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Jan Larry

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Name at birth:	Jan Leopoldovich Larry
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Occupation:	Biography In 1940, Larry began to write the satirical novel The Heavenly Guest, in which he described the world order of the inhabitants of the Earth from the point of view of aliens, and sent the written chapters to Stalin - "the only reader" of this novel, as he believed; in April, after seven chapters sent, he was arrested. On July 5, 1941, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Leningrad City Court sentenced Larry Ya. L. to imprisonment for a period of ten years, followed by disqualification for a period of five years. Rehabilitated in 1956. After the camp, Larry wrote two children's stories: The Adventures of Cook and Kukka () and Notes of a Schoolgirl. One of the last lifetime publications of the writer was the fairy tale “Brave Tilly: Notes of a Puppy Written by a Tail” placed in Murzilka. Bibliography "Window to the Future" () Land of the happy: Publicistic story. - L .: Leningrad. region publishing house, 1931. - 192 p. - 50,000 copies. "The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali" () "The Mystery of Plain Water" () "Heavenly Guest" (-) "The Adventures of Cook and Kukka" () "Notes of a schoolgirl" () Write a review on the article "Larry, Jan Leopoldovich" Notes Links (with biographical information) in the library of Maxim Moshkov An excerpt characterizing Larry, Jan Leopoldovich Fate-mockery treated her very cruelly. When Leocadia was still a very small, but absolutely normal girl, she was “lucky” to fall down the stone steps very unfortunately and severely injure her spine and sternum. Doctors at first were not even sure if she would ever be able to walk. But, after some time, this strong, cheerful girl still managed, thanks to her determination and perseverance, to get up from the hospital bed and slowly but surely begin to take her “first steps” again ... Everything seems to have ended well. But, after some time, to everyone's horror, a huge, absolutely terrible hump began to grow in front and behind her, which later literally disfigured her body beyond recognition ... And, what was most offensive - nature, as if mocking, rewarded this a blue-eyed girl with an amazingly beautiful, bright and refined face, thereby, as if wanting to show what a marvelous beauty she could be if such a cruel fate had not been prepared for her ... I don’t even try to imagine what kind of heartache and loneliness this amazing woman had to go through, trying, as a little girl, to somehow get used to her terrible misfortune. And how could she survive and not break down when, many years later, having already become an adult girl, she had to look at herself in the mirror and understand that she could never experience simple female happiness, no matter how good and kind a person she was ... She she accepted her misfortune with a pure and open soul, and, apparently, this is what helped her to maintain a very strong faith in herself, not getting angry at the world around her and not crying over her evil, warped fate. Until now, as I remember now, her unchanging warm smile and joyful glowing eyes that met us every time, regardless of her mood or physical condition (and very often I felt how really hard it was for her) ... I am very loved and respected this strong, bright woman for her inexhaustible optimism and her deep spiritual goodness. And it seemed that it was she who did not have the slightest reason to believe the same goodness, because in many ways she had never been able to feel what it was like to truly live. Or perhaps felt much deeper than we could feel it? .. I was then still too little a girl to understand the whole abyss of difference between such a crippled life and the life of normal healthy people, but I remember very well that even many years later, memories of my wonderful neighbor very often helped me endure emotional insults and loneliness and not break when it was really very, very hard. I never understood people who were always dissatisfied with something and constantly complained about their always invariably “bitter and unfair” fate ... And I never understood the reason that gave them the right to believe that happiness was already destined for them in advance from their very birth and that they have, well, downright a “legal right” to this undisturbed (and completely undeserved!) happiness ... But I have never suffered such confidence about “obligatory” happiness and, probably, therefore, I did not consider my fate “bitter or unfair”, but on the contrary, I was a happy child in my soul, which helped me overcome many of those obstacles that are very “generous”. and constantly "given me my fate ... It's just that sometimes there were short breakdowns, when it was very sad and lonely, and it seemed that you just had to give up inside, not look for more reasons for your" unusual ", not fight for your" unproven "truth, like everyone else will immediately fall into place ... And there will be no more resentment, no bitterness of undeserved reproaches, no loneliness, which has already become almost permanent. But the next morning I met my dear, glowing like a bright sun, neighbor Leocadia, who joyfully asked: - What a wonderful day, isn't it? .. - And I, healthy and strong, immediately became very ashamed of my unforgivable weakness and, blushing like a ripe tomato, I clenched my then still small, but rather “purposeful” fists and was again ready to rush into battle with the whole world around me in order to defend my “abnormalities” and myself even more fiercely ... I remember how once, after yet another "mental confusion", I was sitting alone in the garden under my beloved old apple tree and mentally tried to "sort through" my doubts and mistakes, and was very unhappy with the result. My neighbor, Leocadia, planted flowers under her window (which, with her illness, was very difficult to do) and could see me perfectly. She probably didn’t really like my then state (which was always written on my face, regardless of whether it was good or bad), because she went to the fence and asked if I wanted to have breakfast with her with her pies?

Russian Soviet science fiction writer and journalist. All sources indicate that he was born in Riga, but in his autobiography the writer points to the Moscow region, where his father worked at that time. Again, officially (according to the KGB of the USSR), he is listed as a native of Riga (Lifland province, Russia). By nationality - Latvian.

His childhood passed near Moscow, but at the age of ten he was left an orphan (first his mother died, and a few years later his father) and for a long time was engaged in vagrancy. They tried to place him in an orphanage, but he escaped from there. For some time he worked as a boy in a tavern, as a student in a watch workshop, and then found shelter in the family of a teacher Dobrokhotov, where he passed the exams for a gymnasium course as an external student. Until 1917, he traveled a lot to different cities of Russia, and after the October Revolution he came to Petrograd, where, after unsuccessful attempts to enter the university, he joined the Red Army and took part in the Civil War. His military career, after suffering twice from typhus, ended rather quickly. In 1923, Jan Larry arrived in Kharkov and began to engage in journalism, collaborating with the local newspaper Young Leninist. The first published book was a collection of short stories for children, Sad and Funny Stories of Little People (1926). In the same year, his second book for children, The Stolen Country, was published in Ukrainian, and he decided to move to Leningrad. He entered the biological faculty of the Leningrad State University (graduating in 1931) and as a professional writer worked as a secretary of the Rabselkor magazine, then in the Leningradskaya Pravda newspaper. Since 1928, he switched to “free bread” and the books “Window to the Future” (1929), “Five Years” (1929, in collaboration with A. Livshits), “How It Was” (1930) began to come out from under his pen ), "Notes of a horseman" (1931).

In 1931, his journalistic story "The Land of the Happy" was published, in which the author outlined not so much a "Marxist" as a romantic, idealistic view of the communist future of the USSR. The views of the writer were in conflict with the existing opinion of the party leadership of the country, and his name was banned for several years. In a critical article of 1932, the writer was reproached for his lack of understanding of the tasks of the world revolution and his disagreement with the position of Comrade Stalin: “ Larry paints a communist society in the late 20th century. By isolating the USSR from the rest of the world, he, therefore, practically asserts that even in 50-60 years no social changes will occur for five-sixths of the world, while Comrade Stalin at the 7th Plenum of the ECCI emphasized that “the successes of socialist construction in our country, and even more so the victory of socialism and the destruction of classes, these are world-historical facts that cannot but evoke a mighty impulse towards socialism by the revolutionary proletarians of the capitalist countries, which cannot but evoke revolutionary explosions in other countries. Larry ignores this position, he does not believe in the forces of the world revolution».

The country of the happy (the author calls it the Republic in the book) is governed by an economic body - the Council of the Hundred, located in the new Moscow (the old one has been turned into a museum city). In this future Republic, separated from the USSR by the first five-year plans by half a century, socialism won a complete victory, human labor was shifted to the shoulders of automatic machines, which, however, created the problem of unemployment of the population, which lines up with long queues for public works at will.

