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Writer Daniil Granin died at the age of 99. Granin has been in the intensive care unit of one of the city hospitals in St. Petersburg for the last few days. Shortly before his death, he was connected to a ventilator.

“Daniil died on Wednesday night,” the agency’s source said.

There is no information about the date of farewell and funeral yet.

Daniil Granin was born ( real name German) in the family of forester Alexander Danilovich German and his wife Anna Bakirovna in the village of Volyn (now Kurgan region), according to other sources - in the Saratov region.

Granin’s official biography states that in 1940 he graduated from the electromechanical department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and went to work as an engineer at the Kirov plant, from where he went to the front as part of a people’s militia division. In 1942 he joined the CPSU (b). After studying at the Ulyanovsk Tank School, he returned to the front and rose to the rank of commander of a company of heavy tanks.

From 1945 to 1950 he worked at Lenenergo and the Research Institute. He later held the positions of second and then first secretary of the Leningrad branch of the RSFSR SP. From 1989 to 1991 he was a people's deputy of the USSR.

Daniil Granin was one of the members of the editorial board of the Roman Gazeta magazine. He also initiated the creation of the Leningrad Mercy Society. Grani was a member of the World Club of St. Petersburgers.

Began publishing in 1949. The main direction and theme of Granin's works is realism and poetry of scientific and technical creativity - Granin's technical education is reflected here, almost all of his works are devoted to scientific research, search, the struggle between seekers, principled scientists and untalented people, careerists, bureaucrats.

Novel "The Searchers" (1954)
novel “I'm Going into the Storm” (1962)
The novel “After the Wedding” (1958) is dedicated to the fate of a young inventor sent by the Komsomol to work in the village.

All three novels were dramatized for the theater, and films of the same name were made based on them (“The Searchers” (1956), “After the Wedding” (1962), “Walking into the Storm” (1965)).

Stories and novellas “The Victory of Engineer Korsakov” (published in 1949 under the title “Dispute Across the Ocean”), “Option Two” (1949), “Yaroslav Dombrovsky” (1951), “ Own opinion"(1956), books of essays about trips to the GDR, France, Cuba, Australia, England - "An Unexpected Morning" (1962) and "Notes to the Guide" (1967), story "House on the Fontanka" (1967), novella “Our Battalion Commander” (1968), reflections on “ Bronze Horseman"A. S. Pushkin - “Two Faces” (1968).

Fiction and documentary work: “This strange life"(1974, about the biologist A. A. Lyubishchev), "Claudia Vilor" (1976, USSR State Prize), the novel "Bison" (1987), about the fate of the biologist N. V. Timofeev-Resovsky), "The Siege Book", parts 1 -2 (1977-1981, together with A. M. Adamovich). The novel “The Painting” (1979) and the story “The Unknown Man” (1990) touch upon the problems of conservation historical memory, an analysis was undertaken of the state of a person losing his place in the social hierarchy. “The Tale of One Scientist and One Emperor” - a biography of Arago (1991). The story “The Broken Trace” is about the life of scientists in modern Russia (2000).

The essay “Fear” is about overcoming totalitarianism and communism.

and even then after censors deleted more than 60 episodes from it.

Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin (real name - German; January 1, 1919, Volyn village, Kursk province, RSFSR, USSR - July 4, 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia) - Russian writer, film screenwriter, public figure. Participant of the Great Patriotic War. Hero of Socialist Labor (1989). Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1976), State Prize of the Russian Federation (2001, 2016) and the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation (1998). Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg (2005).

Wife - Rimma Mikhailovna Mayorova (1918-2004). Daughter Marina (born 1945).

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Shortly before his death, Granin was received in Strelna - in June the writer was awarded the State Prize with the wording “For outstanding humanitarian activity.” This formulation is both very accurate and not entirely correct - Granin was an excellent writer, but at the same time he understood his work not as the production of samples pure art, but as a service - first of all, to society.

The maxim “Morality is truth” can be applied to Granin like no other.

He was born almost a hundred years ago - in 1919, but where exactly - his biography differs, either near Kursk, or near Saratov. He studied in Leningrad, then worked for, and with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he went to the front - not a single version disputes this fact - and served in the army until victory. After demobilization he returned to Leningrad and started working as an engineer again, but

Already in the late 40s he brought his debut story to the Zvezda magazine, which the head of the prose department and namesake (Granin’s real name is German) accepted for publication.

Granin became a recognized classic during his lifetime. It was made this way by the now seemingly strange and archival genre of the industrial novel. The subject of his special interest was scientists - thus, his debut in a large form, “The Searchers,” became the story of the struggle of an ascetic of technology with the leviathan of an inert state. The follow-up, “Running into the Storm,” from the story of the lightning hunters grew into a conflict between a man of principle and an opportunist. “Zubr,” which made a lot of noise during perestroika, was actually an artistic and documentary novel about genetics Timofeev-Resovsky—or rather, about the repressions that this science had to endure before being recognized as such.

In general, the genre of “docufiction” - which was not yet called that way - was, if not discovered, then developed in Soviet literature by Granin, who wrote several wonderful biographies wonderful people.

However, almost main theme for Granin it was war. And the main book is “The Blockade Book,” written in collaboration with another great chronicler of the war, Ales Adamovich. A chronicle of how for some Leningraders this test became an incredible and unbearable lesson in fortitude, and for others it became a road to dehumanization. For the front-line writer, this topic was special - his unit was the last to enter the blockade zone, after which the Nazis blocked the city.

Granin did not abandon the theme of war until very recently - he became latest novel“My Lieutenant,” which the writer dedicated to his fellow soldiers, he received the “Big Book” award.

In general, the writer was awarded often and deservedly: he received the star of the Hero of Socialist Labor, the State Prize of the USSR, and the State Prize of the Russian Federation - twice.

It is surprising that almost all of Granin’s novels were eventually filmed, with films based on his first three works large shape came out almost instantly (by cinematic standards). The film based on “The Searchers” was released in 1956, based on the novel “After the Wedding” in 1962, and “After the Storm” was transferred to the screen in 1965. Even based on the “Siege Book” in 2009, when all the prohibitions of the Leningrad party leadership had long since become a thing of the past, he made a documentary film - in it several dozen residents of St. Petersburg (among them, for example) read excerpts from the work dedicated to terrible period in the life of the city.

For St. Petersburg residents, Granin remained the bearer of the spirit of the city -

the spirit that helped survive under the Nazis, and the one that came to life quite recently and resulted in a marathon of mutual assistance when there was a transport collapse due to the terrorist attacks in St. Petersburg. And with a moral tuning fork: “Unfortunately, now there is only one idea - get rich as best you can. This is the idea of ​​our society. And my personal idea is to maintain decency, honesty, intelligence. Such simple things…” Granin said in an interview.

And just a public figure: the writer until recently fought to preserve the status of a museum for St. Isaac's Cathedral and used all his authority to convey the point of view of St. Petersburg residents to the authorities.

And finally, one more important touch of the biography: back in Soviet times, Granin became the founder of the first “Relief Society” in the USSR - which, in principle, can be considered the forerunner of such recognized charitable organizations as “Fair Aid” by Doctor Lisa, “Give Life” by Chulpan Khamatova etc. “It doesn’t matter at all how many books a person leaves behind,” he said at one of his lectures, “all the same, over the coffin they will only talk about whether the person was kind or not, whether there was a lot of love in him or not.” It seems that in the case of Granin this is the rule, but his own rule will not work - because he was a living example of how the written word becomes an instrument of the struggle for truth, and the story of an ascetic and truth-seeker becomes a fascinating book.

TASS DOSSIER. On July 4, 2017, at the age of 99, the writer Daniil Granin, an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, co-author of the famous “Siege Book,” died.

Origin and education

Daniil Granin was born on January 1, 1919 in the village of Volyn, Kursk province (now Kursk region) in the family of a forester. When he was seven years old, he moved with his mother to Leningrad.

His real name is Herman.

In 1940, Granin graduated from the electromechanical department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. M.I. Kalinin (now Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University), after which he worked as an engineer at the Kirov plant.

Participation in WWII and work

In 1941, Granin went to the front as a volunteer as part of the plant’s people’s militia. He fought on the Leningrad and Baltic fronts, then was seconded to the Ulyanovsk Tank School. He ended the war in East Prussia as the commander of a company of heavy tanks.

After the end of the war, he worked at Lenenergo and participated in the restoration of the energy sector of Leningrad after the siege. He also attended graduate school at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and published several articles on electrical engineering.

Since the mid-1950s. - professional writer.

Writer's career

The first publications were stories about the Paris Commune in the magazine "Rezec" in 1937. Based on these works, Granin created the historical story "Yaroslav Dombrovsky" in 1951. The writer himself considers his creative debut to be the story about graduate students “Option Two,” published in 1949 in the literary magazine “Zvezda.” In the same year, he took the pseudonym Granin at the request of his namesake, the famous writer Yuri German, who headed the prose department at Zvezda. Then Granin’s story “The Victory of Engineer Korsakov” (another title is “Dispute Across the Ocean”, 1949) and stories about the builders of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric power station “New Friends” (1952) were published.

Daniil Granin became famous thanks to the novel “The Searchers” (1955). In 1956, the story about inventor Andrei Lobanov was filmed by director Mikhail Shapiro. Two next novel: “After the Wedding” (1958) and “I’m Going into the Storm” (1962). Subsequently, documentary-fiction stories were written about biologists Alexander Lyubishchev ("This Strange Life"; 1974) and Nikolai Timofeev-Resovsky ("Bison"; 1987), developers atomic bomb(“Choice of Goal”; 1975) and other biographical works about people of science.

The stories “Our Battalion Commander” (1968) and “Claudia Vilor” (1976) are dedicated to the theme of the Great Patriotic War. In 1977-1981 Granin, in collaboration with the writer Ales Adamovich, created a documentary chronicle about Leningrad during the war, “The Blockade Book.” It was partially published in 1977 in Novy Mir, fully published in 1984, republished in 2013. The novel “My Lieutenant...” (2011) is also about the war. Besides, in last years books of memoirs “Quirks of My Memory” (2009), “Everything Wasn’t Quite Like That” (2010), “Conspiracy” (2014), “A Man Not from Here” (2014) were published.

