Я пришел дать вам волю

by Vasily Shukshin, Ulla-Liisa Heino (Translator), Василий Шукшин

"Я пришел дать вам волю" представляет собой широкое историческое полотно, содержащее правдивый рассказ о сложных и драматических перипетиях крестьянского восстания под водительством атамана Степана Разина.
Повествование начинается с описания событий тех дней, когда Разин со своими воинами возвращается из персидского похода, и заканчивается казнью атамана.
Напряженность повествования, яркие образы его главных героев, и прежде всего Степана Разина, колоритный язык - таковы особенности этого произведения.
"Я пришел дать вам волю" - единственный исторический роман, принадлежащий перу Василия Шукшина, известного писателя, актера, режиссера, скончавшегося в расцвете творческих сил.

Genres: Russia

398 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин, Василий Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet/Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes.

Vasiliy Makarovich Shukshin was born on 25 July 1929 to a peasant family in the village of Srostki in Altai Krai, USSR. In 1933, his father, Makar Leont'evich Shukshin, was arrested and shot during repressions associated with mandated collectivization. His mother, Maria Sergeyevna (née Popov), had to look after the survival of the entire family. By 1943 Shukshin had finished 7 years of village school and entered an automobile technical school in Biysk. In 1945, after two and a half years at the school, but before finishing, he quit to work in a kolkhoz.

In 1946 Shukshin left his native village and worked as a metal craftsman at several enterprises in the trust Soyuzprommekhanizatsiya: at the turbine plant in Kaluga, at the tractor plant in Vladimir, etc. In 1949, Shukshin was drafted into the Navy. He first served as a sailor in the Baltic Fleet, then a radio operator on the Black Sea. In 1953 he was demobilized due to a stomach ulcer and returned to his native village. Having passed an external exam for high school graduation, he became a teacher of Russian, and later a school principal in Srostki.

In 1954 Shukshin entered the directors department of the VGIK, studied under Mikhail Romm and Sergei Gerasimov, and graduated in 1960. While studying at VGIK in 1958, Shukshin had his first leading role in Marlen Khutsiyev's film Two Fedors and appeared in the graduation film by Andrei Tarkovsky. In 1958 Shukhin published his first short story "Two on the cart" in the magazine Smena. His first collection of stories Сельские жители (Village Dwellers) was published in 1963. That same year, he became staff director at the Gorky Film Studio in Moscow. He wrote and directed Живёт такой парень (There Is Such a Lad). The film premiered in 1965, winning top honours at the All-Union Film Festival in Leningrad and the Golden Lion at the XVI International Film Festival in Venice. Shukshin was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1967), and was designated Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR (1969).

Shukshin died suddenly on 1974-10-02, on the motor ship Dunai, on the Volga river, while filming They fought for their motherland. He is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Reviews

[Trounin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Что же показал в итоге Шукшин? «Конец Разина» принял вид романа, либо таковым был изначально, сокращённый до размера повести. Теперь читатель мог познакомиться с будто бы полной версией, скорее воспринимавшейся за отдельное произведение. Шукшин вольно словословил, растекаясь мыслью по древу. Вольная казачья жизнь отчего-то оказалась подавленной царским повелением. Видимо, хватило правления Алексея Тишайшего, чтобы взять в узду нрав казаков, до того всегда вершивших собственную волю, ни с кем не советуясь. Как-то так оказалось, что ещё в сороковых годах казаки смело воевали с турками без дозволения царя, умея числом в несколько тысяч воинов побивать отборные десятитысячные турецкие войска и сочувствовавших им европейских наёмников, как к семидесятым годам казаки не могли спокойно уйти грабить персов, чтобы по возвращении им это не поставили в вину и не заставили вернуть награбленное. Вот тогда и разыгралась дума у казаков, не способных стерпеть таковой несправедливости от царских посланников. Оставалось теперь это доходчиво изложить.

(c) Trounin

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

The very Russia's essence is reflected here
This country has been always ruled by fear,
The country of few Lords and millions of serfs
This country has the system it indeed deserves
It has regime, being built on arrogance and ignorance, on misery and hate
To be forever slaves is Russian people's fate

1. Memorable 5
2. Social Relevance 5
3. Informative 3
4. Originality 5
5. Thought Provoking 5
6. Expressiveness 3
7. Entertaining 3
8. Visualization 2
9. Sparks Emotion 2
10. Life Changing (Pivotal, crucial, determining, defining, momentous, fateful, consequential, climacteric, transformational) 2

5, 5, 3, 5, 5, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2 ====> 35/10 = 3.5

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If one needs to understand Russia - he needs to read this book !
Particularly pay attention to the dialogue between Stepan Razin and his former associate, who turned against Razin when Razin finished his pirate's activities and became (using modern cliche) "the freedom fighter".