Brief biography of Grossman

Born: December 12, Vasily Grossman was born in an intelligent Jewish family. His father, Solomon Iosifovich Semyon Osipovich Grossman, chemical engineer, was a graduate of the Berne University and came from a Bessarabian merchant family. Mother - Ekaterina Malka Savelyevna Vitis, a teacher of the French language, came from a wealthy Odessa family, and was educated in France.

Vasily Grossman's parents divorced, and the boy was brought up by his mother. Even in childhood, the diminutive form of his name Yosya turned into Vasya, and later became his literary pseudonym. After its completion in the c. Then, as a chemist at the Donetsk Regional Institute of Pathology and Labor Hygiene, an assistant to the Department of General Chemistry at the Stalinist Medical Institute.

From the year he constantly lived and worked in Moscow. In the year, he published a story from the life of miners and the factory intelligentsia Glucauf, who met Gorky’s support, and a story about the Civil War “In the city of Berdichev”. The success of these works strengthened Grossman in the desire to become a professional writer. In, gg. He worked on the Belarusian and Ukrainian fronts.

In the year he wrote the story “The People of Immortal”, which became the first major work about the war. He participated in the creation of a documentary about the battle of Moscow. During the battle of Stalingrad, he was on the Stalingrad Front. For participation in the Battle of Stalingrad, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. On the Mamaev’s memorial, the words are knocked out from his essay “Direction of the main blow”.

The novels “The People of Immortal”, “Stalingrad Essays”, other military essays formed in the book of the year “During the War”. The book “Treblinsky Hell”, which opened the theme of the Holocaust, and in the year, “Black Book”, compiled in collaboration with Ilya Ehrenburg, but published only in the year with bills in Israel. The play “Believe the Pythagoreans”, written before the war and published in the city for the year worked on the dilogy “For the Just Delivee” and “Life and Fate”.

The epic novel “For the Just business”, written in the traditions of Leo Tolstoy and telling about the Battle of Stalingrad, was forced to be processed after the devastating criticism in the party press. The manuscript of the continuation of the novel “For the Just Delivee” is a novel by life and fate, which is sharply anti -Stalin’s character, on which the writer worked since the year, after Vadim Kozhevnikov transferred it to the KGB, was confiscated as a result of the KGB search from the writer.

Another copy in the middle of X, after the death of the writer, fell west. The novel was published abroad in, and in the USSR - in the year, in perestroika. Together with “Life and Fate”, the manuscript of the story “Everything flows” was confiscated, on which Grossman worked since the year. The writer created a new version of the story, which completed the publication abroad in the year -, in the USSR - a collection of stories and essays “Good to you!

Essays and notebooks of the war years were included in the collection “Years of the War” by M. Detailed biography.