Kir Bulychev history. Igor Mozheiko (Kir Bulychev)
Kir Bulychev is a famous Soviet and Russian writer, whom any schoolchild of the last decades of the twentieth century knew about. It was his stories about the adventures of a resilient girl that the whole country read. And modern schoolchildren do not forget about this author. It is possible that this is the only heroine, especially for a Soviet schoolchild, who grew up with him over these decades.
It is the fantastic works of Kir Bulychev that are in demand by filmmakers, not only for children, but also for adult audiences. As the author of novels and short stories for adults, Kir Bulychev created a much larger and more diverse picture of actions. He came up with several cycles of works where the main characters are the same people (for children this is Alisa Selezneva, her family and friends), and for adults these are the residents of Velikiy Guslyar and Verevkin, Cosmoflot agent Andrei Bruce, Doctor Pavlysh, Cora Orvat (InterGalactic Police). He has more than 100 written individual stories and novellas; he also translated stories by American science fiction writers, was a playwright and wrote screenplays.
And yet, few people know that the real name of the science fiction writer beloved by many readers is Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko, and he had several pseudonyms. He published some of his original works under his real name, and this applies to a greater extent to real scientific works, popular science stories and historical essays.
Not everyone was interested in what the author does besides science fiction. Igor Mozheiko worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies, was an oriental historian (specialized in Burma). He wrote scientific articles, published his works on history, literary criticism, and wrote poetry. He created a series of works on alternative history, which he could not complete, but considered it one of the most important and worthy of attention from readers.
Kir Bulychev published fantastic novels and short stories under various pseudonyms. The thing is that while working at the Institute of Oriental Studies, the author feared a negative reaction from the Institute’s management to the publication of “frivolous” works. Ironically, it was they who brought Bulychev all-Union and then worldwide fame.
The first science fiction story, called "The Debt of Hospitality", was published in 1965. The author passed it off as a translation from the Burmese language of a short story by the writer Maung Sein Ji. His other works were also published under this pseudonym. And subsequently he wrote all his fantastic works under pseudonyms.
Most of the writer’s works were published under the fictitious names “Kirill Bulychev”, or for short “Kir. Bulychev”, and subsequently the dot disappeared. As often happens among creative people, the mother's surname often becomes a pseudonym. It was this technique that the talented historian used. Igor Mozheiko made up his famous pseudonym from the name of his wife, Kira Soshinskaya, and the maiden name of the science fiction writer’s mother, Maria Bulycheva.
For almost 20 years, the author hid his real name, even the first film adaptation in 1976 based on his story “The Ability to Throw a Ball” did not reveal this secret - Kirill Bulychev was listed in the credits. Only in 1982, when Kir Bulychev was awarded the State Prize for the script for animated film“The Secret of the Third Planet” and the film “Through Thorns to the Stars”, the writer finally decided to reveal his real name. Of course, in such a situation there are no sanctions from management scientific institution, where Igor Vsevolodovich worked, did not follow.
Many other readers know Kir Bulychev under other pseudonyms - Nikolai Lozhkin, Igor Vsevolodovich Vsevolodov, Lev Khristoforovich Mints. But it still turns out that this wonderful man lived at least two most interesting lives: one of them is the life of the historian and orientalist Igor Mozheiko, the other full of adventure and unusual plots from the life of science fiction writer Kir Bulychev.
On October 18, 1934, the famous Soviet science fiction writer, playwright and screenwriter Kir Bulychev (real name Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko) was born. The story of the writer's family could become the plot for a fascinating book.
The writer's father, Vsevolod Nikolaevich Mozheiko, was from the Belarusian-Lithuanian gentry Mozheiko. After October Revolution When he was barely 15 years old, he left home and, hiding his noble origin, got a job as an apprentice at a factory. In 1922, at the age of 17, he came to Petrograd, where he worked as a mechanic and studied at the workers' faculty. Afterwards he entered the law faculty of the university, while simultaneously working in a trade union. While once inspecting the Hammer pencil factory, he met worker Maria Mikhailovna Bulycheva there, whom he married in 1925. Subsequently, Igor Vsevolodovich’s father held prominent positions in the Soviet state.
