Fefelov andrei alexandrovich son. Journalist Alexander Prokhanov: biography, personal life, family

Taken from Sergei Fomin
http://sergey-v-fomin.livejournal.com/78708.html#comments

IN THE FLAME OF "FIRE" (part 5)

"Bathing a Red Coble"(continuation)

"You can't wash a black dog white."
Russian proverb

In one of the previous posts, we tried to understand the hidden meanings of A.A. Prokhanov, promising to pair it with some features of the writer's biography.
The ancestors of Alexander Andreevich, in his own words, were Molokans who fled from the Tambov province to the Transcaucasus.
This sect in the Russian Empire was considered "especially harmful", was strictly persecuted up to the liberal decrees of Emperor Alexander I. It was not without reason: the Molokans "rejected the Orthodox cult", honored the Sabbath. Due to their noticeable rapprochement with Judaism, they were even called "Subbotniks", "Jews", "new Jews." You can read about them in detail in any Jewish encyclopedia.

It is worth noting that all this is by no means "matters of bygone days", as evidenced by the confessions of the son of Alexander Andreevich - the deputy editor of the newspaper "Zavtra" Andrey Fefelov, made by him on August 13, 2014 in an interview:
“Some of my ancestors came from Russian sectarianism. And the Prokhanovs, and the Fefelovs, and the Mazayevs were once peasants and belonged to the Molokan environment. Their descendants, having become merchants, educated their children, sent their children to study in Europe. […]… Questions of faith, church, eschatology accompanied me from early childhood. […] The tradition is gone, but the connections exist. Once a whole delegation of Molokans came to the newspaper “Zavtra”. Such solid, neat bearded people with calm faces. It turns out that Yuri Luzhkov at that time for some reason oppressed the Molokan community, deprived it of a prayer house. And then, knowing about our origin, they came to us for informational support. We did not refuse them and even sheltered them for a while. Several times in a row on Sundays in the editorial office of Zavtra there were meetings of Molokans and psalms composed by my great-grandfathers were sung. "
Indeed, the ancestors of Alexander Andreevich are far from ordinary sectarians.
Much was tied to the great-uncle of Alexander Andreevich - Ivan Stepanovich Prokhanov (1869-1935). He was also a Root Molokan, but in 1875 his father and in 1886 he himself joined the Baptists.
This transition was natural. At one time, the historian N.I. Kostomarov emphasized the connection between the emergence of the Molokan sect and "the development of rational thinking in the Russian people."

With a biography of I.S. Prokhanov, this "Russian Luther", anyone can get acquainted by looking on the Internet. All the facts are there, but their true meaning remains, as it were, behind the scenes. Therefore, let us turn to an old, written back in May 2005, post from the LiveJournal of the famous Russian philosopher, writer and publicist D.E. Galkovsky (albeit straightening some angles and somewhat categorical, but noticing a lot):
http://galkovsky.livejournal.com/52 576.html? thread = 37 ..
“Yes, this is understandable,” Dmitry Evgenievich said during a discussion of one of the topics. It doesn't have to be a “verified person”. It should be “it itself”.
Prokhanov's grandfather was one of the most active members of the British residency in the Russian Empire, Ivan Stepanovich Prokhanov. Mr. Prokhanov was also a publisher of newspapers and magazines; he was exiled to his native England for systematic anti-state and anti-church activities. There he graduated from theological college in Bristol. In 1898, Prokhanov returned to Russia, launched a large-scale subversive work right off the bat. Lenin (through Bonch-Bruevich) was Prokhanov's leader. […] Soon Prokhanov became the head of the Russian Baptists and one of the 6 vice-chairmen of the World Baptist Union. In 1914, as direct accomplices of Germany, members of socialist subversive organizations and German spies, Prokhanov and his comrades were slightly pressed. With the consent, approval and direct advice of England. "
Let us add to this that at the time being described, I.S. Prokhanov, contacts were established with such iconic figures as S.Yu. Vite and P.N. Milyukov. It is also known that Ivan Stepanovich ran for the State Duma - a well-known hotbed of Russian turmoil.