Social activity

Daniil Granin was repeatedly elected as a member of the board and secretary of the board of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR and the USSR, and in 1989 he headed the Soviet PEN Center.

In addition to literature, he was involved in social activities. Elected People's Deputy of the USSR (1989-1991). At the end of the 1980s. was one of the initiators of the creation of the Leningrad society "Mercy". Headed the Society of Friends of the Russian national library. He was the Chairman of the Board of the International charitable foundation them. D. S. Likhacheva.

Screenwriter of the films "I'm Going into a Storm" (1965), "The First Visitor" (1965), "Choosing a Target" (1974), "The Namesake" (1978), the TV series "The Picture" (1985), "Defeat" (1987), " Peter the Great. Testament" (2011).

Awards

Hero of Socialist Labor (1989). Laureate of State Prizes of the USSR (1978) and Russia (2001, 2016). Awarded two Orders of Lenin (1984, 1989), Orders of the Red Star (1942), Red Banner of Labor (1967), Friendship of Peoples (1979), Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (1985), "For Services to the Fatherland" III degree (1999), St. Apostle Andrew the First-Called (2008), Alexander Nevsky (2013), etc. Has the officer's cross of the Order of Merit Federal Republic Germany". Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg (2005).

Awarded the Alexander Men Prize (2004), the Bunin Literary Prize (2011), the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize (2012), the Russian Ministry of Defense Prize in the field of culture in the category " Literary art"(2017), St. Petersburg Government Prize in the field of culture and art (2017). In 2012, as part of the Big Book competition, he received first prize for the novel “My Lieutenant...” and a special prize “For Honor and Dignity.”

He was married to Rimma Mayorova (1918-2004), daughter Marina.

A small planet is named after Daniil Granin solar system number 3120.

(January 1, 1919 (1918?), Volsk, Saratov province, according to other sources - Volyn, Kursk region)

Biography (International United Biographical Center)

Born in 1919. Father - German Alexander Danilovich, was a forester. Mother - Anna Bakirovna. Wife - Mayorova R. M. (born 1919). Daughter - Chernysheva Marina Danilovna (born 1945).

The parents lived together in different forest districts of the Novgorod and Pskov regions. My father was twenty years older than my mother. She had good voice, my entire childhood was spent listening to her singing.

Were snowy winters, shooting, fires, river floods - the first memories are mixed with the stories heard from my mother about those years. In my native places it was still burning out Civil War, gangs ran rampant, riots broke out. Childhood was bifurcated: at first it was in the forest, later - in the city. Both of these streams, without mixing, flowed for a long time and remained separate in D. Granin’s soul. Childhood in the forest is a bathhouse with a snowdrift, where a steaming father and men jumped, winter forest roads, wide homemade skis (and city skis are narrow, which they used to walk along the Neva all the way to the bay). I remember best the mountains of fragrant yellow sawdust near the sawmills, the logs, the passages of the timber exchange, the tar mills, and the sleighs, and the wolves, the comfort of the kerosene lamp, the trolleys on the flat roads.

The mother - a city dweller, a fashionista, young, cheerful - could not sit in the village. Therefore, she perceived the move to Leningrad as a blessing. For the boy, an urban childhood flowed - studying at school, his father's visits with baskets of lingonberries, flat cakes, and village melted butter. And all summer - in his forest, in the timber industry enterprise, in winter - in the city. As the eldest child, he, the first-born, was drawn to each other. It was not a disagreement, but a different understanding of happiness. Then everything was resolved in a drama - the father was exiled to Siberia, somewhere near Biysk, the family remained in Leningrad. Mother worked as a dressmaker. And I made money doing the same at home. Ladies appeared - they came to choose a style, try them on. Mother loved and did not love this work - she loved it because she could show her taste, her artistic nature, she did not love it because they lived poorly, she could not dress herself, her youth was spent on other people's outfits.

After exile, my father became “disenfranchised”; he was forbidden to live in big cities. D. Granin, as the son of a “disenfranchised”, was not accepted into the Komsomol. He studied at school on Mokhovaya. There were still a few teachers left there from the Tenishev School, which was located here before the revolution - one of the best Russian gymnasiums. In the physics classroom, students used instruments from the Siemens-Halske era on thick ebonite panels with massive brass contacts. Every lesson was like a performance. Professor Znamensky taught, then his student Ksenia Nikolaevna. The long teaching table was like a stage where an extravaganza was played out with the participation of a beam of light laid out in prisms, electrostatic machines, discharges, vacuum pumps.

The literature teacher had no apparatus, nothing but a love of literature. She organized a literary club, and most of the class began to write poetry. One of the best school poets became a famous geologist, another - a mathematician, the third - a specialist in the Russian language. Nobody became a poet.

Despite his interest in literature and history, the family council recognized that engineering was a more reliable profession. Granin entered the electrical engineering department of the Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1940. Energy, automation, construction of hydroelectric power stations were then professions full of romance, like later atomic and nuclear physics. Many teachers and professors also participated in the creation of the GOELRO plan. There were legends about them. They were the pioneers of domestic electrical engineering, they were capricious, eccentric, each allowed himself to be an individual, have his own language, communicate his views, they argued with each other, argued with accepted theories, with the five-year plan.

Students went to practice in the Caucasus, at the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, worked on installation, repair, and were on duty at control panels. In his fifth year, in the midst of his thesis, Granin began to write historical story about Yaroslav Dombrovsky. He wrote not about what he knew, what he was doing, but about what he did not know and did not see. There was the Polish uprising of 1863 and the Paris Commune. Instead of technical books, he subscribed to albums with views of Paris from the Public Library. Nobody knew about this hobby. Granin was ashamed of writing, and what he wrote seemed ugly and pitiful. But he could not stop.

After graduation, Daniil Granin was sent to the Kirov plant, where he began to design a device for finding faults in cables.

From the Kirov plant he went to the people's militia, to the war. However, they were not allowed in right away. I had to work hard to get the reservation cancelled. The war passed for Granin without letting go for a day. In 1942, at the front, he joined the party. He fought on the Leningrad Front, then on the Baltic Front, was an infantryman, a tank driver, and ended the war as the commander of a company of heavy tanks in East Prussia. During the war days, Granin met love. As soon as they managed to register, the alarm was announced, and they sat, now husband and wife, for several hours in a bomb shelter. So it began family life. This was interrupted for a long time, until the end of the war.

I spent the entire winter of the siege in the trenches near Pushkino. Then he was sent to a tank school and from there he was sent to the front as a tank officer. There was shell shock, there was encirclement, a tank attack, there was a retreat - all the sorrows of war, all its joys and its dirt, I drank in everything.

Granin considered the post-war life he had received as a gift. He was lucky: his first comrades in the Writers' Union were front-line poets Anatoly Chivilikhin, Sergei Orlov, Mikhail Dudin. They accepted the young writer into their loud, cheerful community. And besides, there was Dmitry Ostrov, an interesting prose writer, whom Granin met at the front in August 1941, when on the way from the regimental headquarters they spent the night together in the hayloft, and woke up to find that there were Germans all around...

It was to Dmitry Ostrov that Granin brought his first completed story about Yaroslav Dombrovsky in 1948. Ostrov, it seems, never read the story, but nevertheless convincingly proved to his friend that if you really want to write, then you need to write about your engineering work, about what you know, how you live. Now Granin advises this to young people, apparently having forgotten how dull such moral teachings seemed to him then.

The first post-war years were wonderful. At that time, Granin had not yet thought of becoming a professional writer; literature was just pleasure, relaxation, and joy for him. In addition to this, there was work - in Lenenergo, in the cable network, where it was necessary to restore the city’s energy sector destroyed during the blockade: repair cables, lay new ones, put substations and transformer facilities in order. Every now and then there were accidents, there was not enough capacity. They got me out of bed, at night - an accident! It was necessary to throw light from somewhere, to obtain energy for extinguished hospitals, water supply systems, and schools. Switch, repair... In those years - 1945-1948 - cable workers, power engineers, felt like the most necessary and influential people in the city. As the energy sector was restored and improved, Granin’s interest in operational work. The normal, trouble-free regime that was sought caused satisfaction and boredom. At this time, experiments on so-called closed networks began in the cable network - calculations of new types of electrical networks were tested. Daniil Granin took part in the experiment, and his long-standing interest in electrical engineering was revived.

At the end of 1948, Granin suddenly wrote a story about graduate students. It was called "Option Two". Daniil Alexandrovich brought it to the Zvezda magazine, where he was met by Yuri Pavlovich German, who was in charge of prose in the magazine. His friendliness, simplicity and captivating ease of attitude towards literature helped enormously to a young writer. Yu. P. German's lightness was a special quality, rare in Russian literary life. It consisted in the fact that he understood literature as a fun, happy thing with the purest, even holy, attitude towards it. Granin was lucky. Then he never met anyone with such a festive and mischievous attitude, such pleasure, pleasure from literary work. The story was published in 1949, almost without amendments. He was noticed by critics, praised, and the author decided that from now on it would go like this, that he would write, he would immediately be published, praised, glorified, etc.

Fortunately, the next story, “A Dispute Across the Ocean,” published in the same “Star,” was severely criticized. Not for artistic imperfection, which would be fair, but for “admiration for the West,” which was precisely not there. This injustice surprised and outraged Granin, but did not discourage him. It should be noted that engineering work created a wonderful sense of independence. In addition, he was supported by the honest exactingness of senior writers - Vera Kazimirovna Ketlinskaya, Mikhail Leonidovich Slonimsky, Leonid Nikolaevich Rakhmanov. In Leningrad in those years there was still a wonderful literary environment- Evgeniy Lvovich Schwartz, Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, Olga Fedorovna Berggolts, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Vera Fedorovna Panova, Sergei Lvovich Tsimbal, Alexander Ilyich Gitovich were alive - that diversity of talents and personalities that is so necessary in youth. But perhaps what helped Granin most of all was the sympathetic interest of Taya Grigorievna Lishina in everything he did, her deep-voiced ruthlessness and absolute taste... She worked in the Propaganda Bureau of the Writers' Union. Many writers are indebted to her. In her little room, new poems were constantly being read, stories, books, magazines were being discussed...

