Mikhail Veller

One of the most emotional and scandalous writers of our time is Mikhail Weller. There is a lot of controversy around his work, political views and philosophical statements now.

Mikhail Iosifovich Weller was born in Kamyanets-Podolsk on May 20, 1948. The family often changed their place of residence, since the father, on duty, was obliged to drive around the garrisons of the Far East and Siberia. The parents of the future writer and Mikhail himself are Jews by nationality. I. A. Weller worked as a military ophthalmologist, his mother was also a graduate of the medical institute in Chernivtsi.

Joseph Weller became famous for his works in the field of medicine. One of them: "Side effects of psychotropic drugs on the organs of vision." The son did not follow in the footsteps of numerous relatives associated with medical business. Having received a gold medal and a certificate of excellent graduation from the Mogilev 3 school, Mikhail became a student of the philological faculty of Leningrad University.

During his studies, Weller showed leadership qualities, becoming the Komsomol organizer of the course, as well as serving as the secretary of the Komsomol bureau of the university. In 1969, the future writer on a dare went to Kamchatka from Leningrad without a livelihood. I got there without money and entered the “border zone” by cunning.

In 1970, Mikhail Weller took an academic leave from the university and moved to Central Asia, where he wandered for about six months, and then to Kaliningrad. There, after special courses, Mikhail Iosifovich went on a voyage on a fishing vessel.

Since 1971, Weller has continued his higher education. In the same year he showed his first work in a student wall newspaper. In 1972, Mikhail Iosifovich graduated from Leningrad University with his thesis on the topic "Types of composition of the modern Russian Soviet story."

After graduation, Mikhail Weller was called up for military service. In the artillery unit he was promoted to an officer and served for about 6 months, then he was discharged. In 1972, the future writer worked at the Leningrad School, where the university provided him with a place. Mikhail led an extended day group, as well as Russian language and literature lessons in the eight-year school.

Mikhail Weller's career continued in Leningrad. He left school voluntarily and got a job at the local workshop of prefabricated structures ZhBK-4 as a worker. From 1973 to 1976, Mikhail Iosifovich changed his place of work several times, and also moved frequently. With a group of workers he went to the Kola Peninsula, and then a year later - to Leningrad, where he worked in the "State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism."

Weller's first works were published in 1975 on the pages of Skorokhodovsky Rabochy, a printed publication of the Leningrad shoe association Skorokhod. The writer himself admitted that an important period for future creativity fell on 1976, when he moved through the Altai Mountains, driving cattle from Mongolia to Biysk. Weller's literary career began in the same year. However, not a single editorial staff agreed to cooperate with the young talent.

Then Mikhail decided to gain experience at the seminars of the popular writer Boris Natanovich Strugatsky. A year later, attending classes for novice Leningrad science fiction writers bore fruit: small stories of humorous content began to appear in city newspapers. Along with this, Weller collaborated with the Neva magazine: he wrote reviews.

Since the fall of 1976, Mikhail Iosifovich lived and worked in Tallinn (the writer has Estonian citizenship), became a member of the Union of Estonian Writers. At the same time his works saw the light of day, appearing in local magazines ("Tallinn", "Literary Armenia", "Ural") and the newspaper "Water Transport". By the way, Weller wrote reports for the latter from a cargo ship during his travels from Leningrad to Baku.

In 1981 Weller first introduced the reader to the basics of his philosophical views in the story "Report Line". Another successful job was done in 1983. The work "I want to be a janitor" has been translated into Estonian, Armenian and Buryat languages. The book was a success not only within the home country, but also in Italy, France, Holland, Bulgaria and Poland.

Thanks to Bulat Okudzhava and Boris Strugatsky, the young author Mikhail Weller was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR. In 1988, the work "Tester of Happiness" was published, which sets out philosophical reasoning. In the same year, another book, Heartbreaker, was published.

1990 is also rich in literary successes: the works "Rendezvous with a Celebrity", "Narrow Gauge Railway", "I Want to Paris", "Entombment" were published. At the same time, a film based on the story "But those shish" appeared on the screens. Later, under the leadership of Weller, the magazine Jericho was published. Representatives of the Higher Educational Institutions of Milan and Turin invited Mikhail Iosifovich to listen to lectures on Russian prose. Speeches were held on the same topic in Odessa.

In 1991, the author finished his work and released one of the most popular works "The Adventures of Major Zvyagin", which appeared in the list of the best according to the "Book Review" in 1994. In 1995, The Legends of Nevsky Prospekt were published, followed by the novel Samovar. Three years later, Weller wrote a small philosophical work, All About Life. From 1999 to 2014, a number of works continue to be published ("Monument to Dantes", "Messenger from Pisa", "Cassandra", "B. Babylonian", "White Donkey", "Legends of the Arbat", "Love and Passion").

During this period, Mikhail Iosifovich moved to Moscow, expressed for the first time the idea of ​​energy evolutionism. It is interesting that many consider Weller to be the author of the catch phrase "dashing 90s". The writer's work can be disassembled into quotes.

The popular Soviet and Russian writer is famous for his emotionality. He has clear philosophical and political positions. The loudest conflicts occurred in 2017. One of them was on the TVC channel in March, when the presenter accused Mikhail Iosifovich of lying, for which the writer threw a glass at him.

And the other - in May of the same year with the host of the radio "Echo of Moscow" Olga Bychkova, who, according to Weller, knocked out of her thoughts and pissed off. This time the writer dropped the microphone and threw water from the cup into Olga's face. The scandal was promised to be ironed out if Weller apologizes.

The writer is the owner of the 4th degree Order of the White Star literary prize, the author of many works of different genres, and a talk show participant (Towards the Barrier with Sergei Solovyov).

One of Weller's most recent and high profile publications is Ambulance Tales, a humorous work about the life of medical personnel. This work aroused the public's special interest and many discussions of the writer's subtle, peculiar humor. By the way, on the Internet you can find anecdotes belonging to the pen of Mikhail Iosifovich.

The celebrity has an official website and a Twitter account, where there are many live photos and fresh articles.

The biography of a public person would not be complete without a discussion of his personal life, about which, by the way, Mikhail Iosifovich Weller does not talk to journalists. In an interview to such questions, the writer replies that family matters should not become common property.

It is only known that Mikhail is married to Anna Agriomati. In 1987, the couple had a daughter, Valentina.

In 2018, Mikhail Weller's book "Fire and Agony" was presented at the literary festival. The work is a kind of overview of the modern school curriculum, or rather, the literature that students have to read.

The content of the new book surprised the visitors of the festival. The fact is that Weller criticized literary heroes, whom teachers called to be equal or to be aware of the motives of actions. According to Mikhail Iosifovich (writes Komsomolskaya Pravda), Pechorin, Onegin, Sonya Marmeladova, Karenina will not teach a modern teenager a happy life.

Weller does not call for excluding masterpieces from the program, although he proposed to dilute the educational process, for example, with Shakespeare and Hugo.

1990 - "Rendezvous with a Celebrity" 1991 - "The Adventures of Major Zvyagin" 1994 - "Seryozha Dovlatov's Knife" 1996 - "Samovar" 2000 - "Messenger from Pisa" 2003 - "Cruel" 2003 - "Novels" 2006 - "My Business" 2006 - "Not a knife, not Seryozha, not Dovlatov" 2007 - "Makhno" 2015 - "Homeless" 2017 - "Only think" 2018 - "Fire and agony"

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