Summary Dovlatov S. D
Sergei Dovlatov Was born on September 3, 1941 in Ufa, in the family of the theater director, a Jew by birth Donat Isaakovich Metchik (1909-1995) and a literary proof-reader, Armenian by nationality Nora Sergeevna Dovlatova (1908-1999).
Since 1944 he lived in Leningrad. In 1959 he entered the department of the Finnish language of the philological faculty of the Leningrad University named after Zhdanov and studied there for two and a half years. Communicated with the Leningrad poets Evgeny Rein, Anatoly Naiman, Joseph Brodsky and writer Sergei Volf (“Invisible Book”), the artist Alexander Nezhdanoff. He was expelled from the university for his poor progress.
Then three years of army service in the internal troops, the protection of correctional colonies in the Republic of Komi (settlement Chinyavoryk). According to Brodsky’s memoirs, Dovlatov returned from the army “as Tolstoy from the Crimea, with a scroll of stories and some stunned glance.”
Dovlatov entered the Faculty of Journalism of Leningrad State University, worked in the student multiplayer of the Marine Technical University “For cadres of shipyards”, wrote stories.
Was invited to the group “Townspeople”, founded by Maramzin, Efimov, Vakhtin and Gubin. He worked as a literary secretary of Vera Panova.
In 1972-1975 he lived in Estonia, where he worked as a regular and freelancer in the newspapers “Soviet Estonia” and “Evening Tallinn”. In his stories, included in the book “Compromise,” Dovlatov, among other things, describes the stories from his journalistic practice as a correspondent for “Soviet Estonia”, and also talks about the work of the editorial office and the lives of his fellow journalists. Recruitment of his first book in the publishing house “Esti Raamat” was destroyed at the direction of the KGB of the Estonian SSR.
Worked as a guide in the Pushkin Reserve near Pskov (Mikhailovsky).
In 1975 he returned to Leningrad. Worked in the magazine Koster. I wrote prose. The magazines
Dovlatov was published in samizdat, as well as in the emigrant journals “Continent”, “Time and Us.”
In 1978, due to the persecution of the authorities, Dovlatov emigrated, settled in New York, where he became editor-in-chief of the emigrant newspaper The New American. One after another came out the books of his prose. By the mid-1980s, he achieved great reader success, was published in prestigious magazines Partizan Review and The New Yorker.
For twelve years of emigration he published twelve books in the US and Europe. In the USSR, the writer was known for samizdat and the author’s program on Radio Liberty.
Sergei Dovlatov died on August 24, 1990 in New York from heart failure. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery “Mount Hebron” (Mount Hebron) in the New York area of Queens.
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