicated to the Day of Heroes of the Fatherland was held in the Tver region.

The local history work of the eighth-grader Alexandra Prokopenkova, a student of a teacher of Russian language and literature, - "Stories about the people who saved Maresyev", was recognized as the best not only in the region, but also in Russia, and received the highest rating in Moscow. This work was awarded with a diploma of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Central Federal District.

To this day, the study of the life and work of our fellow writer Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy contributes to the patriotic education and historical memory of the younger generation.

Tver for the writer Boris Polevoy is the closest and native city, from where his path to journalism and literature began, here are the Pushkin museums, in the creation of which he participated, here on Theater Square there is a monument to Pushkin, which he brought from the city on the Neva.

Tver. Pushkin

(sculptor)

And today the writer Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy, who loved his native Upper Volga region and when he came to our region, met with fellow countrymen, is not forgotten in Tver.

The famous countryman, one of the first in our city, was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the City of Kalinin". One of the streets is named after him, and memorial plaques are installed on the houses where he lived.

Bibliography

Compositions:

· Hot shop, 1940

· The Tale of a Real Man, 1947

· Gold, 1950

Deep rear, 1959

On the wild shore, 1962

· Doctor Vera, 1967

To Berlin - 896 kilometers, 1973

These four years. In 2 books: 1974

Most Memorable, 1980

Literature

Butuzov, E. A real person from our city // Valor of those who go ahead. - Kalinin, 1984. - S.115-128.

Gaganova, V. He wrote about working people // Youth. - 1983. - No. 3.

Dementiev, A. Remembering his life: on the 80th anniversary of the birth of B. Polevoy // Literary newspaper. - 1988. - No. 13.

Egorov, A. Boris Polevoy - countryman, writer, person: memories // Tverskiye Vedomosti. - 1997. - No. 60.

Lebedev, N. Our countryman Boris field (Kampov) // Veche Tver. - 2008. - March 18.

Nikolaev, S. In memory of a famous countryman // Tverskiye Vedomosti. - 2006. - No. 52.

Pyanov, A. Path of Boris Polevoy // Youth. - 1985. - No. 3.

Slanevsky, L. // Tverskaya zhizn. – 1991.

Chudin, V. A word about a real person // Tverskaya zhizn. - 2001. - July 12.

Yakovlev, Yu. Once upon a time on this street ... // Youth, 1984. - No. 1.

Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy

Polevoy (Kampov) Boris Nikolaevich (1908/1981) - Soviet writer. The most famous works are: “The Tale of a Real Man” (1946), which describes the famous feat of the pilot A. Maresyev, and based on his heroic fate, the image of a positive hero is created; a collection of short stories "We are Soviet people" (1948), novels "Gold" (1949/1950) and "Doctor Vera" (1966). Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1947,1949), Hero of Socialist Labor (1974).

Guryeva T.N. New literary dictionary / T.N. Guriev. - Rostov n / a, Phoenix, 2009, p. 224.

Polevoy (pseudo; real name - Kampov) Boris Nikolaevich (03/04/1908-07/12/1981), writer. He spent his childhood in Tver (Kalinin). After graduating from an industrial college, he worked at the Kalinin textile mill. The first book of essays, Memoirs of a Lousy Man (1927), was noted by critics. Literary fame Polevoy brought the story "Hot shop" (1939).

Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Polevoy has been a war correspondent for Pravda. The events of the war are reflected in his essays, published in the newspaper and combined into the book “From Belgorod to the Carpathians (1945). Polevoy's book The Tale of a Real Man (1946; Stalin Prize, 1947) gained great popularity in the USSR and abroad. It also manifested a characteristic feature of Polevoy's creative manner - the desire for documentary. The image of a positive hero is created in the story on the basis of a real feat of a pilot A. P. Mareseva. After the war, Polevoy traveled to many countries; his reporting books American Diaries (1956), Far Far Away (1956) and others tell about this. In the novels Deep Rear (1958) and On the Wild Bank... characters of Russian people, their everyday hectic life. The novel "Doctor Vera" (1966) depicts the unbending courage of the Russian people in the territory occupied by the German fascists.

"The Tale of a Real Man" served as the basis for the opera of the same name by S. S. Prokofiev (1948).