Larry's attitude to the work of the new world can be seen in the following sketch: Workers idly walked around the plant, occasionally turning levers on switchboards.". Technology has made it possible to build giant cities and stratoplanes, there are light music and television, robotic waiters and high-speed jet cars. The state fenced itself off and opposes external countries, and by that time oil had also begun to run out, coal reserves had dried up, and an ecological catastrophe hung over the country. The author sees a way out of such a dangerous situation only in space colonization. And that two leaders of the Council, two old revolutionaries, Kogan and Molybdenum, oppose the funding of the space program. As a result, the progressive community, led by the young design scientist Pavel Stelmakh, rises up and wins. It is interesting that someone even saw a hint of Stalin in the image of the mustachioed stubborn Molybdenum, so one can only wonder how miraculously the book was able to slip through the barrier of censors. However, pretty soon, "Land of the Happy" was subjected to derogatory criticism, the book was withdrawn from libraries, and Larry simply stopped printing. Recalling this persecution, which coincided with the hopeless situation of pre-war science fiction literature, the writer will describe the position of a children's writer in Soviet literature of the 1930s: Around the children's book famously cancanated comprachoses of children's souls - teachers, "Marxist hypocrites" and other varieties of stranglers of all living things, when fantasy and fairy tales were burned with a red-hot iron ... My manuscripts were edited in such a way that I myself did not recognize my own works, because, except for the editors of the book, Everyone who had free time took an active part in correcting the "opuses", from the editor of the publishing house to the employees of the accounting department. Everything that the editors “improved” looked so poor that now I am ashamed to be considered the authors of those books.».

Ian Larry decides to quit literature forever, getting a job in his specialty at the Research Institute of Fisheries, where he soon finishes graduate school. Nevertheless, he still continues to periodically write articles and feuilletons for Leningrad newspapers.

But be that as it may, literature did not abandon Ian Larry, and soon he wrote his most famous work - the fairy tale story "", which tells children about the life of animals and insects in a fascinating way. The idea of creating the book belongs to Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak. He invited the famous geographer and biologist Academician Lev Berg, under whom Larry worked, to write a popular science book for children about entomology, the science of insects. Discussing the plot of the future book, they came to the conclusion that knowledge should be presented in the form of a fascinating science fiction story. Here the name of Ian Larry was remembered, who had to cope with such work. " While working as a graduate student at VNIIRKh (All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries), I simultaneously published articles and feuilletons in Leningrad newspapers and magazines, and therefore, probably, my “boss”, academician Lev Semenovich Berg, often gave me instructions as a writer: I edited reports of my comrades, wrote for the wall newspaper, took part in editing materials for the bulletin. And, it seems, was considered among ichthyologists almost a classic of literature».

And although the censors, after writing the story, saw in it, no less, a mockery of the greatness of the Soviet man (“ It is wrong to reduce a person to a small insect. So, voluntarily or involuntarily, we show a person not as the ruler of nature, but as a helpless creature ... When talking with young schoolchildren about nature, we must inspire them with the idea of a possible impact on nature in the direction we need”), Ian Larry categorically refused to remake the text and decided at first not to publish his story at all. But it was the influential and famous Marshak who actively defended the work that introduced Soviet schoolchildren to the basics of the young science of entomology. The story was published in the Leningrad magazine Koster, gained great popularity and went through two book editions before the war. And in 1939, the Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper published the fantastic story The Riddle of Plain Water, in which the author proposes to use water as a fuel, decomposing it into water and oxygen. In the following decades, the book The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali went through dozens of editions, becoming a classic of children's literature, and was filmed in 1987 (in the film, by the way, the full name of the hero is also mentioned - Oscar, and only Karik in the book).

Apparently in the nature of Jan Larry there was something rebellious, unable to remain silent in relation to the injustice being done. In such cases, fear for one's life subconsciously gives way to common sense and the pursuit of truth. In December 1940, the writer anonymously sent a letter addressed to Stalin with the chapters of his new fantastic story. In it, Jan Leopoldovich tried to paint a picture of the events taking place in the country, sincerely believing that Stalin was in the dark about the arbitrariness that was happening in the state. Here are the lines from that letter:

« Dear Joseph Vissarionovich! Every great man is great in his own way. After one, great deeds remain, after the other, funny historical anecdotes. One is known for having thousands of mistresses, the other for extraordinary Bucephalus, the third for wonderful jesters. In a word, there is no such great that would not rise in memory, not surrounded by some historical satellites; people, animals, things.

Not a single historical personality has yet had its own writer. Such a writer who would write only for one great man, However, in the history of literature there are no such writers who would have a single reader.

I take up the pen to fill this gap.

I will write only for you, without demanding for myself any orders, no fees, no honors, no glory.

It is possible that my literary abilities will not meet with your approval, but for this, I hope, you will not condemn me, just as people are not condemned for having red hair or for chipped teeth. I will try to replace the lack of talent with diligence, conscientious attitude to the obligations assumed.

In order not to tire you and not cause you traumatic damage with an abundance of boring pages, I decided to send my first story in short chapters, firmly remembering that boredom, like poison, in small doses not only does not threaten health, but, as a rule, even tempers people .

You will never know my real name. But I would like you to know that there is one eccentric in Leningrad who spends his leisure hours in a peculiar way - creating literary works for a single person, and this eccentric, without inventing a single worthy pseudonym, decided to sign Kulidzhary ... "

Ian Larry, as he wrote, sent to Joseph Stalin the chapters of his fantastic story The Heavenly Guest. In the center of the plot of the work is a visit by a Martian to the Earth, where, as it turns out, the state has existed for 117 years. The narrator introduces the alien to life in the USSR, with representatives of various social strata - a writer, scientist, engineer, collective farmer, worker. The envoy of Mars learns about the terrible poverty of the country, about the mediocrity and senselessness of most laws, about how “enemies of the people” are invented, about the tragic situation of the peasantry, about the hatred of the Bolsheviks for the intelligentsia, and that people are at the head of most educational institutions and scientific institutions. , "having no idea about science." And having got acquainted with the filing of Soviet newspapers, the stranger exclaims: “ What a boring life you have on Earth. I read and read, but I couldn't understand anything. What do you live? What issues are you concerned about? Judging by your newspapers, you only do what you do with bright, meaningful speeches at meetings and mark different historical dates. and celebrate anniversaries».

Starting on December 17, 1940, Ian Larry managed to write and send to Moscow seven chapters of an "anonymous story of counter-revolutionary content" until he was arrested on April 13, 1941. The NKVD investigators quickly figured him out, and the indictment presented to the writer said: “ The chapters of this story sent by Larry to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks were written by him from an anti-Soviet position, where he distorted Soviet reality in the USSR, cited a number of anti-Soviet slanderous fabrications about the situation of workers in the Soviet Union. In addition, in this story, Larry also tried to discredit the Komsomol organization, Soviet literature, the press and other ongoing activities of the Soviet government.».

On July 5, 1941, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Leningrad City Court sentenced Yan Leopoldovich Larry to imprisonment for 10 years, followed by disqualification for 5 years (under article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR). However, he had to spend 15 years in the Gulag. His rehabilitation in 1956, the writer returned to Leningrad and to literary work.

The writer lived at the address: Leningrad, pr. He was married and had a son. Subsequently, several more children's stories came out from under his pen: the novels "Notes of a Schoolgirl" (1961), "The Amazing Journey of Cook and Kukka" (1961) and the fairy tale "Brave Tilly" (1970). Ian Larry has died at the age of 77.

Author's works

Collections

1926 - Sad and funny stories about little people
Tale
1926 - Stolen Country (Stolen Country)
1930 - How it was
1931 - Notes of a horseman
1931 - Land of the happy
1937 - The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali
1940 - Heavenly Guest (not finished or published)
1961 - The Amazing Journey of Cook and Kukka
1961 - Notes of a schoolgirl
stories
1926 - Yurka
1926 - Radio engineer
1926 - First arrest
1926 - Delegation
1926 - Political Controller Misha
1939 - The Riddle of Plain Water
1957 - Fishing in the spring
1970 - Brave Tilly
Essays
1929 - Treasury of mines
1929 - Window to the Future
1929 - Five years / Co-author. with Abram Arnovochy Livshits
1941 - Locust
Filmography and film adaptations
1931 - Man overboard - screenwriter / Co-author. with Pavel Stelmakh
1987 - The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali (USSR)
2005 - The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali (Russia) - cartoon