Soon, Daniil Granin entered graduate school at the Polytechnic Institute and at the same time began writing the novel “The Searchers.” By that time, the long-suffering book “Yaroslav Dombrovsky” had already been published. At the same time, Granin also studied electrical engineering. He published several articles and moved on to the problems of the electric arc. However, these mysterious, interesting activities required time and complete immersion. When I was young, when I had a lot of energy and even more time, it seemed that it was possible to combine science and literature. And I wanted to combine them. Each of them pulled towards herself with greater strength and jealousy. Each one was beautiful. The day came when Granin discovered a dangerous crack in his soul. It's time to choose. Or either. The novel "The Searchers" was published and was a success. There was money, and I could stop holding on to my postgraduate scholarship. But Granin procrastinated for a long time, waited for something, gave lectures while working part-time, and did not want to tear himself away from science. I was afraid, didn’t believe in myself... In the end it happened. Not going into literature, but leaving the institute. Subsequently, the writer sometimes regretted that he had done it too late, that he began to write seriously and professionally late, but sometimes he regretted that he had given up science. Only now Granin begins to comprehend the meaning of words Alexandra Benois: “The greatest luxury a person can afford is to always do as he wants.”

Granin wrote about engineers, scientists, scientists, about scientific creativity - all this was his theme, his environment, his friends. He didn’t have to study the material or go on creative business trips. He loved these people - his heroes, although their lives were uneventful. It was not easy to portray her inner tension. It was even more difficult to introduce the reader to their work, so that the reader understood the essence of their passions and so as not to attach diagrams and formulas to the novel.

The 20th Party Congress was the decisive milestone for Granin. He made me see the war, myself, and the past differently. In a different way - it meant seeing the mistakes of the war, appreciating the courage of the people, the soldiers, and themselves...

In the 60s, it seemed to Granin that the successes of science, and above all physics, would transform the world and the destinies of mankind. Physicists seemed to him to be the main heroes of that time. By the 70s, that period was over, and as a sign of farewell, the writer created the story “The Namesake,” in which he somehow tried to comprehend his new attitude towards his former hobbies. This is not a disappointment. This is getting rid of unnecessary hopes.

Granin also experienced another hobby - traveling. Together with K. G. Paustovsky, L. N. Rakhmanov, Rasul Gamzatov, Sergei Orlov, they went on a cruise around Europe in 1956 on the motor ship "Russia". For each of them, this was the first trip abroad. Yes, not to one country, but to six at once - it was the discovery of Europe. Since then, Granin began to travel a lot, traveling far, across oceans - to Australia, Cuba, Japan, and the USA. For him it was a thirst to see, understand, compare. He had the opportunity to go down the Mississippi on a barge, wander through the Australian bush, live with a country doctor in Louisiana, sit in English taverns, live on the island of Curacao, visit many museums, galleries, temples, visit different families- Spanish, Swedish, Italian. The writer managed to write about something in his travel notes.

Gradually, life focused on literary work. Novels, stories, scripts, reviews, essays. The writer tried to master different genres, up to fantasy.

They say that the biography of a writer is his books. Among the novels written by D. A. Granin are: “The Siege Book” (co-authored with A. Adamovich), “Bison”, “This Strange Life”. The writer managed to say about Leningrad blockade what no one said, to tell about two great Russian scientists whose fate was hushed up. Other works include the novels “The Seeker,” “I’m Going into the Storm,” “After the Wedding,” “The Painting,” “Escape to Russia,” “The Namesake,” as well as journalistic works, scripts, and travel notes.

D. A. Granin - Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the State Prize, holder of two Orders of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner, Red Banner of Labor, Red Star, two Orders of the Patriotic War, II degree, Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree. He is a laureate of the Heinrich Heine Prize (Germany), a member of the German Academy of Arts, an honorary doctor of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University, a member of the Academy of Informatics, a member of the Presidential Council, and President of the Menshikov Foundation.

D. Granin created the country's first Relief Society and contributed to the development of this movement in the country. He was repeatedly elected to the board of the Writers' Union of Leningrad, then of Russia, he was a deputy of the Leningrad City Council, a member of the regional committee, and during the time of Gorbachev - a people's deputy. The writer became convinced with his own eyes that political activity was not for him. All that was left was disappointment.

Enjoys sports and travel.

Lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Biography (G.I.Gerasimov. The history of modern Russia: the search and acquisition of freedom. 1985-2008. M., 2008.)

Granin Daniil Aleksandrovich was born on January 1, 1918 in the village of Volyn (now Kursk region) in the family of a forester. In 1940 he graduated from the electromechanical faculty of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and worked as an engineer. In 1941, he went to the front with the people's militia, rising from a soldier to a company commander. After the war, he worked at Lenenergo and published articles in scientific and technical periodicals. He began his literary activity in 1937. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1978). Active public figure in the first years of perestroika. He was one of the initiators of the creation of the Russian Pen Club.

Biography (Russian writers and poets. Brief biographical dictionary. Moscow, 2000.)

Granin (real name - German) Daniil Alexandrovich (b. 1918), prose writer. Born on January 1 in the city of Volyn in the family of a forester. After graduating from school, he entered the electromechanical faculty of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, which he graduated in 1940. He worked as a senior engineer at an energy laboratory, then in the design bureau of the Kirov plant, where he “began to design a device for finding faults in cables.”

In 1941, with the people's militia of factory workers, he left as a volunteer soldier to defend Leningrad. He fought on the Baltic front. He ended the war in East Prussia as the commander of a company of heavy tanks.

After the war, he worked at Lenenergo, restoring the city’s energy sector destroyed during the blockade. Then he worked briefly at a research institute and studied at the graduate school of the Polytechnic Institute, which he left in 1954 after the publication of the novel “The Searchers,” which brought great success to Granin. This was followed by the novels “After the Wedding” (1958) and “I’m Going into the Storm” (1961). Convincingly defending the dignity of science and the talent of a scientist, Granin focuses on moral foundations scientific creativity, poeticizes the selflessness of heroes obsessed with the search. “Walking into the Storm” continues the theme of “Seekers”.

A whole series of documentary works was written about scientists: about the Russian physicist, about the French mathematician, about academician Kurchatov. “... the higher the scientific prestige, the more interesting the moral level of the scientist...” is a topic that always interests Granin.

In 1980, the novel “The Painting” was published, which again made people talk about the writer and his talent to create prose of a high intellectual level. At the same time, the “Siege Book” was written in collaboration with A. Adamovich. In 1984 - the story “The Trace is Still Visible.”

The documentary story "Bison" appeared in 1987, continuing the same theme of the scientist's obsession (the fate of the geneticist N. Timofeev-Resovsky) with the truth of scientific creativity.

In 1996, the magazine "Neva" published a series of stories by Granin - "Eclipse", "At the Window", "Dilemma", "Ashes". In 1997 - essay "Fear" (genealogy of fear). The magazine "Science and Life" began publishing a newly completed novel about Peter 1 by D. Granin lives and works in Moscow.

Biography (I.S.Kuzmichev. Russian literature of the 20th century. Prose writers, poets, playwrights. Biobibliographical dictionary. Volume 1. M., 2005, pp. 552-553.)

Granin (real name German) Daniil Aleksandrovich - prose writer, essayist.

Born into the family of a forester. Since childhood, he lived in Leningrad, where he studied at high school, received higher education at the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute (1940), worked as an engineer at the Kirov Plant. In July 1941 he joined the people's militia, fought on the Leningrad Front, and was wounded; Having graduated from the Ulyanovsk Tank School, he ended the Patriotic War in East Prussia as the commander of a company of heavy tanks, and was awarded military orders. After the war, he was the head of the Lenenergo regional cable network, a graduate student at the Polytechnic Institute, and the author of articles on electrical engineering published in scientific journals. publications

Granin's early literary experiments date back to the second half of the 1930s.

In 1937, his first stories, “The Return of Rouliac” and “Motherland,” dedicated to the Paris Commune, were published in the magazine “Rezec” (No. 4 and 8). Granin considers the beginning of his professional literary activity to be the publication of the story “Option Two” in the magazine “Zvezda” (1949. No. 1). Granin’s first books: the stories “Dispute Across the Ocean” (1950), “Yaroslav Dombrovsky” (1951) and a collection of essays about the builders of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric power station “New Friends” (1952). The first novel, “The Searchers,” which brought the writer fame, was published in 1955.

Granin’s prose is dominated by two genre structures: social fiction and documentary fiction. They are united by a cross-cutting theme: scientists, inventors in modern times. world, their moral code and traditions of civil behavior. For half a century, Granin has been consistently exploring this topic both in diverse novels (“Seekers”, “I’m Going to the Thunderstorm”, 1962; “Flight to Russia”, 1994), and in novels and stories addressed to the former Soviet everyday life (“Own opinion”, 1956; “Place for a Monument”, 1969; “Someone Must”, 1970; “Unknown Man”, 1989), and in works of documentary art, where, along with historical subjects (“Reflections in front of a portrait that does not exist”, 1968; “The Tale of One Scientist and One Emperor”, 1971) important place are occupied by the biographies of original Russian scientists - A.A. Lyubishchev (“This Strange Life”, 1974) and N.I. Timofeev-Resovsky (“Zubr”, 1987). The problem of the moral orientation of the individual, spiritual search and selfless service to science is posed here by Granin, taking into account the tragic consequences of the “atomic era” (“Choice of a Goal”, 1972), with a sharp condemnation of militarism in all its manifestations.

It is not for nothing that Granin’s anti-war prose is so significant. In some cases it has autobiographical overtones (“Prisoners”, 1964; “House on the Fontanka”, 1967; “Our Battalion Commander”, 1968), in others it is based on a specific factual basis (“Clavdia Vilor”, 1975). This prose is most fully represented by the collection “The Trace is Still Visible” (1985) and “The Siege Book” (1979, co-authored with A. Adamovich), which tells (with an abundant display of diaries and memoirs of direct participants in the events) about the heroic 900-day resistance of Leningrad enemy siege. Granin persistently discusses the origins of fascism, the fate of the Russian Germans, who suffered the most in the world wars, the lessons of these wars (“Beautiful Uta,” 1967) and invariably defends the idea of ​​​​the need for international unity in the struggle for a peaceful future of humanity.