Used materials from the site Great Encyclopedia of the Russian people - http://www.rusinst.ru

Field (real name - Kampov) Boris Nikolaevich (1908 - 1981), prose writer.

Born on March 4 (17 n.s.) in Moscow in the family of a lawyer. Childhood and youth passed in Tver, in the factory yard of a huge textile plant owned by the Morozovs. There was a good library at home, left by my father (he died in 1916), where all Russian and the best foreign classics were collected. His mother, a doctor by profession, guided his reading, and among the first books read were Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Pomyalovsky, and later Turgenev, Goncharov, Nikitin and Chekhov. The most favorite writer was M. Gorky.

Even in his school years, he became interested in journalism, the first note appeared in the provincial newspaper Tverskaya Pravda. After a few years, he became an active worker correspondent for this newspaper, when, after graduating from an industrial technical school, he worked at the Proletarka plant in Kaliningrad.

In 1927, the first book of essays, Memoirs of a Lousy Man, was published, noted by Gorky.

Since 1928 he has become a professional journalist.

Literary fame Polevoy brought the story "Hot Workshop", published before the war in the magazine "October".

Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he has been working as a war correspondent on the Kalinin Front, being in the hottest spots. The military events that he witnessed are reflected in his essays, later combined in the book From Belgorod to the Carpathians (1945).

In 1946, the famous "The Tale of a Real Man" was published, written in nineteen days (when he was present at the Nuremberg trials as a war correspondent).

The collection of short stories "We are Soviet people" (1948) and the novel "Gold" (1949-50) are devoted to the military theme.

In 1952 he published a collection of stories and essays about the builders of the Volga-Don - "Contemporaries".

In 1956, after a trip to different countries, he wrote the reporting books American Diaries, Far Away.

In 1958 - 62 publishes the novels "Deep rear" and "On the wild shore ..."

In 1966, the novel "Doctor Vera" was published. For many years he was the editor-in-chief of the Youth magazine.

B. Polevoy died in 1981 in Moscow.

Used materials of the book: Russian writers and poets. Brief biographical dictionary. Moscow, 2000.

Polevoy Boris (real name Boris Nikolaevich Kampov) is a prose writer.

Father was a lawyer, mother was a doctor. Shortly after the birth of Polevoy, the family moved to Tver. Father died early; mother worked in the factory hospital of the textile mill of the partnership of the Tver manufactory, which belonged to the famous industrialists Morozov. After the death of his father, the family from the city was forced to move to the “employees at home” of the Morozov factory. The father collected a large library; my mother instilled a love of literature. Polevoy studied at a technical school, worked at a textile mill, was a raft driver, a hut (he was in charge of a village club).

The first notes, essays were written as a schoolboy and first appeared in the Tverskaya Pravda newspaper, then in the youth newspaper Smena, and in other Tver newspapers. Once, on the instructions of the newspaper, he spent several days in close contact with the "thieves' world", which resulted in a series of essays on the "Tver Day", published as a separate book - "Memoirs of a lousy man" (1927) (this is the only edition signed by the name of B. Kampov) . The pseudonym Polevoy was born as a result of the proposal of one of the editors to “translate the Kampov surname from Latin” (campus - field) into Russian. After the publication of his first book, the beginning writer received a long letter from M. Gorky, which Polevoy himself considered a turning point in his life. It was after Gorky's benevolent letter that Polevoy devoted himself to literary work and journalism. In the newspapers of Tver, he worked until the very beginning of the war.

In 1939, Polevoi's first story, The Hot Workshop, appeared in the October magazine, about which he himself spoke as follows: can become a hero of literature ”(Looking back at the past // Soviet writers. Autobiographies: In 2 vols. M., 1959. Vol. 2. P. 237). This statement contains the writer's credo, who did not change the journalistic vision of life even when he created works of art. The story “The Hot Shop” is based on the real fate of the “hooligan boy”, who set a new record in blacksmithing and “under the pressure of the goodwill of the team” revealed himself “in his best features” (Ibid.). Polevoy's books were intended to educate the man of the "new society". Such are almost all of Polevoy's subsequent novels - "Gold" (1949), "Deep rear" (1958), "On the wild shore ..." (1962), "Doctor Vera" (1965), the story "Anyuta" (1977), Sat. stories: "Contemporaries" (1952) (dedicated to the builders of the Volga-Don Canal), "Distant Friends" (1959).