Bibliography in Russian

Individual editions

About little people: Sad and funny stories about little people: [Stories]. - Kharkov: Publishing house "Young Leninist", 1926. - 80 p. - (Library of the "Young Leninist", No. 108). 15,000 copies 27 kop. (about)
Window to the Future: [Essay for older children on the achievements of the five-year plan] - L .: Krasnaya Gazeta Publishing House; Printing house. Volodarsky, 1929. - 92 p. - (Library of the magazine "Young Proletarian"). 60 kop. 15,000 copies (about)
Five years: [Essay for older children on the 5-year plan for the development of the national economy] / Co-authors. with A. Livshits; Hood. G. Fitingoff. - L .: Publishing house "Krasnaya Gazeta"; Printing house. Volodarsky, 1929. - 120 p. - (Library of the children's newspaper "Lenin sparks"). 40 kop. 10,000 copies (about)
Five years: [Essay for older children on the 5-year plan for the development of the national economy] / Co-authors. with A. Livshits; Hood. G. Fitingoff. - - L .: Publishing house "Krasnaya Gazeta"; Printing house. Volodarsky, 1930. - 160 p. - (Library of the children's newspaper "Lenin sparks"). 60 kop. 15,000 copies (about)
How it was: [Story] / Cover by G Fitingof; Rice. S. Sokolova. - L .: Publishing house "Krasnaya Gazeta"; Printing house. Volodarsky, 1930. - 216 p. - (Library of the children's newspaper "Lenin sparks"). 1 rub. 15,000 copies (about)
Notes of a Horseman: [A Tale]. - L .: Leningrad Regional Publishing House; Printing house. Volodarsky, 1931. - 200 p. 1 p. 20 k. 50,000 copies. (about)
The Land of the Happy: A Publicistic Tale / Foreword. N. N. Glebov-Putilovsky. - L .: Leningrad Regional Publishing House, 1931. - 192 p. - (Supplement to the magazine "Stroyka"). 1 p. 20 k. 50,000 copies. (about)
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Photo-ill. S. Petrovich. - M.-L.: Detizdat, 1937. - 252 p. 5 p. 25 k. 25,000 copies. (p) - signed for publication on December 10, 1937.
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Fig. G. Fitingof. – Second, revised and revised edition. - M.-L.: Detizdat, 1940. - 248 p. 7 rub. 25,000 copies (p) - signed for publication on August 13, 1940.
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Science fiction story] / Art. A. Condein. - Third edition - M.: Detgiz, 1957. - 288 p. - (School library). 6 p. 95 k. 100,000 copies. (p) - signed for publication on October 30, 1957.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Science fiction story] / Cover by P. G. Tukin; Rice. G. P. Fitingof. - Kuibyshev: Book publishing house, 1958. - 276 p. 6 p. 70 k. 100,000 copies. (p) - signed for publication on November 18, 1958.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. Condein. - Fourth edition. - L.: Detgiz, 1960. - 240 p. - (School library). 6 p. 70 k. 200,000 copies. (p) - signed for publication on December 11, 1959.
The Amazing Journey of Cook and Kukka: [The Tale] / Fig. B. Kalaushin. - L.: Detgiz, 1961. - 64 p. 66 kop. 115,000 copies (about)
Extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Science fiction story] / Fig. L. I. Grigorieva. - K .: Ditvidav, 1961. - 304 p. 60 kop. 150,000 copies (p) - signed for publication on April 1, 1961.
Notes of a Schoolgirl: A Tale / Fig. N. Noskovich; Designed by I. A. Mihranyants. - L .: Children's literature, 1961. - 304 p. 65 kop. 65,000 copies (p) - signed for publication on September 14, 1961.
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Science fiction story] / Art. V. Chebotarev. - Vladivostok: Far Eastern Book Publishing House, 1965. - 252 p. 65 kop. 100,000 copies (P)
Extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Science fiction story] / Fig. T. Solovieva. - Ninth edition, revised and supplemented - L .: Children's literature, 1972. - 336 p. 75 kop. 100,000 copies (p) - signed for publication on February 15, 1972.
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Fig. M. Kosheleva. - Sverdlovsk: Middle Ural book publishing house, 1986. - 256 p. 1 p. 10 k. 5,000 copies. (P)
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Fig. M. Kosheleva. - Sverdlovsk: Middle Ural book publishing house, 1986. - 256 p. 145,000 copies (about)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: Tale / Hood. Faina Vasilyeva. - L .: Children's literature, 1987. - 288 p. – (Library series). 95 kop. 300,000 copies (P)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: Tale / Hood. A. V. VOKHMIN. - Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk book publishing house, 1987. - 368 p. 90 kop. 50,000 copies (P)
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Fig. V. S. Karaseva. - Khabarovsk: Khabarovsk book publishing house, 1989. - 368 p. 80 kop. 150,000 copies (p) ISBN 5-7663-044-1
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: Tale / Hood. Faina Vasilyeva. - L .: Children's literature, 1989. - 288 p. – (Library series). 1 p. 20 k. 150,000 copies. (p) ISBN 5-08-000136-4
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: Tale / Hood. V. P. Slauk. - Minsk: Yunatsva, 1989. - 384 p. – (Library of adventure and fantasy). 85 kop. 500,000 copies (p) ISBN 5-7880-0230-3 - signed for publication on 12/19/1986.
Extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali in the Land of Dense Herbs: Toy book: Based on the fairy tale by Y. Larry: [Comic] / Hood. P. Shegeryan. – M.: Orbita, 1989. – 64 p. 1 p. 20 k. 800,000 copies. (about)
Extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali in the Land of Dense Herbs: Toy book: Based on the fairy tale by Y. Larry: [Comic] / Hood. P. Shegeryan. – M.: Orbita, 1990. – 64 p. 1 p. 20 k. 270,000 copies. (about)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: Tale / Fig. Alexander Ivanovich Kukushkin; Designed G. A. Rakovsky. – M.: Pravda, 1991. – 336 p. - (Adventure World). 3 rub. 1,000,000 copies (o) ISBN 5-253-00316-9 - signed for publication on 01/10/1991
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [A fairy tale story] / Hood. A. V. VOKHMIN. - Yekaterinburg: Sungir, 1992. - 368 p. 100,000 copies (p) ISBN 5-85841-002-2
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: Tale / Hood. A. I. KUKUSHKIN - St. Petersburg: Lenizdat, 1992. - 270 p. 50,000 copies (o) ISBN 5-289-01457-8
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: Tale / Hood. A. I. Sidorenko. - Kharkov: Publishing and commercial enterprise "Paritet" LTD, 1993. - 288 p. 200,000 copies (p) ISBN 86906-024-9 - signed for publication on 01/10/1993.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: Tale / Hood. S. V. Tarasenko. - K .: Mistetstvo, 1993. - 272 p. [Circulation not specified] (p) ISBN 5-7715-0685-0 - signed for publication 09/28/1993.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: A Science Fiction Tale / Art. A. Andreev. – M.: Malysh, 1994. – 272 p. - (Golden Library "Kid"). 20,000 copies (p) ISBN 5-213-01561-1
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: A Science Fiction Tale (abridged) / Fig. A. Shahgeldyan. - M .: Dragonfly, 2000. - 112 p. - (Student Library). 15,000 copies + 8,000 (additional circulation) copies. (p) ISBN 5-89537-097-7
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. Max Nikitenko. - M.: RIPOL-CLASSIC, 2001. - 384 p. - (Library of Solnyshkin). 10,000 copies (p) ISBN 5-7905-0846-4
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: A Fairy Tale / Fig. I. Pankova. - M.: EKSMO-Press, 2002. - 288 p. - (Student Library). 7,100 copies (p) ISBN 5-04-008741-1
Extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: Story / Cover by A. Gardyan; Hood. Eleanor A. Condiane. - M.: ONYX 21st century, 2002. - 400 p. - (Golden Library). 10,000 copies (p) ISBN 5-329-00211-7 - signed for publication on June 13, 2002.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [A Tale]. – M.: Eksmo, 2004. – 640 p. - (Children's Library). 6 100 copies (p) ISBN 5-699-06379-X
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: Tale / Hood. E. Condein. - M.: ONIX 21st century, 2004. - 400 p. - (Golden Library). 7,000 copies (p) ISBN 5-329-00211-7
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [A Tale]. – M.: Makhaon, 2006. – 320 p. - (Funny company). 12,000 copies (p) ISBN 5-18-000941-3
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [A Tale]. - M.: AST, St. Petersburg: Astrel, M.: Keeper, 2007. - 416 p. 2,500 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-041506-9, ISBN 978-5-271-15987-6, ISBN 978-5-9762-2241-0
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Fig. A. Kukushkina. - M.: AST, Astrel, Keeper, 2007. - 416 p. - (Favorite reading). 2,500 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-041505-2, ISBN 978-5-271-15986-8, ISBN 978-5-9762-2240-3
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [A Tale]. - M.: AST, Astrel, Keeper, 2007. - 416 p. - (Extracurricular reading). 5,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-041504-5, ISBN 978-5-271-15985-5, ISBN 978-5-9762-2239-7
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. T. Nikitina. – M.: Makhaon, 2010. – 320 p. - (Funny company). 12,000 copies (p) ISBN 5-18-000941-8
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. Kukushkin. - M.: Astrel, AST, Vladimir: VKT, 2010. - 412 p. - (Children's classic). 4,000 copies + 4000 (additional circulation) copies. (p) ISBN 978-5-17-071394-3, ISBN 978-5-271-32999-9, ISBN 978-5-226-03319-3, ISBN 978-5-17-041505-2, ISBN 978- 5-271-15987-6, ISBN 978-5-226-04944-6
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Fig. A. Kukushkina. – M.: AST, Astrel, AST MOSCOW, 2010. – 416 p. - (Favorite reading). 3,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-041505-2, ISBN 978-5-271-15986-8
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. T. Nikitina. – M.: Makhaon, 2011. – 320 p. - (Funny company). 6,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-389-02067-2
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. Kukushkin. – M.: AST, Astrel, Polygraphizdat, 2011. – 320 p. - (Planet of childhood). 5,000 copies (o) ISBN 978-5-17-072248-8, ISBN 978-5-271-34317-9, ISBN 978-5-4215-2175-4
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. Kukushkin. – M.: AST, 2011. – 412 p. - (Children's classic). (p) ISBN 978-5-17-071394-3
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. Kukushkin. - M.: Astrel, AST, Vladimir: VKT, 2012. - 412 p. - (Children's classic). 2,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-071394-3, ISBN 978-5-271-32999-9, ISBN 978-5-226-03319-3, ISBN 978-5-17-041505-2, ISBN 978- 5-271-15987-6, ISBN 978-5-226-04944-6
The land of the happy. Book One / Cover by B. Pokrovsky. - Yekaterinburg: Tardis Publishing House, 2012. - 136 p. - (Fantastic rarity, issue 123). 1,000 copies (s.o.)
The land of the happy. Book Two / Cover by B. Pokrovsky. - Yekaterinburg: Tardis Publishing House, 2012. - 162 p. - (Fantastic rarity, issue 124). 1,000 copies (s.o.)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [A Tale]. - M.: Chinar, 2012 (p) - [The book is printed in Braille]
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [A Tale; First part; chapters 1-10] / Art. Irina and Alexander Chukavin. – M.: Astrel, 2013. – 208 p. 4,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-271-46273-3
New Adventures of Karik and Vali: [The Tale; second part; chapters 11-18] / Art. Irina and Alexander Chukavin. – M.: AST, 2013. – 208 p. 5,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-080675-1
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. Irina and Alexander Chukavin. – M.: AST, 2014. – 448 p. 4,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-085987-0
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. Irina and Alexander Chukavin. – M.: AST, 2014. – 384 p. – (Classics in pictures). 4,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-086303-7 - signed for publication on 04.06.2014
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. E. Condein. – M.: NIGMA, 2015. – 304 p. 5,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-4335-0180-5
Brave Tilly: Notes of a puppy written by a tail: [Fairy tale] / Hood. Evdokia Vatagina. – M.: NIGMA, 2015. – 44 p. 5,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-4335-0210-9
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. Kukushkin. - M.: AST Publishing House, 2016. - 416 p. - (Classics for schoolchildren). 3,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-092189-8 - signed for publication on September 28, 2015.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. Kukushkin. - M.: AST Publishing House, 2016. - 416 p. - (School reading). 3,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-092190-4 - signed for publication on September 28, 2015.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. Kukushkin. – M.: ROSMEN, 2016. – 352 p. - (Extracurricular reading). 12,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-353-08108-1
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. T. Nikitina. – M.: Makhaon, Azbuka-Atticus, 2017. – 320 p. (Reading is the best teaching). 10,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-389-13487-4
The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Fig. George Fitingof. – M.: Eksmo, 2017. – 320 p. – (Golden heritage). 3,000 (order 1324) copies. (p) ISBN 978-5-699-91965-9 - signed for publication on February 9, 2017.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: A Fairy Tale / Art. A. Chukavin and I. Chukavin. – M.: AST, 2017. – 288 p. - (Preschool reading). ISBN 978-5-17-104743-6
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. Chukavin and I. Chukavin. – M.: AST, 2017. – 456 p. - (Best Children's Reading). (p) ISBN 978-5-17-094673-0
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. A. and I. Chukavin. - M.: AST Publishing House, 2018. - 416 p. - (Favorite writers - for children). 3,000 copies (p) ISBN 978-5-17-108996-2
The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: [Story] / Art. Alexander Andreev. – M.: Eksmo, 2018. – 320 p. - (Poems and fairy tales for children). (p) ISBN 978-5-699-71764-4