In the 1960-80s, Granin traveled a lot, traveled all over Europe (“Notes to the Guidebook”, 1967; “Church in Auvers”, 1969; “Alien Diary”, 1982), visited Cuba (“Island of the Young”, 1962) and Australia (“The Month Upside Down”, 1966), Japan (“Rock Garden”, 1971), America, China. His lyrical travel prose is intellectually rich, free and polemical, and “travel stories” occupy the writer much less than the figure of a traveling narrator. Against the backdrop of diverse exoticism, the narrator turns his gaze to own life, to his country, unravels the mystery of time - past and present, “consumed and lost,” disappeared in “hot pauses,” tangible and yet unknown, which is yet to be. Granin perceives time with all its contrasts and paradoxes as a moral category above all.

Connected with this is the writer’s interest in Russian history, in particular, in Peter I (“Evenings with Peter the Great: Messages and Testimonies of Mr. M.”, 2000), as well as in the history of Russian literature. He wrote essays about Pushkin (“Two Faces”, 1968; “The Sacred Gift”, 1971; “Father and Daughter”, 1982), about Dostoevsky (“Thirteen Steps”, 1966), L. Tolstoy (“The Hero He Loved” with all the strength of my soul”, 1978) and other classics (“The Secret Sign of St. Petersburg”, 2000). The confrontation between talent and mediocrity, repeatedly observed in books about scientists, is here transformed into a conflict between the artist and the authorities, into a duel between a “genius” and a “villain,” into a dispute between Mozart and Salieri. The civic role of art and its great ennobling influence on people are obvious to Granin. An example of this is the novel “The Picture” (1980), which tells about a small Central Russian town, familiar from other works of the writer (“Rain in a Strange City”, 1974).

For a long time, Granin was energetically engaged in public activities (in the joint venture, the Supreme and Presidential councils), participated in international meetings and symposiums related to science, ecology, and literature. He published dozens of interviews and journalistic articles, a small part of which was included in the collection “On Sore Things” (1988).

Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg.

Granin collaborated fruitfully with cinema. Films based on his scripts or with his participation were produced: at Lenfilm - “Seekers” (1957, directed by M. Shapiro); “After the Wedding” (1963, directed by M. Ershov); “I’m going into the storm” (1965, dir. S. Mikaelyan); “The First Visitor” (1966, directed by L. Kvinikhidze); at Mosfilm - “Choosing a Target” (1976, directed by I. Talankin). Television adaptations of The Namesake (1978) and Rain in a Strange City (1979).

Biography (Compilation of A. Ermolaev from numerous sources in print and on the Internet, as well as his conclusions)

Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin is a Russian prose writer, film scriptwriter and publicist, one of the leading masters of Soviet literature of the 1950s-80s and the period of Perestroika.

Real name: Daniil Aleksandrovich German. He changed his last name to a pseudonym so that he would not be confused with the famous Leningrad writer Yuri German.

Born in Leningrad (according to other sources - in the village of Volyn, Kursk region). He graduated from the electromechanical faculty of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (1940), worked as an engineer in an energy laboratory, then in the design bureau of the Kirov plant.

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, as part of the people's militia, factory workers volunteered to defend Leningrad. He went from private to officer and was awarded military orders. He ended the war in East Prussia as the commander of a company of heavy tanks.

After demobilization, he worked at Lenenergo (head of the regional cable network), restoring the Leningrad energy sector destroyed during the siege. Then he worked for a short time at a research institute and studied at the graduate school of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, but did not finish it and left the institute (in 1954), as he completely switched to literary activity.

It has been published since 1937, but Granin considers the publication of the story “Option Two” in the magazine “Zvezda” in 1949 to be the beginning of his professional literary activity.

The main theme of the author is the moral problems of scientific and technical creativity, revealed in the novels “Seekers” (1954), “I’m Going into a Storm” (1962), in a series of artistic and documentary works about scientists, in particular, the stories “This Strange Life” (1974 , about the biologist A.A. Lyubishchev), “Bison” (1987, about the fate of the geneticist N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky), stories and essays about Academician Kurchatov, other physicists and mathematicians.

Another inescapable theme of Granin’s work is the Great Patriotic War. He didn’t start writing about her right away. In 1968, the story “Our Battalion Commander” was published, which made a huge impression on readers and caused fierce controversy because it posed unusual questions about the war. The war looks “undressy” in the story “Claudia Vilor” (1976) and the novel “My Lieutenant” (2012). An event in the life of the country was the publication of the “Siege Book” (parts 1-2, 1977-81, together with A.M. Adamovich), in which the authors, using documentary material, tried to honestly and without embellishment describe life in Leningrad during the 900-day blockades Not everything written on this topic was published in Soviet times; later the “Forbidden Chapter” from this book was published (1988). Granin persistently discusses the origins of fascism, the fate of Russian Germans, who suffered the most in the world wars, and the lessons of these wars (“Beautiful Uta”, 1967; and other books)

In the 1960-80s, Granin traveled a lot, traveled all over Europe (“Notes to the Guidebook”, 1967; “Church in Auvers”, 1969; “Alien Diary”, 1982), visited Cuba (“Island of the Young”, 1962) and Australia (“Upside Down Month”, 1966), Japan (“Rock Garden”, 1971), America, China. His lyrical travel prose is intellectually rich, free and polemical, and “travel stories” occupy the writer much less than the figure of a traveling narrator. Against the backdrop of diverse exoticism, the narrator turns his gaze to his own life, to his country, unravels the mystery of time - past and present, “consumed and lost,” disappeared in “hot pauses,” tangible and yet unknown, which is yet to be. Granin perceives time with all its contrasts and paradoxes as a moral category above all.

Connected with this is the writer’s interest in Russian history, in particular, in Peter I (“Evenings with Peter the Great,” 2000), as well as in the history of Russian literature. He wrote essays about Pushkin (“Two Faces”, 1968; “The Sacred Gift”, 1971; “Father and Daughter”, 1982), about Dostoevsky (“Thirteen Steps”, 1966), L. Tolstoy (“The Hero He Loved” with all the strength of my soul”, 1978) and other classics (collection “The Secret Sign of St. Petersburg”, 2000). The confrontation between talent and mediocrity, repeatedly observed in books about scientists, is here transformed into a conflict between the artist and the authorities, into a duel between a “genius” and a “villain,” into a dispute between Mozart and Salieri. The civic role of art and its great ennobling influence on people are obvious to Granin. An example of this is the novel “The Picture” (1980), which tells about a small Central Russian town, familiar from other works of the writer (“Rain in a Strange City”, 1974).

The writer collaborated extensively and fruitfully with cinema. Films based on his scripts or with his participation were produced: at Lenfilm - “Seekers” (1957, directed by M. Shapiro); “After the Wedding” (1963, directed by M. Ershov); “I’m going into the storm” (1965, dir. S. Mikaelyan); “The First Visitor” (1966, directed by L. Kvinikhidze); at Mosfilm - “Choosing a Target” (1976, directed by I. Talankin). Television has filmed “The Namesake” (1978), “Rain in a Strange City” (1979), “Evenings with Peter the Great” (2011). However, most of these scripts are not published.

For a long time, Granin, as a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, was energetically engaged in social activities, participated in international meetings and symposiums related to science, ecology, and literature. He published dozens of interviews and journalistic articles (for example, in the collection “On Sore Things,” 1988). Active public figure in the first years of perestroika. He was one of the initiators of the creation of the Russian Pen Club. Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg.

Granin has received many awards for his literary work. In 1976, he received the USSR State Prize for the novel “Claudia Vilor”; in 1978 he was again awarded this prize for the script of the film “Rain in a Foreign City”. He is a Hero of Socialist Labor (1989), laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (for the novel “Evenings with Peter the Great”, 2001), and the German Grand Cross for services to reconciliation. He is a laureate of the Heinrich Heine Prize (Germany), a member of the German Academy of Arts, an honorary doctor of the St. Petersburg University for the Humanities, and a laureate of the Alexander Men Prize. In addition, Granin is a holder of two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Red Star, two Orders of the Patriotic War, II degree, and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree.

Minor planet of the solar system number 3120 is named after Granin.

Fantastic in the author's work. Granin has few frankly fantastic works. For example this famous story (Lately called the story) “A Place for a Monument”, which reveals the theme of the confrontation between a scientist and a bureaucrat, taking into account a fantastic assumption - if the bureaucrat has information from the future about the importance of a scientific discovery, then what will this change in his attitude to the matter? Granin is clearly interested in the problems of time travel, and the hero of another story - “The Broken Trace” - finds himself in the future.

The author is no stranger to alternative historical motives. Characteristic in this regard is “The Tale of One Scientist and One Emperor,” which contains episodes from the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, presented with a clearly subjunctive overtone. There are elements of fantasy in the satirical story “Our Dear Roman Avdeevich.”

But the main thing I want to highlight when talking about fantastic motifs in Granin’s works are the novels “Seekers” and “I’m Going into the Storm.” They are traditionally classified as “realistic” works, although in essence they differ little from the Soviet “close-range production SF” of the 1950s (since the main characters are engaged in the invention of new devices that do not yet exist in reality), they are just written literary language, which science fiction was completely unusual for that time.

Biography

Born into the family of a forester. In 1940 he graduated from the electromechanical department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (where after the war he studied in graduate school); worked as an engineer at the Kirov plant. In 1941 he went to the front with the people's militia, rising from a soldier to a company commander. After the war, he worked at Lenenergo and published articles in scientific and technical periodicals.