During the Great Patriotic War Polevoy was in the army. Polevoy went through the entire war as a combat officer and journalist. In the autumn of 1941, his reports began to appear in the Pravda newspaper. As a liaison officer and correspondent, he met the last day of the war in insurgent Prague, from where he transmitted his last military report. During the war, Polevoy became a well-known journalist and publicist; his books “From Belgorod to the Carpathians” (1945), “We are Soviet people” (1948), the story “He returned” (1949), “These four years” (correspondence from the front - 1974) are widely dispersed. In the post-war years, Polevoy's journalistic activity was just as active: American Diaries (1956), 30,000 Li in New China (1957), Sayan Records (1963) and others.

Polevoy's most famous work is The Tale of a Real Man (1946), which tells of the unbending courage of a man. The hero of the book Alexey Meresyev (the real prototype bore the surname Maresyev) is a pilot who lost both feet in battle and returned to aviation. The story of A. Maresyev, who was shot down in the forests near Velikie Luki, Polevoy wrote down in his diary during one of the front-line meetings.

Being present as a correspondent at the Nuremberg trials, listening to interrogations about fascist atrocities on Soviet soil, Polevoy turned to his front-line records and, while in Germany, wrote this story in 19 days. The book was a huge success. She helped a generation wounded by the war to find the strength to return to a peaceful life. The documentary principle underlying the book was supplemented by the writer's reasoning about the special character of the "Soviet man, communist." Polevaya's books, for all their sketchiness and documentary character, are characterized by an emotional uplift of style and, at the same time, a certain predestination, a social order, an attempt to create the image of a “positive hero” as an example to follow. In this capacity, "The Tale of a Real Man" by Polevoy was next to N. Ostrovsky's novel "How the Steel Was Tempered". The story was filmed in 1948 at Mosfilm (dir. A. Stolper; in the role of Meresyev - P. Kadochnikov). In 1948, S. Prokofiev wrote an opera of the same name based on the plot of the story.

Writing and journalism is only one side of Polevoy's activity: he was a prominent public figure, engaged in literary and organizational work, for many years (1962-81) he was the editor-in-chief of the popular youth magazine Yunost.

An example of Polevoy's literary life is an example of immortality. His life was cut short in 1981, and 1982 began with the publication of the article “Boris Polevoy: a man, a writer, an editor” in No. 1 of the Youth magazine. Then, in the same year, articles dedicated to him by V. Karpov “With Faith in Man” (October. No. 5), S. Baruzdin “Charm of Personality” (Friendship of Peoples. No. 10) were published. Later, articles were published by Y. Osipov “Memory of a real person: On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of B.N. No. 1). A.Nurshaikhov published “The Tale of Boris Polevoy” in his book “Tales, Memoirs, Essays”, published in Alma-Ata in 1986; in the "Literary Review" appeared an article by N. Zheleznova "A Girl and a Soldier" (1989. No. 2), in "Altai" - an article by B. Meshtaev ""Campo" - in Latin field: Strokes to the portrait of Boris Polevoy" (1990. No. 2).

The Tale of a Real Man continued its victorious march. It was published in separate books in 1982 in Novosibirsk and Chisinau, in 1983 - in Kyiv (with a foreword by G.G. Shevchenko), Kharkov and Kaunas, in 1984 - in Petrozavodsk and Kyiv, in 1985 - in Perm, Dnepropetrovsk, Yoshkar- Olya, Tashkent, Alma-Ata, in 1986 - in Kyiv (with the aftermath of G.G. Shevchenko) and in Dushanbe, in 1987 - in Ufa, Minsk and Baku. In Moscow, "The Tale of a Real Man" was published in separate editions in 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989 and 2001. The 1985 edition opened the foreword by V. Karpov "Textbook of Courage", the 1989 edition was accompanied by the preface. and after. N. Zheleznova "Real people of Boris Polevoy" and "Talent is born twice", in the edition of 2001 were published an introductory article by P.A. Nikolaev "Feat as a moral standard" and afterword. N. Zheleznova "A person is when they live proudly ..."

G.K. Kaurova

Used materials of the book: Russian literature of the XX century. Prose writers, poets, playwrights. Biobibliographic dictionary. Volume 3. P - Ya. 86-88.