Publications in periodicals and collections

The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali: A Tale / Photo illustrations by S. Petrovich // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1937, No. 2 - p.27-30; No. 3 - p.89-92; No. 4 - p.64-75; No. 5 - p.41-53; No. 6 - p.69-85; No. 7 - p.59-70; No. 8 - p.31-44; No. 9 - p.34-48; No. 10 - p.60-69; No. 11 - p.87-95
The Riddle of Plain Water: A Science Fiction Story / Fig. G. Balashova // Pionerskaya Pravda, 1939, June 24 (No. 85) - p. 4, June 26 (No. 86) - p. 4, 28 (No. 87) - p. 4, June 30 (No. 88) - p. .4, July 2 (No. 89) - p. 4, July 4 (No. 90) - p. 4, July 8 (No. 92) - p. 4, July 10 (No. 93) - p. 4, July 12 ( No. 94) - p. 4, July 14 (No. 95) - p. 4, July 16 (No. 96) - p. 4
Fishing in the spring: [Story] / Fig. E. Zakharova // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1957, No. 3 - p.31
Amazing Journeys of Cook and Kukka: [Excerpt] // Smena (Leningrad), 1960, September 22 (No. 225) - p.3
- The same: Fairy tale // Rigas Balss (Riga), 1960, June 18, 23; July 2, 9, 23, 30; August 6, 13, 20, 27
Brave Tilly: Notes of a puppy written with a tail: [Fairy tale] / Fig. Viktor Chizhikov // Murzilka, 1970, Nos. 9-12
Air train: [Excerpt from the novel "Country of the Happy"] // Ural Pathfinder (Sverdlovsk), 1976, No. 4 - p.60
Through the eyes of the 21st century: [Excerpt from the novel "The Land of the Happy"] // Ural Pathfinder (Sverdlovsk), 1977, No. 5 - p. 73
Heavenly guest, or Manuscript found in the KGB archive: [Chapters from the story "Heavenly guest"] / Foreword. V. Bakhtin // Izvestia, 1990, May 16 - p.3
Heavenly guest: A social-fiction story: // Crucified / Compiled by Zakhar Dicharov. - St. Petersburg: North-West, 1993 - p.