He began his literary activity in 1937 with the stories The Return of Rouliac and the Motherland (on their basis, in 1951 the story about the hero of the Paris Commune, J. Dombrowski, General of the Commune, was created). The main theme of Granin - romance and the risk of scientific research - was defined by the writer in the story Option Two (1949), which also outlined the main aspect of its consideration in the writer’s work: moral choice scientist, especially relevant in the era of scientific and technological revolution and technocratic illusions. Here the young scientist refuses to defend his dissertation because in the work of the deceased researcher he discovered, the sought-after problem was solved more effectively. In the story Victory of Engineer Korsakov (published in 1949 under the title Dispute across the Ocean), written not without the influence of the then patriotic officialdom, the Soviet scientist defeats his American colleague in a correspondence polemic. The contrast between genuine scientists, selfless innovators and lovers of truth, and self-interested careerists is the central conflict of the novels The Seekers (1954, film of the same name, 1957; director M.G. Shapiro) and especially I’m Going into the Storm (1962, film of the same name, 1966, script by Granin and director. S.G. Mikaelyan), one of the first to give a new, “thaw” breath to the Soviet “industrial novel”, combining the acuteness of research problems, the poetry of the movement of thought and the invasion of the world of “physicists”, shrouded in a haze of mystery and respectful admiration, with a lyrical and confessional tonality and social criticism of the “sixties”. Freedom of personal expression in the fight against all levels of authoritarian power is affirmed by the writer in the story Own Opinion (1956), as well as in the novel After the Wedding (1958, film of the same name directed by M.I. Ershov) and the story Someone Must (1970), in which Granin’s desire to connect the spiritual formation of the hero with the purpose of his work - as usual, manifested in the scientific and production sphere - draws a chain reaction of meanness, and, betraying the ideological romanticism characteristic of early Granin, does not find an optimistic way out.

The attraction to documentary was manifested in Granin’s numerous essays and diaries (including in the books Unexpected Morning, 1962; Notes to the guidebook, 1967; Rock Garden, devoted to his impressions of trips to Germany, England, Australia, Japan, France and other countries , 1972, etc.), as well as in biographical stories - about the Polish revolutionary democrat and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Paris Commune (Yaroslav Dombrowski, 1951), about the biologist A.A. Lyubishchev (This Strange Life, 1974), about the physicist I. V. Kurchatov (Choice of Target, 1975), about the geneticist N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky (Zubr, 1987), about the French scientist F. Arago (The Tale of One Scientist and One Emperor, 1971), about difficult fate one of the participants in the Great Patriotic War, K.D. Burim (Clavdia Vilor, 1976), as well as in essays about Russian physicists M.O. Dolivo-Dombrovsky (Far Feat, 1951) and V. Petrov (Reflections in front of a portrait that does not exist, 1968).

Event in public life country was the appearance of Granin’s main documentary work - the Siege Book (1977–1981, jointly with A.A. Adamovich), based on authentic evidence, written and oral, of residents of besieged Leningrad, full of thoughts about the price of human life.

Journalism and restrained linguistic energy of writing, combined with the constant affirmation of a “non-utilitarian” and precisely because of this, simultaneously “kind” and “beautiful” attitude towards man, his work and the art he created, are also characteristic of Granin’s philosophical prose - the novel Painting (1980), lyrical - and socio-psychological stories about modernity: Rain in a Strange City (1973), Namesake (1975), Return Ticket (1976), The Trace is Still Visible (1984, dedicated to war memories), Our Dear Roman Avdeevich (1990). New facets of the writer's talent were revealed in the novel Escape to Russia (1994), which tells about the life of scientists in the vein of not only documentary and philosophical-journalistic, but also adventure-detective storytelling.

Daniil Granin. Three loves of Peter the Great

D. A. Granin’s novel “The Three Loves of Peter the Great” took more than ten years to write. The writer examined a huge number of sources and archival documents. That is why Peter is so reliable - the worker-tsar, the scientist-tsar, his associates, friends, enemies. Historians who spoke at the presentation of the book solemnly declared that there was not a single historical error in the novel.

Previously, the book was published under the title “Evenings with Peter the Great.” Now readers are offered an updated and expanded edition of “The Three Loves of Peter the Great.” This is a frank story about the personality of Peter the Great and about love. What kind of person he was, how he built relationships with loved ones, how he experienced emotional wounds, what kind of women he loved - all this is written in Granin’s novel.

The writer with authentic skill allows the reader to look deep into the Peter the Great era and present the Russian emperor as a person, as a figure of global scale, striving for a great goal, committing deeds that were fateful for the country. It is important for the author to show the inner appearance of the emperor: he examines in detail the spiritual qualities of Peter I, comprehends the turning points of his spiritual life, and reveals the dramatic pages of his personal, including family and love, biography.

The author unmistakably guesses the pain points of our lives, writes about what worries, worries, and occupies people's minds. That is why the appeal to the era seems surprisingly timely. Peter's reforms, current reforms - what is the price of the reforms? And is the bright future worth the sacrifices that an individual makes in the name of the illusory happiness of future generations? It’s time to pronounce the verdict of history.

Daniil Granin: “I wrote a book about nothing...” (Mikhail Sadchikov. Fontanka.ru, http://ppt.ru/daily/?id=60557)

Unusual billboards have appeared on the streets of St. Petersburg - the city congratulates Daniil Granin, one of its most respected and beloved residents, on his 90th birthday. The birthday of the laureate of State Prizes, Hero of Socialist Labor, holder of many orders, former member of the Presidential Council, honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, and most importantly, a very good writer is January 1, but the “Granin days” have already begun.

The anniversary ten-day period was opened by a meeting of the master with readers in the White Column Hall of the Russian National Library. There, the ageless hero of the day presented a new book, “Whims of My Memory,” written in the form of short notes collected by the author throughout his life - from the 30s to the present day. Granin himself admitted to a Fontanka columnist that his old dream had come true: “I wrote a book about nothing...”

This original idea was once suggested to Granin by his favorite writer Konstantin Paustovsky. At first this thought seemed simply a paradox, but the further he went, the more he became convinced that this was a most exciting idea: to take a blank sheet of paper and start writing without any plan, plot, simply whatever the soul asked for, whatever the memory prompted. And Granin went on an absolutely free journey through the back streets of his memory, disdaining chronological sequence and genre features. I wrote a book about what I saw and heard, sad, absurd, funny, anecdotal, calling it “Quirks of My Memory.”

Of course, this is not a memoir, although many chapters are filled with memories. These are not diaries or excerpts from the writer’s notebook. Granin writes about his family, about himself, remembers those with whom fate brought him together - Olga Berggolts, Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev, Mikhail Anikushin, Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich and many others. The “book about nothing” contains space for reflection on the most complex issues of faith, the universe, conscience, and love. The starting point for the memories was the first days of the war: the chapter “Summer Garden” opens with a surprisingly warm photograph of three comrades - Vadim, Ben and Danila - in tunics, smiling, as if they were not going to the front, but to their own wedding: “We parted, confident that not for long. One way or another, we will gouge them. Very soon we were overtaken by disappointment, it turned into despair, despair - into anger, both at the Germans and at our superiors, and yet a latent confidence remained, gloomy, frantic. We walked away along the main alley, the ancient Roman gods looked at us, for them everything had already happened once: war, the fall of the empire, plague, devastation.”

How different these lines are from everything you’ve ever read about the war before. And this slang “gouge” next to the ancient Greek gods, and this premise into the then absolutely unknown post-war future, where there really was a place for war, the fall of the empire, chaos, devastation...

Only a very wise and perspicacious person can write this way. But after living for almost nine decades, Granin finds the strength to admit: “I think that I still haven’t understood myself. A person is more than his life. Sometimes much more. A person consists of omissions, unfulfilled desires and aspirations, and opportunities. What is realized is life. But a huge part of a person is the unrealized.”

So much for a “book about nothing”! However, in ordinary life Granin even remains silent in a special way. And if he smiles, narrows his eyes, gives you a look, it’s as if he’s shining an X-ray on you. You want to gain wisdom from such a person, forgetting about the dollar exchange rate and the world of glamor.

At a meeting at the Russian National Library, I asked Daniil Alexandrovich about the secrets of his eternal youth. And in the case of Granin, we can talk about eternal youth without quotes: he came to the library himself, climbed the steep stairs to the White Column Hall, gave a TV interview on the way, spent two and a half intense hours talking about the book, answering lively questions and notes , signing autographs. And he said: “I don’t have any secrets of youth. The only thing I always wanted was to live in such a way that every day would be the happiest.”

Anyone who decides that “Quims of My Memory” is a wise but rather boring book by the master will be mistaken. Granin's humor is a special topic. It spreads across all the pages of the book. Even the final chapter, where we're talking about about the most important thing, Daniil Aleksandrovich called with irony “About the meaning.” And as the book progresses, he remembers a lot funny stories not only about his contemporaries - the memory takes the author into the thickness of centuries. And now the chapter “Ancient Tales” appears, from which you can find out that Pericles had a head in the shape of an onion, the sculptors put a helmet on him, and on all the busts he wears a helmet. Memory takes the author to Russia, and now new story that Lomonosov’s peasant origin irritated many courtiers, and Prince Kurakin told him: “I am from the Rurikovichs, I descend from Vladimir the Red Sun. And you?" - to which Lomonosov replied: “And my entire pedigree, all the records of our family died during global flood" From Pericles and Lomonosov, the writer’s memory, having made a new zigzag, suddenly turns to the statements of the most ordinary children, discovering, for example, the following: “The main trouble of Moscow is that it is surrounded on all sides by Russia.”

I have always been amazed that the years go by, rulers change and political systems, and Granin remains absolutely modern. It feels like he sees everything and knows everything. On the one hand, he admits that he hardly watches current TV, and on the other hand, he gives in the book such an accurate description of what is happening: “Television is producing more and more celebrities. Most of it is famous only for what ends up on the screen. They give countless interviews. An artist who advertised medicines, when he appears on stage, they recognize him: “Ah-ah! This is the one who advertised Imodium for diarrhea.”

On the eve of the anniversary, endless questions about age are inevitable, and Granin included in the book the chapter “Speech on his anniversary,” where he wrote wonderfully: “An anniversary is by no means a serious matter and not a reason for thinking about life, before you had to think, an anniversary is needed for to gather you all: and not those who are needed for some reason, but only those who are necessary..."

IN Soviet times Granin’s books, including “I’m Going into a Storm,” became bestsellers, were printed in huge editions, and were filmed based on them art films. Today “Quims of My Memory” was published without any advertising support, with a circulation of 4 thousand copies... But Daniil Alexandrovich is not irritated or indignant about this either, but says that there is hope that good literature lives a long time, anyone who reads it will certainly pass the book on to a friend or tell about it.

Fortunately, all of Granin’s books are still being reprinted. And for the anniversary, in addition to the new book “Whims of My Memory,” an eight-volume collection of works is also being published...

