Sergey Petrovich Antonov Сергей Петрович Антонов
Russian Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary critic. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951).
Born on May 3 (16), 1915 in Petrograd in the family of a railway engineer, in his childhood he traveled a lot in the South of Russia, the Urals, the Volga region and Central Asia. After school he worked as a handyman at construction sites. Graduated from the Leningrad Highway Institute (1938) was a civil engineer, a teacher at a technical school. On the fronts of the Soviet Finnish and the Great Patriotic War, he commanded engineering and sapper units.
First appeared with poetry in 1943-1946; the first story “Spring” was published in 1947. In subsequent collections of stories (“Cars are going along the roads”, 1950, USSR State Prize, 1951; “Peaceful people”, 1950), stories “Lena” (1948), “Poddubenskie ditties” ( 1950), “First position” (1952), “Green Dol” (1953-1954), “It was in Penkovo” (1956), “Alenka” (1960), “Torn Ruble” (1966), short stories “Rains” (1951), “Empty voyage” (1960), etc., the characteristic features of Antonov’s work were manifested, which provided him with a solid place in the history of Russian every day and psychological prose of the 20th century: the clarity and plasticity of “pastel”, “Chekhov” writing, essay facts,
A special theme of Antonov’s work, in which the writer can be considered the predecessor of V.M. Shukshin with his “freaks” and the hero of “Kalina Krasnaya” tractor driver (also the hero of the film based on the story of the same name by Antonov; directed by S.I. Rostotsky) and, no less – in Antonov’s scripts for the famous films “There lived a songbird” (directed by O.D. Ioseliani), “Flights in dreams and “(directed by R. G. Balayan).