Publicism

"Treasury of Mines": [Essay] // Red Panorama, 1929, No. 48 - p.12-13
Scandalous girl: [Rec. for the film "Song of the First Girl"] / Co-author. with L. Stelmakh; Rice. B. Prorokova // Change, 1930, No. 18 - p.17
Companion of a young fisherman. January: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 1 - p.65-67
Companion of a young fisherman. February: [Fishing essay] / Fig. V. Kurdova // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 2 - p.59-61
Companion of a young fisherman: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 3 - p.65-67
Companion of a young fisherman. April: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 4 - p.64-66
Companion of a young fisherman. May: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 4 - p.67-68
Companion of a young fisherman. June: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 5 - p.73-76
Companion of a young fisherman. July: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 6 - p.75-77
Companion of a young fisherman. August: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 7 - p.73-75
Companion of a young fisherman. September: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 8 - p.67-69
Companion of a young fisherman. October: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 9 - p.67-69
Companion of a young fisherman. November: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 10 - p.76-77
Companion of a young fisherman. December: [Fishing essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1938, No. 11 - p.74-76
The biggest, the strongest, the most gluttonous: [Essay] / Fig. G. Levina // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1939, No. 6 - p.71
War with cacti: [Essay] // Bonfire (Leningrad), 1939, No. 6 - p.77
Search for a transparent word: [Memoirs] // Editor and book: Collection of articles. Issue 4. - M .: Art, 1963 - p.288-292

About life and work

[About the story of Jan Larry "The Land of the Happy"] // Literary newspaper, 1931, August 15 - p.
[About the story of Jan Larry "The Land of the Happy"] // Literary newspaper, 1931, December 18 - p.
[Criticism of the novel by J. Larry "The Land of the Happy"] // ROST, 1932, No. 1 - p.
Ya. Dorfman. On Science Fiction Literature: Feuilleton Physics // Zvezda, 1932, No. 5 - p.149-159
L. Con. "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali": [Rec. to the story of the same name] // Children's Literature, 1938, No. 11 - p.26-28
L. Zenkevich. Comments on Larry's book "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali" // Children's Literature, 1938, No. 11 - pp. 28-30
V. Devekin. Rec. to the story "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali" // Komsomolskaya Pravda, 1940, December 25 - p.
Larry, Jan Leopoldovich // Soviet children's writers. Bio-Bibliographic Dictionary (1917-1957). - M.: Detgiz, 1961 - p.
T. L. Nikolskaya. Larry, Jan Leopoldovich // Brief literary encyclopedia in 9 volumes. T.4. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1967 - p.37-38
[About Ian Larry] // V. Britikov. Russian Soviet science fiction novel. - M .: Nauka, 1970 - p.
Larry, Jan Leopoldovich // N. Matsuev. Russian Soviet Writers: 1917-1967. - M .: Soviet writer, 1981 - p.128
L. Geller (Lausanne). Eros and Soviet Science Fiction: [Reference is made to J. Larry's novel "Land of the Happy"] // One or two Russian literatures?: An international symposium convened by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Geneva and the Swiss Academy of Slavic Studies. Geneva, April 13-14-15, 1978. - Lausanne: L'Age D'Homme, 1981 - p.180-188
A. R. Paley. Relay of plots: [On the similarity of the plots of the novel "In the country of dense grasses" by V. Bragin, the story "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali" by Jan Larry and the story of the Polish writer E. Maevsky] // Ural Pathfinder (Sverdlovsk), 1983, No. 2 - p. .71
V. Ivanov. "... I seriously thought about it ...": [On the reason for the arrest of the writer Jan Leopoldovich Larry, author of the story "The Adventures of Karik and Vali"] // Ural Pathfinder (Sverdlovsk), 1990, No. 11 - p. 56
Viktor Burya. Karik, Valya and ... GULAG: [On an interesting fragment of the text of the book by J. Larry "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya"] // For Knowledge (Komsomolsk-on-Amur), 1990, May 31 (No. 13) - p. 4
Jan Leopoldovich Larry (1900-1977): [Materials of the KGB of the USSR] // Crucified / Compiled by Zakhar Dicharov. - St. Petersburg: North-West, 1993 - p.
From the book "Writers of Leningrad": [Brief biography] // Crucified / Compiled by Zakhar Dicharov. - St. Petersburg: North-West, 1993 - p.
Aelita Assovskaya. How writer Jan Larry enlightened Stalin // Crucified / Compiled by Zakhar Dicharov. - St. Petersburg: North-West, 1993 - p.
Material evidence in the case of the writer Jan Larry: [Letter from the writer to I. Stalin] // Crucified / Compiled by Zakhar Dicharov. - St. Petersburg: North-West, 1993 - p.
A. Lyubarskaya. "Beyond the Past": Notes on Marshak and his editors // Neva, 1995, No. 2 - p.162-171
Evgeny Kharitonov. The adventures of a science fiction writer in the "Land of the Happy": The centenary of the birth of Ian Larry went unnoticed // Book Review, 2000, June 19 (No. 25) - p. 21
A. Kopeikin. Larry Jan Leopoldovich // Writers of our childhood. 100 names: Biographical dictionary: In 3 parts. Part 3. – M.: Liberea; Russian State Children's Library, 2000 - p.246-250
Valentin and Olga Subbotin. Author of one book: [About the life and work of Jan Larry] // F-hobby (Bobrov), 2002, No. 2 - p.16-17
Lydia Zharkova. Books of our childhood: Introductory article [to the story by Y. Larry "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali"] // Guiding Star. School reading, 2004, No. 7 (102) - 2nd page of the region.
Lydia Zharkova. An inverted world: An introductory word to the story by Y. Larry "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali" // Guiding Star. School reading, 2004, No. 8 (103) - 2nd page of the region.
Theses for the dialogue: Ian Larry "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali" (Questions for discussion) // Guiding Star. School reading, 2004, No. 8(103) - p.63
Boris Nevsky. Always ready! Soviet children's fantasy: [About the books of J. Larry, L. Lagin, V. Gubarev, V. Melentiev, K. Bulychev, V. Krapivin, A. Mirer, Strugatsky and others] // World of Science Fiction, 2006, No. 9 - p.48-50
Alexey Gravitsky. Fantast against the Politburo: [On the life and work of Y. L. Larry] // World of Science Fiction, 2006, No. 11 - p. 146
G. Prashkevich. Jan Leopoldovich Larry: [Fragment from the book "The Red Sphinx"] // Book Review, 2007, March 19-25 (No. 12) - p.19
Larry Jan Leopoldovich (1900-1997) // Galina Naumovna Tubelskaya. Children's writers of Russia. One Hundred and Thirty Names: Bio-Bibliographic Reference. - M .: Russian School Library Association, 2007 - p.195-197
Adventures begin!: February 15 - 110 years since the birth of Jan Leopoldovich Larry // Chitaika, 2010, No. 2 - p.2-3
In the footsteps of Karik and Vali: A game-walker / The game was invented and drawn by Olga Pavlova // Chitayka, 2010, No. 2 - 2-3 pp. incl.
Olya Kozlova. Among the high, high grass: February 5 - 115 years since the birth of the writer Jan Leopoldovich Larry (1900-1977) / Fig. A. Shmakova // Bonfire (St. Petersburg), 2015, No. 2 - p.17

Bibliography in Ukrainian

Individual editions

Jan Larry. The country is stolen: [Post] / Per. from Russia Ol. Kopilenko; Peredmova Slisareno. - Kh.: Knigospilka, 1926. - 172 p.
Jan Larry. Nezvichayní fit Karika and Vali: Povіst / Per. Galina Tikhonivna Tkachenko; Hood. Georgy Pavlovich Filatov, Rostislav Evgenovich Bezpyatov. – K.: Veselka, 1985. – 256 p. 70 kop. 65,000 approx. (p) - signed before the other on 07/05/1985.
Jan Larry. Nezvichayní fit Karika and Vali: Povіst / Per. Galini Tkachenko; Hood. T. Nikitina. – K.: Makhaon-Ukraina, 2010. – 320 p. - (Merry company). 3,000 approx. (p) ISBN 978-966-605-660-6
Jan Larry. Nezvichayní fit Karika and Vali: Povіst / Per. Galini Tkachenko; Hood. T. Nikitina. – K.: Makhaon-Ukraina, 2013. – 320 p. - (Merry company). 1 000 approx. (p) ISBN 978-617-526-585-7

Bibliography in other languages

Individual editions

Jan Larry. Karik and Vala: Uzbudliva hollow at the light of the insect (The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali) / Per. M. Sile (M. Šile) and B. Pavić (B. Pavić). - ed. "Prosveta" (Beograd), 1940. - 320 p. - (Floating bird, 23). (s.o.) – [In Serbian]
Jan Larry. The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali / Per. V. Mikayelyan. - ed. "HLKEM KK kits" Mankapatanekan Grakanut "yan Bazhin" (Yerevan), 1945. - 340 p. – [In Armenian]
Yan Larry. The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya (The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya) / Per. John P. Mandeville; Rice. Grace Lodge. - ed. "Hutchinson's Books for Young People", 1945. - 302 pp. (p) - [In English]
Yaan Larry. Helvin ja Heikin ihmeelliset seikkailut (The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali) / Per. Johannes Kokkonen. - ed. "WSOY" (Helsinki), 1945. - 236 p. (p) – [In Finnish]
Yan Larry. Les Aventures extraordinaires de Karik et Valia (The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali) / Per. Vitel Soch (Vital Souchard). - ed. "Nagel" (Paris), 1946. - 252 p. (p) - [in French]
Jan Larry. Kariks och Valjas underbara äventyrav (

Jan Larry heavenly guest

Jan Leopoldovich Larry

(1900-1977)

USSR State Security Committee

Office for the Leningrad Region

Leningrad

Larry Jan Leopoldovich, born in 1900, native of Riga, Latvian, citizen of the USSR, non-partisan, writer (worked under an employment contract), lived: Leningrad, pr. 25th Oktyabrya, 112, apt. 39

wife Larry Praskovia Ivanovna, born in 1902

son - Larry Oscar Yanovich, born in 1928

From December 17, 1940 to the present, he sent to the indicated address 7 chapters of his counter-revolutionary story, still unfinished, in which he criticizes the measures of the CPSU (b) and the Soviet government from counter-revolutionary Trotskyist positions.