But let us continue with the quote from D.E. Galkovsky: “I don’t need to explain what Prokhanov did in 1917 and beyond. Subsequently, the scoundrels invented “repressions” for themselves and sobbed tearfully in something like this: “The VI All-Russian Congress of Christian Youth with the participation of Ivan Prokhanov gathered in 1921 in the city of Tver. As soon as the participants started the planned program, on May 5, on the denunciation of the priest of the local Orthodox parish Vinogradov, who made his way to Tverskaya Gubchek as an investigator, 42 participants of the congress were arrested. 30 people were soon released, and 12 (including Prokhanov) were transferred to a forced labor camp for a period of one to three years. But after three months the central authorities released them too. "
Check it out. “The priest made his way into the valiant Cheka and slandered the faithful Leninists”; "They were subjected to monstrous persecution, in 1921 they spent three months in prison." Horror.
In the 1920s, Prokhanov actively disintegrated the Russian Church, collaborating with the "living churchmen". He calmly traveled to Europe and America. In 1928, while in Canada, Prokhanov decided not to return to the USSR, while calmly continuing to be one of the most active and influential Soviet Baptists.
In his FOREIGN memoirs, Prokhanov, the first president of the All-Russian SEKhB, wrote: “At the heart of the Bolsheviks' policy towards religious organizations was freedom for everyone, except for those groups and priesthoods that participated in political opposition to the new regime. One of the first steps taken by the Soviet government was the decree on the separation of church and state. In accordance with the proclaimed decree, the Orthodox Church was losing financial support from the state ... Millions of rubles were withdrawn from church treasuries and this undermined the livelihoods of the Holy Synod, the Theological Academy and other church institutions. Most of the priests were removed from the ministry ... Thus, the overthrow of the Orthodox Church was a significant achievement, the main basis of religious freedom ... ””.
And by the way, compare this passage of Prokhanov the grandfather with the text of the “letter of mahatmas” in 1926, written by N.K. Roerich, in poetics, as we have already noted, is very similar to the writings of the grandson of Prokhanov: “In the Himalayas, We know what you are doing. You have abolished the church, which has become a breeding ground for lies and superstition. You have destroyed the petty bourgeoisie, which has become a conduit for prejudice. You have destroyed the parenting prison. You have destroyed the family of hypocrisy. You have burned an army of slaves. "
Direct roll call!

“This Prokhanov-gate for me,” wrote one of the readers of the post by D.Ye. Galkovsky, - not that it disfigures, how much the amazing continuity of generations is simply incomprehensible. It can be explained, perhaps, only by the fact that all this time since the good old era there was a lively nutrient medium (a club, a sect or something like that), a “Dukhobor” grandfather's pad ”.
This characteristic of I.S. Prokhanov from the book of the scientist L.N. Mitrokhin "Baptism: History and Modernity" (St. Petersburg 1997):
“In his purposefulness, confidence in the success of his missionary vocation, in his organizational acumen, he was a unique figure. He was not attracted to ordinary preaching work. Russia, he repeated, is "a spiritual cemetery or a valley of dry bones." But the Russian people are on the eve of an uprising - "this will be a true Sunday, spiritual renewal and reformation." […]
Prokhanov's energy was truly inexhaustible. He was cramped within the framework of a small association. He constantly created new unions, organizations, publishing courses and schools, published at least 10 collections of spiritual hymns, over a thousand (!) Of them he wrote himself (“poetry flew from my pen like a living flower”) compiled the confession of the ECB, wrote hundreds of articles , appeals, projects. [...] His authoritarian methods, not always predictable actions confused and irritated more sedate and balanced colleagues, creating additional friction between alliances, despite constant assurances of mutual love.
Doesn't this remind you of anything? After reading this, I, for example, realized that the "passionarity" of Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov is a generic trait.

All this background of the writer President V.V. Putin, by the nature of his previous occupations, probably knows very well. Therefore, apparently, he does not make contact with A.A. Prokhanov, literally imposing himself (remember, at least, the President's answers during the "direct line" to Alexander Andreevich's questions). At the same time, Vladimir Vladimirovich, as you know, willingly communicated with V.G. Rasputin, A.I. Solzhenitsyn, N.S. Mikhalkov.
(Anticipating a possible objection, I would like to note that the reason for this distance is not at all in the once-hung labels. After all, VG Rasputin was once called “red-brown”.)

