Kir Bulychev. Biography. Biography of Kir Bulychev. Books by the writer, interesting facts

08.04.2019

Arbat boy Igor Mozheiko was always interested in something. When I was very young, I loved stories about scouts and border guard Karatsupa. At the age of ten he wanted to become an artist and even entered the art school. True, he did not study there for long - he got sick, missed a lot, and then was afraid to go back. Igor was probably very worried and resentful of his mother for not persuading him or insisting, but he soon developed new hobbies, completely different ones - geology and paleontology.
Igor really wanted “travel, live in a tent, make scientific discoveries”. Imagining himself as an explorer of the Amazonian jungle, he traveled up and down the Moscow region. He diligently studied Ivan Efremov’s books about paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert, collected extensive collections of minerals and, of course, imagined himself as a real geologist with a courageous face and weather-beaten hands...
It seemed that he had a direct path to the geological exploration institute, but it so happened that, according to the Komsomol order, Mozheiko was sent to the Moscow Institute foreign languages, and after graduating from the translation department there, he went to work in a distant Asian country - Burma...
At times it seemed to the young translator that he found himself in some kind of fairy-tale world. From the hotel window he could see thousands of ancient Buddhist temples. Before dawn they became blue, purple and somehow airy. Shocked by what he saw, Igor Mozheiko, returning to his homeland, entered graduate school at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences and in 1966 defended his dissertation on medieval Burma on the topic “The Pagan State.”
Research and work on monographs began. Life seemed to be going along a well-worn track, but... At the same time, Mozheiko’s daughter Alisa was growing up. She was not too interested in the history of Burma, but she really wanted her dad to forget about his business and tell her something completely unusual. And especially for his daughter, Igor Vsevolodovich happily began to invent fantastic stories about a girl from the 21st century, whom, like his own child, he named Alice.
These stories, entitled “The Girl to Whom Nothing Happens,” were published in 1965 in the popular anthology “World of Adventures.” And soon an interesting story happened with the Iskatel magazine, which published detective stories and science fiction. Somehow a real emergency happened in the editorial office of this glorious publication. Just before submitting the materials to the printing house, it was decided not to publish one of the foreign science fiction stories. However, as luck would have it, the cover of the upcoming issue with an illustration for this story had already been printed. From the cover, a tiny dinosaur sitting in a jar looked sadly at the upset editorial staff.
The drawing urgently required an explanation, and several people, saving the situation, decided to write a fantastic story, the best of which was to be included in the collection the next day. Orientalist scientist Igor Mozheiko also took part in the unexpected competition. He honestly sat at the typewriter all night, and in the morning he brought his essay to the editorial office. The story invented by Mozheiko (“When did the dinosaurs go extinct?”) seemed to the staff the most successful, and it was urgently inserted into the issue. But how to sign such an unexpected creation? “Igor Mozheiko” seems inconvenient. After all, he’s a historian, a scientist, but here are some dinosaurs in jars. "Wife's name plus mother's maiden name"- the author decided and wrote “Kir Bulychev” under the manuscript. This is how one of the most popular modern science fiction writers appeared.
Be that as it may, the fact remains: the serious historian Mozheiko began writing “frivolous” fiction. And, apparently, he really liked this activity, because after the first short stories that laid the foundation for the stories “about Alice”, real “big” books appeared: “The Girl from the Earth” (1974), “One Hundred Years Ahead” (1978) ), “A Million Adventures” (1982), “Fidget” (1985), “The New Adventures of Alice” (1990)... And once Alisa Seleznyova even became a movie star - scripts were written for the animated film “The Secret of the Third Planet” and the five-part feature film “The Guest” from the future". And each new meeting with a girl from the 21st century caused both readers and viewers great delight.
But Kir Bulychev did not want to write only about Alice. He wrote a great many completely different, completely different books: an ironic epic about the provincial town of Great Guslyar and its the glorious resident Cornelius Udalov, an “adult” series about the space doctor Vladislav Pavlysh and much, much more...
At the same time, Igor Vsevolodovich did not abandon his scientific studies. At the same time as the science fiction writer Bulychev, the historian Mozheiko tirelessly wrote his works. He published several monographs, popular science books “7 and 37 Wonders”, “Pirates, Corsairs, Raiders”, “1185. East-West". He also defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Buddhism in Burma.”
One can only wonder how Igor Vsevolodovich had enough time and energy for everything. However, no, there just wasn’t enough time, and the science fiction writer Bulychev, together with the historian Mozheiko, dreamed more than anything else about how to somehow increase the day...

Nadezhda Voronova, Alexey Kopeikin

WORKS BY KIR BULYCHEV

[COMPLETE WORKS]: Series “Adult Fiction” / Comp. A.V. Alekseev; Artist K.A. Soshinskaya. - M.: Chronos, 1993-.
In the first fifteen volumes " Full meeting works" by Kir Bulychev included works about Doctor Pavlysh, a cycle about the Great Guslyar, a dilogy about the Cosmoflot Agent Andrei Bruce, about the fictional state of Ligon, the novel "Favorite", as well as numerous novellas and short stories.
The next fifteen volumes were supposed to include the epic “The Chronos River”, novels about Garik Gagarin and the Institute of Expertise, collections of new stories and some documentary and journalistic works, including a book about the history of Soviet science fiction “Stepdaughter of the Epoch”, but most of them are in print it never showed up.

[COMPLETE WORKS]: Series “Children's Fiction” / Comp. A.V. Alekseev; Artist E.T. Migunov. - M.: Chronos, 1994-.
For the most part, this collection consists of reprints of novellas and short stories about a girl from the future, Alisa Selezneva. But his very first volume - “The River Doctor” - includes works that are not related to the famous series: the fantastic stories “The River Doctor” and “Starship in the Forest”, funny and funny stories“Children in a Cage”, “Bloody Cap, or Tale after Tale”, as well as poems. Only the short story “Two Tickets to India” is connected with the Alice series.

WORKS: 3 volumes / Designed. A. Akishina, I. Voronina. - M.: TERRA-Kn. club, 1999. - (Big library of adventures and science fiction).
T. 1: Reserve for academicians: Fantastic. novel. - 543 p.
T. 2: Earthquake in Ligon: The other day there was an earthquake in Ligon; Naked people: Fantastic. novels. - 431 p.
T. 3: Sleep, beauty: A novel; Death on the floor below: Fantastic. story. - 431 p.

- Great Guslyar -

GREAT GUSLYAR: Novels, stories / Artist. A. Kozhanovsky. - Minsk: Yunatstva, 1995. - 464 p.: ill. - (B-ka adventures and science fiction).
Where else, if not in Russia, will you find the town of Velikiy Guslyar? And its inhabitants, who are capable of not losing their presence of mind in the most unexpected situations, be it buying talking goldfish in a pet store, another brilliant discovery of Professor Lev Khristoforovich Mints, or meeting with space aliens, from which the city has become somehow even cramped lately? ..

WE NEED A FREE PLANET: [Fiction. works] / [Comp. M.Yu. Manakov]. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 991 p. - (Masterpieces of Russian fiction).
GENIUS FROM GUSLYAR: [Fantastic. works] / [Comp. M.Yu. Manakov]. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 735 p. - (Masterpieces of Russian fiction).
"Martian Potion"
It's no secret that in Velikiy Guslyar there are literally under every street underground passages and treasures. One of these treasures may be, for example, a pot-bellied bottle containing a real elixir of youth...

"We need a free planet" And "Dear Microbe"
“You obviously have no idea of the difficulties and dangers of space travel.”, - said the alien Gnets-18 to Cornelius Udalov. - "You you can die, dematerialize, fall into the past, end up in the sixth dimension, turn into a woman. Finally, you can become a victim of space dragons or contract galactic tabes.". However, the head of the Velikiy Guslyar construction office, who was suddenly overcome by a thirst for wandering, firmly decided to help Gnets-18 find a free planet in the endless Space, vitally necessary for his compatriots “brother in mind”...
Cornelius Ivanovich's services to the Galaxy were appreciated, and he had to once again set off on a long space journey, described in the sequel - the story “Dear Microbe”.

- Galactic Police -

GALACTIC POLICE: Book. 1: Halfway off the cliff: [Fantastic. novels] / Ill. A. Razumova. - M.: Lokid, 1995. - 557 p.: ill. - (Modern Russian science fiction).
Contents: Children's Island; Halfway off the cliff.
GALACTIC POLICE: Book. 2: Assassination of Theseus: [Fiction. novel] / Ill. A. Razumova. - M.: Lokid, 1995. - 491 p.: ill. - (Modern Russian science fiction).
GALACTIC POLICE: Book. 3: Foreteller of the Past: [Fantastic. stories] / Ill. A. Razumova. - M.: Lokid, 1995. - 441 p.: ill. - (Modern Russian science fiction).
Contents: In chicken skin; Foreteller of the past; The last dragons.
GALACTIC POLICE: Book. 4: Mirror of Evil: [Fantastic. novel] / Ill. A.Taranina. - M.: Lokid, 1997. - 442 p.: ill. - (Modern Russian science fiction).

ATTEMPT ON THESEUS: Fantastic. novels / Comp. M. Manakov; Artist A. Saukov. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 894 p. - (Founding Fathers: Russian Space).
Contents: Children's Island; Halfway off the cliff; Attempt on Theseus.
THE LAST DRAGONS: Fantastic. novel, story / Comp. M. Manakov; Artist A. Saukov. - M.: Eksmo, 2006. - 893 p. - (Founding Fathers: Russian Space). Contents: In chicken skin; Foreteller of the past; The Last Dragons; The Disappearance of Professor Lu Fu; Mirror of evil.
InterGalactic Police Agent Cora Orvat is an extremely charming and enterprising person. Some, by the way, consider her to be a grown-up Alisa Selezneva. Nothing like this. Alice is familiar with Cora, but let’s hope that she will grow up to be a serious scientist, and not such an inveterate “head off.” Be that as it may, Cora had no less adventures, and such that Alice had never even dreamed of: Cora and the invasion from parallel world reflected, and in Ancient Greece traveled, and was in chicken skin, and looked for missing dragons, and even with the legendary Commissar Milodar on a friendly footing!

- Doctor Pavlysh -

THE LAST WAR: [Fiction. novel, story]. - St. Petersburg: Azbuka - Terra, 1997. - 399 p. - (Russian field).
Contents: The Last War; The Great Spirit and the Fugitives; Half of life.
PASS: [Fantastic. novel, story]. - St. Petersburg: Azbuka - Terra, 1997. - 479 p. - (Russian field).
Contents: Village; Law for the dragon; Cinderella's white dress.
The novels and stories included in these books are united by the main character - space doctor Vladislav Pavlysh. However, “the main thing” is perhaps an exaggeration. Dr. Pavlysh rarely becomes a direct participant in the unfolding dramas. Rather, he is an outside observer, whose view of the events taking place is the view of the author himself, attentive and ironic.

VILLAGE: [Fantastic. works] / Comp. M. Manakov; Artist A. Saukov. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 894 p. - (Founding Fathers: Russian Space).
Contents: Thirteen years of journey; The Great Spirit and the Fugitives; The Last War; Law for the dragon; Cinderella's white dress; Half Life; Village; City Above.
"The Last War"
On the distant Moon, where the earthly spaceship Segezha arrives, a terrible nuclear war occurred, turning the planet into an endless, lifeless desert. Only in the deep dungeons are the remnants of life still glimmering...

"Village"
“Sixteen years ago, Oleg and Dick were less than two years old. Maryana was not yet in the world. And they did not remember how the research ship “Polyus” landed here in the mountains. Their first memories were connected with the village, with the forest; They learned the habits of nimble red mushrooms and predatory vines before they heard from their elders that there are stars and another world.”.
For sixteen years, on a distant planet with flora and fauna hostile to humans, there has been a small colony founded by survivors of the accident on the Polus spaceship, who are trying to survive in a world completely alien to humans...
Is there really no salvation and a return to savagery, and then the slow death of this tiny fragment of earthly civilization is inevitable?..

VILLAGE: Fantastic. novel / Artist. V. Rudenko. - [Ed. 2nd]. - M.: Det. lit., 1993. - 334 pp.: ill. - (B-ka adventures and science fiction).

THE LAST WAR: Fantasy. novel. - [SPb.]: Griffin, 1991. - 336 p.

- Alice's Adventures -

ALICE'S JOURNEY: Fantastic. stories / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1994. - 428 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
Contents: A girl to whom nothing will happen; Rusty Field Marshal; Alice's Journey; Alice's birthday.
A HUNDRED YEARS FORWARD: Fantastic. story / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1995. - 298 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
A MILLION ADVENTURES: Fantastic. stories / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1994. - 395 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
Contents: Prisoners of the Asteroid; A million adventures.
RESERVE OF TALES: Fantastic. stories and stories / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1994. - 396 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
Contents: Reserve of fairy tales; Kozlik Ivan Ivanovich; Lilac Ball: Tales; Girl from the Future: Stories.
THE END OF ATLANTIS: Fantastic. stories and stories / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1994. - 364 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
Contents: Prisoners of the Yamagiri Maru; Guy-do; The End of Atlantis: Tales; And again Alice: Stories.
UNDERGROUND BOAT: Fantastic. stories / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1995. - 379 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
Contents: City without memory; Underground boat.
WAR WITH LILIPUTES: Science Fiction. story / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1995. - 332 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
ALICE AND THE CRUSADERS: Fantastic. stories / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1995. - 216 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
Contents: Alice and the Crusaders; Golden Bear.
DETECTIVE ALICE: Fantastic. stories / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1996. - 230 pp.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
Contents: Detective Alice; Emitter of kindness.
CHILDREN OF DINOSAURS: Fantastic. stories / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1996. - 214 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
Contents: Dinosaur Children; Guest in a jug.
THERE ARE NO GHOSTS: Fiction. story / Artist. E. Migunov. - M.: ARMADA, 1996. - 237 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
DANGEROUS TALES: Fantasy. stories / Ill. E. Migunova. - M.: ARMADA, 1998. - 250 pp.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).
Contents: Planet for tyrants; Dangerous tales.
Have you read about Alice's adventures?
If not, then you are missing out! After all, this girl from the 21st century managed to do something that every self-respecting teenager can only dream of! For example, tame a cute, tiny - about two and a half meters - brontosaurus, go with your father, Professor Seleznev, on a space journey to find rare animals for the Moscow zoo, save an entire planet from destruction, ride into the past in a time machine, become a princess medieval kingdom, destroy the lair of space pirates, enter the fairy tale reserve without asking...
Well? Are you still thinking about it?..