“... The chapters of this story sent by Larry to the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) were written by him from an anti-Soviet position, where he distorted Soviet reality in the USSR, cited a number of anti-Soviet slanderous fabrications about the situation of workers in the Soviet Union.

In addition, in this story, Larry also tried to discredit the Komsomol organization, Soviet literature, the press and other ongoing activities of the Soviet government.

Charged under Art. 58–10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda).

On July 5, 1941, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Leningrad City Court sentenced Larry Ya. L. to imprisonment for a period of 10 years, followed by disqualification for a period of 5 years.

By the decision of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR of August 21, 1956, the verdict of the Leningrad City Court of July 5, 1941 against Larry Ya. L. was canceled, and the case was dismissed due to the absence of corpus delicti in his actions.

Larry Y.L. rehabilitated in this case.

From the book "Writers of Leningrad"

Larry Jan Leopoldovich (February 15, 1900, Riga - March 18, 1977, Leningrad), prose writer, children's writer. Orphaned early. Before the revolution, he was a watchmaker's apprentice, changed many other occupations, wandered. Member of the Civil War. Worked in newspapers and magazines in Kharkov, Novgorod, Leningrad. He moved to Leningrad in 1926. Graduated from Leningrad University (1931). He studied at the postgraduate course of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries. Wrote the script for the film Man Overboard (1931, co-authored with P. Stelmakh). For an autobiographical note, see The Editor and the Book (1963, no. 4).

Sad and funny stories about little people. Kharkov, 1926; Five years. L., 1929 and other ed. - In collaboration with A. Lifshitz; Window to the future. L., 1929; How it was. L., 1930; Notes of a Horseman. L., 1931; The land of the happy. L., 1931; The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali: A Science Fiction Tale. M.-L., 1937 and other ed.; Notes of a Schoolgirl: A Tale. L., 1961; The Amazing Adventures of Cook and Kukka. L., 1961; Brave Tilly: Puppy Notes written with a tail. "Murzilka", 1970, No. 9-12.

HOW WRITER JAN LARRY STALIN ENLIGHTENED

The generation of the revolution, scorched by the fire of the civil war, enchanted by the prospects of building a new society, for the most part firmly believed that a happy bright future was not far off and that the difficulties along the way to it would pay off a hundredfold. I had to talk with many people whose youth fell on the 30s - they did not have even the slightest doubt about the correctness of the state's policy. The slogans proclaimed by the party, appeals, even at times absurd, were perceived solely as inciting to action. And the repressions, which, despite the monstrous scale, it was not customary to speak aloud, are also correct measures, not subject to criticism, as a fair punishment for actions, given the tense international situation. The causes and mechanism of this mass hypnosis, which engulfed tens of millions of people, will be the subject of research by historians, sociologists and psychologists for a long time to come.

However, not everything was bright and smooth in the realm of socialism. People who, by virtue of their intellect, peculiarities of the soul, could not help but think about what was happening around them, inevitably noticed the illogicality and inexpediency of many government actions, the poverty of life driven into the barracks. And they were unable to say anything about it.

I'm not sure that the hero of my essay fully understood the blatant cruelty of the system, which was given out as the fulfillment of the age-old dream of mankind - this requires both time and an outside look at one's own history. I admit that he was not able to fully understand the mechanism of social movements, otherwise he would not have done what he did - at the risk of his life, open the eyes of "deeply respected Joseph Vissarionovich" to what is happening in the country. However, then many believed in the infallibility of the leader and teacher, and all the troubles, difficulties and injustices were attributed to the erroneous or dishonest actions of his entourage.

At the beginning of 1940, a letter addressed to I.V. Stalin was sent from Leningrad. It contained a literary manuscript.

“I will write only for you, without demanding for myself any orders, no fees, no honors, no glory ...

... I would like you to know that there is one eccentric in Leningrad who spends his leisure hours in a peculiar way - creating a literary work for a single person ... ”an unknown addressee said.

A fantastic story is attached to the letter. Its plot is quite simple. A spaceship with a Martian, a creature quite close to us earthlings, descends to Earth (in the region of the Leningrad Region). In conversations with hospitable hosts, the position of our society, deformed by the yoke of the party administration, becomes clear - as if somewhat from the outside.

“What do you live? - the author asks through the lips of a Martian. - What problems concern you? Judging by your newspapers, all you do is make bright meaningful speeches at meetings ... Is your present so disgusting that you do not write anything about it? And why aren't any of you looking to the future? Is it really so gloomy that you are afraid to look into it?

It is not customary for us to look into the future, they answered the Martian.

Much has been written about it. About the blatant Russian poverty, the cause of which - this is how the Martian was explained - "is ... the hypertrophic centralization of our entire apparatus, tying the local initiative hand and foot." The fact that "Moscow has become the only city where people live, and all other cities have turned into a remote province, where people exist only to carry out the orders of Moscow." The fact that in our country they do not know their scientists. On hatred of the intelligentsia: and although “a decision was made: to consider the intelligentsia a useful social stratum,” nothing has changed. And that in the time of John the Printer, more books were published than now. "I'm not talking about party literature, which is thrown away every day in millions of copies," wrote an unknown author.

Several more letters were sent to Moscow with the continuation of the story. Four months later, the author was "expelled".

In the arrest warrant of April 11, 1941, it was said: “... Larry Jan Leopoldovich is the author of an anonymous story of counter-revolutionary content called “Heavenly Guest”, which he sent in separate chapters to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in the name of Comrade. Stalin."

Writer Jan Larry was charged with criticizing the activities of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Soviet government from Trotskyist positions. In the indictment, he was accused of "perverting Soviet reality, anti-Soviet slanderous fabrications about the situation of workers in the Soviet Union, attempts to discredit the Komsomol organization and other measures of Soviet power."

Usually materials of a "creative nature" confiscated during arrest were destroyed. But by the will of fate, Ian Larry's "Heavenly Guest" survived and after almost half a century the manuscript was transferred to the Writers' Union. And I was able to see the light.

Jan Leopoldovich Larry was tried on July 3, 1941. The indictment under the infamous Article 58-10 meant ten years in prison, followed by disqualification for a period of five years.

Fifteen years later, J.L. Larry's sentence was overturned and the case dismissed for lack of corpus delicti.

The author of The Heavenly Guest, unknown to the Soviet reader, and very popular, one of the best fantasy books for children, The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali, was rehabilitated. Fortunately, not posthumously.

Jan Leopoldovich Larry was born in 1900 in Riga - according to the official version (near Moscow, as he specified in his autobiography). His childhood passed near Moscow, where his father worked. But from the first years, Ian Larry's life was marked by a chain of misfortunes. Mother died early. At the age of ten, the boy lost his father. Attempts to arrange an orphaned child in an orphanage were unsuccessful - Yang escaped from there. The teacher Dobrokhotov took part in the fate of the homeless child, preparing Jan as an external student for the course of the gymnasium. For some time Larry lived in a teacher's family. But during the First World War, Dobrokhotov was drafted into the army, and again Larry "traded", where necessary.

After the revolution, he came to Petrograd, assuming that the knowledge gained from Dobrokhotov was enough to enter the university. But these hopes were not destined to come true.

