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Evgeny Shvarts: biography, photos, works

A very difficult life lived a wonderful playwright, novelist, screenwriter Eugene Schwartz. All that was enough in his life was a wound, from which he did not recover until the end of his life, and refusals in the publications and productions of his works, and the loss of friends during the repressions. There was also a great love that lasted thirty years until his death.

Childhood and youth

Eugene Schwartz was born in the family of a Jewish doctor, but he always considered himself Russian. He graduated from a real school, and soon the cadet, more precisely, already promoted to the rank of ensign, got to the front in eighteen years. In the capture of Yekaterinodar in the army Kornilov got a concussion. He has left his hands trembling for life.

After demobilization, he seeks himself, and only after hitting Leningrad, Eugene Schwartz from 1923 begins to publish in children's magazines "Hedgehog" and "Chizh". He is included in the literary environment. He is kindly accepted as a wonderful storyteller and inventor. At the same time, he draws closer to the literary group "Serapion Brothers", which includes Vsevolod Ivanov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Veniamin Kaverin. Kaverin introduces Eugene Schwartz with his sister Catherine. And the mutual love that they have carried through all life flares up. It is about this love, as many people think, says the Wizard of the "Ordinary Miracle". By this time the first book came out, which brought Eugene Lvovich success - "Stories of the old balalaika." Follow it and others. Behind Schwartz is fixed the glory of a children's writer.

Dramaturgy

In 1929 in Leningrad, in the Youth Theater, his first play, Underwood, was staged. Later two more plays. As a result, Evgeny Shvarts was admitted to the Writers' Union. This, of course, is a success. And he continues: his plays "Treasure", "Brother and Sister", "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Snow Queen" are staged.

But the NKVD crushed the publishing house "Chizh". And friends of Schwartz Nikolai Oleinikov and Nikolai Zabolotsky are arrested. Children's literature is becoming suspicious and dangerous.

Eugene Schwartz tries to write comedies for adults. But his plays, for example, "Shadow", were too close to political satire, and therefore they were not put. But there are publications of articles in the newspapers.

War

The first blockade winter, Yevgeny Lvovich is in Leningrad, and as he himself testifies, he sees how people cease to be people from fear. But at the top of the decision to evacuate Schwarz to Kirov. There he will write a play "One Night", which no one will take. The same will happen with the next play "The Far Edge". The play "Dragon" is also not put.

Shooting movies

In 1946 he released the film "Cinderella", still loved. And the writer's work is separately noted. In the same year he was awarded two medals: "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War" and "For the Defense of Leningrad". On this all good ends. Hard times come. The new script "King Vodokrut" was written in 1946, and the film on it, "Mary the Master", is published only in 1960 after his death. Many of his works will not be seen by Eugene Schwartz. Works, some of the most significant in his work, "Ordinary Miracle", "Shadow", "Kill the Dragon" will put wonderful directors with great performers, but too late for the author.

Relentless work

Eugene Schwartz is full of new ideas and ideas. He writes more and more plays and scripts, which almost all do not pass censorship. "Vasilisa Worker", "First Name", "One Day". And, finally, in 1954 Kozintsev took up his script "Don Quixote". However, at the congress of Soviet writers Eugenia Schwartz is accused of severing forms from content. Spitting in the face. And for a while, Eugene Lvovich stops writing.

In 1956, for his sixtieth birthday in Moscow and Leningrad, his program tale "Ordinary Miracle" was staged. In the same year in Leningrad there is a solemn evening in honor of Yevgeny Lvovich. And by the end of the year he is awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. And his plays were published for the first time in one collection. That's what Eugene Schwartz looks like (photo).

In 1957 in Cannes show his film "Don Quixote". This is a significant event in his life. But health is already failing. On the eve of 1958, the premiere of the play "A Tale of the Young Spouses", which he waited ten years. And in two weeks the writer dies. It was so difficult for a wonderful storyteller, who was Eugene Schwartz. His biography consisted of work and attempts to put his plays. And if he wrote and unreasonably, joyfully, all things began with the fact that dark forces were gathering, but the ending was usually joyful and cloudless. His creativity brought the people hope. Perhaps, and not all had time to tell us Eugene Schwartz. The biography will briefly list everything he wrote. After all, he gave all his best in his works.

Life after death

In 1971, the film of Nadezhda Kosheverova on the play-tale of Schwartz "Shadow" was released. In a fairytale magical land, a scientist, simple-minded and trusting Christian Theodore is in love with a beautiful princess. But his Shadow has separated from him and is striving to occupy a high position. Considering the time when the play was being created, the image of Shadow somewhat resembles Hitler. And the princess and the throne become dominated by the shadow. After long peripeteias, good, like Schwartz, wins evil. But the scientist no longer needs a traitor princess and this kingdom. He leaves with a girl who always believed in him.

In 1988, the director Mark Zakharov put the film-parable "Kill the dragon" based on the play by Schwartz "The Dragon". In the city where the unmerciful Dragon is ruled for four hundred years, the wandering knight Lancelot enters. Residents are used to all oppressions and believed that life goes on right and right, even that the most beautiful girl in the city should be given to the Dragon every year. And the knight fell in love with this beautiful Elsa. The burgomaster dissuades Lancelot from the battle, as he can. He assures the knight that freedom will bring confusion and misery to people. But the knight did not abandon his intention and destroyed the cruel dictator. It was his duty to fight the usurper. But people, as predicted by the mayor, did not understand what to do with their freedom. The city began to plunge into the abyss of chaos. The souls of people are not cured. Moreover, people decided that the mayor had killed the Dragon, and gave him Elsa's beautiful wife. What remains to be done by the knight when he realized that it is not enough to conquer evil? It is necessary to destroy all its consequences, and this is not so easy as killing the Dragon. Everyone must kill the dragon in his soul. The knight withdraws.

Good storyteller Eugene Lvovich Schwartz always asked that in his tales not looking for subtext and allegory. But it was all read out right away, even where the author himself did not expect. And nowadays it is just necessary to address again and again to his works, because they are ambiguous.

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