The mother was also from an intelligent family and before the revolution she studied at the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens. Her father, Colonel Mikhail Bulychev, was a fencing teacher in the First Cadet Corps.
After the revolution, the former college student became an orphan. She died in 1921, when she was 16 years old. foster mother Maria Mikhailovna. The girl made her living as a sparring partner on the courts during the NEP, was a worker at the Hummer factory, worked as a driver, and graduated from the Automotive Institute. And then she entered the Academy. Voroshilov, after graduating in 1933 she received the title of military engineer of the 3rd rank and was assigned to the position of commandant of the Shlisselburg fortress, which then housed an ammunition depot. But after the birth of her son, Maria Mikhailovna left military service.
Before the Patriotic War, the parents of the future writer divorced and his mother remarried a prominent scientist in the field of photographic technology, Doctor of Chemical Sciences Yakov Isaakovich Bokinik, who was from Odessa. IN new family The future science fiction writer's younger sister, Natalya, was born. But the calm life of the new family was interrupted by the war. Igor Vsevolodovich’s stepfather went to the front and died in Courland 2 days before the Victory, on May 7, 1945. And during the war, the writer’s mother held the position of head of the airborne school in Chistopol.
The writer's wife, Kira Alekseevna Soshinskaya, is an architect by training. She also wrote fantastic works, and also drew well and was an illustrator of her husband’s books. In 1960, the couple had a daughter, Alice, named by her parents after the heroine of Lewis Carroll’s fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland.” And then Kir Bulychev “gave” his daughter’s name to the heroine of his works, Alisa Selezneva.
Dad named his heroine after me, Alisa Vsevolodovna later recalled. - It’s memorable because it doesn’t happen often. And Selezneva is my grandmother’s maiden name. My father loved to “borrow” names for his heroes from relatives and friends.
Having started writing fiction, Igor Vsevolodovich came up with a pseudonym for himself because he was afraid that the management of the Institute of Oriental Studies (where he worked at that time) might fire him for this “frivolous” activity. The writer signed most of his books with the pseudonym “Kirill Bulychev,” which was formed from the name of his wife and the maiden name of the writer’s mother. After some time, the name “Kirill” began to be written on the covers of books in the abbreviated form “Kir.” And then it was “shortened”, period, and this is how the now famous “Kir Bulychev” turned out. The combination Kirill Vsevolodovich Bulychev also occurred. The writer hid his real name until 1982.
Everything was revealed when I was awarded the State Prize for my fantastic works, and this was reported in Pravda,” Igor Vsevolodovich said in an interview about how his “incognito” was revealed. - Here the party organizers began to fuss, running around - at the institute of emergency: how come, a researcher is engaged in such frivolous writings. We went to the director, and then our leader was Primakov, the current prime minister. He asks the department head: “Is he fulfilling the plan?” “Does it...” “Well, let it continue working!”
Has different associations. It was only in the second half of the sixties in the USSR that girls began to be named this way in honor of a book heroine. And this was not Lewis Carroll's Alice at all. Alisa Selezneva from a series of fantastic works created by the wonderful Soviet writer Kir Bulychev.
Biography of the writer in his childhood
The real name of the beloved science fiction writer is Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko. He took the pseudonym Kir Bulychev out of fear that he might be fired from his job, since there the pursuit of literature, especially fiction, was not considered worthy.
He was born in Moscow one October day in 1934. The guy's father belonged to the ancient Belarusian-Lithuanian noble family. However, in his youth he broke off relations with him and began to live by his own labor. In 1925 he married a pencil factory worker, Maria Bulycheva.
When young Igor was barely five years old, his father left the family, and his mother married for the second time. Thanks to this marriage, the writer had a sister, Natasha.