About the story “Dragonosaurus” from the series “Alice and her friends in the labyrinths of history”...

- Chronos River -

RETURN FROM TREATZUND: Fantastic. novels / Comp. M. Manakov; Artist A. Saukov. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 863 p. - (Founding Fathers: Russian Space).
Contents: Heir; Assault on Dulber; Return from Trebizond.

RESERVE FOR ACADEMICS: Fantastic. novels / Comp. M. Manakov; Artist A. Saukov. - M.: Eksmo, 2006. - 955 p. - (Founding Fathers: Russian Space).
Contents: Reserve for academicians; Baby Frey.

RIVER KHRONOS: Fantastic. novel / Artist. K. Soshinskaya. - M.: Moscow. worker, 1992. - 414 p.: ill.
This book is thorough and unhurried, full of descriptions and conversations, details and details, digressions and experiences... Only a high school student, and even then not everyone, can overcome it.
She talks about events in Russia at the beginning of the century. To the still very young Andrei Berestov, his stepfather reveals the secret of traveling through various streams of time, which can only be mastered by a select few...

RESERVE FOR ACADEMICS: Fantastic. novel / Artist. A. Bondarenko. - M.: Text, 1994. - 622 pp.: ill. - (Fantastic prose).
Times change, revolutions happen, old tyrants are replaced by new ones, but travelers along the River of Time Andrei Berestov and Lidochka Ivanitskaya remain young. They have long haul: they are destined to know all the tragedies and hopes of our century...

RIVER CHRONOS: Heir; Assault on Dulber; Return from Trebizond: Fantastic. novels / Fiction. M. Kalinkin. - M.: AST, 2004. - 829 p. - (F-fiction).
RIVER KHRONOS: Reserve for academicians; Cupid; Baby Frey [Fantastic. novels, stories] / Artist. M. Kalinkin. - M.: AST, 2005. - 831 p. - (F-fiction).
RIVER CHRONOS: Sleep, beauty!; Such people are not killed; House in London; Assassination: [Novels] / Fiction. M. Kalinkin. - M.: AST, 2005. - 953 p. - (F-fiction).
Contents: Sleep, beauty!; Such people are not killed; House in London; Manakov M., Shcherbak-Zhukov A. Preface; Assassination; Manakov M., Shcherbak-Zhukov A. Along the “River Chronos”; From the archive.

KF AGENT: KF Agent; Witches Dungeon; City Above: [Fantastic. story] / Preface. V. Hopman; Artist O. Yudin. - M.: ARMADA, 1998. - 474 p.: ill. - (Classic sci-fi action movie).
"Agent KF" And "Dungeon of the Witches"
On barbarian planets that are far behind Earth in their development, Cosmoflot agent Andrei Bruce often sees how savagery and cruelty take precedence over the forces of goodness and philanthropy. But is it possible to artificially speed up progress? And is outside intervention permissible for this?..

"City Above"
In the gloomy underground world, all life in which is divided into tiers and floors, it is hard for the poor trumpeter Kroni, lonely and despised by everyone. Like other inhabitants of the dungeon, he has never seen the sun and does not even know what it is. But there is a forbidden legend about the City Above, which cannot be told on pain of death...

TWO TICKETS TO INDIA: [Sat.] / Comp. M. Manakov; Artist A. Saukov. - M.: Eksmo, 2006. - 959 p. - (Founding Fathers: Russian Space).
Contents: General Bandula's sword; Two tickets to India; Hercules and the Hydra; Starship in the forest; Black bag; Photo of an alien; Aliens; River Doctor; Children in a cage; Bloody Cap, or Tale after Tale; Sinbad the Sailor; Riders; Shelter; Another childhood.
In this collection, the author's complete edition was published for the first time. last novel Kira Bulycheva’s “Shelter” and the posthumously published story “Another Childhood”.

SOME POEMS: Poems. - Chelyabinsk: Okolitsa, 2000. - 134 p.: ill. - (For a narrow circle).
Bulychev the poet is another facet of his versatile talent.

WHO NEEDS THIS?: Fantastic. history / Artist. V. Zuikov. - M.: RIF, 1991. - 351 p.: ill.
Kir Bulychev once admitted that he loved this book of his more than others. Of course, because it contains his best stories, and the stories, if you believe the critics, are especially successful for him. There is very little fiction in them, much more - the experiences and feelings of nice and touching people whom the writer knows and loves well.

CROCODILE IN THE YARD: Sat. / Artist. M. Kalinkin. - M.: AST: Ermak, 2003. - 379 p. - (Worlds of Kira Bulychev).
Contents: Vanya + Dasha = love; Misfire-67; Comrade D; Name day of Mrs. Vorchalkina; Crocodile in the yard.
And another facet of Kir Bulychev’s versatile talent is a playwright.

FAVORITE: Fantastic. novel / Artist. K. Soshinskaya. - M.: Culture, 1993. - 349 p.: ill.
Gigantic (three or four meters tall), similar to disgusting toads, insidious and soulless aliens from the planet Reikino came to conquer the Earth. They conduct terrible experiments on people, use them as slaves or keep them as pets. And so one of these pets escapes from his “owners” and wanders through a dark world under the heel of cruel conquerors...

SWORD OF GENERAL BANDULA: Adventure. story / Artist. Yu. Chistyakov. - M.: Det. lit., 1968. - 224 pp.: ill.
Burma holds many secrets. Moscow schoolboy Igor Isaev will have to face some of them...

RIDER: Fantastic. story / Ill. V. Krivenko. - M.: ARMADA: "Publishing house Alfa-Kniga", 2002. - 218 p.: ill. - (Castle of Miracles).

DUNGEON OF WITCHES: [Fantastic. works] / Comp. M. Manakov; Artist A. Saukov. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 1086 p. - (Founding Fathers: Russian Space).
Contents: Agent KF; Witches Dungeon; Favorite; Vanya + Dasha = love; Extra twin; In the clutches of passion; Plague on your field!; Cinderella at the market; Genius and villainy; The secret of Urulgan.

DUNGEON OF WITCHES: [Fantastic. novels] / Ill. A. Taranina. - M.: Lokid, 1996. - 490 pp.: ill. - (Modern Russian science fiction).
Contents: Agent KF; Witches Dungeon; City Above.

THE ABDUCTION OF THE SORCERER: [Fantasy. story]. - St. Petersburg: Azbuka - Terra, 1997. - 415 p. - (Russian field).
Contents: Crane in hands; Kidnapping of a sorcerer; Tsaritsyn key; Someone else's memory.

THE ABDUCTION OF THE SORCERER: [Fantasy. works] / Comp. M. Manakov; Artist A. Saukov. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 1146 p. - (Founding Fathers: Russian Space).
Contents: The other day there was an earthquake in Ligon; Naked people; Death on the floor below; Ability to throw a ball; Crane in hands; Tsaritsyn key; Kidnapping of a sorcerer; Someone else's memory; The orbiting devil; Mammoth; Misfire-67.
"Tsaritsyn Key"
A folklore expedition that went to the distant Ural village of Poluekhtov Ruchi for songs and fairy tales did not expect to find a real magical kingdom here. In this remote corner, raspberries the size of a fist grow, the talking raven Gregory lives, a mill wanders by itself and, following an ancient tradition, a bear shoots from a cannon every morning!..
And all because, in time immemorial, a huge meteorite fell into the valley of Tsaritsyn Spring. “Strange compounds of unknown substances brought from the depths of space there imbued the spring gushing from the earth with fabulous power, and the water here acquired properties that do not exist anywhere else in the world.”.

"The Kidnapping of the Sorcerer"
Kin, an alien from the 28th century, tells our contemporary Anna about the purpose of his visit, simultaneously explaining the principle of time travel: “You and I are particles floating in a spiral flow, and nothing in the world can slow down or speed up this movement. But there is another possibility - to move straight, outside the flow, as if crossing one turn after another.”.
A difficult task faces people from the distant future: they intend to save an unknown genius of the 13th century from imminent death...

"Alien Memory"
A homunculus, an artificial man, has been cloned at one of the Moscow institutes. The leader of the experiment, Sergei Rzhevsky, created a “son” for himself in his own image, rewarding him, in addition to his appearance, with his memories and pangs of conscience...

THE SECRET OF URULGAN: Novels / Artist. M. Kalinkin. - M.: AST, 2001. - 412 p. - (Worlds of Kira Bulychev).
Contents: The Secret of Urulgan. Death is on the floor below.

THE SECRET OF URULGAN: Old-fashioned science fiction. story / Artist. G. Kornyshev. - M.: Orbita, 1991. - 221 p.: ill.
This story is called “old-fashioned” partly because its action takes place at the beginning of our century - in 1913. The beautiful Englishwoman Miss Veronica Smith set out to make a dangerous journey to the terribly distant, wild and unknown Siberia. What prompted her to take such a risky act? A vague message about her father, Captain Oliver Smith, who went missing in those parts...

REFUGE: Novel / Ill. A. Derzhavin. - M.: Egmont Russia Ltd., 2004. - 478 p.
The latest novel by Kir Bulychev.

THROUGH THORNS TO THE STARS: Sat. / Artist. M. Kalinkin. - M.: AST, 2003. - 348 p. - (Worlds of Kira Bulychev).
Contents: Hercules and Hydra; Photo of an alien; Black bag; My dog Polkan; Aliens; From the author; Through hardship to the stars.
In addition to five well-known stories, the collection includes the script for the science-fiction film “Through Hardships to the Stars,” co-written with director Richard Viktorov.

- Secrets of history -

ENGLAND: Gods and Heroes / Artist. V. Tsikota. - Tver: Polina, 1997. - 79 p.: ill. - (Gods and heroes).
It is unknown whether the powerful gods of the ancient inhabitants of Britain - the Celts - actually existed, but here are the heroes - “It’s not at all a figment of fantasy or poetic invention. The English themselves believe that their ancient heroes, such as Boudicca, King Arthur, Sir Lancelot of the Lake, Robin Hood, actually lived. And they will even show you King Arthur’s Round Table, which is kept in one of the cathedrals..."

ATLANTIS: Gods and Heroes / Artist. G. Zlatogorov. - Tver: Polina, 1997. - 80 p.: ill. - (Gods and heroes).
“...there was one people in the world from which not only not a single book or inscription has survived, but not even a clay shard, not even a bead or a coin, not to mention the ruins of palaces...
These people are Atlanteans.
Their country was called Atlantis...
They say that Atlantis sank entirely, along with cities, fields, mountains and swamps.
And you can only read about it in one book...
Atlantis is one of the unsolved mysteries of the history of the Earth..."

WOMEN KILLERS. - M.: Sovremennik, 1996. - 320 pp.: ill. - (Anthology of secrets, miracles and riddles).
Contents: Conan Doyle and Jack the Ripper; Women are killers.
"Conan Doyle and Jack the Ripper"
“This book is like the chain of fireside stories that dear Charles Dickens loved so much.”. Information about the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is juxtaposed here with stories about the sensational crimes of that time, from which the author of the famous detective stories drew inspiration. Kira Bulychev “It seemed natural to bring together the life of Conan Doyle and the biography of Sherlock Holmes and show how they fit into reality and how they interacted with the progress of criminology”.

"Killer Women"
Of course, women are demonic creatures. But they were often pushed to crime not by evil intent, but by despair and the merciless force of circumstances...

STEP-DAUGHTER OF THE ERA: Fav. works about fiction. - M.: Magazine “If”: LC press: International. Center for Fiction, 2004. - 368 p.
Bulychev is a literary critic - and this is not the last facet of his versatile talent.
Igor Vsevolodovich was never a detached researcher of science fiction, a philologist, dispassionately recording certain literary trends. According to A. Shcherbak-Zhukov, “The Stepdaughter of the Epoch” is “an extremely personal story about how fantastic literature became a vivid reflection of the processes that took place in our country between the world wars”.

FANTASTIC BESTIARY / Artist. K. Soshinskaya. - St. Petersburg: KN Publishing House, 1995. - 259 pp.: ill. - (Anthology of secrets, miracles and riddles).
"Bestiary" is a book about beasts, and "Fantastic Bestiary" is a book about imaginary beasts. Kira Bulychev wanted to tell “about creatures that never existed... and look at them through our eyes. Then scary tales become funny and sometimes touching". To do this, he selected into his amazing menagerie a unicorn, a kraken, a dragon, an echidna, a sphinx, a basilisk, a mermaid, a kikimora - it’s impossible to list them all! But among the creatures invented in ancient times, there are others - those that were unknown to the monks of the Middle Ages - a special section is dedicated to them: “Inventions of our days.”

- BOOKS BY I.V. MOZHEIKO -

[COMPLETE WORKS]: East. series / Comp. A.V. Alekseev. - M.: Chronos, 1996-.
This multi-volume set was supposed to include popular science books that different years were published under the real name of Kira Bulychev - I.V. Mozheiko. Unfortunately, the meeting remained unfinished.

"Awards"
“The happiness of a collector is absolutely special kind joy, not accessible to everyone. This feeling in its purest form is disinterested, since a true collector will rejoice with equal intensity in an acquisition that is worth a penny or priceless - it is not the cost that is important, but the fact of ownership.”(Kir Bulychev. “KF Agent”).
All his life Igor Mozheiko was a passionate collector. Faleristics became his passion, a passion so strong and deep that over time it turned into another profession.
“The phalera was the name given to the breastplate of a Roman legionnaire,- writes Igor Vsevolodovich in the introduction. - Falera was a reward for valor.
The doctrine of rewards is called phaleristics.”
A true collector knows absolutely everything about his collection. Therefore, Igor Mozheiko conducts “conversations about faleristics” very competently and with obvious pleasure.