As for Valentin Grigorievich, he hardly knew the ins and outs of Alexander Andreevich, but he certainly felt it well.
What yeast ferments there is not difficult to find out. For example, here is a look at the Russian history of the son of A.A. Prokhanov - Andrey Fefelov:
“It is interesting that the Romanov family - this cohort of sovereigns and sovereigns - stands between two pillars of Russian history: Ivan IV Rurikovich and Joseph Stalin. […] The figure of Peter the Great stands apart. He is a great destroyer and a great builder at the same time. In some ways it is similar to Patriarch Nikon and Lenin. […]
Even the demons of Russian history, such as, for example, Leon Trotsky, must be carefully examined and read in a single grandiose, sacred context. It would seem that he is the enemy of the entire Russian people! But, nevertheless, it is “our” enemy, “our” unique demon. And no other history has produced a similar figure. By the way, speaking objectively, Trotsky is known as the creator of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, which became a striking force for the gathering of the territories of the Russian Empire, which collapsed in February 1917. "
Needless to say, all this (in all likelihood, family, prokhanov's) historiosophy was deeply alien to Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin.

It was in vain that Viktor Astafyev was worried about his brother in his time: they did not influence Valentin Rasputin, did not spoil him by patriots, like Prokhanov, who were disgraceful to Viktor Petrovich, in his words, "for glorifying revolutions." Couldn't influence.
Being in the same room, sipping from the same misa - does not mean to be like-minded yet.
It has long been said: “They went out from us, but they were not ours: for if they were ours, they would have remained with us; but they went out, and through that it was revealed that not all of ours " (1 John 2:19).
And now, after the death of Valentin Grigorievich, this incompatibility, due to the extreme delicacy of the writer, which almost never showed itself in public (except that "non-communication" testified to this), has become completely undeniable.

However, another "fear" of V.P. Astafieva was not so empty. In a letter to V.Ya. Kurbatov, sent in February 1994, he lamented that "comrades Zyuganov and Prokhanov proudly shake your speculations and spiritual reminders on the" popular theme "."
All this now seems to be confirmed. In the article-manifesto under consideration by A.A. Before casting a shadow over the fence, Prokhanov writes directly: “It was not for nothing that Valentin Grigorievich signed the Word to the People during the years of perestroika, it was not without reason that he was close to the communists, to Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov.”
But was it possible to avoid this then? The interests of the people and the country for people like V.G. Rasputin, were above their own ambitions and purity of vestments ...
In the article we are reviewing "Rasputin: Empire and People" A.A. Prokhanov recalls, in fact, one work - the story of 1976 "Farewell to Matera."
But here's how he twists its content: "... Russians, struggling at construction sites, leaving and letting their villages under the water, like the legendary city of Kitezh ..."
That is, YOURSELF (and not the state at all) voluntarily let their huts, cemeteries, fields under the water!
In addition to open mockery of the pain of the Russian writer and his people (here I strongly disagree with those who write that “Farewell to Matera” Prokhanov de “did not understand”), this reading is no longer the Rasputin text, but “The Legend of the City Kitezh ”, testifies to a certain spiritual corruption of the one who released this from the pen.
A still from the film "Farewell" based on the story by V.G. Rasputin. Directed by Larisa Shepitko and Elem Klimov. 1981 year

You need to be a deeply non-Russian person in order to pervert one of the archetypes of our consciousness so subtly.
The Russian messianic city “with white stone walls, golden-domed churches, with honest monasteries” disappeared under the water “miraculously, by God's command, when the godless Tsar Batu,” having ruined Russia, approached it.
"Its inhabitants were not even going to defend themselves and only prayed." It was for those prayers that "the Lord did not allow the Basurmans' abuse of the Christian shrine."
As for our Maters, the Soviet authorities let them under the water: the local ones - at the direction of the central authorities. And from there, from the water through the looking glass, no one can get that old Russia. Until she ITSELF (not lured out by the "red" or any other spellcasters, namely herself, of her own free will) will not come out of there.
It will be released without fail when the deadline comes - "The Last Deadline".
"And to this day that city is invisible, - it will open before the terrible judgment seat of Christ."