Study and creativity
After graduating from school, Kir Bulychev began studying foreign languages at the Maurice Thorez Institute. After graduation, he worked for several years as a translator in Burma. Later he returned to his hometown and began studying oriental studies in graduate school at the Institute of the Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he remained there as a teacher of Burmese history.
In subsequent years, the biography of Kir Bulychev was marked by scientific achievements: he defended his candidate's dissertation, and a little later his doctoral dissertation. In addition, while working at the institute, Bulychev wrote a lot scientific works about Southeast Asia, in particular about Burma.
In addition to work, in his free time, Kir Bulychev published various notes and essays for such eminent publications as “Around the World” and “Asia and Africa Today”.
First a work of art Bulychev's story "Maung Jo Will Live" was published in 1961. However, the author took up writing science fiction only four years later, and his “firstborn” was the short story “The Debt of Hospitality.”
Quite soon, the works of Igor Mozheiko, writing under the pseudonym Kir Bulychev, began to enjoy the love of readers. A little later, his stories and novellas began to be published as separate books.
In 1977, his story “One Hundred Years Ahead” was filmed. The serial film based on it was called “Guest from the Future.” Thanks to her, the entire USSR met the inquisitive schoolgirl Alisa Selezneva, who lives in the second half of the 21st century.
After the incredible success of the film adaptation, the biography of Kir Bulychev was not particularly filled with bright events. As before, he continued to write a lot, and his works were liked by readers. Quite often he adapted his stories and novellas into film scripts. By the way, about twenty of Bulychev’s works have been filmed.
In addition to successful creative career, the personal life of a writer named Kir Bulychev turned out just great. His wife was his colleague, writer Kira Soshinskaya, who became an illustrator of Bulychev’s works. From this union a daughter, Alice, was born, after whom the famous heroine was named.
With the advent of the difficult nineties, the writer remained popular, and his work - interesting readers. In addition, in those difficult years, the biography of Kir Bulychev was enriched by one remarkable fact: he saved the magazine “If” from closure.
At the beginning of the 2000s, the writer was diagnosed with cancer, due to which he died in the fall of 2003.
The biography of Kir Bulychev may not be filled with bright events, like that of Alisa Sezezneva, but he received many well-deserved prestigious awards and prizes. Among them are the USSR State Prize, the All-Russian Aelita Prize, the Order of the Knights of Science Fiction named after. I. Khalymbadzhi" and Russian literary prize whose name he was awarded posthumously in 2004.
A series of works about Alisa Selezneva
Despite the fact that the writer’s works amount to almost twenty volumes, the greatest popularity of Kir Bulychev was brought by a series of short stories and stories about Alisa Selezneva, named after the author’s own daughter.
In total, he dedicated 52 works to his beloved heroine. In them she traveled to other planets, found herself in the past, a parallel fairy-tale dimension, and much more. Throughout her literary “life,” Selezneva often met with a wide variety of people and creatures from other planets and eras. However, most often the participants in the girl’s adventures were her father, Professor Igor Seleznev (named after the writer himself), as well as the four-armed archaeologist Gromozeka from an alien planet.
Some stories featured the girl's friends and classmates.
This heroine first appeared in 1965 on the pages of the story “The Girl to Whom Nothing Will Happen.” She soon gained popularity, especially after the release of films and cartoons. On the screen, Alisa Selezneva was embodied by such actresses as Natalya Guseva (“Guest from the Future”, “The Purple Ball”), Ekaterina Prizhbilyak (“Island of the Rusty General”), Daria Melnikova (the film was never made, but the girl voiced the heroine in the animated series “Alice knows what to do”) and other Polish and Slovak actresses.
A series of works about residents of the city of Velikiy Guslyar
Another famous series by Kir Bulychev was a cycle of humorous works about the life of the inhabitants of the town of Veliky Guslyar (prototype - Veliky Ustyug). The writer dedicated more than a hundred novels and short stories to this fictional town.