PIRATES, CORSAIRS, RAIDERS: Essays on the history of piracy in the Indian Ocean and South Seas (XV - XX centuries). - 3rd ed., add. - M.: Nauka, 1991. - 349 p.: ill.

PIRATES, CORSAIRS, RAIDERS: [Sb. articles]. - M.: Veche, 2006. - 477 p.: ill., photo. - (Great mysteries).
“Piracy arose in ancient times. There is reason to believe that on the day when the first sea trader loaded his boat with goods, the first sea robber set off after him.”.
Books about pirates are the best reading in the world. And although the book “Pirates, Corsairs, Raiders” is not a novel, but just a collection of historical essays, it is as difficult to tear yourself away from it as from “Treasure Island” by R.L. Stevenson...

7 AND 37 MIRACLES / Artist. K. Soshinskaya. - M.: Sovremennik, 1996. - 331 p.: ill. - (Anthology of secrets, miracles and riddles).

7 AND 37 WONDERS OF THE WORLD: From Hellas to China. - M.: Veche, 2006. - 413 p.: ill., photo. - (Great mysteries).
Seven is, of course, a wonderful number, and maybe even magical. But there were not seven wonders of the world, but much more!..
Igor Mozheiko talks not only about Egyptian pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon or the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, but also about dozens of other miracles that were created by the hands of people who lived in the most different corners the globe many centuries ago...

1185 (EAST - WEST). - M.: Nauka, 1989. - 524 p.: ill.
“I wanted to see and show the reader- wrote I.V. Mozheiko in the “Introduction” to this book, - the world of one year (or several years), but not today’s and not close to us in time, but distant... I wanted to show the reader that the great thinkers and artists, warriors and poets of the distant past were particles of humanity, albeit separated by mountains and forests... For For those who don’t like history because it has a lot of dates and they need to be crammed, I will make a big concession. There will be one date..."
1185... The events described in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” date back to this time. Historian I.V. Mozheiko invites us to an amusing trip from East to West, so that, moving along the Great Silk Road, to meet not only Prince Igor, but also the Georgian Queen Tamara, Genghis Khan, Nizami, Frederick Barbarossa, the crusading knights and even Richard the Lionheart himself...

More about the book “1185. (East - West)”…

Alexey Kopeikin

LITERATURE ABOUT THE LIFE AND WORK OF KIR BULYCHEV

Bulychev Kir. There's more to come! // Ural Pathfinder. - 1988. - No. 4. - P. 39-44.

Bulychev Kir. Introduction // Bulychev Kir. The Great Spirit and the Runaways. - M.: Chronos, 1993. - P. 3-10.

Bulychev Kir. How to become a science fiction writer: [Memoirs] // If. - 1999. - No. 8-11.

Bulychev Kir. How to become a science fiction writer: Notes from a seventies man. - Ed. 3rd, add. and abbr. - Chelyabinsk: Okolitsa, 2001. - 325 pp.: photo. - (For a narrow circle).

Bulychev Kir. How to become a science fiction writer: Notes from a seventies man. - Ed. 4th, corrected, additional and abbr. - M.: Bustard, 2003. - 382 pp.: photo.

In the “clip” or outside it?..: [The conversation with Kir Bulychev is conducted by V.L. Gopman]; Bulychev Kir. The Last Hundred Minutes: Story; Works of K. Bulychev: [Bibliography of books and journal publications 1965-88] // Sov. bibliography. - 1989. - No. 2. - P. 71-82.

Miracles in Guslyar and other miracles: [The meeting with Kir Bulychev is led by V.I. Malov] // Young technician. - 1983. - No. 8. - P. 32-39.

Arbitman R. Farewell to the Great Guslyar // Arbitman R. Cassandra’s Fate: Articles about science fiction, and not only about it. - Saratov: MP “Litera II”, 1993. - P. 13-21.

Borisov V. BULYCHEV Kir (or Kirill) (pseud. Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko) (b. 1934) // Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. - Minsk: IKO "Galaxias", 1995. - P. 115-117.
The author of this encyclopedic article made many inaccuracies and errors. Nevertheless, it is of certain interest as a biased and subjective view of the work of Kir Bulychev.

Gopman V. People as people: About the heroes of Kir Bulychev and a little about himself // Bulychev Kir. Agent KF. - M.: ARMADA, 1998. - P. 5-14.

Gurbolikova O. Bulychev Kira // Gurbolikova O. Awarded the State Prize of the USSR: Works of Sov. writers: Bibliography. directory. - M.: Book, 1986. - P. 115-117.

Evdokimov A. A book about kindness // Knowledge is power. - 1979. - No. 12. - P. 46-47.

Kir Bulychev in the 20th century: Bibliography. reference book / Compiled by: V. Kolyadin, A. Lyakhov, M. Manakov, A. Popov; Under general ed. M. Manakova; Designed region M. Manakova. - Chelyabinsk: Okolitsa, 2002. - 264 p.

Kir Bulychev and his friends: Sat. - Chelyabinsk: Chelyabinsk Printing House, 2004. - 318 p.: ill., photo. - (For a narrow circle).
The main place in this book is occupied by memories of Kira Bulychev.

Mozheiko Igor Vsevolodovich (Kir Bulychev): Kras. biobibliogr. help // World of adventures. - M.: Det. lit., 1989. - pp. 648-649.

Neyolov E. About Cinderella’s white dress and rhinoceros skin // Literary newspaper. - 1985. - No. 46. - November 13. - P. 3.

Podolny R. In Wonderland // Literary Review. - 1975. - No. 1. - P. 47-48.

Pokrovsky M. Beyond the horizon - the horizon // The Fourth Dimension. - 1991. - No. 1. - P. 104-106.

Polikovskaya L. A million adventures // Children's literature. - 1983. - No. 7. - P. 56-57.

Revich V. Children are like children // Bulychev Kir. Girl from the future... and other stories. - Chisinau: Lumina, 1984. - P. 613-620.

Revich V. Saryn on a kichka!; A terrible dream, may God be merciful // Revich V. Crossroads of Utopias: The Fate of Science Fiction Against the Background of the Fate of the Country. - M.: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1998. - P. 213-216, 333-336.

Rudishina T. About difficult and easy questions of life // Children's literature. - 1991. - No. 5. - P. 74-76.

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SCREEN ADAPTATIONS OF KIR BULYCHEV'S WORKS

- ART FILMS -

Throw, or It all started on Saturday. Based on the story “The ability to throw a ball.” Scene A.Strakhova, F.Frantsuzova. Dir. S. Raibaev. Comp. A. Zatsepin. USSR, 1976. Cast: E. Zhaisanbaev, L. Tyomkin and others.
Guest from the future. TV movie in 5 episodes based on the story “One Hundred Years Ahead.” Scene Kira Bulycheva, P. Arsenova. Dir. P. Arsenov. Comp. E. Krylatov. USSR, 1984. Cast: Natasha Guseva, Alyosha Fomkin, Ilyusha Naumov, Maryana Ionesyan, V. Nevinny, M. Kononov, G. Burkov, L. Arinina, V. Talyzina, N. Varley, E. Gerasimov and others.
Goldfish. A short film based on the story “Goldfish Goes on Sale.” Scene Kira Bulycheva, A. Mayorova. Dir. A. Mayorov. Comp. M. Bronner. USSR, 1983. Cast: M. Kononov, G. Polskikh, N. Parfenov, E. Maksimova and others.
Lilac ball. Based on the story of the same name. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. P. Arsenov. Comp. E. Krylatov. USSR, 1987. Cast: Natasha Guseva, Sasha Gusev, V. Nevinny, V. Baranov, V. Nosik, B. Shcherbakov, S. Kharitonova, I. Yasulovich, V. Pavlov, S. Nikonenko, M. Levtova and others .
A Million Adventures: Island of the Rusty General. TV movie based on the story “The Island of the Rusty Lieutenant.” Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. V. Khovenko. Comp. A. Tchaikovsky. USSR, 1988. Cast: Katya Prizhbilyak, A. Lenkov, L. Artemyeva and others.
Can I ask Nina? A short television film based on the story of the same name. USSR, Central Television.
Misfire. TV movie in 2 episodes based on the story “Misfire-67”. Scene and production by V. Makarov. Comp. A. Yakovlev. Russia, State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Petersburg - Channel Five".
Dungeon of witches. Based on the story of the same name. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. Yu.Moroz. Comp. M. Dunaevsky. USSR-Czechoslovakia, 1990. Cast: S. Zhigunov, M. Levtova, N. Karachentsov, D. Pevtsov, I. Yasulovich, Zh. Prokhorenko and others.
Glade of fairy tales. TV film based on the story “The Unworthy Hero”. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. L.Gorovets. Comp. A. Zhurbin. USSR, 1988. Starring N. Stotsky.
The kidnapping of a sorcerer. Based on the story of the same name. Scene Kira Bulycheva with the participation of V. Kobzev. Dir. V. Kobzev. Comp. A. Paulavichus. USSR, 1989. Starring: Yu. Aug, R. Ramanauskas, L. Borisov, S. Varchuk, V. Gostyukhin, A. Boltnev and others.
The kidnapping of a sorcerer. Teleplay in 2 parts based on the story of the same name. Scene and production by G. Selyanin. Comp. I. Tsvetkov. USSR, Leningrad television. Cast: N. Danilova, Y. Demich, I. Krasko and others.
Birthmark. Short film based on the story “Birthmarks”. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. L.Gorovets. Comp. S. Bedusenko. USSR, 1986. Cast: V. Nikolenko, M. Vinogradova, I. Mozheiko and others.
Ability to throw a ball. TV film based on the story of the same name and the short story “Summer Morning”. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. V. Spiridonov. Comp. E.Doga. USSR, 1988. Cast: A. Porokhovshchikov, V. Dolinsky and others.
Chance. Based on the story "The Martian Potion". Scene Kira Bulycheva, A. Mayorova. Dir. A. Mayorov. Comp. A. Rybnikov. USSR, 1984. Cast: S. Plotnikov, M. Kapnist, D. Kambarova, V. Pavlov, B. Ivanov, L. Ivanova, R. Kurkina, I. Yasulovich, M. Menglet, S. Zhigunov and others.
Experiment 200. Short film based on the story “Anniversary 200”. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. Yu.Moroz. USSR, (1987).

- Films based on scripts by Kir Bulychev -

On a familiar street. Short film based on the story by L. Andreev “Ivan Ivanovich”. Scene Kira Bulycheva, A. Kozmenko. Dir. A. Kozmenko. Comp. S. Lazarev. USSR, 1988. Cast: A. Bubashkin, A. Zelenov, V. Barinov, G. Sichkar, V. Basov and others.
Comet. Scene Kira Bulycheva, R. Viktorova with the participation of Yu. Chulyukin. Dir. R. Viktorov. Comp. V. Chernyshev. USSR, 1983. Cast: A. Kuznetsov, N. Sementsova, A. Belyak, D. Zolotukhin, V. Basov, V. Smirnitsky, Fedya Stukov, G. Millyar and others.
Tears fell. Scene Kira Bulycheva, A. Volodina, G. Danelia. Dir. G. Danelia. Comp. G. Kancheli. USSR, 1982. Cast: E. Leonov, I. Savvina, N. Grebeshkova, N. Ruslanova, B. Andreev, N. Parfenov, A. Yakovleva and others.
Through hardship to the stars. In 2 episodes. Scene Kira Bulycheva, R. Viktorova. Dir. R. Viktorov. Comp. A. Rybnikov. USSR, 1980. Cast: E. Metelkina, V. Ledogorov, U. Lieldidzh, N. Sementsova, V. Fedorov, E. Fadeeva, I. Ledogorov, G. Strizhenov, B. Shcherbakov, A. Lazarev, I. Yasulovich and others (USSR State Prize 1982).

- Documentary -

Date with Comet. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. I. Raush. USSR, 1983.

- CARTOONS -

Two tickets to India. Based on the story of the same name. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. R. Kachanov. Comp. Yu. Saulsky. USSR, 1985. The roles were voiced by: A. Kaidanovsky, M. Vinogradova, R. Sukhoverko, Yu. Volyntsev and others.
Alice's birthday. Based on the story of the same name. Dir. S.Seregin. Production designer S. Gavrilov. Comp. D. Rybnikov. Russia, 2009. The roles were voiced by: Y. Nikolaeva, A. Kolgan, E. Stychkin, N. Guseva and others.
A treasure trove of wisdom. Based on the story of the same name. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. A. Polushkin. Comp. A. Yanitsky. USSR, 1991.
Money box. Based on the story of the same name. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. A. Polushkin. Comp. A. Yanitsky. USSR, 1990. Roles voiced by: Z. Naryshkina, B. Runge, G. Kachin and others.
Pass. Based on the story of the same name. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. V. Tarasov. Production designers: T. Zvorykina, S. Davydova, A. Fomenko. Comp. A. Gradsky. Song based on the poems of Sasha Cherny. USSR, 1988. The roles are voiced by: V. Livanov, A. Pokrovskaya, A. Pashutin and others. The text from the author is read by A. Kaidanovsky.
The mystery of the third planet. Full-length animated film based on the story "Alice's Journey". Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. R. Kachanov. Production designer N. Orlova. Comp. A. Zatsepin. USSR, 1981. The roles are voiced by: V. Larionov, Yu. Volyntsev, R. Zelenaya, V. Livanov, G. Shpigel, V. Druzhnikov, V. Koenigson and others (USSR State Prize 1982).
Prisoners of the Yamagiri Maru. Based on the story of the same name. Scene Kira Bulycheva, A. Solovyova. Dir. A. Solovyov. Comp. A. Zhurbin. USSR, 1988. Roles voiced by: T. Aksyuta, V. Larionov and others.
Miracles in Guslyar. Based on the story “A Steam Locomotive for the Tsar.” Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. A. Polushkin. Comp. V. Kazenin. USSR, 1991.
Apple tree. Based on the story of the same name. Scene Kira Bulycheva. Dir. A. Polushkin. Comp. V. Kazenin. USSR, 1989.

