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Кияни. Війна. Німці
Історія виживання «при німцях» – живі картини повсякденного життя киян під німецькою окупацією, розповідь про «велику пожежу» на Хрещатику наприкінці вересня – на початку жовтня 1941 року, про Бабин яр і штучний голод у Києві в 1941–1942 роках складають найцінніший матеріал книжки. Вона передусім є даниною пам’яті талановитого брата Гоги – відомого українського графіка Георгія Малакова (йому й присвячено книжку). Маленький хлопчик, оповідаючи про себе, сприймає навколишній світ переважно очима старшого брата, якому на початок війни виповнилося вже чотирнадцять років і який, власне, є головним героєм книжки.
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Дмитро Малаков
24 books2 followersДмитро́ Васи́льович Мала́ков — український краєзнавець—києвознавець, мистецтвознавець та історик архітектури, член Національної спілки краєзнавців України. Лауреат Премії імені Дмитра Яворницького Національної спілки краєзнавців України (2012). Брат українського графіка Георгія Малакова.
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March 19, 2017
It's the first part of memoirs by Дмитро Малаков about his beautiful family and, especially, incredibly talented older brother Гога (Георгій Малаков). I have read the second book ("Повоєння. Спогади киянина", 2013) first, because it was in bookshops then. I was so interested in it and loved the whole story and the author's narration overall that I could not help but started to hunt for the first part, about their life in occupied Kyiv and early post-occupational times, while the war still continued. However, it was a difficult task as the book was absent in bookshops and even on the Internet. Anyway, I got it finally, and I am very glad that I have "the full set" now.
The book is equally moving and interesting, and it is also full of funny and fascinating pictures by Гога who retranslated everything he saw around himself in art (with an invaluable documentary accuracy!). So I can only repeat my highest esteem for the memoirs. They are intelligent, and warm, and full of curious and important details about everyday life that we never knew from the official propaganda-approved sources. I'll remind that while the father of the family was in the army, the mother with two children (and some other relatives) due to circumstances stayed in occupied Kyiv. The older boy, Гога, was a teenager then, and the little one, Дмитро, the author of the memoirs, was a young kid, a toddler. So the book describes all perspectives: how the whole family survived (they, as hundreds of other citizens, should have moved from their homes because the center of the city was demolished by Soviet guerilla fighters, and, although their house was not destroyed, Nazis just removed all people from the affected area overall), how the mother fed and protected her children during the occupation, how the teenager boy who already looked almost like a young man avoided transfer to Germany ("облави") and tried to educate himself (Nazis prohibited any education for people of occupied regions except for primary school), how the youngest kid stayed for months in an orphan institution because it was easier for the family to survive in such way, and how the father connected to them, and so on. It is all an immensely important material.
So yeah, absorbing and really illuminating stuff. Loved it.
The book is equally moving and interesting, and it is also full of funny and fascinating pictures by Гога who retranslated everything he saw around himself in art (with an invaluable documentary accuracy!). So I can only repeat my highest esteem for the memoirs. They are intelligent, and warm, and full of curious and important details about everyday life that we never knew from the official propaganda-approved sources. I'll remind that while the father of the family was in the army, the mother with two children (and some other relatives) due to circumstances stayed in occupied Kyiv. The older boy, Гога, was a teenager then, and the little one, Дмитро, the author of the memoirs, was a young kid, a toddler. So the book describes all perspectives: how the whole family survived (they, as hundreds of other citizens, should have moved from their homes because the center of the city was demolished by Soviet guerilla fighters, and, although their house was not destroyed, Nazis just removed all people from the affected area overall), how the mother fed and protected her children during the occupation, how the teenager boy who already looked almost like a young man avoided transfer to Germany ("облави") and tried to educate himself (Nazis prohibited any education for people of occupied regions except for primary school), how the youngest kid stayed for months in an orphan institution because it was easier for the family to survive in such way, and how the father connected to them, and so on. It is all an immensely important material.
So yeah, absorbing and really illuminating stuff. Loved it.
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