Biography Zoshchenko Mikhail Mikhailovich
(1895-1958)
Zoshchenko Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895 – 1958), prose writer, playwright.
He was born on July 29 (August 10, 2001) in Poltava in the artist’s family. After graduating from high school in St. Petersburg in 1913 he entered the law faculty of St. Petersburg University. The outbreak of world war interrupted the training. In 1915, after completing the accelerated military courses, Zoshchenko went to the front. I participated in many battles. was wounded and was poisoned by gases. He had four military orders.
In 1915 – 1917 he held various military posts, and after the February Revolution was the commandant of the Main Post Office and the Telegraph of Petrograd. After the October Revolution joined the Red Army and served in the border troops in Kronstadt, then transferred to the army and until the spring of 1919 was at the front adjutant of the regiment of the rural poor.
In April 1919 he was demobilized for heart disease and began to
A significant place in Zoshchenko’s work is occupied by satirical satires, which are direct responses to “messages from places” and letters from readers. He worked in the Leningrad newspapers, on the radio and in the magazine Krokodil.
Since the beginning of the Patriotic War, he was in evacuation in Alma-Ata (he worked in the scenario studio “Mosfilm”). In the spring of 1943 he returned to Moscow,
In 1944 – 1946 worked hard for theaters. Two of his comedies were staged at the Leningrad Drama Theater, one of which – the “Sailing portfolio” – withstood 200 performances per year.
In August 1946, after the decision of the Central Committee on the magazines Zvezda and Leningrad, Zoshchenko’s work was sharply criticized, and he was expelled from the Writers’ Union. In 1946 – 1953 mainly engaged in translation activities.
In June 1953 Zoshchenko was again admitted to the Writers’ Union. In the last years of his life he worked in the magazines Krokodil and Ogonyok. M. Zoshchenko died in Leningrad on July 22, 1958.
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