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See also:
Official website of Kir Bulychev

, historian, orientalist, literary critic, science fiction writer

Kir Bulychev(real name Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko; October 18, Moscow - September 5, ibid.) - Russian Soviet science fiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary critic; historian (Doctor of Historical Sciences), orientalist, falerist. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (). The pseudonym is composed of the name of his wife Kira and the maiden name of the writer’s mother, Maria Mikhailovna Bulycheva.

Biography

Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko was born on October 18, 1934 in Moscow, in the family of Vsevolod Nikolaevich Mozheiko (1908-1977) and Maria Mikhailovna Bulycheva (1905-1986).

Father, Vsevolod Nikolaevich Mozheiko, a native of the Belarusian-Lithuanian gentry Mozheiko coat of arms Truby, formally left home at the age of 15, hiding his noble origin and getting a job as an apprentice at a factory. In 1922, at the age of 17, he arrived in Petrograd. He worked there as a mechanic, and after graduating from the workers' faculty, he entered the law faculty of the university, while working in the trade union. While once inspecting the Hammer pencil factory, he met worker Maria Mikhailovna Bulycheva there, whom he married in 1925.

Her mother was the daughter of an officer, Colonel Mikhail Bulychev, a fencing teacher in the First Cadet Corps, and before the revolution she studied at. After the revolution, she mastered a working profession, and then graduated from the Automobile and Road Institute. In the 1930s, she served as commandant of the Shlisselburg fortress, and during the war she worked as head of the airborne school in Chistopol.

After graduating from school, Igor, according to the Komsomol order, entered the University, from which he graduated in 1957. He worked in Burma for two years as a translator and correspondent for the APN, in 1959 he returned to Moscow and entered graduate school at the USSR Academy of Sciences. He wrote historical and geographical essays for the magazines “Around the World” and “Asia and Africa Today”. In 1962 he graduated from graduate school, and from 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 Shall Live", was published in 1961. He began writing science fiction in 1965, publishing science fiction works exclusively under a pseudonym. The 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.” Bulychev subsequently used this name several more times, but most of his science fiction works were published under the pseudonym “Kirill Bulychev” - the pseudonym was composed of the name of his 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 “abbreviated” period was changed, 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.

More than twenty works have been filmed, in particular, based on the story “One Hundred Years Ahead” (1977), the five-part film “Guest from the Future” was made - one of the most popular children's films in the USSR in the mid-1980s. In 1982, he won the State Prize of the USSR for the scripts for the feature film “Through Hardships to the Stars” and the full-length cartoon “The Secret of the Third Planet.” During the presentation of the State Prize, the pseudonym was revealed, however, the expected dismissal did not take place.

Kir Bulychev was a member of the Creative Councils of the science fiction magazine “Noon. XXI century" and "If". The magazine “If” was even saved by Bulychev in the mid-90s, when it was under the threat of financial collapse.

Winner of the Aelita Science Fiction Prize (1997). Knight of the Order of the Knights of Fantasy (2002).

Some works were first published posthumously. Several stories were discovered in the writer’s archives and were published in 2008-2012: “The Eagle”, “The Rooster Crows Belatedly”, “The Death of the Poet”, “Cupid’s Shot” in the book “Dear Microbe” (2008) in the series “Best Books for XX years" by the publishing house "Text", "Prisoners of Debt" from the series about Dr. Pavlysh in the magazine "If" (No. 5, May 2009), "Sixty years later" in "Novaya Gazeta" (No. 106 of September 24, 2010), and “Yellow Ghost” in the last volume of the three-volume collection “The Great Guslyar” (2012) published by the Vremya publishing house. These and other little-known and rare works that were not included in the 18-volume edition of the Eksmo publishing house will be published in a limited edition in a two-volume edition from the series “For a Narrow Circle” (2015−16).

Alice's Adventures

Perhaps this is the most famous cycle of works by Kir Bulychev. main character of this cycle is a schoolgirl (in the first stories - still a preschooler) of the 21st century Alisa Seleznyova. The author gave the name to the heroine in honor of his daughter Alice, born in 1960. The first works in the cycle were the stories that made up the collection “The Girl to Whom Nothing Will Happen.” Alice's adventures take place in a variety of places and times: on Earth in the 21st century, in space, on the ocean floor and even in the past, where she climbs in a time machine, as well as in the Legendary Era - a space-time region of the Universe where fairy-tale characters exist, magic, etc. There is even another, “internal” cycle, “Alice and her friends in the labyrinths of history,” which tells about the adventures of children of the 21st century in past times. In the first works, Alice was the only one of the main characters who was a child, and the story was told on behalf of cosmobiologist Professor Seleznev, Alice’s father (the author, judging by one of the stories, called him by his real name - Igor). Later, the narration began to be told from a third person, and the main characters, along with Alice, were her peers - classmates and friends. Some of the books in the series are aimed at young children. Such books are, in essence, fairy tales; wizards and fairy-tale creatures often act in them, and miracles occur. And in more “adult” books there is a noticeable element of fabulousness.

The series of books about Alice is both the most popular and the most controversial. Critics have repeatedly noted that the early stories about Alice were much stronger than the later ones. In later books, a touch of “serialism” appears, there are repetitions of plot moves, there is no lightness. This is understandable: it is impossible to constantly write about the same characters at the same high level for almost forty years. Bulychev himself said more than once in an interview that he did not want to write about Alice anymore. But the character turned out to be stronger than the author: Alisa Seleznyova became the same “ eternal hero", like Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and Kir Bulychev periodically returned to her again. The last story about Alice, “Alice and Alicia,” was completed by the author in 2003, shortly before his death.

Great Guslyar

Doctor Pavlysh

Space fiction, traditional for Soviet SF, novels and stories with various plots, telling about the flights of earthlings into space, to other planets and about their adventures there. The cycle combines one common hero- Dr. Vladislav Pavlysh, space doctor. The prototype was the doctor Vladislav Pavlysh from the ship “Segezha” (Bulychev gave the same name to one of the spaceships on which Dr. Pavlysh flew in the books), with which the writer sailed across the Arctic Ocean. This cycle is not, strictly speaking, a series; it was not created “for the hero.” Just written at different times and on different topics In “cosmic” works the same person appears, and in some works he appears as the main character, in others as a narrator, in others simply as one of many characters. Nine works have been published, including famous novel"Village "; some of them came out in parts and under different names. The story “Thirteen Years of Journey” is the first work in the cycle about Doctor Pavlysh.

Andrey Bruce

Andrey Bruce, an agent of the Cosmoflot, is a character in two works - “KF Agent” and “Dungeon of Witches”. During his travels on behalf of the interplanetary space agency, the hero is faced with the need to show real, genuine courage and determination. In the first novel, Andrei Bruce encounters a conspiracy on the planet Pe-U, the realities of which are recognized as Myanmar, familiar to the author. The second novel, “Dungeon of the Witches” (filmed in 1989, the role of Bruce was played by Sergei Zhigunov), is dedicated to the consequences of an amazing experiment to accelerate the evolution of animals and flora, And social development people who were spent on one distant planet by unknown representatives of a highly developed civilization. The works dedicated to Andrei Bruce are written in a tough, authentic manner, with special attention paid to moral and social issues.

Intergalactic Police

A series of books about the adventures of InterGalactic Police agent Cora Orvat. The duration of the action approximately corresponds to the period of action of the books about Alisa Seleznyova. Cora, a girl found in space, was brought up in a boarding school for unusual foundlings, then was recruited to work in InterGpol by the head of this organization, Commissioner Milodar. The books in this series are fantastic detective stories; as the story progresses, Cora is involved in solving crimes and unraveling various mysteries. According to the writer himself, Cora Horvat is a kind of “grown-up version of Alisa Selezneva.” At the same time, Cora is noticeably different from Alice in character. In later works, Cora and Alice sometimes intersect, which is why an involuntary reference to Fenimore Cooper arises - in his novel “The Last of the Mohicans” the two sister heroines are also named Cora and Alice. The cycle also intersects with the cycle about the Great Guslyar, and in the story “Mirror of Evil” the heroine visits Ligon at the end of the 18th century.

Institute of Expertise

A short series of stories about a certain scientific laboratory engaged in the study of extraordinary phenomena and making fantastic discoveries. The heroes of this cycle are also found in the “Shadow Theater” cycle.

Shadow play

A series of three books: “View of the battle from above”, “Old Year”, “Operation Viper”, which describe the adventures of the heroes in a certain parallel, “shadow” or “lower” world, existing side by side with ours, ordinary. This world is very similar to ours, but practically deserted. Under certain circumstances, people from here can go there and live there. Some people simply live, while others immediately find a way to turn the parallel world into a source of enrichment and satisfaction of the thirst for power. The heroes, common to the “Institute of Expertise” series, are trying to explore this world. Main character Georgy Alekseevich (Garik) Gagarin - archaeologist, a foundling alien by origin - found on April 12 in the forest.

Chronos River

Originally a series from four novels: “The Heir”, “Storm of Dulber”, “Return from Trebizond”, “Assassination”. The series also includes the novels “Reserve for Academicians”, “Baby Frey” and several detective novels and stories written separately. The cycle, designed in the genre of alternative history, examines possible alternative scenarios for the development of Russian history. The heroes of the cycle - Andrei Berestov and Lidochka Ivanitskaya - get the opportunity to travel through time through parallel worlds and witness such events of alternative history as the liberation of the royal family by Kolchak after the revolution of 1917 (“The Assault of Dulber”), development nuclear weapons in the USSR in 1939 ("Reserve for Academicians") and even the revival of Lenin as an infant in the 1990s ("Baby Frey"). The cycle is joined by several detective, non-fiction novels: “Sleep, Beauty,” “They Don’t Kill Such People,” “House in London.”

Veryovkin

The events of the works of this cycle take place in the city of Verevkin, which, unlike Guslyar, is not at all cheerful.

List of works

Cauldron (1992)
The Extra Twin (1997)
The Future Begins Today (1998)
In the Claws of Passion (1998)
Cinderella at the Market (1999)
Plague on your field (1999)
Genius and Villainy (2000)

Ligon

The action of the novels of the duology: “The other day there was an earthquake in Ligon” and “Naked people” takes place in the fictional country of Ligon in south-east Asia. The prototype was Burma, where the author spent several years. The name Ligon is also borne by the capital of one of the states of the planet Muna in the story “The Last War”.

Off-cycle stories and novels

These include whole line significant works.

The story “Crane in Hands” (1976) describes the life of a parallel world, where there is a protracted feudal war, in which people living in our world interfere.
In the story “The Kidnapping of a Sorcerer” (1979), a group of aliens from the future, who have penetrated into our time, are trying to save and take to their future an outstanding scientist who lived 700 years before our time, who will inevitably die in the distant Middle Ages. A witness and participant in their work is a modern girl, Anna, who accidentally finds herself in the center of events (the time of action and realities correspond to the moment the story was written). In the story, the question of “genius and villainy” arises in its most acute form. The story is characterized by another feature: it was the first to publish a text, which was later published separately under the title “Memorial Book of the 20th Century.” It lists geniuses fictitious by the author, with early childhood supposedly demonstrated absolutely outstanding abilities in the arts and sciences, including those who independently repeated, often in a completely inappropriate environment, the greatest scientific theories, but did not become known due to their death, usually violent, in childhood or adolescence. “Memorial of the 20th century” is a symbol of the fragility of talent and genius. The story was filmed in the form of a television play of the same name (1981) and a film (1989).
The story “Alien Memory” (1981) tells about complex moral conflicts, which began with the experiment of the Soviet scientist Rzhevsky, who created his own clone. A younger clone begins to understand the affairs of the original from twenty years ago.
“The City Above” (1986), a novel dedicated to the adventures of a group of archaeologists on a dead planet, on which, after a devastating war, the remnants of the population continue to live in a huge underground city. The novel describes the tragedy of the inhabitants of an underground city ruled by a military-industrial oligarchy. The plot of underground travel was repeatedly used by Bulychev in such works as “We Need a Free Planet”, “Underground Boat”, “Refuge” and “Favorite”.
The story “Death on the Floor Below” (1989) describes an environmental disaster in a small provincial Soviet city, which the city leadership is trying in every possible way to hide. The action takes place during the era of perestroika. The author devotes many pages to the analysis of conformism and dissidence of that era.
The novel “The Secret of Urulgan” (1991), written in a “retro” style, is dedicated to the amazing and terrible events that began with the fact that a young Englishwoman comes to pre-revolutionary Siberia to search for her father, an Arctic explorer, who went missing. Travelers, moving along the Lena, arrive at the crash site of the Urulgan meteorite, which turns out to be an alien ship with a frozen alien inside.
The novel “Favorite” (1993), the action in which takes place a hundred years after the conquest of the Earth by non-humanoid aliens (huge reptiles), is dedicated to the complex and, at times, ambiguous relationships that have developed among the remnants of earthlings with the invaders: people become pets (a vivid analogy to relationship between a person and a dog), they are walked on a leash, mated to produce offspring, and even have real fights. But there is still a resistance determined to throw off the alien oppression.
Novel "Refuge". The first novel of the planned series, a sort of answer to Harry Potter, however, the death of the writer left the series unfinished, and the novel “Shelter” itself was published in 2004, when Bulychev was no longer alive. In the novel, the boy Seva has to save a magical people consisting of fairy tale characters. To the magical people there is no place in our world, and they intend to build a shelter underground, Seva will have to scout out a place for a future settlement.