Daniil Granin – laureate of the Big Book Prize (http://www.litsnab.ru/literature/8040)

Daniil Granin became a laureate of the National Literary Award "Big Book". His novel “My Lieutenant...” received first prize in the competition

The jury of the award includes more than one hundred people from different regions Russia. These are professional writers, public and statesmen, journalists, entrepreneurs. They are the ones who determine the three laureates. The prize fund is 6.1 million rubles.

Among the finalists of the award were also Vladimir Makanin, Sergei Nosov, Zakhar Prilepin. Andrey Rubanov, Maria Galina, Lena Eltang, Vladimir Gubailovsky, Alexander Grigorenko.

The finalists' books were posted on the Internet. The winners of the reader vote prizes were “Women of Lazarus” by Marina Stepnova, “Medvedkas” by Maria Galina and “Unholy Saints” by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov).

National literary prize The Big Book was founded in 2005. Its co-founders are the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Federal agency in Printing and Mass Communications, Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Book Union, Russian Library Association, ITAR-TASS and VGTRK.

Biography

Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin (pseudonym; real name German) - Russian Soviet writer and public figure; Hero of Socialist Labor (1989), Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg (2005), laureate of the USSR State Prize and the State Prize of Russia, as well as the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art, the Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg in the field of literature, art and architecture, prize Heine and other awards.

Born into the family of a forester. In 1940 he graduated from the electromechanical department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and worked at the Kirov plant. From there he went to the front and fought in tank forces until the end of the war. Member of the CPSU since 1942. From 1945 to 1950 he worked at Lenenergo and the Research Institute. Elected People's Deputy of the USSR (1989-1991). He was the initiator of the creation of the Leningrad society "Mercy". President of the Society of Friends of the Russian National Library; Chairman of the Board of the International Charitable Foundation. D. S. Likhacheva.

In 1993 he signed the “Letter of the 42”.

Began publishing in 1949. The main theme of Granin's works is realism and poetry of scientific and technical creativity, the struggle between seekers, principled scientists and untalented people, careerists, bureaucrats.

Bibliography

1949 “Victory of engineer Korsakov”
1954 "The Searchers"
1956 “Own Opinion”
1958 "After the Wedding"
1962 “I’m going into the storm”
1967 “Place for a Monument”
1969 "Someone Has to"
1970 "Beautiful Uta"
1972 "Rock Garden"
1974 "It's a Strange Life"
1975 "Namesame"
1976 "Claudia Vilor"
1977-1981 “Siege Book” (co-authored with Ales Adamovich, published in 1991)
1980 "Painting"
1987 "Bison"
1989 "Forbidden Chapter"
1990 “Our dear Roman Avdeevich”
1990 "Unknown Man"
1994 “Flight to Russia”
2000 “Evenings with Peter the Great”
2003 “On the Other Side”
2008 “Leaf Fall”
2010 “It wasn’t quite like that...”
2011 “My Lieutenant”
2012 "Conspiracy"

Titles, awards and bonuses

* Hero of Socialist Labor (1989),

* Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree,
* The order of Lenin,
* Order of the Red Banner,
* Order of the Red Banner of Labor,
* Order of the Red Star,
* Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree,
* Order of Friendship of Peoples,
* Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class - Officer's Cross (Germany)


* On January 26, 2009, Russian President D. A. Medvedev awarded Daniil Granin the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called Russian Federation.

Film adaptations

Based on his scripts or with his participation, films were shot at Lenfilm:
* "The Searchers", 1957 (director M. Shapiro);
* “After the Wedding”, 1963 (director M. Ershov);
* “I’m going into the storm”, 1965 (director S. Mikaelyan);
* "The First Visitor", 1966 (director L. Kvinikhidze).

at Mosfilm:
* "Choice of Target", 1976 (director I. Talankin);
* "Picture", 1985 (director B. Mansurov);
* “Defeat”, 1987 (director B. Mansurov).

Television filmed "The Namesake" (1978) (directed by Olgerd Vorontsov), "Rain in a Strange City" (1979) (directed by Vladimir Gorpenko, Mikhail Reznikovich), "Someone Must..." (1985) (directed by Nikita Tyagunov)

Biography (http://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/kultura_i_obrazovanie/literatura/GRANIN_DANIIL_ALEKSANDROVICH.html)

GRANIN, DANIIL ALEXANDROVICH (b 1918), present. surname German, Russian writer. Born on January 1, 1918 in the village of Volyn (now Kursk region) in the family of a forester. In 1940 he graduated from the electromechanical department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (where after the war he studied in graduate school); worked as an engineer at the Kirov plant. In 1941 he went to the front with the people's militia, rising from a soldier to a company commander. After the war, he worked at Lenenergo and published articles in scientific and technical periodicals.

He began his literary activity in 1937 with the stories The Return of Rouliac and the Motherland (on their basis, in 1951 the story about the hero of the Paris Commune, J. Dombrowski, General of the Commune, was created). The main theme of Granin - romance and the risk of scientific research - was defined by the writer in the story Option Two (1949), which also outlined the main aspect of its consideration in the writer’s work: the moral choice of a scientist, especially relevant in the era of the scientific and technological revolution and technocratic illusions. Here the young scientist refuses to defend his dissertation because in the work of the deceased researcher he discovered, the sought-after problem was solved more effectively. In the story Victory of Engineer Korsakov (published in 1949 under the title Dispute across the Ocean), written not without the influence of the then patriotic officialdom, the Soviet scientist defeats his American colleague in a correspondence polemic. The contrast between genuine scientists, selfless innovators and lovers of truth, and self-interested careerists is the central conflict of the novels The Seekers (1954, film of the same name, 1957; director M.G. Shapiro) and especially I’m Going into the Thunderstorm (1962, film of the same name, 1966, script by Granin and director. S.G. Mikaelyan), one of the first to give a new, “thaw” breath to the Soviet “industrial novel”, combining the acuteness of research problems, the poetry of the movement of thought and the invasion of the world of “physicists”, shrouded in a haze of mystery and respectful admiration, with a lyrical and confessional tonality and social criticism of the “sixties”. Freedom of personal expression in the fight against all levels of authoritarian power is affirmed by the writer in the story Own Opinion (1956), as well as in the novel After the Wedding (1958, film of the same name directed by M.I. Ershov) and the story Someone Must (1970), in which Granin’s desire to connect the spiritual formation of the hero with the purpose of his work - as usual, manifested in the scientific and production sphere - draws a chain reaction of meanness, and, betraying the ideological romanticism characteristic of early Granin, does not find an optimistic way out.

An active public figure in the first years of perestroika, Granin became one of the initiators of the creation of the Russian Pen Club. Author of numerous journalistic works.

Biography

Born in the village of Volyn (now Kursk region) in the family of a forester. In 1940 he graduated from the electromechanical department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (where after the war he studied in graduate school); worked as an engineer at the Kirov plant. In 1941 he went to the front with the people's militia, rising from a soldier to a company commander. After the war, he worked at Lenenergo and published articles in scientific and technical periodicals.

He began his literary activity in 1937 with the stories The Return of Rouliac and the Motherland (on their basis, in 1951 the story about the hero of the Paris Commune, J. Dombrowski, General of the Commune, was created). The main theme of Granin - romance and the risk of scientific research - was defined by the writer in the story Option Two (1949), which also outlined the main aspect of its consideration in the writer’s work: the moral choice of a scientist, especially relevant in the era of the scientific and technological revolution and technocratic illusions. Here the young scientist refuses to defend his dissertation because in the work of the deceased researcher he discovered, the sought-after problem was solved more effectively.

In the story Victory of Engineer Korsakov (published in 1949 under the title Dispute across the Ocean), written not without the influence of the then patriotic officialdom, the Soviet scientist defeats his American colleague in a correspondence polemic. The contrast between genuine scientists, selfless innovators and lovers of truth, and self-interested careerists is the central conflict of the novels The Seekers (1954, film of the same name, 1957; director M.G. Shapiro) and especially I’m Going into the Thunderstorm (1962, film of the same name, 1966, script by Granin and director. S.G. Mikaelyan), one of the first to give a new, “thaw” breath to the Soviet “industrial novel”, combining the acuteness of research problems, the poetry of the movement of thought and the invasion of the world of “physicists”, shrouded in a haze of mystery and respectful admiration, with a lyrical and confessional tonality and social criticism of the “sixties”. Freedom of personal expression in the fight against all levels of authoritarian power is affirmed by the writer in the story Own Opinion (1956), as well as in the novel After the Wedding (1958, film of the same name directed by M.I. Ershov) and the story Someone Must (1970), in which Granin’s desire to connect the spiritual formation of the hero with the purpose of his work - as usual, manifested in the scientific and production sphere - draws a chain reaction of meanness, and, betraying the ideological romanticism characteristic of early Granin, does not find an optimistic way out.

The attraction to documentary evidence manifested itself in Granin’s numerous essays and diaries (including in the books Unexpected Morning, 1962; Notes to the guidebook, 1967; Rock Garden, dedicated to his impressions of trips to Germany, England, Australia, Japan, France and other countries). , 1972, etc.), as well as in biographical stories - about the Polish revolutionary democrat and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Paris Commune (Yaroslav Dombrovsky, 1951), about the biologist A.A. Lyubishchev (This Strange Life, 1974), about the physicist I. V. Kurchatov (Choice of Target, 1975), about the geneticist N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky (Zubr, 1987), about the French scientist F. Arago (The Tale of One Scientist and One Emperor, 1971), about the difficult fate of one of the participants in the Great Patriotic War by K.D. Burim (Clavdia Vilor, 1976), as well as in essays about Russian physicists M.O. Dolivo-Dombrovsky (Far Feat, 1951) and V. Petrov (Reflections in front of a portrait that does not exist, 1968).

An event in the country's public life was the appearance of Granin's main documentary work - the Siege Book (1977–1981, jointly with A.A. Adamovich), based on authentic evidence, written and oral, of residents of besieged Leningrad, full of thoughts about the price of human life.

The journalistic nature and restrained linguistic energy of the writing, combined with the constant affirmation of a “non-utilitarian” and precisely because of this at the same time “kind” and “beautiful” attitude towards man, his work and the art he created, are also characteristic of Granin’s philosophical prose - the novel Painting (1980), lyrical - and socio-psychological stories about modernity: Rain in a Strange City (1973), Namesake (1975), Return Ticket (1976), The Trace is Still Visible (1984, dedicated to war memories), Our Dear Roman Avdeevich (1990). New facets of the writer's talent were revealed in the novel Escape to Russia (1994), which tells about the life of scientists in the vein of not only documentary and philosophical-journalistic, but also adventure-detective storytelling.

