Alexander the Archangel. Biography. Books. TV Movies

Arkhangelsky Alexander Nikolayevich is a Russian writer and poet, literary critic, publicist, representative of the modern intelligentsia, candidate of philological sciences, well-known TV presenter familiar to the audience on the information and analytical program "In the meantime" on economic and political topics, as well as the main cultural events of the week. The transfer is characterized by a pronounced author's principle, the right to subjective evaluation, but it has the obligatory rule: any problem can be viewed from different points of view.

Alexander Arkhangelsky: biography

The native Muscovite was born on April 27, 1962, grew up and was brought up in an ordinary family with his mother and great-grandmother. Lived on the outskirts of the capital, not rich; My mother worked as a typist on the radio. At school I studied brilliantly in all subjects related to literature. Very quickly quit math, not because of lack of ability, but because he did not like to spend time on things that are not of interest.

At some point in his life he was lucky lucky: the boy went to the Palace of Pioneers to join the drawing circle and accidentally, for the company with some guys, became a member of the literary circle. It was there that the young psychologist and teacher Zinaida Nikolaevna Novlyanskaya had a huge influence on him. For this young woman, who worked for a meager salary, the profession was something more - a vocation; She made literary-savvy people out of her wards, giving Soviet schoolchildren many bright and good examples. And today, Alexander Arkhangelsky closely associates with the already grown up children - participants of the circle of the distant 1976.

The life goal is set

After school, Alexander, who clearly understood what he wanted from life, immediately decided and entered the Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature. Years of students coincided with the work in the Palace of Pioneers, where Alexander settled himself as the head of the literary circle. Since the teaching activity was not interested in Alexander, and he was not going to realize himself in this direction, he forged the medical conclusion that he can not teach because of asthma.

A further step in the fate of the young writer was work on the radio, where colleagues were women of retirement age. For a long time to endure such a neighborhood, Alexander could not: in 9 months he fled from there. Then he settled down as a senior editor of the magazine "Friendship of Peoples"; And at that time it seemed to Archangel that it was the career ceiling - there was nowhere else to grow. Work in the magazine fell in his heart: interesting, with a lot of business trips. At that time Alexander visited Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, where he first witnessed the performance of youth with national slogans and felt himself a participant in the historical process aimed at changing the situation in the country.

Achievements of the author

In the 90s, the writer worked in Switzerland and was very fond of this country. There he lectured at the University of Geneva, and earned money for three months he had enough money to live a year in Moscow, without poverty. In the capital Arkhangelsk taught at the Humanities Department of the Moscow Conservatory.

In the newspaper "Izvestia" Alexander Arkhangelsky went through all the steps: first he worked as an observer, then as deputy editor-in-chief and as a columnist. From 1992 to 1993 he led the RTR program "Against the Current", in 2002 - "Chronograph", is a member of the Union of Russian Writers, Member of the jury of the Booker Prize for 1995. Academician-founder and president of the Academy of Russian Modern Literature.

In his family life Alexander was married twice and has two marriages of four children. The current wife Maria works as a journalist.

TV experience of Arkhangelsk

A large number of different opinions are evoked by the "Heat" - a reflection film that tells of a unique period in the history of the country and the Church, a period of tragic, meaningful and profound. Watching the film, authored by Arkhangelsky, provokes very contradictory feelings. On the one hand, the author acquaints the audience with religious searches of the 70s and 80s of the 20th century, on the other - the film shows only a small part of what happened in those years around the Orthodox Church, and tries to convince the viewer that in the USSR The real church existed secretly, and the true Christians were scientists and intellectuals. The rest of the Soviets simply survived in the created conditions.

Literature in the life of Alexander Arkhangelsky

Arkhangelsky as a writer grew up in the works of many authors, but Pasternak had a huge influence on him, whose work the future writer plunged into his head. I strongly remembered the writer's meeting with Dmitry Nikolayevich Zhuravlev, who had manuscripts of this great writer, donated by the author himself. Further in the Institute for Pushkin opened Pushkin, and after all the world literature. Alexander Arkhangelsky has a chic library, numbering more than 3000 books. This is the whole world classic, and the books stand on the principle of chronology (from ancient and ancient to modern) and on the principle of having the desire to re-read each time.

Alexander Arkhangelsky: author's books

What is literature for Alexander Arkhangelsky? This is the only subject that allows you to rise from the cognitive and practical level to the emotional one.

After all, literature about the heart, the mind, the mystery of life and death, trials, the past and the things that surround people. It is in it that everything comes to life: from everyday objects to animals. Literature is an important school subject, so Arkhangel'skii wrote a textbook on this subject for the tenth grade. The purpose of teaching this school subject is to teach children to look for and find in man a human. Also Archangel is the author and presenter of a series of documentary films "The Memory Factory: The Libraries of the World". On his account such published works as "The Epistle to Timothy", "The Cutoff Price" and others.