Vicissitudes of fate. Memories of the era from the diaries of the writer: Evgeny Schwartz

Evgeny Schwartz is a famous Soviet writer, author of the cult plays “Naked King”, “Snow Queen”, “Shadow”, “Dragon”, “An ordinary miracle”.
Diaries are a special part of Schwartz’s creative heritage. The writer led them almost from the very beginning of literary activity. Memories of childhood, youth, the creation of a new theater, about the days of the blockade of Leningrad and the years of evacuation. But perhaps the most interesting is the gallery of portraits of contemporaries, behind which the whole era stands: Korney Chukovsky, Samuel Marshak, Nikolai Cherkasov, Erast Garin, Yanina Zheimo, Dmitry Shostakovich, Arkady Raikin and many, many others. Schwartz tells about them delicately and sarcastically, warmly and ironically, sometimes opening the most famous people of those years from completely unexpected sides.

Author
Schwartz Evgeny Lvovich
Editor
Varlamov A.V.
Publisher
Corpus, 2013