Blyakhin biography

And quotes from the film! And the songs! For almost half a century, this Soviet western about the four of young “avengers” is still not forgotten and loved by the audience. Despite the replaced ideology and, it would seem, complete irrelevant, the film continues to watch the film, including those born much later than perestroika. Probably because he does not call to join the ranks of the party, does not impose Bolshevik ideals and is not Soviet propaganda.

Heroes are fighting for justice with bandits who have no other beliefs other than anarchy and permissiveness. But today, few people know that the legendary “elusive avengers” were not only the leader of the rental in the Soviet Union by the picture was watched by a record number of spectators - more than 50 million people, but the first, as it is now customary to say, remake - a second adaptation.

And this story also has a literary source. The fact is that even at the dawn of the Soviet regime, almost years ago, in the year, writer Pavel Shuhin published the story “Red Devils”, in which the main characters were ordinary teenagers - orphans who entered into the fight against bandits - anarchists. Instead of three days, I was driving exactly a month. On a homemade table, a Mauser lay ready at the ready ...

The civil war was coming to an end, but the robberies and raids of gangster gangs on trains and the prod base continued. We have repeatedly had to grab the weapon and jump out of the car. Trains often stopped: there was not enough fuel for steam locomotives, and passengers themselves helped to extract firewood, coal. The country was exhausted by hunger, devastation and illness ...

". In such an atmosphere, under the knock of the wheels of the train, Pavel Shchin created the heroic images of young fighters for a new life. This was one of the first books about the Civil War. The story was first published in Baku in the year, and the film “Red Devils”, set in Georgia and the script of Pavel Puke, directed by Ivan Perectian, was already released in Baku.

The film was dumb, but this did not interfere with its popularity. Spectators literally stormed cinemas. I enthusiastically spoke about the "red devils" and the press. For example, the main newspaper of the country "Pravda" called the film "Best Soviet Picture." In the year, the second birth of the film took place - it was reduced to one series and voiced. And in the year, based on the novel “Red Devils” with a somewhat changed plot and heroes Edmond Keosayan, a color and broad -screen then was still a novelty “Elusive Avengers”, from which we began our story.

Pavel Andreyevich Shchin, author of the story “Red Devils” is an active participant in the revolutionary movement and the Civil War in Russia. In July, at the age of 55, he voluntarily went to the front, becoming an ordinary soldier of the Krasnopresnensky division of the people's militia, which consisted mainly of workers of the Trekhgorenaya Manufactory and other Moscow factories, yesterday's schoolchildren and representatives of the metropolitan intelligentsia.

Since October, Pavel Publikhin served as a special correspondent of various army publications, repeatedly crossed the front line, participated in partisans' combat operations and published more than fifty front -line stories, essays in Komsomolskaya Pravda and front -line newspapers. On the pages of the army newspaper “For the Soviet Motherland”, the story “Red Devil” was published in the year, in which the matured “red devils” performed their extraordinary exploits on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.

The story was warmly met by readers of the army newspaper, but subsequently did not come out with a separate publication. Over the years of the war, Plaikhin went from ordinary to the major and was awarded the orders of the Red Star, Lenin and Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals “For Military Merit”, “For the Defense of Moscow” and others. In the winter of the year, the writer was demobilized.

He devoted the remaining years of his life to literary work. The autobiographical story “At dawn” about the years of childhood, youth and the beginning of underground work was published in the year. The story "Moscow is in fire. The story of the past ”was dedicated to the December armed uprising of the year in Moscow. The novel “Release Days” told about the events in Central Asia and the Caucasus on the eve of the revolution of the year.

The fourth book “Laugh is better than crying” remained incomplete. The Foundation of the Russian State Library for the Blind has two novels by Pavel Blyakhin - “Red Devils” and “Moscow in fire. The story of the past ”, both in a plane format. You can take them for reading by contacting the RGBS subscription department.