There are no main characters in this series, although many characters appear in several works at once. The first story in this series was “Personal Connections.”
At the beginning of the two thousandth, Kir Bulychev officially announced the end of the cycle, justifying his action by the fact that the idea had outlived itself and was no longer interesting to him. Kir Bulychev himself divided all the written works from “The Great Guslyar” into six parts, grouping them into collections.
Based on the cycle, several cartoons, two short films and one television film “Chance” were shot.
Other works of the writer
In addition to these two cycles, in creative heritage Bulychev there are many individual works, as well as small series of two to ten novels. The most popular of them are three cycles.
1) Novels about Andrei Bruce - a brave agent from the Cosmoflot ("Agent of the Cosmoflot" and "Dungeon of Witches"). A film of the same name was made based on the second novel.
2) Another hero who appeared in many of Bulychev’s works is Doctor Pavlysh. One novel, “Country Road,” and eight other, less voluminous works are dedicated to him.
3) The heroine of many other works by Kira Bulychev, Cora Orvat, is a kind of matured version of Alisa Selezneva. However, she is instead interested in solving crimes. It is noteworthy that in some works she overlaps with Alice.
In order not to lose his job at the institute, Igor Mozheiko initially took the pseudonym Kirill Bulychev. But during publications, this pseudonym was often abbreviated as Cyrus. Bulychev. After some time, due to a typo, the dot disappeared, and the resulting name suited the writer.
The surname for the pseudonym was taken by Igor Vsevolodovich from his mother: her maiden name was Maria Bulycheva. And Kir is the male version of the name of the writer’s wife, Kira Soshinskaya.
It is noteworthy that for a long time most readers did not even suspect who was hiding behind the name Kir Bulychev. Only in 1982 the secret was revealed, as the writer was awarded the USSR State Prize.
With superior knowledge English language, Kir Bulychev was involved in translations of many fantastic works into Russian famous writers from the USA.
Unlike him literary heroes, the biography of Kir Bulychev for children and adults does not contain many bright or interesting events. Moreover, young readers may find it quite boring. However, all this was more than compensated for by the irrepressible imagination of the author, who managed to create the whole world, described in several hundred wonderful works. And if we paraphrase the words of the classic, we can say that with his work, Kir Bulychev erected a miraculous monument to himself in the hearts of many generations of readers.
Biography
Kir Bulychev (real name Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko; October 18, 1934 - September 5, 2003) is one of the most famous Soviet science fiction writers.
Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko was born on October 18, 1934 in Moscow. After graduating from school, he entered the Moscow state institute foreign languages named after Maurice Thorez, who graduated in 1957. For two years he worked in Burma as a translator and correspondent for the APN, in 1959 he returned to Moscow and entered graduate school at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He wrote historical and geographical essays for the magazines “Around the World” and “Asia and Africa Today”. He graduated from graduate school in 1962, and since 1963 he worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies, specializing in the history of Burma. In 1965 he defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Pagan State (XI-XIII centuries)”, in 1981 - his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Buddhist Sangha and the State in Burma”. He is known in the scientific community for his works on the history of Southeast Asia. The first story, “Maung Jo Will Live,” was published in 1961. He began writing science fiction in 1965; his first work of fiction, the story “The Debt of Hospitality,” was published as “a translation of a story by the Burmese writer Maung Sein Ji.” The rest of the science fiction works were published under the pseudonym “Kirill Bulychev” - the pseudonym was composed of the name of the wife and the maiden name of the writer’s mother. Subsequently, the name “Kirill” on the covers of books began to be written in abbreviation - “Kir.”, and then the period was shortened, and this is how the now famous “Kir Bulychev” turned out. The combination Kirill Vsevolodovich Bulychev also occurred. The writer kept his real name a secret until 1982, because he believed that the leadership of the Institute of Oriental Studies would not consider science fiction a serious activity, and was afraid that after revealing his pseudonym he would be fired. Several dozen books have been published, the total number of published works is hundreds. In addition to writing his own works, he was involved in translating science fiction works into Russian American writers. Screenwriter. More than twenty works have been filmed. In 1982, he won the USSR State Prize for the scripts for the feature film “Through Hardships to the Stars” and the full-length cartoon “The Secret of the Third Planet.” After the State Prize was awarded and the pseudonym was revealed, the expected dismissal did not take place. Winner of the Aelita-97 science fiction award. He died on September 5, 2003 at the age of 68 after a serious and long illness. He was buried in Moscow at the Miusskoye cemetery. In 2004, Kir Bulychev posthumously became the winner of the sixth international prize in the field of fantastic literature named after Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (“ABS Prize”) in the category “Criticism and Journalism”, for a series of essays “The Stepdaughter of the Epoch”
Kir Bulychev (Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko) is a famous Soviet writer, screenwriter, and orientalist. He took the pseudonym from his mother’s maiden name, Bulycheva Maria Mikhailovna, and the name of his wife Kira. Igor Vsevolodovich kept his real name hidden until 1982.