A still from the film Farewell. 1981 year
It is difficult to understand this for those who grew up on asphalt. It is not enough even for two years to be a forester and go to geological parties. And why such sacrifices? It's not about the city itself. It's about the soul. "Where is your heart, brother? .. Where is your soul, sister? .."
It is difficult to become a Russian without believing in what the people, whose son you consider yourself to be, believe in.
And before teaching others, become a disciple yourself. Sit with Mary at the feet of Christ and listen.
The same Valentin Rasputin did not consider it shameful for himself to do this at the age of 44, for which he was rudely ridiculed by the regular author of the newspaper "Zavtra" Vladimir Bushin.
But for some, listening to something goes badly ...
Here is the last issue of the newspaper "Zavtra", dated April 2. As usual, the editorial by A.A. Prokhanov. It tells about his recent trip to Serbia, and at the end - about “divine service in the Cathedral of St. Sava ... the largest cathedral in Belgrade” (hereinafter we keep the original spelling of the author): “... When we received Communion, when I ate from my hands lord wine and bread, suddenly experienced such a surge of light, love and beauty. "
It turns out for Prokhanov the Body and Blood of Christ is simply “wine and bread”, and he also accepts Them “from the hands of the lord,” and not from a liar from the Eucharistic cup? Any church person does not need to explain what such use of words speaks about ...

It is interesting that another subverter V.G. Rasputin (but already on the part of the liberals) Dmitry Gubin, about whom we wrote in one of our previous posts, simultaneously (in the broadcast of April 3) spoke, in essence, about the same thing, but already in a prohibitively unacceptable form. (It pains me to quote these words, but without doing this, we can hardly understand what we are dealing with.)
http://gubin-live.podster.fm/91
To justify the offensive production of Tannhäuser in Novosibirsk, Gubin, trained in England, found no less blasphemous expressions: “Any parent who takes children to first communion takes a child to eat the body of a 33-year-old Jew and drink the blood of a 33-year-old Jew. Because the sacrament consists in the transformation of wine and bread (any clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church will tell you this) into the real and genuine body and blood of Christ. But we do not run to the prosecutor's office with a demand to stop corpse-eating. We understand: the church lives this way, it is arranged this way, this is their territory, they do not interfere with those who are outraged by cannibalism in any other place ... "

But back to Alexander Andreevich, who, as we remember, described his Communion in the Belgrade Cathedral. (After Gubin, it even looks pious.)
Literally on the back of the page on which this revelation was printed, his own article was published under a very symbolic title, fraught with many meanings: "The True Aryan." It is about the recent death of a passenger plane in France and about a German pilot who is now considered the culprit of the tragedy.
“... In my opinion, - writes A.A. Prokhanov, - we are talking about the psychiatry of an entire people - the German people, the people who are in such a state today that a single German, being part of this people, is able to commit such acts of suicide. […] He showed that Germany, which is being destroyed in this way, she along with her to the underworld, to Valhalla will take all the rest of humanity. [...] ... This mysterious and terrible death can be interpreted as a psychiatric diagnosis of the current state of the German nation. "

All these arguments in themselves, of course, are monstrous and shocking, but, we admit, they fit, nevertheless, into a certain system of values.
Moreover, this first blow to the nerves mixes, it seems to us, the main meaning, for which, in fact, apparently, this text was created:
“… The very act of suicide does not mean at all that it is an act of suffering and a desire to break with life. Perhaps this act should be interpreted as an act of rebellion. Maybe a German or Germany, who are in terrible humiliation, trying to break out of control, resort to the last resort - to death, which saves a person from this control.
Moreover, this death is not an ordinary death, an individual death. It is death associated with an impulse into other, coming Germanic dimensions. And this death is of a ritual nature, so the pilot dragged 150 people into this death. This was not just the death of a loner. It was self-immolation in full view of the world, self-immolation or suicide in spite of this world. "
The phrases: “act of rebellion”, “striving to get out of control”, “last resort”, taking into account the worldview of the author, certainly carry positive meanings.
They are organically complemented by others: "ritual character", "the entrainment of 150 people into this death."
And the final chord: "It was self-immolation in full view of the whole world [...] in spite of this world."
This is the apotheosis of death as a “creative act”. Splinter burns! Holy suicide!
Sectarian leaven - where are you going to get away from you?
It was not for nothing that, apparently, the poet Alexei Shiropaev, who had been in contact with Alexander Andreevich for some time, called him “The Red Shaman”.
With a thundering tambourine, screaming spells, twirling and jumping ...

