Biography of Lyubov Panova

Today, the books of Rostovites Vera Fedorovna Panova can only be bought from the Bukinists - “Sitty”, “Seryozha”, “Kruzhilikha”. And from the end of X she was called a cult writer. The best Soviet magazines fought for the right to print her novels the first to print her, performances on her plays were walking throughout the country. Text: Julia Bykova.

Photo from the archive. Source: “Who is the main one. And from the end of X she was, as they say, a cult writer. The best Soviet magazines fought for the right to print her novels the first to print her, the performances of her plays were walking throughout the country, P. Fomenko filmed the films, etc., readers sent her letters on her cinemas - the people wanted to know how the heroes of her books live.

And Panova answered: these married, and these furniture were bought from serfs. Panova’s article went to the grandmother along the line of his father - in girlishness Gribanov. A round face, snub nose. Great -grandfather Panova Gribanov was a serf of the Moscow province. Having personally bought himself and his family, he came “to the warm and rich Rostov-Don,” Panova recalled. This three-shred house in three windows he was a carved-reducer carpenter.

” Soon the hardworking great -grandfather entered the merchant, opened the store. The daughter was married to the clerk Panov, who "acquitted trust, was also ailment, did not drink." After the death of her father, the rich heiress drove her husband out and “surrounded himself by God the news of some kind of richests, marters, booze, worthless people, mainly from those Caucasian handsome men who have always been so many in Rostov.

In two or three years, all her money, profitable houses and all the acquired great-grandfather were in their hands. ” The inheritance of the writer’s father did not get anything. In addition to education: he graduated from the Academy of Commercial Sciences in Moscow, he knew three languages. In Rostov, he served at the Bank of the Company Loan Society. His family hoped that his son would save them from the need to marry a rich lady from the need.

But Fedor Panov married for love - the daughter of a poor music teacher. The future writer born in the year, his father called Vera in honor of his wife. Like the first yacht built with your own hand. River sport was his passion. In the area of ​​Gnilovskaya Panov founded the first yacht club. They began to arrive on cabs and on the longboats - with champagne, music, and singers.

Then the father and his comrades abandoned this place and built a new yacht club against the lines. ” In the year, on the day of his mortar, Fedor Panov went out on his “faith” for a walk. Sometimes he arranged, according to the writer, “real performances before his mother, who was sitting on the yacht club terrace: he deliberately overturned the yacht and sailed to the pier.” But that day he did not float, disappeared into the Don in front of his wife.

Verochka is five years old, there is still a youngest son and an old woman-mother, a widow that has eaten in one night had to look for earnings in a company selling perfumes. They lived scarce, renting a house on the 1st line. But at all costs, Verochka decided to give an education. From the fighters of the 1st Konarmia. In the year, Verochka enters the private gymnasium of the Lyubimovs.

I like the study, but it interferes with my beloved lesson - reading: “It seemed that the gymnasium would not help me become a writer and I already dreamed of becoming her.” Panova leaves the gymnasium: "Since then when I have to answer the question of education in the profiles, I write: self -education." And in the yard is a vague th. The city is ruled by a commune against which the Junker School is rebelled, dug in a Balaban grove.

Machine gun queues pour the streets. A civil war comes to Rostov-on-Don. In the houses-bourgeois, for products-on the main “echo”-in the area of ​​the current Square of Gagarin: “Stanichnaya women sat on the bags of precious flour and tubs of oil, and the people were teeming around the pants, who was a coat, who was a vase as a mother was embarrassed to sell all kinds of junks, and it turned out to her, poor, somehow unsuccessful, somehow unsuccessful, somehow unsuccessful, somehow unsuccessful, somehow unsuccessful, somehow unsuccessful It is not feasible, I began to go out to the push, ”Panova recalls.

Mother is sick with a “Spaniard”, at the summer Verochka-scurvy from starvation, the Fighters of the 1st Konarmia, who stopped in their house, saved the family of Panova from starvation: “They brought the nanny a bag of flour, a bag of milled and said to her like this:“ Here, a grandmother. Eat it yourself and feed, but so that we are full. ” Once the nanny gave Vera and a stack of excellent pussy paper: "It was your guys who sent you gifts." At that time, Vera wrote poetry - according to her, "stupid girlish sties." At the age of 17, the acquaintance of their family Vladimir Filov arranged Panov to the editorial office of the Don Don now “Hammer”: “I became an assistant to the district organizer of Ratcorov in the Nakhichevansky district,” recalled Panova, who called herself “an old newspaper she -wolf”.