Read further:

Note of the Union of Writers of the USSR to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU M.A. Suslov on the organization of the Pen Club in the USSR, [No later than September 22, 1956]

Letter to B.N. Polevoy with a request for instructions from the Central Committee of the CPSU in connection with the forthcoming publication of the novel Doctor Zhivago. [No later than September 17, 1958]

Russian writers and poets (biographical guide).

Compositions:

Field B. On the wild shore. Novel. "Roman-gazeta" No. 21 (475) -22 (476). 1962.

SS: in 9 volumes / entry. article by V. Ozerov. M., 1981-86;

Autobiography // Sov. writers. T. 2. M., 1959;

30,000 li in China. M., 1959;

Close and far. (New diaries). M., 1960;

Closest: Fav. stories. M., 1961.

These four years: From the notes of a war correspondent. M., 1978;

Most Memorable: The Story of My Reporting. M., 1980;

Commander. M., 1983;

A story about a real person. M., 2001.

Literature:

Galanov B.E. Boris Polevoy: Critical and biographical essay. M., 1957;

Zheleznova N.L. The real people of Boris Polevoy: Essay on creativity. M., 1978;

Rubashkin A.I. These four years // Rubashkin A.I. Direct speech: essays. L., 1980. S.192-196;

Zheleznova N.L. Boris Polevoy: Prose. Publicism. Memoirs. M., 1984.

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Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy(real name - Kampov; March 4 (17), 1908, Moscow - July 12, ibid) - Russian Soviet journalist and prose writer, screenwriter. Hero of Socialist Labor. Laureate of two Stalin Prizes of the second degree (,). Laureate of the International Peace Prize (1959). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940.

Biography

Boris Nikolaevich Kampov was born on March 4 (17), 1908 in Moscow, in the family of a lawyer. In 1913 the family moved to Tver.

From 1917 to 1924 he studied at school number 24 (now Tver gymnasium number 6).

He graduated from a technical school in Tver and worked as a technologist at a textile factory. He began his career as a journalist in 1928 under the patronage of Maxim Gorky.

Boris Polevoy worked for the newspapers Tverskaya Derevnya, Tverskaya Pravda, Proletarskaya Pravda, and Smena.

Military impressions formed the basis of the books:

• "From Belgorod to the Carpathians" ()
• "The Tale of a Real Man" ()
• "We are Soviet people" ()
• "Gold" ( -)

Author of four books of military memoirs "These Four Years". Less well known are the materials about his presence at the Nuremberg trials as a correspondent for the newspaper Pravda - In the End (1969).

He spoke at the all-Moscow meeting of writers on October 31, 1958, which condemned B. L. Pasternak, demanded his expulsion from the USSR.

B. N. Polevoy died on July 12, 1981. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (plot No. 9).

Family

Memory

The ship is named after the writer. March 16, 1978 "for the creation of works that truly reflect the heroic and labor deeds of Kalinin residents during the Great Patriotic War and peaceful labor, a great contribution to the development of the city and in connection with the 70th anniversary of his birth" B. N. Polevoy was awarded the title " Honorary citizen of the city of Kalinin.

In 1983, a street in Tver was named after him, and on December 16, 2006, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where the writer lived.

Awards and prizes

• three orders of Lenin (1967, 1974)
• two orders of the Red Banner (4.12.1944; 1958)
• two Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st class (10/21/1943)
• Order of the Red Star (27.4.1942)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (03/16/1978)
• medals
• foreign awards
• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1947) - for "The Tale of a Real Man" (1946)
• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1949) - for the collection of essays and stories "We are Soviet people" (1948)
• International Peace Prize (1959) - for collections of essays "American Diaries"

Bibliography

• Memoirs of a lousy man, 1927
• Hot shop, 1940
• We are Soviet people, 1948
• Gold, 1950
• Contemporaries, 1952
• American Diaries, 1956
• Deep rear, 1959
• Our Lenin, 1961
• On the wild shore, 1962
• Dr. Vera, 1967
• To Berlin - 896 kilometers, 1973
• These four years (in 2 books), 1974
• Silhouettes, 1978
• Most Memorable, 1980

written by

• - Gold (together with Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh)