It is noteworthy that some ambiguity did not hide, nevertheless, the main nerve from “their own”.
“In my opinion,” replied one of the regular commentators on the website of the newspaper “Zavtra”, “hiding behind God all the time, referring to God, talking about God, relying on God is even greater cowardice than suicide. It is also depriving oneself of the freedom of independent choice, depriving oneself of responsibility for the fate of one's country and one's people - they say, everything is in the hands of God. "
These are the true chicks of Prokhanov's nest.

But then what is the meaning of all these sparkles, tinsel, "Orthodox" rhetoric of Prokhanov, his trips to monasteries-sketes-elders?
Is this an attempt to stretch a sheep's skin before the Orthodox Russian people, who are still at their core? Is this exploitation of the authority of Orthodox ascetics venerated by the Russian world for their political projects?
Let's not guess. The main thing for us is the indisputable fact that behind all this lies deception and lies. Even if, as some believe, "for the good." Good intentions, our ancestors firmly knew, paved the road to hell.
And one more (no less important): convincing himself and others that he is going on a pilgrimage, in fact, Alexander Andreyevich is engaged in two things: "agit-run" or "Orthodox tourism". He never opened his soul before God, who himself would have created the Good there.
Sometimes, even a thought comes to mind: he wants, but ... he cannot.
And here is the place to repeat the words of the critic V.Ya. Kurbatov, addressed by him to V.P. Astafiev: “It comes from unbelief, from irreligion. I am afraid that now he is even at odds with his people, who have turned to God. It seems to him to be Pharisaism, and it seems that he does not see salvation there. [...] There is no rest, there is no Core. " (With a small, nevertheless, amendment: not from "irreligion" or atheism, but - in this case - from spirituality distorted by sectarianism.)

However, look at what an interesting layout comes out. On one side - it just so happened! - Our Lord Jesus Christ, our Orthodox Faith, our Russian writer Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin. On the other hand, such seemingly different worldviews and political positions held - the patriotic writer A.A. Prokhanov and liberal journalist D.P. Gubin, who is regularly provided on air by the pro-presidential radio Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Isn't there something to think about?

In these difficult reflections, in the face of the upcoming difficult choice, Valentin Rasputin acts as our assistant, willingly or unwillingly. He is one of those touching stones on which many (and many), one way or another, are tested: for kink, for loyalty, for ideals.
Death made it clear.
And then the headline of a long-standing review of one of the writer's last stories suddenly comes to mind: "Fire has highlighted."
If it were not for this sad departure, I thought, many of us, having read or listened to the words we quoted, would once again have passed by, perhaps muttering under our breath: "He's doing something odd again."
The death of Valentin Grigorievich, who during his lifetime was called "the conscience of the people", reminded us of our duty, made us stricter towards ourselves and others ...

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov- a famous Soviet and Russian writer. Alexander Andreevich is a political and public figure. He is a member of the Secretariat of the Writers' Union of Russia. Chief editor of the newspaper "Zavtra". Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1982).

The early years and education of Alexander Prokhanov

As reported in the biography of Alexander Prokhanov on Wikipedia, his ancestors, the Molokans, left the Tambov region and the Saratov province for the Transcaucasus. His grandfather Alexander Stepanovich Prokhanov was a Molokan theologian and was a sibling Ivan Stepanovich Prokhanov- Founder and leader of the All-Russian Union of Evangelical Christians (1911-1931) and Vice-President of the Baptist World Alliance (1911-1928). Uncle A.A. Prokhanova, a botanist, remained in the USSR after the emigration of I.S. Prokhanov, was repressed, but then released.

