Kondratiev Biography Table

Born on October 30 from childhood was of interest in literature and art. After high school, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, served in the Far East. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was a sergeant, fought on the Western Front. The first work of Kondratyev - the story "Sashka" - appeared in the journal "Friendship of Peoples" in and.

Inspired by success, publishes the following works: “Vacation by wound”, “Meetings on Sretenka”, the play “Fights had local significance” in publishes a cycle of military stories, which later included in the books “On the Ovsyannikovsky” and “Selizharovsky Trakt”. The romance "Red Gate" comes out. The last work - the story “This forty -eighth severe illness led to a tragic outcome - the writer committed suicide on September 24 used materials of the book Brief Biographical Dictionary.

Moscow, Kondratyev Vyacheslav Leonidovich [Kondratyev - one of the writers of the front -line generation. From the 1st year of the institute was drafted into the army. He served in railway troops in the Far East. In Dec. He fought near Rzhev as a rifle brigade. He was wounded, awarded the medal "For Courage". After the vacation, he served in the railway troops, was again seriously wounded, stayed in the hospital for six months, became disabled.

He graduated from the Moscow Correspondence Polygraphic Institute. For many years he worked as a designer-former. The first story - “Sashka” - was published in February. The story was immediately seen. First of all, former front -line soldiers wrote about her, who recognized the war in her, as she was. Over the next, the story “Victory Day in Chernov”, the novel “Borkins of the Path-Doroga” and “Vacation by Wounding” were printed in the magazine “Banner”.

Kondratyev became the constant author of the "Banner" and "Friendship of Peoples." In one of the letters to his readers, Kondratyev admitted: “He became a writer in order to say what he had to say, without which my life simply would not make sense.” And in the first published story, he wrote, according to K. Simonov, about a man who was "at the most difficult time in the most difficult place and in the most difficult position - Soldier." All works of Kondratyev to one degree or another are autobiographical.

To a greater extent, obviously, the author’s personal experience, his biography underlies the novels “Vacation by Wound”, “Meeting on the Sretenka” and the novel “Red Gate”, united by a common hero - Lieutenant Volodka. In the first of them, after a short respite in Moscow, he returns to fight near Rzhev. The second story and novel are books about the return of the hero from the war, about the difficulties of entering a everyday life.

Kondratyev wrote his novels and stories about the main thing in the life of his generation. Together with the hero of one of his first stories, who returns near Rzhev many years later, after the war, he thinks: “Going on that land means to immerse yourself in the past, to survive again unusually difficult, but great. Yes, perhaps the great, because it was overcoming herself for the sake of the main Astafyev, and became such an immersion into the past, by experiencing an excess of his "" war, at the same time the residence of this war for its readers.

Kondratyev as a Frontovik writer who advocated the true truth about the war, noted with bitterness that his brothers in Peru did not say much about the “excessive cruelty of the war, we did not say the cruelty of our penalties and battalions. Our military prose spoke little about the inability of many of our military leaders to wage a modern war, about our victories at all costs, and our bosses did not stand at the price, about the capture of cities or even settlements - for the holidays they fell silent about the unworthy behavior of a certain part of our soldiers in Eastern Prussia, about the rape, arson of German farms, about the executions of civilians.

Just like that, they were silent out of revenge, because they knew that it would still be "cut out". We were silent about the outrages and booze in the rear, about the coercion of the cohabitation of our girls who rushed into the fire of the war with the cleanest and most noble feelings - to protect their homeland. And then they, as a rule, in bed, the writer committed suicide during a serious illness.

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