Biography of science fiction writer Belyaev

Born: March 16, his books are devoted to the problems of science and technology of the future. He was born in a biography in Smolensk, in the family of an Orthodox priest. There were two more children in the family: Nina’s sister died in childhood from the sarcoma; Brother Vasily, a student of a veterinary institute, drowned, rushing in a boat. The father wanted to see in his son the successor of his craft and gave him ...

he was in a year to the spiritual seminary. In Alexander he graduated from her, but did not become a priest, on the contrary, came out of there a convinced atheist. Contrary to his father, he entered the Demidov Legal Lyceum in Yaroslavl. Soon after the death of his father, he had to earn extra money: Alexander gave lessons, painted the scenery for the theater, played the violin in the circus orchestra.

At the end of the Demidov Lyceum, A. Belyaev received the position of private attorney in Smolensk and soon gained the fame of a good lawyer. He had a permanent clientele. Material opportunities have also increased: he was able to rent and furnish a good apartment, purchase a good collection of paintings, assemble a large library. Having finished any business, he went to travel abroad: he visited France, Italy, visited Venice.

In the year he left jurisprudence for the sake of literature and theater. At the age of thirty -five years, A. Belyaev fell ill with tuberculosis pleurisy. The treatment turned out to be unsuccessful - the spinal tuberculosis developed, complicated by the paralysis of the legs. A serious illness for 6 years riveted him to bed, 3 of which he lay in a gypsum. The young wife left him, saying that she was not married to take care of her sick husband.

In search of specialists who could help him, A. Belyaev with his mother and the old nanny got into Yalta. There, in the hospital, he began to write poetry. Unable to despair, he is engaged in self -education: he studies foreign languages, medicine, biology, history, technology, reads a lot of Jules Verne, Herbert Wells, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Having defeated the disease, he returns to a full life, begins to work.

At first, A. Belyaev became a teacher in an orphanage, then he was arranged for the post of inspector of the criminal investigation department - he organized a photo laboratory there, later he had to go to the library. Life in Yalta was very difficult, and A. Belyaev, with the help of acquaintances, moved with his family to Moscow, got a job as a legal adviser. There he began serious literary activity.

He prints scientific and fantastic stories, novels in the magazines "Around the World", "Knowledge-Wishe", "World Rastype", deserved the title of "Soviet Jules Verne." The story "The Head of Professor Dowel", which Belyaev himself called the history of the autobiographical: wanted to tell, "what could experience a head without a body." In Moscow, A. Belyaev lived up to a year; During this time, he wrote the “Island of the Dead Ships”, “The Last Man from Atlantis”, “Ampibbum Man”, “Struggle on the air”, and a collection of short stories was published.

The author wrote not only under his name, but also under the pseudonyms A. Rom and Arbel. In the year, A. Belyaev and his family moved to Leningrad, and since then he was engaged exclusively with literature, professionally. So appeared the "Lord of the World", "Underwater agricultural", "Wonderful Eye", stories from the series "The invention of Professor Wagner".

They were printed mainly in Moscow publishers. However, soon the disease again made itself felt, and had to move from the rainy Leningrad to sunny Kyiv. As a result, in the year the family returned to Leningrad. In September, A. Belyaev transfers the manuscript of his novel "The Earth burns" to the editorial office of the Leningrad magazine "Around the World". In the year it meets Herbert Wells who came to Leningrad.

In the year, Belyaev becomes a permanent employee of the magazine "Around the World". At the beginning of the year, after eleven years of intensive cooperation, Belyaev leaves the magazine "Around the World". In the year, he published the article "Cinderella" about the plight of contemporary science fiction. Shortly before the war, the writer underwent another operation, so he refused the proposal to evacuate when the war began.

City Pushkin b. Tsarskoye Selo, the suburbs of Leningrad, where A. Belyaev and his family lived in recent years, was occupied. In January, the writer died of hunger. The surviving wife and daughter of the writer were deported by the Germans to Poland. The place of his burial is not reliable. A commemorative stele in the Kazan cemetery of the city of Pushkin is installed only on the alleged grave.

Creativity A. Belyaev was an enthusiastic nature. From an early age, music involved him: he independently learned to play the violin, piano, loved to play music for hours. Another "fun" was a photograph of the photograph of the picture "Human head on a dish in blue colors." Since childhood, I read a lot, was fond of adventure literature, especially Jules Verne. Alexander grew up for a fidget, loved all kinds of draws, jokes; The consequence of one of his pranks was an injury to the eye with further damage to vision.

The young man also dreamed of flights: he tried to take off, tied the brooms to his hands, jumped from the roof with an umbrella, and eventually climbed the air on a small airplane.However, in an attempt to take off, he received an injury that influenced his whole future life. Once he fell from the roof of the barn and significantly damaged his back. In the middle of the x, Belyaev suffered from constant pain in the damaged back and was even paralyzed for months.

Even while studying at the lyceum, A. Belyaev proved himself a theater. Under his leadership in the year, students of male and female gymnasiums played the fairy tale "Three years, three days, three minutes" with mass scenes, choral and ballet numbers. In the same year, A. Belyaev and the cellist Yu. Saburov set up the opera-skid Grigoriev "Sleeping Princess". He himself could act as a playwright, and director, and actor.

The Belyaev’s home theater in Smolensk was widely known, toured not only around the city, but also in its environs. Once, during the arrival of the metropolitan troupe under the leadership of Stanislavsky in Smolensk, A. Belyaev managed to replace the sick artist - to play instead of that in several performances. The writer was very interested in the issue of the human psyche: the functioning of the brain, his connection with the body, with the life of the soul, the spirit.

Can the brain think outside the body? Is brain transplant possible? What are the consequences to lead to anabiosis and its widespread use? Are there any boundaries in the possibility of suggestion? And with genetic engineering? An attempt to solve these problems is devoted to the novels “The Head of Professor Dowel”, “The Lord of the World”, “The Man who has lost his face”, the story “A man who does not sleep”, “Hying the Lighty”.

In his science fiction novels, Alexander Belyaev anticipated the appearance of a huge number of inventions and scientific ideas: the “KEC star” depicts the prototype of modern orbital stations, the “Professor of Dowell” shows the miracles of transplantology, in “Eternal Bread”-the achievements of modern biochemistry and genetics. A peculiar continuation of these reflections was the novels-hypotheses that place a person in different media of existence: the ocean "Ampibbum Man", the air "Ariel".

His last novel in Green "Blinding World". The heroes of both novels are endowed with the ability to fly without additional devices. The image of Ariel is the achievement of a writer, in which the author’s belief in a person overcoming the "earthly attraction" was subject to objectively. Detailed biography.