On October 18, 1934, Mozheiko was born in Moscow. After school, he entered the Moscow State Institute. Maurice Thorez. He graduated from his studies in 1957, worked for two years in Burma (a state in Southeast Asia) as a translator and correspondent for the APN (Political News Agency). He returned to his native Moscow in 1959 and immediately entered graduate school at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (USSR Academy of Sciences).
He is the author of articles for educational magazines “Around the World” and “Asia and Africa Today”. In 1962, Mozheiko completed his postgraduate studies, and in 1963 he began working at the Institute of Oriental Studies, with an emphasis on the history of Burma. He wrote a master's thesis on the topic “The Pagan State (XI-XIII centuries)”, which was defended in 1965. And in 1981 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “The Buddhist Sangha and the State in Burma.”
Igor Vsevolodovich was quite famous in the scientific community, especially for his work on the history of Southeast Asia, as he devoted a lot of his time to this. In 1961, his first story, “Maung Jo Will Live,” was published. Already in 1965, he began to write fiction, his first fantastic work - the story “The Debt of Hospitality”, published as “a translation of a story by the Burmese writer Maung Saeng Ji.” Several dozen books have been published, and hundreds of works have been published. He was involved in translating science fiction works of American writers into Russian.
Mozheiko was also a screenwriter; more than twenty works were filmed. He is the author of the script for the film “Through Thorns to the Stars” and the cartoon “The Secret of the Third Planet”, for which he was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982, after which his pseudonym was revealed. On May 31, 1997, in the city of Yekaterinburg, he received the Aelita-97 award in the field of science fiction.
For many years he was seriously ill, died on September 5, 2003, he was 68 years old. The writer was buried at the Miusskoye cemetery in Moscow.
In 2004 he was posthumously awarded the Prize for Fantastic Literature. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It is awarded for the best fantastic work of the year; by fantastic we mean a work in which the writer uses elements of the incredible, impossible, or fabulous. Kir Bulychev was awarded in the category “Criticism and Journalism” for the story “Stepdaughter of the Epoch”.
Kir Bulychev - Russian and Soviet writer, historian, orientalist was born on October 18, 1934 in Moscow.
Childhood
“I get everything from my mother,” said the famous author of many works. He will call the heroines of his books by her name and patronymic. The father left the family before the start of the war. The stepfather who replaced him died two days before the victory.
Maria Mikhailovna had a hard time with two children. She changed many jobs, while continuing to study and master new specialties.
She worked hard in a factory, worked as a driver, and was the commandant of a fortress in which shells and cartridges were stored.
When Igor was born, I had to change my military uniform to civilian clothes. During the hard times of war, she returned to duty, fulfilling her duty to the Motherland.
As a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Bulychev did not sit still. I went somewhere, drove somewhere, climbed mountains, wanted to see more of everything. After receiving his diploma, he worked in distant Burma (now Myanmar) at a construction site.