Screen adaptations

• - A story about a real person
• - I am "Birch"
• - On the wild shore
• - Doctor Vera
• - Gold

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Makar Alekseich, with parted lips, as if falling asleep, swayed, leaning against the wall.
“Brigand, tu me la payeras,” said the Frenchman, withdrawing his hand.
– Nous autres nous sommes clements apres la victoire: mais nous ne pardonnons pas aux traitres, [Robber, you will pay me for this. Our brother is merciful after the victory, but we do not forgive the traitors,] he added with gloomy solemnity in his face and with a beautiful energetic gesture.
Pierre continued to persuade the officer in French not to exact from this drunken, insane man. The Frenchman listened in silence, without changing his gloomy look, and suddenly turned to Pierre with a smile. He looked at him silently for a few seconds. His handsome face took on a tragically tender expression, and he held out his hand.
- Vous m "avez sauve la vie! Vous etes Francais, [You saved my life. You are a Frenchman,]" he said. For a Frenchman, this conclusion was undeniable. capitaine du 13 me leger [Monsieur Rambal, captain of the 13th light regiment] was, without a doubt, the greatest deed.
But no matter how undoubted this conclusion and the officer’s conviction based on it, Pierre considered it necessary to disappoint him.
“Je suis Russe, [I am Russian],” Pierre said quickly.
- Ti ti ti, a d "autres, [tell it to others] - said the Frenchman, waving his finger in front of his nose and smiling. - Tout a l "heure vous allez me conter tout ca," he said. – Charme de rencontrer un compatriote. Eh bien! qu "allons nous faire de cet homme? [Now you will tell me all this. It is very nice to meet a compatriot. Well! what should we do with this man?] - he added, addressing Pierre, already as his brother. If only Pierre was not a Frenchman, having once received this highest name in the world, he could not renounce it, said the expression on the face and tone of the French officer. To the last question, Pierre once again explained who Makar Alekseich was, explained that just before their arrival this a drunken, insane man dragged away a loaded pistol, which they did not have time to take away from him, and asked that his deed be left without punishment.
The Frenchman stuck out his chest and made a royal gesture with his hand.
- Vous m "avez sauve la vie. Vous etes Francais. Vous me demandez sa grace? Je vous l" accorde. Qu "on emmene cet homme, [You saved my life. You are a Frenchman. Do you want me to forgive him? I forgive him. Take this man away,] the French officer said quickly and energetically, taking by the arm what he had produced for saving his life into Pierre's French, and went with him to the house.
The soldiers who were in the yard, hearing the shot, went into the passage, asking what had happened, and expressing their readiness to punish the guilty; but the officer severely stopped them.
“On vous demandera quand on aura besoin de vous, [When needed, you will be called,” he said. The soldiers left. The batman, who had meanwhile been in the kitchen, approached the officer.
“Capitaine, ils ont de la soupe et du gigot de mouton dans la cuisine,” he said. - Faut il vous l "apporter? [The captain has soup and roast lamb in the kitchen. Would you like to bring it?]
- Oui, et le vin, [Yes, and wine,] - said the captain.