Wandering again. Through accidentally met friends of the late father, Larry joins the Red Army. Typhoid puts the young man in the hospital for a long time. As a result, traces of the battalion were lost. Relapsing fever again pulls the young man out of active life. After recovery - further wanderings around Russia.

Ian Larry began writing in 1923. The first publications in the Kharkov newspaper "Young Leninist" attracted attention. Larry was offered a full-time job. From that moment on, Jan Leopoldovich could consider himself a journalist and writer.

Jan Larry published his first books in Kharkov.

He returned to Leningrad three years later as a professional writer. He worked as a secretary of the magazine "Rabselkor", then in the newspaper "Leningradskaya Pravda". He established himself as a children's writer. He worked as a journalist, and since 1928 he switched to free “literary bread”.

This apparent ease of traveling through the crossroads of life was purely external. In the 1930s, Yan Leopoldovich recalled, it was not easy for a children's writer in the USSR: “Around a children's book, the comprachoses of children's souls famously cancanated - teachers, "Marxist bigots" and other varieties of stranglers of all living things, when fantasy and fairy tales were burned out with a red-hot iron ... "

“My manuscripts,” Jan later wrote...

Occupation:

Biography

In 1940, Larry began to write the satirical novel The Heavenly Guest, in which he described the world order of the inhabitants of the Earth from the point of view of aliens, and sent the written chapters to Stalin - "the only reader" of this novel, as he believed; in April, after seven chapters sent, he was arrested. On July 5, 1941, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Leningrad City Court sentenced Larry Ya. L. to imprisonment for a period of ten years, followed by disqualification for a period of five years.

Rehabilitated in 1956. After the camp, Larry wrote two children's stories: The Adventures of Cook and Kukka () and Notes of a Schoolgirl. One of the last lifetime publications of the writer was the fairy tale “Brave Tilly: Notes of a Puppy Written by a Tail” placed in Murzilka.

Bibliography

"Window to the Future" ()
Land of the happy: Publicistic story. - L .: Leningrad. region publishing house, 1931. - 192 p. - 50,000 copies.
"The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Vali" ()
"The Mystery of Plain Water" ()
"Heavenly Guest" (-)
"The Adventures of Cook and Kukka" ()
"Notes of a schoolgirl" ()

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- Well, my friend? the countess asked.
Oh, what a terrible state he is in! You can't recognize him, he's so bad, so bad; I stayed for a minute and did not say two words ...
“Annette, for God’s sake, don’t refuse me,” the countess suddenly said, blushing, which was so strange with her middle-aged, thin and important face, taking out money from under her handkerchief.
Anna Mikhaylovna instantly understood what was the matter, and already bent down to deftly embrace the countess at the right time.
- Here's Boris from me, for sewing a uniform ...
Anna Mikhaylovna was already embracing her and crying. The Countess was crying too. They wept that they were friendly; and that they are kind; and that they, girlfriends of youth, are occupied with such a low subject - money; and that their youth had passed ... But the tears of both were pleasant ...

Countess Rostova was sitting with her daughters and already with a large number of guests in the drawing room. The count ushered the male guests into his study, offering them his hunter's collection of Turkish pipes. Occasionally he would come out and ask: has she come? They were waiting for Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, nicknamed in society le terrible dragon, [a terrible dragon,] a lady famous not for wealth, not for honors, but for her directness of mind and frank simplicity of address. Marya Dmitrievna was known by the royal family, all of Moscow and all of St. Petersburg knew, and both cities, surprised at her, secretly laughed at her rudeness, told jokes about her; yet everyone, without exception, respected and feared her.
In an office full of smoke, there was a conversation about the war, which was declared by the manifesto, about recruitment. No one has yet read the Manifesto, but everyone knew about its appearance. The count was sitting on an ottoman between two smoking and talking neighbors. The count himself did not smoke or speak, but tilting his head, now to one side, then to the other, he looked with evident pleasure at the smokers and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he pitted against each other.
One of the speakers was a civilian, with a wrinkled, bilious, and shaven, thin face, a man already approaching old age, although he was dressed like the most fashionable young man; he sat with his feet on the ottoman with the air of a domestic man, and, sideways thrusting amber far into his mouth, impetuously drew in the smoke and screwed up his eyes. It was the old bachelor Shinshin, the cousin of the countess, an evil tongue, as they said about him in Moscow drawing rooms. He seemed to condescend to his interlocutor. Another, fresh, pink, officer of the Guards, impeccably washed, buttoned and combed, held amber near the middle of his mouth and with pink lips slightly pulled out the smoke, releasing it in ringlets from his beautiful mouth. It was that lieutenant Berg, an officer of the Semyonovsky regiment, with whom Boris went to the regiment together and with which Natasha teased Vera, the senior countess, calling Berg her fiancé. The Count sat between them and listened attentively. The most pleasant occupation for the count, with the exception of the game of boston, which he was very fond of, was the position of the listener, especially when he managed to play off two talkative interlocutors.
“Well, father, mon tres honorable [most respected] Alfons Karlych,” said Shinshin, chuckling and combining (which was the peculiarity of his speech) the most popular Russian expressions with exquisite French phrases. - Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l "etat, [Do you expect to have income from the treasury,] do you want to receive income from the company?
- No, Pyotr Nikolaevich, I only want to show that in the cavalry there are much fewer advantages against the infantry. Now consider, Pyotr Nikolaitch, my position...
Berg always spoke very precisely, calmly and courteously. His conversation always concerned only him alone; he was always calmly silent while talking about something that had no direct relation to him. And he could remain silent in this way for several hours, without experiencing or producing in others the slightest confusion. But as soon as the conversation concerned him personally, he began to speak at length and with visible pleasure.
“Consider my situation, Pyotr Nikolaevich: if I were in the cavalry, I would receive no more than two hundred rubles a third, even with the rank of lieutenant; and now I get two hundred and thirty,” he said with a joyful, pleasant smile, looking at Shinshin and the count, as if it were obvious to him that his success would always be the main goal of the desires of all other people.
“Besides, Pyotr Nikolaevich, having transferred to the guards, I am in the public eye,” Berg continued, “and vacancies in the guards infantry are much more frequent. Then, think for yourself how I could get a job out of two hundred and thirty rubles. And I’m saving and sending more to my father,” he continued, blowing the ring.

Jan Leopoldovich Larry was born February 15, 1900. The place of his birth is still unclear. According to some encyclopedias and reference books, he was born in Riga, but in his autobiography, the writer indicates the suburbs, where his father worked at that time.

Life never spared him - neither in childhood, nor later, when he achieved literary fame.

Orphaned at the age of ten, Yang wandered for a long time. From the orphanage, where they tried to attach him, he escaped. He worked as a boy in a tavern, an apprentice watchmaker. Then he lived in the family of the teacher Dobrokhotov and even passed the exams for the course of the gymnasium as an external student. And again - wandering through the cities and towns of Russia. Immediately after the revolution, Larry comes to Petrograd for the first time and tries to enter the university, but to no avail.

A few years later, he still received a higher education at the Faculty of Biology of Kharkov University. In the meantime, Ian Larry joins the Red Army, participates in the Civil War, until typhus, transferred twice, forces the future writer to leave military service.

Fate brought him to Kharkov, where he got a job in the newspaper "Young Leninist". Since 1923, Larry has been actively acting as a journalist, and already in 1926, his first books were published in Kharkov publishing houses - “The Country Is Stolen” and “Sad and Funny Stories about Little People”, addressed to children. In the same year, the young writer moved to Leningrad, where he worked in the Rabselkor magazine and the Leningradskaya Pravda newspaper.

Since 1928, Jan Larry has been on “free bread”. A promising children's prose writer, gravitating towards a fairy-tale-fantastic form, he is published a lot. One after another, the books “Five Years” (1929), “Window to the Future” (1929), “How It Was” (1930), “Notes of a Cavalry Soldier” (1931) are published. However, for the favor of the publishers had to pay too high a price. Much later, in his autobiographical notes, Larry eloquently describes the position of a children's writer in Soviet literature of the 1930s: “Around a children’s book, the comprachoses of children’s souls famously cancanated - teachers, “Marxist bigots” and other varieties of stranglers of all living things, when science fiction and fairy tales were burned with a red-hot iron ... My manuscripts were edited in such a way that I myself did not recognize my own works, because, apart from editors of the book, everyone who had free time took an active part in correcting the "opuses", from the editor of the publishing house to the employees of the accounting department ... Everything that the editors "improved" looked so miserable that now I am ashamed to be considered the author of those books ".