Off-cycle stories

Kir Bulychev wrote a large number of science fiction stories, which are independent works. The first of these was the story “When the Dinosaurs Died Out,” first published in the second issue of the Seeker magazine in 1967. Some of them were originally published in various kinds of popular science magazines, such as “Chemistry and Life” or “Knowledge is Power”. The author's main collections of stories are “Miracles in Guslyar” (1972), which included not only Guslyar stories, “People as people” (1975), “Summer morning” (1979), “Coral Castle” (1990), “Who is it for?” need to?" (1991).

Dramaturgy

Kir Bulychev wrote several plays, some of which at the request of director Andrei Rossinsky for production at the Laboratory Theater. He wrote some plays specifically: “Crocodile in the Yard”, “Night as a Reward”, some were obtained from revised stories: “Comrade D.” and “Misfire-67”, and the play “Mrs. Vorchalkina’s Name Day” is a reworking of the play of the same name by Empress Catherine the Great.

Other

The total number of published scientific and popular science works published under his real name is several hundred. For the most part, these are works on history (“7 and 37 Wonders”, “Killer Women”, “Arthur Conan Doyle and Jack the Ripper”, “1185”), oriental studies (“Aung San”), and literary studies (“Stepdaughter of the Age " - about science fiction of the 20s - 30s), as well as the autobiographical book “How to become a science fiction writer,” published in special and popular magazines. In addition, more than six hundred poems and several dozen miniature stories came from Bulychev’s pen. The book "West Wind - Clear Weather" popularly describes the events of World War II in Southeast Asia.

In addition to creating his own works, Bulychev translated books by foreign authors into Russian. Published in the translations of Kira Bulychev's works (mainly fantastic) Isaek Azimov, Ben Bova, Jorge Luis Borhees, Anthony Boora, E. Vinnikova and M. Martin, R. Harris, Graham Green, Skreg de Campa, H. Kepke, Arthur Clack, Siril Kornblat, Ursula Le Guin, Mya Sein, W. Powers, Po Hla, Frederick Paul, Pearl Aun, Mack Reynolds, Clifford Simak, M. St. Clair, Georges Simenon, Theodore Sturgeon, T. Thomas, J. White, D. Wandry, Robert Heinlein, L. Hughes, D. Schmitz, Anthony Pierce. Also as a student, together with a classmate, Bulychev, wanting to earn money, translated Lewis Carroll’s fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland” (since they considered that this fairy tale, which had not been popularized in the USSR until the 60s, had not previously been translated into Russian) , however, the publishing house said that the book had been translated a long time ago and repeatedly, and the book was not published.

Film adaptations

Kir Bulychev is the most sought-after Soviet and Russian science fiction writer by filmmakers. Based on his works and original scripts, more than 20 films have been shot, as well as television series and episodes of the television almanac “This fantastic world.” Bulychev himself wrote the scripts for most of his film adaptations.

The most famous film adaptations by Bulychev are the cartoons “The Secret of the Third Planet”, “The Pass” and “Alice’s Birthday”, the television miniseries “Guest from the Future”, the full-length feature films “Misfire”, “Throw, or It All Began on Saturday”, “Through thorns to the stars”, “Dungeon of the Witches”, “Tears were Dripping”, “Purple Ball”, “Island of the Rusty General”, etc.

The vast majority of Bulychev's film adaptations were filmed during Soviet times. After the collapse of the USSR, only three film adaptations were released.

Prizes and awards

USSR State Prize (1982)
In 1997, in Yekaterinburg, Kir Bulychev was awarded the All-Russian Aelita Prize for his contribution to science fiction.
In 2002, as part of the Aelita science fiction festival popular writer became the first knight of the “Order of the Knights of Fantasy” named after. I. Halymbadzhi.
In 2004, Kir Bulychev was awarded the Russian Literary Prize named after Alexander Green (posthumously) for a series of stories about Alice Selezneva.

Memorial Prize named after. Kira Bulycheva

Immediately after the death of the writer, the magazine “If”, a member of the Creative Council of which Kir Bulychev was for many years, established the Memorial Prize named after. Kira Bulycheva. Awarded since 2004 for the high literary level and humanity shown in the work. The prize itself is a miniature bronze typewriter - a symbol of the writer’s work. The jury consists of two If employees, all members of the magazine’s Creative Council and four genre critics. Over the years, laureates of the Memorial Prize named after. Kira Bulycheva became:

Other aliases

Notes

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Fans of the science fiction genre know the writer Kir Bulychev well, because it was based on his book that the series “Guest from the Future” was created, which was a huge success in the mid-1980s. The same author wrote the script for the animated series “The Secret of the Third Planet” and the science fiction film “Through Thorns to the Stars.” The writer gained fame outside the USSR, but even many Russian readers do not know that behind the name of Kira Bulychev the scientist, orientalist and historian Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko was hiding from fame.

Writer's family

Vsevolod Nikolaevich Mozheiko - the writer's father - was noble origin. Having left at a young age native home, he started working in a factory. Later he moved to Petrograd and, after working there for some time as a mechanic, began studying at the preparatory department of the university. Then he entered the Faculty of Law, while simultaneously working in a trade union. While inspecting a pencil factory, Mozheiko met Maria Bulycheva, who worked there, with whom he later married.

The writer's mother studied at an institute for noble maidens - this institution was the first in Russia to initiate women's education. Bulycheva’s father was an officer and also taught fencing in the Cadet Corps. After acquiring a working specialty, Maria Mikhailovna studied at the road transport institute. Later, she was a member of the airborne school as a commander, and also held the position of commandant. When her father left the family, her mother remarried Yakov Bokinik, who later died at the front.

Education and work

Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko was born in Moscow in 1934. After graduating from school, he was educated at the Moscow State Linguistic University. He then went to Burma, where he worked for several years as a translator and journalist for the Soviet news agency, after which he returned home. Mozheiko completed his postgraduate studies and began working at the Institute of Oriental Studies. He often sent geographical and historical essays to magazines, which were usually accepted for publication. Considering the topic of Buddhism in Burma, Igor Mozheiko defended his candidate and doctoral dissertations. He became famous in the scientific community for his work on the history of Southeast Asia.

Nicknames of Igor Mozheiko

The writer’s first published story, “Maung Joe Will Live,” described training the local population of Myanmar to work with modern technology. Igor Mozheiko did not reveal his identity, and the story “The Debt of Hospitality” was published as a translation of the work of the Burmese author. The writer kept his real name a secret for a long time, fearing possible dismissal from his job, since writing fiction was not considered a serious matter.

Later, Igor Mozheiko’s pseudonyms changed more than once, but most of his books were published under the authorship of Kirill Bulychev. This combination came from a generalization of the maiden name of the writer’s mother and the name of his wife. Over time, publishers began to shorten the author's pseudonym to Kir. Bulychev, and then they even removed the dot, and that’s how the now familiar Kir Bulychev appeared.

The writer used many names. Lev Khristoforovich Mints, Igor Vsevolodovich Vsevolodov, Nikolai Lozhkin - these are only some of the pseudonyms that hide Igor Mozheiko.

Alice's Adventures

Alisa Selezneva is a 21st century schoolgirl who got her name in honor of the daughter of Kira Bulychev. Future Girl is often compared to her namesake in Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass, as both explore new worlds without fear and notice things adults don't.

Alice goes to a variety of places, but adventures find her everywhere: space, the bottom of the ocean, mysterious planets, modern Earth 21st century. Having found herself in the past with the help of a time machine, the girl travels through the Legendary Era, in which there is magic and living fairy tale characters.

The very first stories about little Alice were written on behalf of her father, Igor Seleznev, who studies cosmobiology and searches for new species of animals. In subsequent books, the adventures of the grown-up schoolgirl and her friends are told in the third person. This is the study of new planets, interesting excursions for modern schoolchildren and true friendship. All this happens on another Earth, which readers need to get used to: these are domestic robots, unprecedented animals, schoolchildren who make new discoveries and conquer space.

Books about Alisa Selezneva

“Alice's Journey” is one of the most popular stories by Kir Bulychev from a series of books about a girl from the future. This work has been translated into different languages, a cartoon was created based on it, computer game and even a comic book. The book describes the space expedition of Professor Seleznev and his team to search for rare alien animals. Captain Poloskov, flight mechanic Zeleny and Alisa and their father explore a variety of planets, find animals and plants unseen on Earth, and also fight real space pirates.

In the book "Alice's Journey" the expedition gets acquainted with the history of the Three Captains - these are great heroes who have traveled throughout space. They found a way to create super-powerful fuel for ships, but because of this knowledge they began to be persecuted. The First Captain is captured by pirates, and the Second has to barricade himself on his own ship to avoid falling into their hands. Only thanks to the efforts of the expedition members from Earth, the enemies were defeated, and the Three Captains finally met.

Also the most readable stories about the adventures of Alice remain such as “The Purple Ball”, “The Fairy Tale Sanctuary”, “The End of Atlantis” and “The Rusty Field Marshal”.

Criticism of the writer's works

The series of books about Alisa Selezneva has become the most popular and controversial. Critics noted that early works author about the adventures of a schoolgirl from the future were much stronger than all the subsequent ones. In new stories, plot lines are often repeated, and a “serial” quality appears in the works, as if the writer is now more interested in the number of cycles, rather than in its quality. Igor Mozheiko, whose books were criticized, said more than once in an interview that after forty years he was tired of talking about the same heroes and, perhaps, this is what influenced the level of writing. Kir Bulychev continued to create stories about Alice, regularly returning to this hero.

TV series "Guest from the Future"

In 1985, the film “Guest from the Future” was released, which instantly won the hearts of both children and teenagers. The filmed story “One Hundred Years Ahead” showed the adventures of the Soviet schoolboy Kolya in the 21st century, where he was able to get there using a time machine. In one day he manages to visit the Cosmodrome, build a real house, see and save an important device from theft. By chance, he takes the myelophone back to his own time, where Alisa Selezneva ends up. She must find valuable equipment and return to the future, but her search is complicated by the fact that she is looking for a person whom she has not even met. She comes to Kolya’s class as a new student, but cannot understand who he is, because there are three boys with that name in the class. Also, the search for Alice is hampered by the intervention of space pirates, who also managed to penetrate into the past.

Starring in the title role, she became adored by thousands of boys across the country. Soviet science fiction writer Kir Bulychev, who created the script for the film “Guest from the Future,” gladly told a children's audience of readers about his acquaintance with the actress and about the large number of messages coming to him. Boys from all over the country wrote to the author, admiring his work and asking for Natasha Guseva’s address.

Series of books “The Great Guslyar”

In a town invented by the author called Guslyar, many strange events take place, it is inhabited by the most unusual people, and aliens fly there. But there are ordinary residents there too, and it is they who solve the problems that arise due to the peculiarities in their environment, and even in difficult situations they remain human. The books in the series are written with humor and are easy to read, despite the serious issues that are periodically addressed in the work.

Once the author saw a road sign warning about repairs, and it seemed to him that the worker there had three legs. This is how the first story “Personal Connections” appeared, which was published in a Bulgarian magazine. The fictional town grew and grew, and Igor Mozheiko continued to describe it.

The cycle includes approximately seventy works. Seven of them are novellas, and the rest are short stories. These works were created over a long period of time, so there are many one-day heroes in the book, and characters often leave the city forever, but still return.

Andrey Bruce

The main character of the works is Cosmoflot agent Andrei Bruce. He carries out missions on behalf of the space agency and during his adventures finds himself in situations where he has to show courage and bravery. The first novel, “Agent KF,” tells about a conspiracy on the planet Pe-U, which the main character faces. The second book, “Dungeon of the Witches,” is dedicated to the consequences of experiments carried out by representatives of another civilization. These were attempts to accelerate the social development of people, as well as the evolution of flora and fauna. Both novels deal with serious moral and social issues and are written in a very authentic manner.

Film adaptations of the author's books

Filmmakers singled out the works of Kir Bulychev from all the works of Russian and Soviet science fiction writers. Thus, more than 20 films have been made based on his books, TV series and episodes have been created for television plays. For most of his film adaptations, Igor Mozheiko wrote scripts himself.

The most popular feature films were: “Dungeon of the Witches” and “Through Hardships to the Stars,” the television science fiction series “Guest from the Future,” and the animated films “Alice’s Birthday” and “The Secret of the Third Planet.”

Biography facts

In 1982, the writer received the USSR State Prize for his scripts. It was then that the secret of his pseudonym was revealed, people found out who Kir Bulychev was. Igor Mozheiko expected to be fired from his job, but this did not happen. His employees were indignant that a serious scientist was engaged in “frivolous writings,” but the director took this calmly, knowing that the plan was being carried out by the employee without complaints.

Bulychev not only wrote his books, but also translated science fiction works by foreign authors. While still studying at the university, he and his friend began translating Alice in Wonderland, not knowing that the book had already been translated. He also edited several science fiction magazines. The writer drew well, often making cartoons of famous people art.

The writer's wife, Kira Alekseevna Soshinskaya, wrote fiction and illustrated books. The daughter, Alisa Lyutomskaya, is an architect by training, she has a son, Timofey.

Igor Mozheiko died in 2003 after a serious cancer illness. The writer was 68 years old.

Kir Bulychev's books have been translated into different languages of the world and published in huge editions. And his works about Alice from the 21st century are read with pleasure by new generations of schoolchildren.

Author of monographs “Course general photography"(with co-authors, 1936), "Optical sensitization of photographic layers" (1937), "Color photography" (1939), "Instructions for obtaining color images using the "chrome color" method" (1940), "Theory and practice of color photography" ( 1941). Ya. I. Bokinik worked research fellow in the laboratory of A.I. Rabinovich at the Scientific Research Film and Photo Institute (NIKFI), where he developed the adsorption theory of photographic development, studied the influence of adsorption on the sensitizing effect of dyes and the susceptibility of emulsions to optical sensitization. IN new family The future science fiction writer's younger sister, Natalya, was born. My stepfather died at the front in the last days of the Great Patriotic War, on May 7, 1945 in Courland.