An active public figure in the first years of perestroika, Granin became one of the initiators of the creation of the Russian Pen Club. Author of numerous journalistic works.

Quotes

“There is a world of the ideal and a world of the real. I lived and acted in the real world. It housed science, technology, and work. The ideal, the spiritual – I didn’t look there. […]

But then I looked in, and it turned out that there was a huge world there, literature, a thousand-year history. Soul - we cannot do without it; since there is a soul, that means there are its properties, its life...

Another world is not hell, not heaven, it is a different existence. What remains from a person is the idea of ​​a person, perhaps the sublime that could be in him. Unrealized love is the compassion of the Lord that remains for everyone.”

“For me, my favorite painting in the Hermitage is “The Return of the Prodigal Son” by Rembrandt. I see this whole biblical parable on the canvas: the prodigal son returns defeated, he is wearing the worn, beggarly, dirty rags of a tramp, rough worn-out shoes on his bare feet, we see his heel, worn down from long walking. I haven't achieved anything, I'm hungry, I'm barefoot. I remembered my home and made up my mind and came with repentance. Everything is simple until this moment. He returned, but where?

He was returning to what he had left; for him, home, that is, the past, remained motionless. But what he found was not at all what he had left, a blind, decrepit father; in front of him was the very past time, lost, wasted, a time of grief, waiting, irreplaceable, just as the blindness of the father who cried out his eyes is irreplaceable.

By the way, in the biblical parable the father is not blind, he saw his son approaching, he recognized him. Rembrandt makes him blind, contrary to the Bible. A blind father recognizes his son, recognizes him by touch, by touch.

There is visible guilt in front of the son.

This is where the main thing begins. This parable is one of the most difficult stories in the Bible: “The repentant sinner is worth more than the righteous.” To his father, he is now more important than his other son, who stayed with him, observing all the laws of family morality, faithfully helping his father all these years. So no, tramp, dissolute son at this moment more expensive than that, righteous. A calf is slaughtered for him, all the father’s love is directed to him.

The one who realized his sin went through a difficult, arduous path, like this prodigal son, his soul endured torment, so it was with the Apostle Peter, who betrayed his Teacher three times.

It’s all true, but I still can’t fully understand it. In The Prodigal Son, the father is love itself and the joy of forgiveness. Happiness returned to his soul. His blind face is one of the best images of happiness, in all its completeness. We don’t see the son’s face, maybe he’s crying, we only see the blind father, his hands, he feels with them, without even touching his son. The son’s bent back, he is kneeling in front of his father, his weary heel is in front of us, it was a long way to return home.”

“Negotiations with conscience are always difficult, of course, you can persuade it, but it’s not like it agrees, it just calms down, and suddenly one day, at the most inopportune moment, it starts to remember the same thing again.

They enter into deals with her: “okay, I offended you, then I’ll correct it,” “I’ll compensate for the injustice someday,” “if I get a position, I’ll compensate.”

If there is no conscience, then everything is permitted. From Dostoevsky: “If there is no God, then everything is permitted.” Conscience is like a small representation of God.”

“There are no atheists. In fact, almost every person, albeit secretly, believes in a higher power, Providence, Fate, Rock... A moment comes: war, illness, the suffering of loved ones, their death, a tragic trial - and he calls out to his patron: “Save! Have mercy! Protect!

His personal, secret Almighty must help out.

How many times have I seen and heard this during the four years of war. How many times have I, an unbeliever, become a believer - before a battle, during artillery shelling, during reconnaissance, when I got lost, when I got confused at night, and stopped understanding where ours were and where the Germans were. When my father got sick...You never know. He remained alive, managed to get out, so what? But nothing, no faith appeared, not at all, and there was no feeling that He helped, not at all, he attributed everything to himself or to a happy accident. But still, somewhere gratitude was delayed, a feeling of a miracle not just of life, but of one’s life was accumulating.

I don’t know, maybe something happens to others too, but over the years I have grown this feeling of the miracle of my life, and in the very nature of the miracle, probably, lies faith. Into incomprehensibility, into the mysteries of spirit or flesh - in any case, it appears.”

“I would like to believe in God, but I'm afraid. Why am I afraid? A question I've been avoiding answering. I didn’t want to, however, as I grew older, I relentlessly approached and ran into this question. Over the years, the life you have lived becomes disappointing, loses its meaning, and you involuntarily turn to God. And that's what came to my mind - I'm afraid because I don't want to suffer. For unrighteous deeds, for vanity, selfishness, for sins that are not sins until you believe, but as soon as you believe, they will become sins and there will be countless of them... It will be unpleasant to look back at your past, you will ruin the rest of your life. There is no way to fix it; there is not enough time to pray for it.

Enumeration is not yet repentance.”

“For some reason, conscience is never false. If she gnaws, then rest assured, she’s going to do it. It’s as if someone is hearing from the outside: “It’s not good, brother, to do this, it’s not nice!” Now in a whisper, now gloomily, now screaming: “Ugh, what a shame, what are you doing!” At night it wakes me up and bothers me.

Maybe conscience really is evidence of the divine origin of man. We got it from Adam, from original sin. It is no coincidence that shame was the first feeling that distinguished a person from other living creatures.

They, Adam and Eve, covered themselves fig leaves, and the shame passed. Shame was a taboo. In films, African tribal men and women wear loincloths. This has always puzzled me: why? Is this a sign of civilization? Or a human need? Or the presence of that higher principle that was given to man at the creation of the world, when the Lord asked Adam: “Who told you that you were naked?”

“I have read the Gospel before, and recently I re-read it. And suddenly, unexpectedly, I realized...What is this? Each of the four Gospels is a story, a fairly simple biographical story from the “Life of Remarkable People” series. About tragic life one man.

Why, one might ask, does this story have such power and such artistic uniqueness? Here Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy tried to write his Gospel. It didn’t work out for him, I read. Dry, moralizing, uninteresting compared to the stories of these carpenters and fishermen. What is the secret of this essay?

There are probably some literary approaches to this. I haven't read them. But the amazingness of this story, of course, amazes me.

Why does it work this way? Why have people been reading this for almost two thousand years? And it still works, everyone still finds something for themselves. What's the matter? What is the secret of this? If we approach this as a purely literary phenomenon, discarding the fact that this is a holy book?

You will say: you can’t throw this away. And why? This is text. This is just text. Story. Biography. This is how a man was born, this is how he had misadventures, this is how he had his disciples, this is how he died.

But no! Something else appears on top of this. Like this? How can we explain this? Even for a person who, like me, was brought up in atheism, some strange feeling arises willy-nilly, and you don’t understand: how was this achieved?

They say: sacred meaning. But these are just words and phrases arranged in some order. Why can’t even a religious person create something like this? Why were the priests, the blessed, the saints, having written a lot of texts (Blessed Augustine, Thomas, and so on), unable to rise to these heights? They can be read, sometimes interesting, but this is not at all the same level. I have no explanation. I don't know if anyone has them.

Yes, you can hide behind the words “this is Holy Scripture.” Add faith, something divine. But all this does not explain purely artistic power. And not only the Gospels, but, for example, the amazing “Book of Job”. What it is? Is this somehow connected with a feeling of love for people or love for God, faith and similar feelings?

Quoted from: Granin D.A. Quirks of my memory. – M.: Tsentropoligraf, 2009

From the book "My Lieutenant"

“In the evening, when we were drinking tea with tea leaves made from our herbs, dried by Medvedev, I suddenly told him about my first murder. It’s hard to understand why this got me. I tried never to think about it, over the past month I haven’t said a word to anyone. Over time, details began to return to this case.

I was loading boxes of ammunition onto a cart when our lieutenant ordered us to run to the command post of our company, for some reason they were not visible, let them not linger with their junk. I grabbed it and ran. Even from a distance I saw two butts near the dugout, at the entrance to it; over these months they grew in memory into two huge butts. I was about to call out, but the sound stuck in my throat - a gray color, a German color, like a flash flashed in my brain, and at the same moment my hand clicked the shutter, my finger pressed the hook, the machine gun twitched, shook, it was he himself, not me, fanned out in both, couldn't stop. A splash of blood, a scream, but this was already in pursuit, a shell hits the bell tower of the white church and it is shrouded in brick dust, slowly breaking, I rushed and rushed, driven by horror.

Medvedev did not answer.

It would be nice to forget it completely,” I said.
“Or maybe it’s not necessary,” he said.
“No,” he added, “since I went to war, I have to kill.” I killed a few too. From Degtyarev. I don't know what they were. I didn't look. They came to the apiary. We knew they would come. It's good that you can't forget. I don’t know if I should pray for them? Isn't it blasphemy?
- Do you believe in God?
- Something like that.
After thinking, I asked if faith helps.
- So I’m not asking for help. From dust we came and to dust we will return. Either with a bullet in the chest, or with some kind of mischief.
-What are you praying for?
Medvedev scratched the back of his head.
“I don’t ask, I thank the Lord,” he smiled slightly, “for the fact that he breathed life into me and allowed me to admire his creation.” Of course, for love. I’m not asking “Let me stay here a little longer,” but “Thank you for deigning to invite me to this holiday.”
- Do you really think he exists?
- For me - yes.
- Is it for everyone or just for you?
- Don't know.
- Is our life a holiday?
- Certainly. It's a pity that you don't feel it.

From the book "My Lieutenant"

Once Zhenya Levashov and I were talking about how a person can sense God. Probably this is creativity, when a poet or artist composes or draws. And also in nature. But most of all, we agreed on this, in love. Motherhood meets the Creator in its child. Love is the most accessible, shortest path to the Almighty.

Biography (en.wikipedia.org)

Knight of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called, Hero of Socialist Labor (1989), Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg (2005), laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and the State Prize of Russia, as well as the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art, the Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg in the field of literature , art and architecture, Heine Prize and other awards.