In 2013, giving an interview to the Russian Bulletin, Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov talked about his childhood:

“… Born on February 26, 38, three weeks later I returned to Moscow, where my parents lived. Let's go to give birth to Tiflis, because this is the ancestral city of my Molokan ancestors. There were Molokan settlements, and my grandmother decided that I needed to give birth in a warm place, and not in fierce February Moscow. There I was born in the house that belonged to my great-grandfather Titus Alekseevich Fefelov, which he bought, having become rich on the Georgian Military Highway, where he was a coachman - he drove troikas, kept pits. There he literally descended from the mountains - from the Molokan villages, from Ivanovka - and sat down on the irradiation. And then there were continuous Russian-Turkish wars, and all the time it was necessary to transport fodder, officers, all kinds of letters, deputations. Once he drove the Grand Duke and so deftly raced him, and so deftly amused him along the way - I don't know what: maybe he sang songs or told all sorts of stories - that when he caught up with his troika to Tiflis, the Grand Duke presented him with a ring: an emerald surrounded by small diamonds. This ring is still in my family: it is my family heirloom. "

Alexander Prokhanov studied at the Moscow school number 204. And again, recalling his school years, Alexander Andreevich said:

- My school number 204 was located near the Minaevsky market and the Miussky cemetery. It was built on the site of a huge cemetery at the monastery, which was called Joy of All Who Sorrow, or the Sorrow Monastery. When we planted trees, dug holes in our territory, we suddenly fell into crypts, graves, and skeletons looked at us from these graves: some with gold crowns, there were bureaucratic buttons with eagles and sometimes even orders. And once, in my opinion, in the seventh grade, building a football field and digging holes for the goal - for the barbells, we found a skull and, having taken it out, we naturally decided to play football with it. And we chased this skull with screams and ahs, and then it disappeared somewhere. It seems that they again dug into the hole where they drove this barbell.

Many years later when I got carried away Nikolay Fedorov and began to look for the location of his grave on the plan of the cemetery, it seemed to me that it practically coincided with the location of the hole from which we pulled out the skull. And, probably, it was not so, perhaps it was a different skull, and maybe the same one. And maybe, as a seventh-grader, I played football with the skull of our mystic Nikolai Fedorov, whose teaching I took very keenly and still consider myself his student. All this Russian cosmism in its development is associated for me with Fedorov - with his idea of ​​resurrection from the dead, with Fedorov's doctrine of cemeteries. And I, thus, in a peculiar way perceived the doctrine of cemeteries. Thus, I, probably, "tried to resurrect" Fedorov. And he excused me, because the rest of the time under this moon I devoted the idea of ​​overcoming death - the resurrection, be it countries, eras, epochs, people dear to my heart, neighbors, objects, books and texts.

After school, Alexander Prokhanov entered the Moscow Aviation Institute, from which he graduated in 1960. But after working as an engineer for two years, Alexander felt that this occupation was not for him.

For two years - from 1962 to 1964 - Alexander Andreevich was a forester in Karelia, led excursions to the Khibiny and participated in excavations in Tuva. Then I got acquainted with creativity Vladimir Nabokov and Andrey Platonov.

According to Prokhanov, "humanitarian energies" roamed in it. Having abruptly changed his life, Alexander Andreevich believes that it was a “radical” act: “In my life, such an act was repeated, maybe only one more time - during perestroika, when I chose such a radical total opposition Gorbachev and broke all previous relationships. Twice I ruined my life in this way. "

Alexander Prokhanov's career in journalism

Returning to civilization, Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov, as he said, felt like a half-dissident. He attended esoteric circles, which were in fact in total confrontation with reality, with the system of the state.

Alexander Prokhanov began publishing in 1962, stories and essays were published in Literaturnaya Rossiya, Krugozor, Smena, Family and School, and Rural Youth.

Since 1968, Prokhanov began working for the newspaper Literaturnaya Rossiya on a permanent basis, and almost immediately the young journalist was sent to Damansky Island. In the biography of Alexander Prokhanov, it is said that he was the first in 1969 to describe in a report the events on Damanskoye during the Soviet-Chinese border conflict.