After graduating from school, Igor, according to the Komsomol order, entered the school, which he graduated in 1957. He worked in Burma for two years as a translator and correspondent for the APN, in 1959 he returned to Moscow and entered graduate school at 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.

More than twenty works have been filmed, in particular, based on the story “One Hundred Years Ahead” (1977), the five-part film “Guest from the Future” was filmed - one of the most popular children's films in the USSR in the mid-1980s. 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”. During the presentation of the State Prize, the pseudonym was revealed, however, the expected dismissal did not take place.

Winner of the Aelita Science Fiction Prize (1997). Knight of the Order of the Knights of Fantasy (2002).

In 2004, Kir Bulychev posthumously became the winner of the sixth international prize in the field fantastic literature named after Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (“ABS Prize”) in the category “Criticism and Journalism”, for a series of essays “Stepdaughter of the Epoch”.

Creation

Fantastic

In his works, Kir Bulychev willingly turned to previously invented and described characters, resulting in several cycles of works, each of which describes the adventures of the same heroes.

Some works were first published posthumously. Several stories were discovered in the writer’s archives and were published in 2008-2012: “The Eagle”, “The Rooster Crows Belatedly”, “The Death of the Poet”, “Cupid’s Shot” in the book “Dear Microbe” (2008) in the series “Best Books for XX years" by the publishing house "Text", "Prisoners of Debt" from the series about Dr. Pavlysh in the magazine "If" (No. 5, May 2009), "Sixty years later" in Novaya Gazeta (No. 106 of September 24, 2010), and “Yellow Ghost” in the last volume of the three-volume collection “The Great Guslyar” (2012) published by the Vremya publishing house. These and other little-known and rare works that were not included in the 18-volume edition of the Eksmo publishing house will be published in a limited edition in a two-volume edition from the series “For a Narrow Circle” (2015−16).

Alice's Adventures

Perhaps this is the most famous cycle of works by Kir Bulychev. The main character of this cycle is a schoolgirl (in the first stories - still a preschooler) of the 21st century Alisa Selezneva. The author gave the name to the heroine in honor of his daughter Alice, born in 1960. The first works in the cycle were the stories that made up the collection “The Girl to Whom Nothing Will Happen.” Alice's adventures take place in a variety of places and times: on Earth in the 21st century, in space, on the ocean floor and even in the past, where she climbs in a time machine, as well as in the Legendary Era - a space-time section of the Universe where fairy-tale characters exist, magic, etc. There is even another, “internal” cycle, “Alice and her friends in the labyrinths of history,” which tells about the adventures of children of the 21st century in past times. In the first works, Alice was the only one of the main characters who was a child, and the story was told on behalf of cosmobiologist Professor Seleznev, Alice’s father (the author, judging by one of the stories, called him by his real name - Igor). Later, the narration began to be told from a third person, and the main characters, along with Alice, were her peers - classmates and friends. Some of the books in the series are aimed at young children. Such books are, in essence, fairy tales; wizards and fairy-tale creatures often act in them, and miracles occur. And in more “adult” books there is a noticeable element of fabulousness.

The series of books about Alice is both the most popular and the most controversial. Critics have repeatedly noted that the early stories about Alice were much stronger than the later ones. In later books, a touch of “serialism” appears, there are repetitions of plot moves, there is no lightness. This is understandable: it is impossible to constantly write about the same characters at the same high level for almost forty years. Bulychev himself said more than once in an interview that he did not want to write about Alice anymore. But the character turned out to be stronger than the author: Alisa Seleznyova became the same “eternal hero” as Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, and Kir Bulychev periodically returned to her again. The last story about Alice, “Alice and Alicia,” was completed by the author in 2003, shortly before his death.

Great Guslyar

Doctor Pavlysh

Space fiction, traditional for Soviet SF, novels and stories with various plots, telling about the flights of earthlings into space, to other planets and about their adventures there. The cycle is united by one common hero - Doctor Vladislav Pavlysh, a space doctor. The prototype was the doctor Vladislav Pavlysh from the ship “Segezha” (Bulychev gave the same name to one of the spaceships on which Dr. Pavlysh flew in the books), with which the writer sailed across the Arctic Ocean. This cycle is not, strictly speaking, a series; it was not created “for the hero.” It’s just that in “cosmic” works written at different times and on different topics, the same person appears, and in some works he appears as the main character, in others as a narrator, in others simply as one of many characters. Nine works were published, including the famous novel “The Village”; some of them were published in parts and under different names. The story “Thirteen Years of Journey” is the first work in the cycle about Doctor Pavlysh.

Andrey Bruce

Andrey Bruce, an agent of the Cosmoflot, is a character in two works - “KF Agent” and “Dungeon of Witches”. During his travels on behalf of the interplanetary space agency, the hero is faced with the need to show real, genuine courage and determination. In the first novel, Andrei Bruce encounters a conspiracy on the planet Pe-U, the realities of which are recognized as Myanmar, familiar to the author. The second novel, “Dungeon of the Witches” (filmed in 1989, the role of Bruce was played by Sergei Zhigunov), is dedicated to the consequences of an amazing experiment to accelerate the evolution of the animal and plant world, and the social development of people, which was carried out on one distant planet by unknown representatives of a highly developed civilization. The works dedicated to Andrei Bruce are written in a tough, authentic manner, with special attention paid to moral and social issues.

Intergalactic Police

Shadow play

A series of three books: “The Old Year”, “View of the Battle from Above”, “Operation Viper”, which describe the adventures of the heroes in a kind of parallel, “shadow” world that exists side by side with our ordinary one. This world is very similar to ours, but practically deserted. Under certain circumstances, people from here can go there and live there. Some people simply live, while others immediately find a way to turn the parallel world into a source of enrichment and satisfaction of the thirst for power. The heroes, common to the “Institute of Expertise” series, are trying to explore this world. The main character Georgy Alekseevich (Garik) Gagarin is an archaeologist, a foundling alien by origin - found on April 12 in the forest.

Chronos River

Initially a series of four novels: “The Heir”, “The Assault on Dulber”, “Return from Trebizond”, “Assassination”. The series also includes the novels “Reserve for Academicians”, “Baby Frey” and several detective novels and stories written separately. The cycle, designed in the genre of alternative history, examines possible alternative scenarios for the development of Russian history. The heroes of the cycle - Andrei Berestov and Lidochka Ivanitskaya - get the opportunity to travel through time through parallel worlds and witness such events of alternative history as the liberation of the royal family by Kolchak after the revolution of 1917 ("Dulber's Assault"), the development of nuclear weapons in the USSR in 1939 ( "Reserve for Academicians") and even the revival of Lenin as a baby in the 1990s ("Baby Frey"). Several detective, non-fiction novels adjoin the cycle: “Sleep, Beauty”, “They Don’t Kill Such People”, “House in London”.

Veryovkin

The events of the works of this cycle take place in the city of Verevkin, which, unlike Guslyar, is not at all cheerful.

List of works

Cauldron (1992)
The Extra Twin (1997)
The Future Begins Today (1998)
In the Claws of Passion (1998)
Cinderella at the Market (1999)
Plague on your field (1999)
Genius and Villainy (2000)

Ligon

The action of the novels of the duology: “The other day there was an earthquake in Ligon” and “Naked people” takes place in the fictional country of Ligon in southeast Asia. The prototype was Burma, where the author spent several years. The name Ligon is also borne by the capital of one of the states of the planet Muna in the story “The Last War”.

Off-cycle stories and novels

These include a number of significant works.

The story “Crane in Hands” (1976) describes the life of a parallel world, where there is a protracted feudal war, in which people living in our world interfere.
In the story “The Kidnapping of a Sorcerer” (1979), a group of aliens from the future, who have penetrated into our time, are trying to save and take to their future an outstanding scientist who lived 700 years before our time, who will inevitably die in the distant Middle Ages. A witness and participant in their work is a modern girl, Anna, who accidentally finds herself in the center of events (the time of action and realities correspond to the moment the story was written). In the story, the question of “genius and villainy” arises in its most acute form. The story is characterized by another feature: it was the first to publish a text, which was later published separately under the title “Memorial Book of the 20th Century.” It lists geniuses fictitious by the author, who from early childhood allegedly showed absolutely outstanding abilities in the arts and sciences, including independently repeating, often in a completely inappropriate environment, the greatest scientific theories, but who did not become known due to their death, usually violent, in childhood or adolescence. “Memorial of the 20th century” is a symbol of the fragility of talent and genius. The story was filmed in the form of a television play of the same name (1981) and a film (1989).
The story “Alien Memory” (1981) tells about complex moral conflicts, which began with the experiment of the Soviet scientist Rzhevsky, who created his own clone. A younger clone begins to understand the affairs of the original from twenty years ago.
“The City Above” (1986), a novel dedicated to the adventures of a group of archaeologists on a dead planet, on which, after a devastating war, the remnants of the population continue to live in a huge underground city. The novel describes the tragedy of the inhabitants of an underground city ruled by a military-industrial oligarchy. The plot of underground travel was repeatedly used by Bulychev in such works as “We Need a Free Planet”, “Underground Boat”, “Refuge” and “Favorite”.
The story “Death on the Floor Below” (1989) describes an environmental disaster in a small provincial Soviet city, which the city leadership is trying in every possible way to hide. The action takes place during the era of perestroika. The author devotes many pages to the analysis of conformism and dissidence of that era.
The novel “The Secret of Urulgan” (1991), written in a “retro” style, is dedicated to the amazing and terrible events that began with the fact that a young Englishwoman comes to pre-revolutionary Siberia to search for her father, an Arctic explorer, who went missing. Travelers, moving along the Lena, arrive at the crash site of the Urulgan meteorite, which turns out to be an alien ship with a frozen alien inside.
The novel “Favorite” (1993), the action in which takes place a hundred years after the conquest of the Earth by non-humanoid aliens (huge reptiles), is dedicated to the complex and, at times, ambiguous relationships that have developed among the remnants of earthlings with the invaders: people become pets (a vivid analogy to relationship between a person and a dog), they are walked on a leash, mated to produce offspring, and even have real fights. But there is still a resistance determined to throw off the alien oppression.
Novel "Refuge". The first novel of the planned series, a sort of answer to Harry Potter, however, the death of the writer left the series unfinished, and the novel “Asylum” itself was published in 2004, when Bulychev was no longer alive. In the novel, the boy Seva has to save a magical people consisting of fairy tale characters. Magic people have no place in our world, and they intend to build a shelter underground. Seva will have to scout out a place for a future settlement.

Off-cycle stories

Kir Bulychev wrote a large number of science fiction stories, which are independent works. The first of these was the story "When the Dinosaurs Died Out", first published in the second issue of the magazine "Seeker" for 1967. Some of them were originally published in various kinds of popular science magazines, such as Chemistry and Life or Knowledge is Power. The author's main collections of stories are “Miracles in Guslyar” (1972), which included not only Guslyar stories, “People as people” (1975), “Summer morning” (1979), “Coral Castle” (1990), “Who is it for?” need to?" (1991).

Dramaturgy

Other

The total number of published scientific and popular science works published under his real name is several hundred. For the most part, these are works on history (“7 and 37 Wonders”, “Women Killers”, “Arthur Conan Doyle and Jack the Ripper”, “1185”), oriental studies (“Aung San”), and literary studies (“Stepdaughter of the Age " - about science fiction of the 20s - 30s), as well as the autobiographical book “How to become a science fiction writer,” published in special and popular magazines. In addition, more than six hundred poems and several dozen miniature stories came from Bulychev’s pen. The book "West Wind - Fair Weather" popularly describes the events of World War II in Southeast Asia.

In addition to creating his own works, Bulychev translated books by foreign authors into Russian. Published in translations by Kir Bulychev are works (mostly fantastic) by Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Butcher, E. Vinnikov and M. Martin, R. Harris, Graham Greene, Sprague de Camp, H. Kepke, Arthur Clarke, Cyril Kornbluth, Ursula Le Guin, Mya Sein, W. Powers, Poe Hla, Frederick Pohl, Pearl Aun, Mac Reynolds, Clifford Simak, M. St. Clair, Georges Simenon, Theodore Sturgeon, T. Thomas, J. White, D. Wandry, Robert Heinlein, L. Hughes, D. Schmitz, Piers Anthony. Also as a student, together with a classmate, Bulychev, wanting to earn money, translated Lewis Carroll’s fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland” (since they considered that this fairy tale, which was not popularized in the USSR until the 60s, had not previously been translated into Russian) , however, the publishing house said that the book had been translated a long time ago and repeatedly, and the book was not published.

Film adaptations

Kir Bulychev is the most sought-after Soviet and Russian science fiction writer by filmmakers. More than 20 films have been made based on his works and original scripts, as well as television series and episodes of the television almanac “This Fantastic World”. Bulychev himself wrote the scripts for most of his film adaptations.

The most famous film adaptations by Bulychev are the cartoons “The Secret of the Third Planet”, “The Pass” and “Alice’s Birthday”, the television miniseries “Guest from the Future”, the full-length feature films “Through Thorns to the Stars”, “Dungeon of the Witches”, “Tears Fell” and "Purple Ball".

The vast majority of Bulychev's film adaptations were filmed during Soviet times. After the collapse of the USSR, only three film adaptations were released.

Prizes and awards

USSR State Prize (1982)
In 1997, in Yekaterinburg, Kir Bulychev was awarded the All-Russian Aelita Prize for his contribution to science fiction.
In 2002, as part of the Aelita science fiction festival, the popular writer became the first holder of the Order of the Knights of Fantasy named after. I. Halymbadzhi.
In 2004, Kir Bulychev was awarded the Alexander Green Russian Literary Prize (posthumously) for a series of stories about Alisa Selezneva.