Born into the family of forester Alexander Danilovich German and his wife Anna Bakirovna. In 1940 he graduated from the electromechanical department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and worked at the Kirov plant. From there he went to the front as part of a people's militia division, fought at the Luga line, then at the Pulkovo Heights. Then he was seconded to the Ulyanovsk Tank School, fought in the tank forces, his last position at the front was as commander of a company of heavy tanks. Member of the CPSU since 1942. From 1945 to 1950 he worked at Lenenergo and the Research Institute. Elected People's Deputy of the USSR (1989-1991). He was a member of the editorial board of the Roman-Gazeta magazine. He was the initiator of the creation of the Leningrad society "Mercy". President of the Society of Friends of the Russian National Library; Chairman of the Board of the International Charitable Foundation. D. S. Likhacheva. Member of the World Club of St. Petersburgers.

In 1993 he signed the “Letter of Forty-Two”.

Creation

* Started publishing in 1949. The main direction and theme of Granin's works is realism and poetry of scientific and technical creativity - Granin's technical education is reflected here, almost all of his works are devoted to scientific research, search, the struggle between seekers, principled scientists and untalented people, careerists, bureaucrats.
* novel “The Searchers” (1954)
* novel “I'm Going into a Storm” (1962)
* The novel “After the Wedding” (1958) is dedicated to the fate of a young inventor sent by the Komsomol to work in the village. All three novels were dramatized for the theater, and films of the same name were made based on them.
* stories and stories “The Victory of Engineer Korsakov” (published in 1949 under the title “Dispute Across the Ocean”), “Option Two” (1949), “Yaroslav Dombrovsky” (1951), “Own Opinion” (1956), books of essays about trips to the GDR, France, Cuba, Australia, England - “An Unexpected Morning” (1962) and “Notes to the Guide” (1967), the story “House on the Fontanka” (1967), the story “Our Battalion Commander” (1968), reflections about “The Bronze Horseman” by A. S. Pushkin - “Two Faces” (1968).
* Fiction and documentary work: “This Strange Life” (1974, about the biologist A. A. Lyubishchev), “Claudia Vilor” (1976, USSR State Prize), the novel “Bison” (1987, about the fate of the biologist N. V. Timofeev -Resovsky), “The Siege Book”, parts 1-2 (1977-1981, together with A. M. Adamovich). The novel “The Picture” (1979) and the story “The Unknown Man” (1990) touch upon the problems of preserving historical memory and analyze the condition of a person losing his place in the social hierarchy. “The Tale of One Scientist and One Emperor” - biography of Arago (1991). Spy novel “Flight to Russia” (1994). The story “The Broken Trace” is about the life of scientists in modern Russia (2000).
* Essay “Fear” - about overcoming totalitarianism and communism.

Bibliography

* 1949 “Victory of Engineer Korsakov” (the story of the superiority of the USSR over the USA)
* 1954 “The Searchers” (novel)
* 1956 “Own Opinion” (a story-parable about the duplicity of a Soviet technocrat)
* 1958 “After the Wedding” (novel)
* 1962 “I'm going into the storm” (novel)
* 1968 “Our battalion commander” (story)
* 1969 “Someone Must” (story) (about scientists, about moral choice)
* 1970 “Beautiful Uta” (a work freely combining reflections and autobiographical notes)
* 1972 “Rock Garden” (collection)
* 1973 “Rain in a foreign city” (story)
* 1974 “This Strange Life” (documentary biographical story about A. A. Lyubishchev)
* 1975 “The Namesake” (a story in which the hero, an engineer, meets a certain young man- supposedly himself, but in his youth, when he was subjected to unfair criticism, he was filmed)
* 1975 “Claudia Vilor” (documentary, USSR State Prize)
* 1977-1981 “Siege Book” (documentary, chronicles of the siege of Leningrad; co-authored with Ales Adamovich, a ban was imposed on the publication of this book in Leningrad. For the first time, part of it was printed with banknotes in 1977 in the magazine “ New world", and in Leningrad the book was published only in 1984 after the change of the party leadership of the city and G. Romanov’s move to Moscow)

“I have a bad attitude towards D. Granin, or more precisely towards what he says and writes about the blockade. This is all wrong and biased. No matter what he says, his thoughts are inclined to the fact that “the city had to be surrendered,” and this is generally the wrong way to pose the question. If we had surrendered it, there would have been nothing left of it, the victims would have been worse than those during the siege... The country’s leaders, including Zhdanov, did everything to save Leningrad.”
(Grigory Romanov) .

* 1980 “Painting” (novel)
* 1984 “The trace is still visible” (story)
* 1987 “Bison” (documentary biographical novel about N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky)
* 1990 “Our dear Roman Avdeevich” (satire on Grigory Romanov)
* 1990 "Unknown Man"
* 1991 “The Tale of One Scientist and One Emperor”
* 1994 "Flight to Russia" (documentary story about Joel Bahr and Alfred Sarant)
* 1997 “Fear” (essay)
* 2000 “The Broken Trace” (story)
* 2000 “Evenings with Peter the Great” (historical novel, filmed)
* 2009 “Quirks of my memory” (memoirs)
* 2010 “It wasn’t quite like that” (reflections written in the form of short notes collected throughout his life, describing his childhood, family, friends, main events post-war years and modern reality)
* 2011 “My Lieutenant” (novel)
* 2012 “Conspiracy”

Film adaptations

* 1956 - The Searchers
* 1965 - I'm going into the storm
* 1965 - First visitor
* 1974 - Selecting a target
* 1978 - Namesake
* 1979 - Rain in a strange city
* 1985 - Painting
* 1985 - Someone should...
* 1987 - Defeat
* 2009 - Reading “The Siege Book”
* 2011 - Peter the Great. Will

In all films except “Reading the Siege Book,” Granin is the author (co-author) of the script.

Awards and titles

* Hero of Socialist Labor (03/1/1989),
* Order of St. Andrew the First-Called (December 28, 2008) - for outstanding contribution to development Russian literature, many years of creative and social activity
* Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (January 1, 1999) - for services to the state and great contribution to the development of domestic literature
* 2 Orders of Lenin (11/16/1984; 03/1/1989),
* Order of the Red Banner,
* Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (03/11/1985),
* Order of the Red Banner of Labor (10/28/1967),
* Order of Friendship of Peoples (01/2/1979),
* Order of the Red Star (11/2/1942) - for exemplary performance of combat missions of the front command for the restoration and repair of military equipment
* Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st class - Officer's Cross (Germany), medals.
* Honorary citizen of St. Petersburg (2005).
* Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow (ROC) II degree (2009).
* Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts
* Minor planet of the solar system number 3120 is named after Granin.
* In October 2008, he received in St. Petersburg the international prize for the development and strengthening of humanitarian ties in the countries of the Baltic region “Baltic Star” (diploma, badge and cash prize), which also awarded to Thomas Venclova, Raymond Pauls, Ingmar Bergman (award established in 2004 by the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation, the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg, the World Club of St. Petersburg and the Baltic International Festival Center Foundation)
* Literary Bunin Prize (2011)
* Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize (2012)
* First Big Book Prize (2012)

Sources

* Kazak V. Lexikon of Russian literature of the 20th century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917. - M.: RIK "Culture", 1996. - 492 p. - 5000 copies. - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8
* Zolotonosov M.N. Another Granin, or the Case of a Liberal // Literary Russia. 2010. May 28. No. 22
* shortened version: Zolotonosov M.N. I’m not going into a thunderstorm: How Leningrad writers survived the “Brodsky case” // City 812. No. 17, May 24, 2010

Notes

1. Order for Daniil Granin
2. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 28, 2008 No. 1864 “On awarding the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called Herman (Granin) D. A.”
3. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 1, 1999 No. 1 “On awarding the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, III degree, to German (Granin) D. A.”
4. Composition of PAX
5. Writer Daniil Granin celebrates his 90th birthday
6. The Baltic Star Award was received in St. Petersburg by Raymond Pauls, Daniil Granin and Thomas Venclova (literary scholar T. Venclova) (inaccessible link - history). Radio Echo of Moscow, St. Petersburg (October 20, 2008). Retrieved October 25, 2008.
7. Ceremony of presenting the International Prize for the development and strengthening of humanitarian ties in the countries of the Baltic region “Baltic Star”). State Hermitage Museum(2005). Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2008.

All of Russia is experiencing a terrible loss these days - the death of an incredibly talented writer, screenwriter and public figure, for whom the Motherland and its people always came first. Daniil Granin passed away at the age of 99 yesterday, July 4, 2017. The great loss became known today from a source close to the writer. Afterwards, information about the writer’s death was confirmed by Andrei Kibitov, who is the press secretary of Georgy Poltavchenko, the St. Petersburg governor.

Daniil Granin - biography:

The world-famous writer was born on New Year- January 1, 1919. According to some reports, the birthplace of Daniil Granin is the village of Volyn, Kursk province (RSFSR). According to other sources, he was born in the Saratov region. His real name is Herman. His father was Alexander Danilovich German, a forester, and his mother was Anna Bakirovna.

After Granin graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, the war began. And here official information and other information vary. According to first reports, he worked at the Kirov plant as an engineer, after which he went to fight as part of a people’s militia division. His last position during World War II was as commander of a company of heavy tanks. However, this information is refuted by literary critic Mikhail Zolotonosov. He stated that in fact, the official information was lying. According to him, Daniil Granin at the Kirov plant was deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee, and went to war as a senior political instructor. Also, this information does not confirm that the writer received the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Patriotic War, as well as his service as a commander of a tank company.

Daniil Granin began to study literature professionally in 1949. At the same time, he was involved in various public affairs:

He was secretary from 1965, second secretary from 1967 to 1971.
First secretary of the Leningrad branch of the RSFSR SP. (according to Zolotonosov, by the way, he was personally responsible for the conviction of I. A. Brodsky in 1964).
People's Deputy of the USSR (from 1989 to 1991).
Member of the editorial board of the Roman-Gazeta magazine.
The initiator of the creation of "Mercy", a Leningrad society.
President of the Society of Friends of the Russian National Library.
Chairman of the Board of the International Charitable Foundation. Likhacheva.
Member of the World Club of St. Petersburg residents.

Daniil Granin - personal life, family:

As for his personal life and family, Daniil Granin was married. His wife was Rimma Mikhailovna Mayorova. In his marriage to this woman, his daughter, Marina, was born in 1945. After his death legal wife in 2004, Daniil Alexandrovich did not remarry.