(16.9.1904 – December 22, 1936)
Ostrovsky Nikolay Alekseevich (16.9.1904, village Viliya Ostrozhsky district of the Volyn province – December 22, 1936, Moscow), writer, brigade commissar (1936). The son of a worker. Since 1918, after the beginning of the German occupation, according to the official biography “carried out the instructions of the Bolshevik underground.” In the summer of 1919 a connected revolutionary committee. In July 1919 joined the Komsomol and the Red Army. He fought in special forces (CHON), who “specialized” in punitive operations in the rear. In 1920 he served in the brigade of GI Kotovsky, then in the First Cavalry Army. In Aug. 1920 seriously wounded Paul Lvov in the head and in October. demobilized. From 1920 he worked in the Main Railway Workshops (Kiev), secretary of the Komsomol cell. A fanatic of the revolutionary struggle. In 1922-24, Secretary Berezovsky and Izyaslavsky District Committee of the Komsomol (Ukraine).
In 1924 he joined the CPSU (b). The wound caused complications: Ostrovsky lost sight in 1928 and was bedridden. He invented a system of writing, wrote a novel about the establishment of Soviet power, created an idealized image of the hero Komsomol Pavka Korchagin – the novel “How the Steel Was Tempered” (1932-34), which was officially recognized as one of the best works of socialist realism. On October 2, 1935, after awarding him the Order of Lenin, Ostrovsky sent out the reply: “Dear beloved comrade Stalin, I want to tell you, the leader and teacher, the dearest person for me, these somewhat ardent, wholehearted words… I will strike the enemy the weapon that the party of Lenin and Stalin, which raised a Soviet writer from an illiterate working class, armed me with. ” After his death, the novel “Born of the Storm” about the Civil War in Western Ukraine. Even during his lifetime, he became a hero of Soviet propaganda, which created from him the image of an ideal Komsomol member. The work of Ostrovsky withstood more than 200 publications in many languages of the world.
Until the late 1980’s. Ostrovsky’s novel was central to the school curriculum, and students were asked to write essays that Korchagin was an ideal for them. In 1987 the novel, as rather low in artistic level and extremely politicized and uncritical, disappeared from the program and is now almost forgotten. that Korchagin is an ideal for them. In 1987 the novel, as rather low in artistic level and extremely politicized and uncritical, disappeared from the program and is now almost forgotten. that Korchagin is an ideal for them. In 1987 the novel, as rather low in artistic level and extremely politicized and uncritical, disappeared from the program and is now almost forgotten.
Materials from the book: Zalessky K. A. The Empire of Stalin. Biographical encyclopedic dictionary. Moscow, Veche, 2000