Memorial Prize named after. Kira Bulycheva

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Notes

Kir Bulychev. How to become a science fiction writer. Notes of a seventies man. - 4th ed., revised, additional. and abbreviation - M.: Bustard, 2003. - P. 258-259. - ISBN 5-7107-6898-7.
Kir Bulychev. Introduction // The Great Spirit and the Runaways. - M., 2000. - P. 7. - 448 p. - (Worlds of Kira Bulychev). - 7000 copies. - ISBN 5-237-04139-6.

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Excerpt characterizing Kir Bulychev

And he again turned to Pierre.
“Sergei Kuzmich, from all sides,” he said, unbuttoning the top button of his vest.
Pierre smiled, but it was clear from his smile that he understood that it was not Sergei Kuzmich’s anecdote that interested Prince Vasily at that time; and Prince Vasily realized that Pierre understood this. Prince Vasily suddenly muttered something and left. It seemed to Pierre that even Prince Vasily was embarrassed. This old man's look of embarrassment socialite touched Pierre; he looked back at Helen - and she seemed embarrassed and said with her eyes: “Well, it’s your own fault.”
“I must inevitably step over, but I can’t, I can’t,” thought Pierre, and he started talking again about an outsider, about Sergei Kuzmich, asking what the joke was, since he didn’t hear it. Helen answered with a smile that she didn’t know either.
When Prince Vasily entered the living room, the princess was quietly talking to the elderly lady about Pierre.
- Of course, c "est un parti tres brillant, mais le bonheur, ma chere... - Les Marieiages se font dans les cieux, [Of course, this is a very brilliant party, but happiness, my dear..." - Marriages are made in heaven,] - answered elderly lady.
Prince Vasily, as if not listening to the ladies, walked to the far corner and sat down on the sofa. He closed his eyes and seemed to be dozing. His head fell and he woke up.
“Aline,” he said to his wife, “allez voir ce qu"ils font. [Alina, look what they are doing.]
The princess went to the door, walked past it with a significant, indifferent look and looked into the living room. Pierre and Helene also sat and talked.
“Everything is the same,” she answered her husband.
Prince Vasily frowned, wrinkled his mouth to the side, his cheeks jumped with his characteristic unpleasant, rude expression; He shook himself, stood up, threw his head back and with decisive steps, past the ladies, walked into the small living room. With quick steps, he joyfully approached Pierre. The prince's face was so unusually solemn that Pierre stood up in fear when he saw him.
- God bless! - he said. - My wife told me everything! “He hugged Pierre with one hand and his daughter with the other. - My friend Lelya! I'm very, very happy. – His voice trembled. – I loved your father... and she will be a good wife for you... God bless you!...
He hugged his daughter, then Pierre again and kissed him with a foul-smelling mouth. Tears actually wet his cheeks.
“Princess, come here,” he shouted.
The princess came out and cried too. The elderly lady was also wiping herself with a handkerchief. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the hand of the beautiful Helene several times. After a while they were left alone again.
“All this had to be this way and could not have been otherwise,” thought Pierre, “so there is no point in asking whether it is good or bad? Good, because definitely, and there is no previous painful doubt.” Pierre silently held his bride's hand and looked at her beautiful breasts rising and falling.
- Helen! - he said out loud and stopped.
“Something special is said in these cases,” he thought, but he could not remember what exactly they say in these cases. He looked into her face. She moved closer to him. Her face flushed.
“Oh, take off these... like these...” she pointed to the glasses.
Pierre took off his glasses, and his eyes, in addition to the general strangeness of the eyes of people who took off their glasses, looked fearfully questioning. He wanted to bend over her hand and kiss it; but with a quick and rough movement of her head she captured his lips and brought them together with hers. Her face struck Pierre with its changed, unpleasantly confused expression.
“Now it’s too late, it’s all over; “Yes, and I love her,” thought Pierre.
- Je vous aime! [I love you!] - he said, remembering what had to be said in these cases; but these words sounded so poor that he felt ashamed of himself.
A month and a half later, he was married and settled, as they said, the happy owner of a beautiful wife and millions, in the large St. Petersburg newly decorated house of the Bezukhyh counts.

The old Prince Nikolai Andreich Bolkonsky in December 1805 received a letter from Prince Vasily, informing him of his arrival with his son. (“I’m going on an inspection, and, of course, it’s not a 100-mile detour for me to visit you, dear benefactor,” he wrote, “and my Anatole is seeing me off and going to the army; and I hope that you will allow him to personally express to you the deep respect that he, imitating his father, has for you.")
“There’s no need to take Marie out: the grooms are coming to us themselves,” the little princess said carelessly when she heard about this.
Prince Nikolai Andreich winced and said nothing.
Two weeks after receiving the letter, in the evening, Prince Vasily’s people arrived ahead, and the next day he and his son arrived.
Old Bolkonsky always had a low opinion of the character of Prince Vasily, and even more so recently, when Prince Vasily, during the new reigns under Paul and Alexander, went far in rank and honor. Now, from the hints of the letter and the little princess, he understood what was the matter, and the low opinion of Prince Vasily turned in the soul of Prince Nikolai Andreich into a feeling of malevolent contempt. He snorted constantly when talking about him. On the day Prince Vasily arrived, Prince Nikolai Andreich was especially dissatisfied and out of sorts. Was it because he was out of sorts that Prince Vasily was coming, or because he was especially dissatisfied with the arrival of Prince Vasily because he was out of sorts; but he was not in a good mood, and Tikhon in the morning advised against the architect coming in with a report to the prince.
“Can you hear how he walks,” said Tikhon, drawing the architect’s attention to the sounds of the prince’s steps. - He steps on his entire heel - we already know...
However, as usual, at 9 o'clock the prince went out for a walk in his velvet fur coat with a sable collar and the same hat. It snowed the day before. The path along which Prince Nikolai Andreich walked to the greenhouse was cleared, traces of a broom were visible in the scattered snow, and a shovel was stuck into the loose mound of snow that ran on both sides of the path. The prince walked through the greenhouses, through the courtyards and buildings, frowning and silent.
- Is it possible to ride in a sleigh? - he asked the venerable man who accompanied him to the house, similar in face and manners to the owner and manager.
- The snow is deep, your Excellency. I already ordered it to be scattered according to the plan.
The prince bowed his head and walked up to the porch. “Thank you, Lord,” thought the manager, “a cloud has passed!”
“It was difficult to get through, your Excellency,” added the manager. - How did you hear, your Excellency, that the minister will come to your Excellency?
The prince turned to the manager and stared at him with frowning eyes.
- What? Minister? Which minister? Who ordered? - he spoke in his shrill, in a hard voice. “They didn’t clear it for the princess, my daughter, but for the minister!” I have no ministers!
- Your Excellency, I thought...
- You thought! - the prince shouted, pronouncing the words more and more hastily and incoherently. – You thought... Robbers! scoundrels! “I will teach you to believe,” and, raising a stick, he swung it at Alpatych and would have hit him if the manager had not involuntarily deviated from the blow. - I thought so! Scoundrels! – he shouted hastily. But, despite the fact that Alpatych, himself frightened by his audacity to dodge the blow, approached the prince, obediently lowering his bald head in front of him, or maybe that’s why the prince continued to shout: “scoundrels! throw up the road! He didn’t pick up his stick another time and ran into the rooms.
Before dinner, the princess and M lle Bourienne, who knew that the prince was out of sorts, stood waiting for him: M lle Bourienne with a beaming face that said: “I don’t know anything, I’m the same as always,” and Princess Marya - pale, frightened, with downcast eyes. The hardest thing for Princess Marya was that she knew that in these cases she had to act like m lle Bourime, but she could not do it. It seemed to her: “If I act as if I don’t notice, he will think that I have no sympathy for him; I’ll make it look like I’m boring and out of sorts, he’ll say (as it happened) that I’m hanging my nose,” etc.
The prince looked at his daughter's frightened face and snorted.
“Dr... or stupid!...” he said.
“And that one is gone! They were already gossiping about her too,” he thought about the little princess, who was not in the dining room.
-Where is the princess? - he asked. - Hiding?...
“She’s not entirely healthy,” said Mlle Bourienne, smiling cheerfully, “she won’t come out.” This is so understandable in her situation.
- Hm! hmm! ugh! ugh! - said the prince and sat down at the table.
The plate did not seem clean to him; he pointed to the spot and threw it. Tikhon picked it up and handed it to the barman. The little princess was not unwell; but she was so insurmountably afraid of the prince that, having heard how out of sorts he was, she decided not to go out.
“I’m afraid for the child,” she said to m lle Bourienne, “God knows what can happen from fright.”
In general, the little princess lived in Bald Mountains constantly under a feeling of fear and antipathy towards the old prince, which she was not aware of, because fear was so dominant that she could not feel it. There was also antipathy on the part of the prince, but it was drowned out by contempt. The princess, having settled down in Bald Mountains, especially fell in love with m lle Bourienne, spent her days with her, asked her to spend the night with her, and often talked to her about her father-in-law and judged him.
“Il nous arrive du monde, mon prince, [Guests are coming to us, prince.],” said M lle Bourienne, unfolding a white napkin with her pink hands. “Son excellence le prince Kouraguine avec son fils, a ce que j"ai entendu dire? [His Excellency Prince Kuragin with his son, how much have I heard?] she said questioningly.
“Hm... this boy of excellence... I assigned him to the college,” the prince said offended. “Why son, I can’t understand.” Princess Lizaveta Karlovna and Princess Marya may know; I don’t know why he’s bringing this son here. I don't need it. – And he looked at his blushing daughter.
- Unwell, or what? Out of fear of the minister, as that idiot Alpatych said today.
- No, mon pere. [father.]
No matter how unsuccessfully M lle Bourienne found herself on the subject of conversation, she did not stop and chatted about greenhouses, about the beauty of a new blossoming flower, and the prince softened after the soup.
After dinner he went to his daughter-in-law. The little princess sat at a small table and chatted with Masha, the maid. She turned pale when she saw her father-in-law.
The little princess has changed a lot. She was more bad than good now. The cheeks sank, the lip rose upward, the eyes were drawn downwards.
“Yes, it’s some kind of heaviness,” she answered when the prince asked what she felt.
- Do you need anything?
- No, merci, mon pere. [Thank you, father.]
- Well, okay, okay.
He went out and walked to the waitress. Alpatych stood in the waiter's room with his head bowed.
– Is the road blocked?
- Zakidana, your Excellency; Forgive me, for God's sake, for one stupidity.
The prince interrupted him and laughed his unnatural laugh.
- Well, okay, okay.
He extended his hand, which Alpatych kissed, and walked into the office.
In the evening Prince Vasily arrived. He was met at the prespekt (that’s the name of the avenue) by coachmen and waiters, who shouted and drove his carts and sleighs to the outbuilding along a road deliberately covered with snow.
Prince Vasily and Anatoly were given separate rooms.
Anatole sat, having taken off his doublet and resting his hands on his hips, in front of the table, at the corner of which he, smiling, fixed his beautiful large eyes intently and absent-mindedly. He looked upon his entire life as a continuous amusement that someone like that for some reason undertook to arrange for him. Now he looked at his trip to evil old man and to the rich ugly heiress. All this could have turned out, he supposed, very well and funny. Why not marry if she is very rich? It never interferes, Anatole thought.
He shaved, perfumed himself with care and panache, which had become his habit, and with his innate good-natured, victorious expression, holding his beautiful head high, he entered his father’s room. Two valets were busy around Prince Vasily, dressing him; he himself looked around animatedly and nodded cheerfully to his son as he entered, as if he were saying: “So, that’s exactly what I need you for!”
- No, no joke, father, is she very ugly? A? – he asked, as if continuing a conversation he had had more than once during the trip.
- That's enough. Nonsense! The main thing is to try to be respectful and reasonable with the old prince.
“If he scolds, I’ll leave,” said Anatole. “I can’t stand these old people.” A?
– Remember that everything depends on this for you.
At this time, the arrival of the minister with his son was not only known in the maid’s room, but appearance both of them have already been described in detail. Princess Marya sat alone in her room and tried in vain to overcome her inner agitation.
“Why did they write, why did Lisa tell me about this? After all, this cannot be! - she said to herself, looking in the mirror. - How do I get out into the living room? Even if I liked him, I couldn’t be on my own with him now.” The thought of her father's gaze terrified her.
The little princess and m lle Bourienne had already received all the necessary information from the maid Masha about what a ruddy, black-browed handsome minister's son was, and about how daddy dragged them with force to the stairs, and he, like an eagle, walking three steps at a time, ran after him. Having received this information, the little princess and M lle Bourienne, still audible from the corridor in their animated voices, entered the princess’s room.
– Ils sont arrives, Marieie, [They arrived, Marie,] do you know? - said the little princess, wobbling her belly and sitting heavily on the chair.
She was no longer in the blouse in which she had sat in the morning, but she was wearing one of her best dresses; her head was carefully decorated, and there was a liveliness on her face, which, however, did not hide the drooping and dead outlines of her face. In the attire in which she usually wore to social gatherings in St. Petersburg, it was even more noticeable how much she had looked worse. M lle Bourienne also unnoticed some improvement in her outfit, which made her pretty, fresh face even more attractive.
– Eh bien, et vous restez comme vous etes, chere princesse? – she spoke. – On va venir annoncer, que ces messieurs sont au salon; il faudra descendre, et vous ne faites pas un petit brin de toilette! [Well, are you still wearing what you were wearing, princess? Now they will come to say that they are out. We’ll have to go downstairs, but at least you’ll dress up a little!]
The little princess rose from her chair, called the maid and hastily and cheerfully began to come up with an outfit for Princess Marya and put it into execution. Princess Marya felt insulted in her sense of self-worth by the fact that the arrival of her promised groom worried her, and she was even more insulted by the fact that both of her friends did not even imagine that it could be otherwise. To tell them how ashamed she was for herself and for them was to betray her anxiety; Moreover, to refuse the outfit that was offered to her would have led to lengthy jokes and insistence. She flushed, her beautiful eyes went out, her face became covered with spots, and with that ugly expression of victim that most often settled on her face, she surrendered to the power of m lle Bourienne and Lisa. Both women cared quite sincerely about making her beautiful. She was so bad that not one of them could think of competing with her; therefore, quite sincerely, with that naive and firm conviction of women that an outfit can make a face beautiful, they set about dressing her.
“No, really, ma bonne amie, [my good friend], this dress is not good,” said Lisa, looking sideways at the princess from afar. - Tell me to serve, you have masaka there. Right! Well, this may be the fate of life is being decided. And this is too light, not good, no, not good!
It was not the dress that was bad, but the face and the whole figure of the princess, but M lle Bourienne and the little princess did not feel this; It seemed to them that if they put a blue ribbon on their hair combed up, and pulled down a blue scarf from a brown dress, etc., then everything would be fine. They forgot that the frightened face and figure could not be changed, and therefore, no matter how they modified the frame and decoration of this face, the face itself remained pitiful and ugly. After two or three changes, to which Princess Marya obediently submitted, the minute she was combed up (a hairstyle that completely changed and spoiled her face), in a blue scarf and an elegant dress, the little princess walked around her a couple of times, with her small hand she straightened a fold of her dress here, tugged at a scarf there and looked, bowing her head, now from this side, now from the other.
“No, that’s impossible,” she said decisively, clasping her hands. – Non, Marie, decidement ca ne vous va pas. Je vous aime mieux dans votre petite robe grise de tous les jours. Non, de grace, faites cela pour moi. [No, Marie, this definitely doesn’t suit you. I love you better in your gray everyday dress: please do it for me.] Katya,” she said to the maid, “bring the princess a gray dress, and see, m lle Bourienne, how I will arrange it,” she said with a smile of artistic anticipation joy.
But when Katya brought the required dress, Princess Marya sat motionless in front of the mirror, looking at her face, and in the mirror she saw that there were tears in her eyes and that her mouth was trembling, preparing to sob.
“Voyons, chere princesse,” said M lle Bourienne, “encore un petit effort.” [Well, princess, just a little more effort.]
The little princess, taking the dress from the maid’s hands, approached Princess Marya.
“No, now we’ll do it simply, sweetly,” she said.
The voices of her, M lle Bourienne and Katya, who laughed about something, merged into a cheerful babbling, similar to the singing of birds.
“Non, laissez moi, [No, leave me,” said the princess.
And her voice sounded with such seriousness and suffering that the babbling of the birds immediately fell silent. They looked at the large, beautiful eyes, full of tears and thoughts, clearly and pleadingly looking at them, and realized that it was useless and even cruel to insist.
“Au moins changez de coiffure,” said the little princess. “Je vous disais,” she said reproachfully, turning to M lle Bourienne, “Marie a une de ces figures, auxquelles ce genre de coiffure ne va pas du tout.” Mais du tout, du tout. Changez de grace. [At least change your hairstyle. Marie has one of those faces that doesn’t suit this type of hairstyle at all. Change it please.]
“Laissez moi, laissez moi, tout ca m"est parfaitement egal, [Leave me, I don’t care," answered the voice, barely holding back tears.
M lle Bourienne and the little princess had to admit to themselves that the princess. Marya looked very bad in this form, worse than always; but it was already too late. She looked at them with that expression that they knew, an expression of thought and sadness. This expression did not instill fear in them towards Princess Marya. (She did not instill this feeling in anyone.) But they knew that when this expression appeared on her face, she was silent and unshakable in her decisions.
“Vous changerez, n"est ce pas? [You will change, won’t you?] - said Lisa, and when Princess Marya did not answer anything, Lisa left the room.
Princess Marya was left alone. She did not fulfill Lisa’s wishes and not only did not change her hairstyle, but also did not look at herself in the mirror. She, powerlessly lowering her eyes and hands, sat silently and thought. She imagined a husband, a man, a strong, dominant and incomprehensibly attractive creature, suddenly transporting her into his own, completely different, happy world. Her child, the same as she had seen yesterday with the nurse’s daughter, appeared to her at her own breast. The husband stands and looks tenderly at her and the child. “But no, this is impossible: I’m too bad,” she thought.
- Please come to tea. The prince will come out now,” the maid’s voice said from behind the door.
She woke up and was horrified by what she was thinking. And before going down, she stood up, entered the image and, looking at the black face of the large image of the Savior illuminated by the lamp, stood in front of it with her hands folded for several minutes. There was a painful doubt in the soul of Princess Marya. Is the joy of love, earthly love for a man possible for her? In her thoughts about marriage, Princess Mary dreamed of family happiness and children, but her main, strongest and hidden dream was earthly love. The feeling was the stronger the more she tried to hide it from others and even from herself. “My God,” she said, “how can I suppress these thoughts of the devil in my heart? How can I renounce evil thoughts forever, so that I can calmly fulfill Your will? And as soon as she made this question, God already answered her in her own heart: “Do not desire anything for yourself; don't search, don't worry, don't envy. The future of people and your destiny should be unknown to you; but live in such a way that you are ready for anything. If God pleases to test you in the responsibilities of marriage, be ready to do His will.” With this calming thought (but still with the hope of fulfilling her forbidden, earthly dream), Princess Marya, sighing, crossed herself and went downstairs, not thinking about her dress, or her hairstyle, or how she would enter and what she would say. What could all this mean in comparison with the predestination of God, without whose will not a single hair will fall from a human head?

