Brief biography of Zaitsev

Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin emigration in the year the writer “picked up” Tif. The disease was difficult, and in order to quickly recover from its consequences, Zaitsev decided to go abroad. He managed to get a visa, and on June 8, the writer went to Berlin with his family. In March of the next year, the writer was elected to the post of vice-chairman of the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists of Berlin.

From the years to the years, the Berlin publishing house Grzhebin published six volumes of Zaitsev’s works from seven. Only the fourth volume did not come out. The writer worked with the publications “Modern Notes” and “Link”, it was there that he printed his new novel “Golden Pattern”. Boris Zaitsev in his office in a mansion in France in September, Zaitsev moved the family to Italy, and already in December settled in Paris.

Later, the writer will say that Paris is "the city is difficult, but elegant, infinitely pagan." Here the whole life of Zaitsev passed, in the same city he died, fifty years later. From the years to the years, Boris collaborated with the newspaper "Latest News". In the fall, he was appointed an editor to the literary department of the magazine "Chopper", two years later the publications of Zaitsev began to be released in the Parisian publication "Renaissance".

In the spring of the year, Boris became a member of the editorial office of the newspaper Russian Disabled, since March, he was in the editorial committee of the weekly Russian weekly. In the years, Zaitsev received an order from the Christian Union of young people, and became the author of the life novel "Rev. Sergius of Radonezh." The writer himself noted that the theme of this work would not interest him in the pre -revolutionary period.

In M, another story of Zaitsev was released in this topic - “Alexy God's Man”, a year later he became the author of the story “A strange journey”, in the spring of the year the writer's bibliography was replenished with the story “My Life and Diana”, which became one of his most significant works. The topic of this story was inspired by Boris's romantic friendship with General Spiridovich's wife.

In May, the same year, Boris visited Athos, after which a series of travel essays was released under the general name "Athos". But letters of the writer deserve special interest, in which he additionally describes his journey, as well as the life of people who inhabit the Holy Mountain. In September, Zaitsev became a participant in the first congress of Russian writers and journalists who took place in Belgrade.

A year later, he released his new story “Anna” and a collection, called “Selected Stories. For five years, with GO years, Zaitsev collaborated with the Berlin publications “Renaissance” and “Days”, in which his first part of the diaries was released, under the general name “Wanderer”. The main topic of publications is the thoughts of life in Paris. In the next four years, the Renaissance continued to issue Zaitsev notes entitled by the Writer's Diary.

In total, twenty-three essays were published in this edition, dedicated to various historical events related to Athos, thoughts about the works of other Russian emigrant writers and the life of the righteous. Zaitsev was awarded with a diploma of Protata because he "defended the scolded Athos." According to the abbot of the Russian monastery, the great martyr Panteleimon, Archimandrite Misail Sopigin, Zaitsev was one of the few emigrants from Russia who was not indifferent to Judge Athos.

In addition to literary creativity, the writer collected biographical facts about Turgenev, Zhukovsky, Chekhov, then to publish their literary biographies. In the year in Berlin, his novel called “House in Passy” came out, in which Boris described the Parisian life of emigrants from Russia. In the year, Zaitsev went to Finland, for ten days he was on Valaam, and was in the Spaso-Presny Valaam Monastery.

Among his new acquaintances, the brothers of this monastery appeared, he visited the temple of the old -style, in other monastery and churches. He spent a lot of time at work in the library of the monastery, then for many years he corresponded with the inhabitants of this monastery.

After he organized literary readings and lectures in several Finland cities - Vipuri Vyborg, Raivole, Helsinki. The outcome of this trip the writer summed up the next series of essays, called the Finnish Territory. They entered the pages of the publication “Illustrated Russia, and the notes on the trip to the Valaam Monastery printed the“ Renaissance ”in the m years. In the summer, Go Boris began writing a great autobiographical novel “Gleb's Journey”.

The writer traveled a lot throughout France, and these trips were then reflected in his literary work in the form of essays and essays. When the Second World War began, Zaitsev returned to the publication of his diaries. The writer called this series "Days." After France was occupied by fascist troops, the writer stopped publishing his labors, he stopped cooperation with those few Russian publications that worked in Europe.

He did not make political statements either. Familiar Boris recalled that he was silent about the war of Germany with the Soviet Union, did not amuse himself with the illusions that the German army could free Russia from Bolshevism.In the period from GO to the years, the writer visited the Orthodox Pokrovsky monastery in Busi-Ano-O ot Burgudy. In the war years, he became the author of the story “Tsar David” and the autobiographical essay “About Self”.

In the year, the writer began active cooperation with the American “New Magazine”, two years later his works were printed by the Paris newspaper “Russian Thought”. He worked with the New York magazine "Experiments" in the year. Two years later, it was possible to read the publications of Zaitsev in the publication "Bulletin of the Russian Student Christian Movement." In M became an employee of the Munich almanac "Bridges".

In the year of the writer, he was elected as chairman of the Union of Russian Writers in France, he fulfilled these duties until the end of his days. It was the efforts of Zaitsev from this Union of Writers who excluded writers with Soviet citizenship. Since the spring of the year, he corresponded with Boris Pasternak. In the year, on the pages of the "New Magazine" the memoirs of Zaitsev about Kamenev and Lunacharsky were published, in the summer of the same year he wrote an essay called "Biographical".

A year later, by the anniversary of the writer's birthday, the Munich publishing house issued a collection with his stories “Quiet Dawns”. In the same year in Paris, the translation of "Ada" Dante was published. Two years later, one of the Washington publishers printed a book of Memoirs “Far”. The last work of Boris Zaitsev was a story called “River of Time”, published in M ​​in the “New Journal”.

The last collection of Zaitsev was also called, which saw the light three years later in New York. In the year in Leningrad, the story “Watek” W. W. The author of the translation became Zaitsev. Two years later, the Soviet publishing house "Science" invited Boris to write memories of Ivan Bunin for the literary inheritance preparing for the release of the series. However, this publication was banned.

In total, in exile, the writer published three dozen of his books in his native language, and over eight hundred different texts that published periodicals. Personal life the writer was married once. His chosen one was Vera Smirnova Oreshnikova, whom Boris led by the aisle on April 2. In the same year, in August, the wife gave Boris a daughter Natalia. The family accompanied Zaitsev everywhere.

Together they emigrated to Berlin, then settled in Paris. In February, the writer's wife had a stroke, and he did not leave her for two years, looked after, fed, wrote down under her dictation in the diary everything that needs to be done on the household. Boris Zaitsev and his family this year became the most difficult in the writer’s personal life. The death of Boris Zaitsev himself died on January 21, in 91.

The grave of Boris Zaitsev was the Parisian cemetery of Saint-Genevo-de-Bois, where all emigrants from Russia settled in France were buried.