After the publication of the utopian novel The Land of the Happy (1931), the writer's name was blacklisted for several years. This book, written in the genre of social fiction, has become a kind of prologue to The Heavenly Guest. In The Land of the Happy, the author outlined not so much a “Marxist” as a romantic, idealistic view of the communist future - he outlined it, rejecting totalitarianism and modeling the possibility of a global catastrophe associated with the depletion of energy reserves. Thus, the bright image of tomorrow has been "clouded" by the supposed problems generated by human activity. But there was also a more obvious sedition in the story - in the guise of a suspicious, insidious stubborn Molybdenum. It is easy to guess who the writer was hinting at. Only in the early 90s the cover of oblivion was removed from the "Land of the Happy".

The persecution of the story turned out to be the "last straw" for Larry, who decided to leave literature. Having settled down at the Research Institute of Fisheries and even completed postgraduate studies under him, Yan Leopoldovich nevertheless continued to write for Leningrad newspapers from time to time. It is not known how his further literary biography would have developed if fate had not brought him together with Samuil Marshak. And it happened like this. Samuil Yakovlevich suggested that the famous geographer and biologist Academician Lev Berg, under whom Jan Larry served, write a popular science book for children on the science of insects - entomology. Discussing the details of the future book, they came to the conclusion that knowledge should be dressed in the form of a fascinating science fiction story. It was then that the academician remembered his subordinate, who would be capable of such a task.

Ian Larry worked quickly and enthusiastically on The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya, inspired by the support of the master of children's literature. Apparently, the pre-revolutionary verse fairy tale by Vasily Smirnov "The Extraordinary Adventures of Two Dwarfs Kirik and Alik" (1910) served as the prototype for the book. But it was not so easy to “break through” the story in Detizdat. In a hilarious story about how the eccentric biology professor Ivan Germogenovich Enotov invented a drug that allows you to reduce objects, and then, in the company of the restless Karik and Valya, made an informative and dangerous journey into the world of plants and insects, the "compracikos of children's souls" saw an outrage against the power of the Soviet man. Here is a characteristic fragment of one of the "internal" reviews: “It is wrong to reduce a person to a small insect. So, voluntarily or involuntarily, we show a person not as the ruler of nature, but as a helpless creature ... Speaking with young schoolchildren about nature, we must inspire them with the idea of a possible impact on nature in the direction we need.

Repeatedly stepping on the same rake is a tedious and nervous task. The indignant Jan Leopoldovich flatly refused to remake the text in accordance with the "general line". It would be better not to publish the story at all, he decided. This would probably have happened if not for the timely intervention of Marshak. Influential, possessing the gift of persuasion, Samuil Yakovlevich decided the fate of the work literally within a week. And in the February issue of the magazine "Koster" for 1937, the first chapters of the long-suffering story appeared. In the original version! In the same year, "Extraordinary Adventures" was published as a separate book - in Detizdat, of course. In 1940, a second edition, corrected by the author, with wonderful illustrations by G. Fetingof, followed. Since then, the book has been reprinted several times, and in 1987 its two-part television version appeared with Vasily Livanov in the title role.

And here is the paradox of Soviet literary life: how mercilessly they scolded Larry's story before publication, they praised it with equal enthusiasm after it was published. The book was enthusiastically received not only by readers, but also by official critics. Reviewers noted the scientific literacy and erudition of the writer. As usual, little was said about artistic merit. Fiction in those years was most often considered as an appendage of popular science literature.

The secret of the longevity of the story written by Ian Larry lies not only in the fascination of the plot, not only in its isolation from the ideological settings of the time (although this is also important). The main thing is a high degree of literary talent of the author. Larry very harmoniously combined the stylistic spaces of literature and science, correctly calculating the proportions in favor of the first component. The story does not contain many pages of science-like lectures, teachings, explanations, common for science fiction of the 20-50s. The language is light and elegant, the cognitive material is unobtrusively and without rough seams “soldered” into a dynamic adventure story full of humor and even irony.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali became the best Soviet science fiction book of the second half of the 1930s (along with Belyaev's Leap into Nothing and Ariel). It is rightfully included in the golden fund of Russian children's literature.

In December 1940, Stalin received an unusual letter:

“Dear Joseph Vissarionovich!

Every great man is great in his own way. After one, great deeds remain, after the other, funny historical anecdotes. One is known for having thousands of mistresses, another for extraordinary Bucephalus, the third for wonderful jesters. In a word, there is no such great thing that would not rise in memory, not surrounded by some historical satellites: people, animals, things.

Not a single historical personality has yet had its own writer. The kind of writer who would only write for one great man. However, even in the history of literature one cannot find such writers who would have a single reader...

I take up the pen to fill this gap.

I will write only for you, without demanding for myself any orders, no fees, no honors, no glory.

You will never know my real name. But I would like you to know that there is one eccentric in Leningrad who spends his leisure hours in a peculiar way - he creates a literary work for a single person, and this eccentric, without inventing a single worthy pseudonym, decided to sign himself Kulidzhary ... "

The first chapters of the fantastic story "Heavenly Guest" were attached to the letter (in total, the author managed to send seven chapters). Its plot is outwardly uncomplicated: the Earth is visited by an alien from Mars, where, as it turns out, "the Soviet state has existed for 117 years."

The narrator, acting as a guide, introduces the alien to life in the USSR. All subsequent narrative is a series of dialogues between a Martian and representatives of various social strata - a writer, scientist, engineer, collective farmer, worker. But how much is said in these few chapters!

Here, for example, is what a Martian says after reading a file of Soviet newspapers:

“And your life on Earth is boring. I read and read, but I couldn't understand anything. What do you live? What issues are you concerned about? Judging by your newspapers, all you are doing is making bright, meaningful speeches at meetings, celebrating various historical dates and celebrating anniversaries. Is your present so disgusting that you don't write anything about it? And why aren't any of you looking to the future? Is it really so gloomy that you are afraid to look into it?

Further more. The messenger of Mars learns about the country's horrendous poverty, the cause of which is "the hypertrophic centralization of our entire apparatus, tying local initiative hand and foot", about the mediocrity and senselessness of most laws, about how "enemies of the people" are invented, about the tragic situation of the peasantry, about the hatred of the Bolsheviks for the intelligentsia and that the majority of educational institutions and scientific institutions are headed by people "who have no idea about science."

With piercing directness, the enigmatic author reports the collapse of culture: “The Bolsheviks abolished literature and art, replacing both with memoirs and the so-called “display”. Nothing more unprincipled, it seems, can be found throughout the existence of art and literature. You will not find a single fresh thought, a single new word either in theaters or in literature.

And in the story it was said about the imaginary freedom of the press, which is “carried out with the help of preliminary censorship”, and about the fear of people to tell the truth.

Four months after receiving the first letter, the all-powerful NKVD still managed to "figure out" the sender. It turned out to be Jan Leopoldovich Larry. He was not an ardent anti-Soviet. The writer sincerely believed that "dear Joseph Vissarionovich" was in the dark about the outrages happening in the country.

On April 11 (according to other sources - April 13), 1941, Larry was arrested. The indictment stated: “The chapters of this story sent by Larry to the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) were written by him from an anti-Soviet position, where he distorted Soviet reality in the USSR, cited a number of anti-Soviet slanderous fabrications about the situation of workers in the Soviet Union. In addition, in this story, Larry also tried to discredit the Komsomol organization, Soviet literature, the press and other ongoing activities of the Soviet government. On July 5 of the same year, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Leningrad City Court sentenced Jan Larry to imprisonment for a term of 10 years, followed by loss of rights for 5 years (under Article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR).

15 years in the Gulag did not break Jan Larry, and after rehabilitation in 1956 he returned to literary work, collaborating with children's magazines. Five years after the release, two wonderful books came to young readers at once - “Notes of a Schoolgirl” and “The Amazing Adventures of Cook and Kukka”. And the last of the writer's lifetime publications was the fairy tale "Brave Tilly: Notes of a Puppy Written by a Tail" published in Murzilka.

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