When Princess Marya entered the room, Prince Vasily and his son were already in the living room, talking with the little princess and m lle Bourienne. When she entered with her heavy gait, stepping on her heels, the men and m lle Bourienne rose, and the little princess, pointing to her to the men, said: Voila Marie! [Here is Marie!] Princess Marya saw everyone and saw them in detail. She saw the face of Prince Vasily, who stopped seriously for a moment at the sight of the princess and immediately smiled, and the face of the little princess, who read with curiosity on the faces of the guests the impression that Marie would make on them. She also saw M lle Bourienne with her ribbon and beautiful face and her gaze, more animated than ever, fixed on him; but she could not see him, she only saw something large, bright and beautiful, moving towards her when she entered the room. First, Prince Vasily approached her, and she kissed the bald head bending over her hand, and answered his words that she, on the contrary, remembered him very well. Then Anatole approached her. She still hasn't seen him. She only felt a gentle hand take her firmly and lightly touched her white forehead, above which her beautiful brown hair was anointed. When she looked at him, his beauty struck her. Anatop, with the thumb of his right hand behind the buttoned button of his uniform, with his chest arched forward and his back arched back, swinging one outstretched leg and slightly bowing his head, silently, cheerfully looked at the princess, apparently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not resourceful, not quick and not eloquent in conversations, but he had the ability of calm and unchangeable confidence, precious for the world. If a person who is not self-confident is silent at the first acquaintance and shows an awareness of the indecency of this silence and a desire to find something, and it will not be good; but Anatole was silent, shaking his leg, cheerfully observing the princess’s hairstyle. It was clear that he could remain silent so calmly for a very long time. “If anyone finds this silence awkward, then talk, but I don’t want to,” his appearance seemed to say. In addition, in dealing with women, Anatole had that manner that most of all inspires curiosity, fear and even love in women - a manner of contemptuous consciousness of his superiority. It was as if he was telling them with his appearance: “I know you, I know you, but why bother with you? And you would be glad!” It may be that he did not think this when meeting women (and it is even likely that he did not, because he did not think much at all), but that was his appearance and such a manner. The princess felt this and, as if wanting to show him that she did not dare think about keeping him busy, turned to the old prince. The conversation was general and lively, thanks to the little voice and the sponge with a mustache that rose above the white teeth of the little princess. She met Prince Vasily with that method of joking, which is often used by talkatively cheerful people and which consists in the fact that some long-established jokes and funny, partly not known to everyone, funny memories are assumed between the person who is being treated like that and oneself, then as there are no such memories, just as there were none between the little princess and Prince Vasily. Prince Vasily willingly succumbed to this tone; The little princess involved Anatole, whom she hardly knew, in this memory of funny incidents that had never happened. M lle Bourienne also shared these common memories, and even Princess Marya felt with pleasure that she was drawn into this cheerful memory.
“At least now we’ll make full use of you, dear prince,” said the little princess, in French, of course, to Prince Vasily, “it’s not like at our evenings at Annette’s, where you always run away; remember cette chere Annette? [dear Annette?]
- Oh, you can’t talk to me about politics like Annette!
– What about our tea table?
- Oh yeah!
- Why have you never been to Annette? – the little princess asked Anatole. “And I know, I know,” she said with a wink, “your brother Ippolit told me about your affairs.” - ABOUT! “She shook her finger at him. - Even in Paris I know your pranks!
- And he, Hippolytus, didn’t tell you? - said Prince Vasily (turning to his son and grabbing the princess by the hand, as if she wanted to run away, and he barely had time to hold her), - but he didn’t tell you how he himself, Hippolyte, wasted away for the dear princess and how she le mettait a la porte? [kicked him out of the house?]
- Oh! C "est la perle des femmes, princesse! [Ah! this is the pearl of women, princesse!] - he turned to the princess.
For her part, m lle Bourienne did not miss the opportunity, when she heard the word Paris, to also enter into a general conversation of memories. She allowed herself to ask how long ago Anatole left Paris, and how he liked this city. Anatole very willingly answered the Frenchwoman and, smiling, looking at her, talked to her about her fatherland. Having seen the pretty Bourienne, Anatole decided that here, in Bald Mountains, it would not be boring. “Very pretty! - he thought, looking at her, - this demoiselle de compagn is very pretty. [companion.] I hope she will take it with her when she marries me,” he thought, “la petite est gentille.” [little one is cute.]
The old prince was slowly dressing in his office, frowning and pondering what he should do. The arrival of these guests angered him. “What do I need Prince Vasily and his son? Prince Vasily is a braggart, empty, well, he must be a good son,” he grumbled to himself. He was angry that the arrival of these guests raised in his soul an unresolved, constantly suppressed question - a question about which the old prince always deceived himself. The question was whether he would ever decide to part with Princess Marya and give her to her husband. The prince never directly decided to ask himself this question, knowing in advance that he would answer fairly, and justice contradicted more than a feeling, but the entire possibility of his life. Life without Princess Marya was unthinkable for Prince Nikolai Andreevich, despite the fact that he seemed to value her little. “And why should she get married? - he thought, - probably to be unhappy. There's Lisa behind Andrey (it seems hard to find a better husband now), but is she happy with her fate? And who will take her out of love? Dull, awkward. They'll take you for your connections, for your wealth. And don’t they live in girls? Even happier!” This is what Prince Nikolai Andreevich thought as he got dressed, and at the same time, the question that was being postponed demanded an immediate solution. Prince Vasily brought his son, obviously with the intention of making an offer and, probably, today or tomorrow he will demand a direct answer. The name and position in the world are decent. “Well, I’m not against it,” the prince said to himself, “but let him be worth it. That’s what we’ll see.”
“We’ll see about that,” he said out loud. - We'll see about that.
And he, as always, entered the living room with cheerful steps, quickly looked around everyone, noticed the change in the little princess’s dress, and Bourienne’s ribbon, and Princess Marya’s ugly hairstyle, and the smiles of Bourienne and Anatole, and the loneliness of his princess in the general conversation. “I got out like a fool! – he thought, looking angrily at his daughter. “There’s no shame: but he doesn’t even want to know her!”
He approached Prince Vasily.
- Well, hello, hello; glad to see you.
“For my dear friend, seven miles is not a suburb,” Prince Vasily spoke, as always, quickly, self-confidently and familiarly. - Here is my second one, please love and favor.
Prince Nikolai Andreevich looked at Anatoly. - Well done, well done! - he said, - well, go ahead and kiss him, - and he offered him his cheek.
Anatole kissed the old man and looked at him curiously and completely calmly, waiting to see if the eccentric thing his father had promised would soon happen from him.
Prince Nikolai Andreevich sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa, pulled an armchair towards him for Prince Vasily, pointed to it and began asking about political affairs and news. He listened as if with attention to Prince Vasily’s story, but constantly glanced at Princess Marya.
– So they’re writing from Potsdam? - he repeated last words Prince Vasily and suddenly, standing up, approached his daughter.
- You cleaned up like that for the guests, huh? - he said. - Good, very good. In front of guests, you have a new hairstyle, and in front of guests, I tell you that in the future, don’t you dare change your clothes without my asking.
“It’s me, mon pire, [father,] who is to blame,” the little princess interceded, blushing.
“You have complete freedom,” said Prince Nikolai Andreevich, shuffling in front of his daughter-in-law, “but she has no reason to disfigure herself - she’s so bad.”
And he sat down again, no longer paying attention to his daughter, who had been brought to tears.
“On the contrary, this hairstyle suits the princess very well,” said Prince Vasily.
- Well, father, young prince, what is his name? - said Prince Nikolai Andreevich, turning to Anatoly, - come here, let’s talk, let’s get to know each other.
“That’s when the fun begins,” thought Anatole and sat down next to the old prince with a smile.
- Well, here's the thing: you, my dear, they say, were brought up abroad. Not the way the sexton taught me and your father to read and write. Tell me, my dear, are you now serving in the Horse Guards? - asked the old man, looking closely and intently at Anatole.
“No, I joined the army,” answered Anatole, barely restraining himself from laughing.
- A! good deal. Well, do you want, my dear, to serve the Tsar and the Fatherland? It's war time. Such a young man must serve, he must serve. Well, at the front?
- No, prince. Our regiment set out. And I'm listed. What do I have to do with it, dad? - Anatole turned to his father with a laugh.
- He serves well, well. What do I have to do with it! Ha ha ha! – Prince Nikolai Andreevich laughed.
And Anatole laughed even louder. Suddenly Prince Nikolai Andreevich frowned.
“Well, go,” he said to Anatoly.
Anatole approached the ladies again with a smile.

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 of Foreign Languages named after Maurice Thorez, from which he 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 of American writers into Russian. 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 Miusskoe 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 for long years 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”.

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