Pasicy

by Boris Almazov

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308 pages, Hardcover

Published March 15, 2019

About the author

Boris Alexandrovich Almazov (Russian: Борис Алмазов) - Russian Soviet writer, singing and poet, Honorary Ataman of the North-Western District of the Union of Cossacks.

His family comes from an old Cossack family, which has been mentioned in documents since 1632. On the mother's side since 1726. The family came to Leningrad, fleeing hunger and repression on the Don, and has been living here permanently since 1932. The father was subjected to repression, as the grandson of the farm chieftain and the son of a Cossack officer, the mother as a well-born Cossack woman and the daughter of a priest. The whole family participated in the Great Patriotic War, where all the men died. The father died of wounds received in the penal battalion. When clearing Königsberg in 1946. Mother returned from the front with the rank of lieutenant of the medical service, disabled with a broken spine and six medals. However, this did not free the family from being classified as second-class citizens.

At the end of the ninth grade of secondary school, B.A. Almazov, due to the difficult financial situation of his family, entered the factory, where he mastered the professions of a turner and a locksmith, while continuing his studies at the school for working youth, which he graduated in 1961.

In 1968 he graduated from the evening department of the theater studies faculty of the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. During his studies at the institute, he changed many jobs: he was a loader, a massage therapist in a children's hospital, a worker in a geological party in the Far North, a literary employee in a large-circulation newspaper.

After graduating from the institute, due to the lack of work as a theater critic, he enters a secondary school as an art history teacher, thus taking part in an all-Union experiment. For twenty years of work at the school, he developed a methodology for teaching history and theory of arts and the foundations of culture for secondary schools. Became one of the leading experts in this field in the country. After the publication of a number of scientific works, he was admitted to the Russian Pedagogical Society. He rejected offers to engage in scientific work, citing the lack of special pedagogical education.