The French officer, together with Pierre, entered the house. Pierre considered it his duty to assure the captain again that he was not a Frenchman, and wanted to leave, but the French officer did not want to hear about it. He was so courteous, amiable, good-natured and truly grateful for saving his life that Pierre did not have the courage to refuse him and sat down with him in the hall, in the first room into which they entered. To Pierre's assertion that he was not a Frenchman, the captain, obviously not understanding how it was possible to refuse such a flattering title, shrugged his shoulders and said that if he certainly wants to be known as a Russian, then so be it, but that he, despite then, all the same forever connected with him by a feeling of gratitude for saving a life.
If this person had been gifted with at least some ability to understand the feelings of others and had guessed about Pierre's feelings, Pierre would probably have left him; but the lively impenetrability of this man to everything that was not himself defeated Pierre.
- Francais ou prince russe incognito, [Frenchman or Russian prince incognito,] - said the Frenchman, looking at Pierre's dirty, but thin underwear and the ring on his hand. - Je vous dois la vie je vous offre mon amitie. Un Francais n "oublie jamais ni une insulte ni un service. Je vous offre mon amitie. Je ne vous dis que ca. [I owe you my life, and I offer you friendship. A Frenchman never forgets insults or services. I offer my friendship to you, I say no more.]
In the sounds of his voice, in the expression of his face, in the gestures of this officer, there was so much good nature and nobility (in the French sense) that Pierre, responding with an unconscious smile to the smile of the Frenchman, shook the outstretched hand.
- Capitaine Ramball du treizieme leger, decore pour l "affaire du Sept, [Captain Ramball, thirteenth light regiment, cavalier of the Legion of Honor for the cause of the seventh of September,] - he introduced himself with a smug, uncontrollable smile that wrinkled his lips under his mustache. - Voudrez vous bien me dire a present, a qui "j" ai l "honneur de parler aussi agreablement au lieu de rester al" ambulance avec la balle de ce fou dans le corps. [Will you be so kind as to tell me now who I am with I have the honor of talking so pleasantly, instead of being at the dressing station with this madman's bullet in his body?]
Pierre answered that he could not say his name, and, blushing, began, trying to invent a name, to talk about the reasons why he could not say this, but the Frenchman hastily interrupted him.
“De grace,” he said. - Je comprends vos raisons, vous etes officier ... officier superieur, peut etre. Vous avez porte les armes contre nous. Ce n "est pas mon affaire. Je vous dois la vie. Cela me suffit. Je suis tout a vous. Vous etes gentilhomme? [Complete, please. I understand you, you are an officer ... a staff officer, maybe. You served against us It's none of my business. I owe you my life. That's enough for me, and I'm all yours. Are you a nobleman?] - he added with a hint of a question. Pierre tilted his head. - Votre nom de bapteme, s "il vous plait? Je ne demande pas davantage. Monsieur Pierre, dites vous… Parfait. C "est tout ce que je desire savoir. [Your name? I don't ask anything else. Mr. Pierre, did you say? Fine. That's all I need.]
When roast lamb, scrambled eggs, a samovar, vodka and wine from a Russian cellar, which the French had brought with them, were brought, Ramball asked Pierre to take part in this dinner and immediately, eagerly and quickly, like a healthy and hungry man, began to eat, chewing quickly with his strong teeth, constantly smacking his lips and saying excellent, exquis! [wonderful, excellent!] His face was flushed and covered with sweat. Pierre was hungry and gladly took part in the dinner. Morel, the orderly, brought a pot of warm water and put a bottle of red wine in it. In addition, he brought a bottle of kvass, which he took from the kitchen for testing. This drink was already known to the French and got the name. They called the kvass limonade de cochon (pork lemonade), and Morel praised this limonade de cochon he found in the kitchen. But since the captain had wine obtained during the passage through Moscow, he provided kvass to Morel and took up a bottle of Bordeaux. He wrapped the bottle up to the neck in a napkin and poured himself and Pierre wine. The satisfaction of hunger and wine enlivened the captain still more, and he did not stop talking during dinner.
- Oui, mon cher monsieur Pierre, je vous dois une fiere chandelle de m "avoir sauve ... de cet enrage ... J" en ai assez, voyez vous, de balles dans le corps. En voila une (on pointed to his side) a Wagram et de deux a Smolensk, - he showed the scar that was on his cheek. - Et cette jambe, comme vous voyez, qui ne veut pas marcher. C "est a la grande bataille du 7 a la Moskowa que j" ai recu ca. Sacre dieu, c "etait beau. Il fallait voir ca, c" etait un deluge de feu. Vous nous avez taille une rude besogne; vous pouvez vous en vanter, nom d "un petit bonhomme. Et, ma parole, malgre l" atoux que j "y ai gagne, je serais pret a recommencer. Je plains ceux qui n" ont pas vu ca. [Yes, my dear Mr. Pierre, I am obliged to light a good candle for you for saving me from this madman. You see, I've had enough of the bullets that I have in my body. Here is one near Wagram, the other near Smolensk. And this leg, you see, that doesn't want to move. This is during the big battle of the 7th near Moscow. ABOUT! it was wonderful! You should have seen it, it was a deluge of fire. You have given us a hard job, you can boast. And by God, despite this trump card (he pointed to the cross), I would be ready to start all over again. I pity those who did not see it.]
- J "y ai ete, [I was there] - said Pierre.
- Bah, vraiment! Eh bien, tant mieux, said the Frenchman. - Vous etes de fiers ennemis, tout de meme. La grande redoute a ete tenace, nom d "une pipe. Et vous nous l" avez fait cranement payer. J "y suis alle trois fois, tel que vous me voyez. Trois fois nous etions sur les canons et trois fois on nous a culbute et comme des capucins de cartes. Oh!! c" etait beau, monsieur Pierre. Vos grenadiers ont ete superbes, tonnerre de Dieu. Je les ai vu six fois de suite serrer les rangs, et marcher comme a une revue. Les beaux hommes! Notre roi de Naples, qui s "y connait a crie: bravo! Ah, ah! soldat comme nous autres! - he said, smiling, ate a moment of silence. - Tant mieux, tant mieux, monsieur Pierre. Terribles en bataille ... galants ... - he winked with a smile, - avec les belles, voila les Francais, monsieur Pierre, n "est ce pas? [Ba, really? All the better. You are dashing enemies, I must admit. The big redoubt held up well, dammit. And you made us pay dearly. I've been there three times, as you can see. Three times we were on the cannons, three times we were knocked over like card soldiers. Your grenadiers were great, by God. I saw how their ranks closed six times and how they marched exactly to the parade. Wonderful people! Our Neapolitan king, who ate the dog in these cases, shouted to them: bravo! - Ha, ha, so you are our brother soldier! “So much the better, so much the better, Monsieur Pierre. Terrible in battle, kind to beauties, here are the French, Monsieur Pierre. Is not it?]

Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy - pseudonym, real name - Boris Nikolaevich Kampov; Moscow, Russian Empire; 03/04/1908 - 07/12/1981

Boris Polevoy's books became widely known after the end of World War II. It was then that the work of Boris Polevoy "The Tale of a Real Man" was published. It was it that brought the writer all-Union fame, which was expressed in numerous awards, as well as the film adaptation of the book. And even after many years, B Polevoi's book "The Tale of a Real Man" occupies a significant place among.

Biography of Boris Polevoy

Boris Polevoy was born in Moscow. Later, his family moved to Tver, where the boy went to school. Already at the age of 14, he showed a craving for literature. He tries to write small articles for local newspapers. After graduating from school, Boris entered the Tver Industrial College, where he became more and more interested in journalism. By the age of 16, his notes in local newspapers are published with enviable constancy. Therefore, when, after graduating from a technical school, he got a job at a local textile factory, everyone understood this for a short time. And so it happened. Already in 1928, Boris left the factory and devoted himself entirely to journalism.

This was preceded by the first book by Boris Polevoy "Memoirs of a lousy man", which was published in 1927. By the way, she was very highly appreciated, who was then in a very good standing in power. After the release of his debut book, Boris Kampov decided to take the pseudonym Polevoi for himself. It was formed by translating his native surname from Latin.

During World War II, Boris Polevoy became a war correspondent for the Pravda newspaper. At that time, many good articles came out from under the hands of Polevoy. But here he also heard a lot of military stories, which he began to reproduce in books immediately after the end of the war. The first of these was the book by Boris Polevoy "The Tale of a Real Man", which was filmed the very next year after the publication of the book. In the future, many more books, diaries, essays and articles came out from the writer's pen, but not one of them became so loved as the book "The Tale of a Real Man". At the same time, Boris Polevoy occupied a very high position in the literary horizon. This allowed him to head the Youth magazine in 1962, which he headed almost until the day of his death.

Books by Boris Polevoy on the Top Books website

From the books of Boris Polevoy, only “The Tale of a Real Man” is mostly known. But reading this work is so popular, especially on the eve of May 9, that this allowed B Polevoy's book "The Tale of a Real Man" to take a high place in the rating. At the same time, interest in this book is quite stable, and among the best books about the war, the story certainly took one of the highest places.

Boris Polevoi book list

1. returned
2. deep rear
3. Hot shop
4. Dr. Faith
5. Gold
6. Memoirs of a lousy man
7. We are Soviet people
8. On the wild shore
9. From Belgorod to the Carpathians

Diaries-essays:

1. 30 thousand li in new China
2. American diaries
3. Angarsk records
4. For distant lands
5. By white light
6. Sayan records
7. Cycle of stories "Contemporaries"