DAVYDOV Yuri

DAVYDOV, Yuri Vladimirovich (1924-2002), Russian writer. Born November 20, 1924 in Moscow into the family of a journalist and teacher. In 1942-1949 he served in the Navy, . Vyborgskoye graduated from Naval School, . worked in the newspaper 'Red Baltic Fleet', . studied part time history faculty of Leningrad State University, . then the Moscow State University,
. In 1949-1954 - the prison camp.

Began to publish in 1945. Author of numerous novels - biographies on the famous Russian traveler and scientist ( "In the seas and wanderings. (Life FF Matyushkina) ", 1949," Southern Cross ", 1957;" Captains looking way, "1959;" Golovnin, "1968;" Nakhimov, 1970; "Senjavin, 1972); history - Participant Russian revolutionary movement, most of all - of the People ( "March", 1959, finish. version - 1974; "New Heaven", 1961, finish. option - "This almond scent ...", 1965;" dark time for falling leaves ", the book. 1-2, 1968-1970, "will make you, brothers ... Story of Alexander Mikhailov, 1975, "On the racing field, near the slaughter ... The Tale of Dmitri Lizogub, 1978; "Herman Lopatin, his friends and enemies," 1984; "Straw hut", 1986, USSR State Prize, 1987, Originally. option - "Two bundles of letters. The Story of Herman Lopatin, 1982; "Blue Tulip" 1990; "Zerubbabel, 1993 - about VA Kuchelbecker during his incarceration). These are adjacent based on the documentary facts of the story "The fate Usol'tseva" (1973), . telling about a hundred and fifty Russians trying to create in Africa a 'City of the Sun' - A new settlement Moscow, . and the story "Zionist Conspiracy" (1993) - about the tragi-comic attempt some Pinkhus Bromberg arranged in St. Petersburg 1830 farmstead for visiting Jews and charged in connection with this in the plan to create a 'bridgehead' for the Jewish state,


. Deep and thorough interest in the past, . introducing into use new archival documents and facts, . detect unknown and little-known figures and highlighting a certain event or an unexpected angle, . define quietly objectified manner of narration Davydova (even when the product is built on the laws of detective and adventure genre), . does not exclude the hidden and persevering through all of the writer's thoughts about the moral significance as the best criteria for evaluating the historical process,
. In this vein, lies and biographical tale about Gleb Uspensky, interpreted as an embodiment of Davydov morbidly sensitive about Russian conscience - "Nights in Kolmove" (1988).

Davydov, died Jan. 17, 2002 in Moscow.