Kaverin V.A. (1902-1989), writer

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KAVERIN (real surname Zilber) Veniamin Alexandrovich (1902-1989), writer. Lived in Petrograd - Leningrad in 1920-41. In 1923 graduated from the Arabic Department of the Institute of Oriental Languages, in 1924 - from the Historical-Philosophical Department of the University, started post-graduate course. In 1929 the book by Kaverin - Baron Brambeus. The history of O. Senkovsky: journalist and editor - was published, defended his dissertation in the same year. Kaverin was a member of the translators' studio that functioned as a part of World Literature publishing house and Literary Group, Serapion Brothers that came from it. In his work of the Leningrad period Kaverin strove to make literature a reflection of everyday life. In his novel Brawler, or Evenings on Vasilievsky Island (1928) the spiritual atmosphere of Petrograd-Leningrad of the 1920s is depicted. Kaverin became known for his novel Two Captains (volumes 1-2, 1938-44; Stalin Prize, 1946). The prose of Kaverin ranges over themes of the confrontation of personalities, talent and fame, true and false science. He lived at 9 Griboedova Canal Embankment (collective memorial plaque); in the House of Creativity in the town of Pushkin at 6 Proletarskaya Street (today Tserkovnaya Street).

References: Новикова О. И., Новиков В. И. В. Каверин: Критич. очерк. М., 1986; Фесенко Э. Я. К вопросу о прототипах героев романа В. А. Каверина Скандалист, или Вечера на Васильевском острове // Проблемы культуры, языка, воспитания. Архангельск, 1998. Вып. 3. С. 40-47.

D. N. Akhapkin. Kaverin Veniamin Alexandrovich
Senkovsky Osip Ivanovich (Yuzef Yulian)
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Tserkovnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 6
Новикова О. И., Новиков В. И. В. Каверин: Критич. очерк. М., 1986
Фесенко Э. Я. К вопросу о прототипах героев романа В. А. Каверина "Скандалист, или Вечера на Васильевском острове" // Проблемы культуры, языка, воспитания. Архангельск, 1998 World of Literature, publishing house, 1918-1924
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