As a child
Then he entered the Institute of Oriental Studies and, working for the magazine “Around the World”, on the instructions of the editors, traveled to thousands of different places on the globe. So the future writer’s outlook was amazing.
Journalism, science and the third - the “frivolous” path to science fiction. I had to hide behind a pseudonym because at one point, and Mozheiko was then 33 years old, one of his stories was accepted for publication.
He worked at the institute and did not want them to know about his side hobbies. In addition, part-time work was not approved in Soviet times. At that time, Igor Vsevolodovich could not imagine that he would become a writer, and he did not want to worsen his situation at work.
He admitted that he committed many sins - he did not go to the collective farm, he skipped a trade union meeting, he acted unfriendly to someone. For the ideologically consistent Soviet era, an almost antisocial element. Therefore, he took his wife’s name and mother’s surname and became Kir Bulychev. At different periods of creativity there were also five other pseudonyms.
Career
It is interesting that the writer did not associate science fiction with dreams and believed in goodness as such, in friendship. He did not associate universal human values with any religion in which he was well versed. He said that the existence of a higher mind is quite possible, but he was not given the opportunity to understand this, since such things are so much higher than him.
Igor Vsevolodovich sat down to write a book, not knowing in advance how it would end and what the ending would be. Otherwise he was just bored. Therefore, he did not become an outstanding scientist, as he himself claimed.
The scientist and prose writer was convinced that the future was unpredictable. He considered those who guessed and promised the end of the world, global catastrophe and apocalypse to be charlatans.
He cited as an example a scientifically calculated forecast made in the second half of the 19th century - in a hundred years, the streets of large cities will be impossible to clear from heaps of manure due to the ever-increasing number of horse-drawn vehicles.
Regarding issues of faith in something or someone, the author of many books is sure that the main thing is to be thinking, critically thinking, thoughtful people. After all, the population of Russia was taught to believe according to orders from above, so there were and will not be any problems with changing the next faith.
They believed in Stalin, but then it turned out that this was a cult of personality. They believed Khrushchev - in the end they declared him a voluntarist and a rogue. They believed Brezhnev, and after his death it turned out that he was senile and the cause of stagnation. They believed Gorbachev, but five years later the USSR collapsed, and the last Soviet leader was none other than a traitor and an enemy.
Bulychev emphasized in one of his interviews that people who are accustomed to believe and not think will always experience various troubles. As a historian and doctor of sciences, he believed that the state in which he lived would certainly collapse, but did not think that this would happen so soon. Everyone needs to learn history well.
Multifaceted talent
The popular science fiction writer knows well what censorship is, and difficulties with it have arisen more than once. However, according to Igor Vsevolodovich, everything depends on the writer himself. In order not to make a deal with his conscience, he wrote things that would be published to “live and eat.”
If he wanted to write material that censorship would not allow, Bulychev wrote it, but showed it only to close relatives and friends. When Soviet times ended, all the articles that were “on the table” have now been published.
He was not integrated into the system and kept his distance from his colleagues. In that situation, it turned out to be easier for myself; no one would set me up. The writer never was mean. He did not consider himself either a revolutionary or a fighter. After reading the book “How to become a science fiction writer.
Notes of a Seventies Man,” the thought creeps in that Bulychev began writing because life decreed it that way. It couldn't have been any other way. The feeling that not a single character has “fused” with its author. There is some kind of sediment in the writer’s soul, a certain disappointment is felt.
The writer's legacy is indeed not small. This includes different works, divided into thematic groups, which are united by one plot and common characters. There is a teenage girl, an agent, and a doctor, a cheerful city, then a sad city, other characters and fantastic lines.
A separate line includes novels and stories not collected in a specific general cycle. Among them are significant works by Bulychev, each of which deserves a separate article. The novel “Refuge” was published after the death of the wonderful writer and was a kind of Russian answer to the young English wizard Harry Potter.