Newlyweds and "Capital". By fashion of those years, Panova took the pseudonym - became Vera Veltman. She wore a red scarf, was a quiet, silent and businesslike. She sat down at the table, in a characteristic position - holding one leg under her. She lit a cigarette and wrote with male handwriting without blots, for which the drivers adored her. Her articles and feuilletons came out at once in several newspapers - “Hammer”, “Soviet South”, “Bolshevik shift”.When the Pioneer newspaper Lenin's grandchildren opened in Rostov, Vera Veltman entered her state.

The editor of the “grandchildren” was a famous writer Polien Yakovlev, the author of the “first student” known to Rostov, the author of the “first student” in Soviet times. Among the colleagues is Vitaly Gubarev, the future author of the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors. Unfortunately, in the archives of the Don Public Library, I could not find newspapers with its publications.

In the “sentimental novel”, Panova wrote about her journalistic youth: “It included many buildings of my city of Rostov-on-Don, his churches, shops, markets, his bridges with cobblestone large and shared, like old teeth, not to mention the people of all kinds of class groups and occupations here Panova first saw the writer Pogodin, heard the reader of her“ defeat ”for the first time Fadeeva were such times.

By the way, in the beginning of the x, the “sentimental novel” in two months was completely printed by one of the newspapers in Riga: “It is strange that Riga, not Rostov,” Panova wrote on this subject. At 20, Vera married the leader of the Rostov Komsomol - Arseny of Staroselsky. Arseny, who grew up in abundance, had left his “shallow -bourgeois” family in protest. The newlyweds settled in the room on Middle Avenue.

According to her husband, Panova studied Marx and Engels. Particularly difficult she was given to her “capital”, which she read aloud under the commentary of her husband. Still, Staroselsky could whistly whistling. And not what: Mozart and Beethoven, Chopin and Rachmaninov. He also idolized Mayakovsky, reading him specially trained bass. Mayakovsky himself was surprised to hear him in Rostov: “Who reads my poems with such a bass?

I still do not like this poem, ”Panova recalled. Arseny came from the maternity hospital from the maternity hospital with the maternity hospital with a blanket of Kumachovoye: others seemed philistine to him.

The daughter was called Natasha. But after a while and this name seemed to Arseny Meshchansky: Alya is much more modern. It was outraged that he considered my loved ones to be philistines, and thinks that he is a truly new person who defeated the relics of the past and always entering the truly proletarian spirit, - Panova recalled, - I suddenly became very boring with him.

" At this time, Boris Vakhtin appeared in her life. Originally from Leningrad, he came to Rostov for the post of deputy chairman of the Creburus of young pioneers. Vakhtin loved tea with jam, but he could give back the hooligans, was cordially treated by little Natasha and once called the faith “my baby, he would probably have considered them philistine,” Panova recalled. Everything went without family dramas: in the year, when they gathered to live together, Staroselsky was going to marry a second time.

It was almost 10 years before his death, and we managed to get in love with each other, get married, and we had two sons, named, according to the Vakhta family tradition, Boris and Yuri, the eldest - in the year, the youngest in M, ”Panova wrote in his memoirs. In their house, at 80 Bogatyanovsky, the phone calls. This is a husband who at that time heads the information department in the newspaper Molot: “Kirov was killed!

He is fired from work, deprived of a party party. On the same days, as Panova writes, the editor of the Leninsky grandchildren, "the kindest Polien Nikolayevich Yakovlev called me to his office and said:" Vera Fedorovna, believe me, it is very difficult for you to tell you, but we will have to part. " The order was posted with lightning speed. His first working shift was the last: on the same night, Vakhtin was arrested.

Panova writes letters to Kalinin, stands with the programs on Engels Street, where the “organs” were located then, she is caused by the interrogation of ridiculous issues, meaningless suspicions. Without recognizing the accusations against him, the Communist Vakhtin receives 10 years “Strogach” on Solovki.