Educational publications and documentary works. Among them are “Secrets of the Ancient World”, “Historical Secrets Russian Empire" Encyclopedias and reference books, anthologies, several plays, stories (“When the Dinosaurs Died Out,” etc.), fairy tales. And also translations of fantastic works by foreign authors - Arthur C. Clarke, Mac Reynolds, etc. And also 600 poems by the author and dozens of short stories.
There were also film adaptations feature films. This is especially true of the five-part film “Guest from the Future,” which brought the author of the story “One Hundred Years Ahead” closer to fame. At the same time, this film was banned in Holland due to sexual discrimination.
Incredible stupidity, even with all the bias of their legislation. And in the film “Through Thorns to the Stars,” the party authorities did not allow many episodes to be shown, although the viewer finds himself in a completely fictional world with aliens, and the events take place in the 23rd century.
A wonderful cartoon where the bird Talker is distinguished by his intelligence and intelligence.
Personal life
Bulychev was an optimistic person and loved to joke. He is from that generation that was “understanding”, so his humor in his works is sad. He did not want to go into history, arguing that it usually includes murderers: rulers, kings, generals.
And the science fiction writer tried to live calmly and not spoil the lives of other people, although people envied him and tried to in different ways discredit the name of the writer. His success and brilliance haunted those who surrounded him in everyday life. He tried to treat it as a minor nuisance.
Bulychev was married to Kira Soshinskaya, a writer and professional artist who made illustrations for his books. When her daughter was born, her father was looking for a non-standard name for her. He called her Alice, and then the heroine of the books was named that way (reminiscent of her namesake from Carroll’s fairy tales). Grandson Timofey is an architect. Together with his mother, they have a common hobby - they love to dive into water with scuba gear.
Bulychev and Kira Soshinskaya
Having an institute of translators behind him, the literary critic said that his first language was English, and his second was Czech. It was believed theoretically that Bulychev knew the Burmese language, but in practice he did not know it.
The writer collected hats and service insignia, and before that, flintlock pistols and sabers. He considered himself a great expert in faleristics (rewards). I had to buy and exchange various antiques semi-legally at unadvertised flea markets somewhere in Lenin Mountains. Now this is Vorobyovy Gory. Sometimes the police dispersed all these lovers of stamps, coins and shabby rarities.
When computers came out, he didn't work on them. There is a photo where the writer is sitting in front of a switched off computer. My wife always drove the car, Igor Vsevolodovich did not. There are no detailed technical descriptions in novels and stories. This is what his daughter testifies. It’s even surprising, because in interplanetary flights, nature as such is completely absent, only technology and electronics.
Bulychev was very far from home life. Unless I bought groceries. Being an impractical person, he once poured boiling water into a bottle, causing it to explode.
I always wore a jacket because there were a lot of pockets. It was necessary to place notebooks, various notes and other pieces of paper in them. His back hurt because of the heavy bag filled to the brim with books, which Igor Vsevolodovich carried over his shoulder.
Once from India, Bulychev smuggled two small monkeys in his coat pockets. They lived in his apartment for several years. My daughter fed them and remembers how biting these lemurs were, although incredibly beautiful.
The science fiction writer had no special preferences for food. Favorite dishes include boiled beef, sprinkled with salt and milk. There was a dacha in the Moscow region, but then it burned down. In general, he was not a gardener at all.
What kind of shovel is there, lying on the grass and reading books - that’s the main activity. I’ve actually never been on vacation in my entire life and never played sports. He watched football matches on TV, he liked it.
The writer died at the age of 68, the cause was oncology, which he had been fighting for a long time. He had a certain negative attitude, which Igor Vsevolodovich voiced more than once, saying that his father lived for 69 years, and that he supposedly had no more life. You can’t program yourself to be negative.
The many gifts that he brought from afar remind us of Bulychev in his house. For example, coral beads from the Philippines are of extraordinary beauty, as well as watercolors he painted hanging on the walls.