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov recalled how he was shocked by such sudden changes in his life: “... the Damansky battle forced me to rethink everything: history, my role. It was then that I first felt the greatness and tragedy of the state. Then they talked about a possible big war between the Soviet Union and China. And I integrated into this iron stream of state ideology. Then for many years he rushed through factories, construction sites, mines from the North Pole to the South, then saddled the Soviet atomic triad: boat trips to Antarctica, flights over the Pole, loitering with mobile rocket systems, the Semipalatinsk explosion. Then - multiple trips to Afghanistan. Hot spots, almost all the wars that the Red Empire fought before it fell, they were my wars. All continents: Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kampuchea, Nicaragua, Afghanistan. Then these wars somehow quite logically spilled over into wars on the territory of my country. And also practically everything: Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhazia. All these countless dramas, these two revolutions: one revolution in 1991, or counter-revolution, and the uprising of 1993, two Chechen wars - and this is how I came to these days - I don't know when they will end. I live such a frantic life. "

In 1972, Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1985 Prokhanov became the secretary of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR.

Since 1986, Alexander Andreevich actively published in the magazines "Young Guard", "Our Contemporary", as well as in the "Literaturnaya Gazeta". From 1989 to 1991 Prokhanov worked as editor-in-chief of the magazine "Soviet Literature". He was a member of the editorial board of the Soviet War magazine. He was not a member of the CPSU.

In 1990-1993, Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov was the editor-in-chief of his own newspaper, The Day.

The arrival of Alexander Prokhanov in politics

When, in 1986, Alexander Prokhanov saw that his state was personified by Gorbachev, he broke with him radically and became a politician, publishing a harsh anti-perestroika article "The Tragedy of Centralism." Around Alexander Prokhanov, as he said, "whirlwinds whirled around - both hostile and friendly, and this made me a different person."

In 1990, Alexander Prokhanov signed Letter 74 *.

In December 1990, Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov created the newspaper Den, became its editor-in-chief. On July 15, 1991, the newspaper published the "anti-perestroika" appeal "Word to the People". The Day newspaper was one of the most radical opposition publications in Russia in the early 1990s, but was banned by the Ministry of Justice after the October 1993 events. Anti-constitutional actions of the president in the newspaper Den Yeltsin called a coup d'état

In 1991, during the presidential elections of the RSFSR, Alexander Prokhanov was the confidant of the candidate general Albert Makashova... During the August putsch, Alexander Andreevich was on the side of the State Emergency Committee.

In the 1996 presidential election, Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov supported the candidate from the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov.

In July 2012 Vladimir Putin issued a decree approving the members of the Public Television Council. Prokhanov was included in its membership.

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov is the chairman and one of the founders of the Izborsk Club, a community of experts studying the domestic and foreign policy of Russia. Alexander Prokhanov is a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and is also the Deputy Chairman of this Council.

Alexander Andreevich became a co-founder of the International Literary and Media Prize named after Olesya Buziny.

Alexander Prokhanov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, the Badge of Honor, the distinctive badge "For Service in the Caucasus."

Books by Alexander Prokhanov

In 1971, Aleksandr Andreevich Prokhanov published the first book, "I'm Going My Way," about the Russian countryside. Prokhanov dedicated his book "The Burning Color" (1972) to her problems.

In the early 1970s, Prokhanov published a number of stories: "Tin Bird", "Red Juice in the Snow", "Two", "Stan 1220", "Trans-Siberian Engineer" (all - 1974), "Fiery Font" (1975). In 1974, the second collection of stories and short stories by Alexander Prokhanov, "The Grass Turns Yellow", was published.

In 1975, the first novel of the writer Prokhanov, "The Wandering Rose," was published, dedicated to his impressions of his trips to the Far East and Siberia. Then came the books of Alexander Prokhanov: "Time is noon" (1977), "Scene of action" (1979) and "The Eternal City" (1981).

Based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Prokhanov, in 1983 the director Anatoly Granik shot a two-part melodrama film "Place of Action", staged at the Lenfilm film studio.

In the early 1980s, Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov turned to the genre of a military-political novel, wrote novels: "A tree in the center of Kabul" (1982), "In the islands, a hunter ..." (1983), "Africanist" (1984), "And so the wind comes ”(1984). Also in the 80s, Prokhanov's stories were published: "The Admiral" (1983), "Brighter than the azure" (1986), "The Sign of the Virgin" (1990) and others.

The theme of Afghanistan is reflected in the novels "Drawings of a Battle-Player" (1986) and "Six Hundred Years After the Battle" (1988).

Among the notable stories and short stories of the Soviet period, Alexander Prokhanov singles out the following works: "Polina" (1976), "Invisible Wheat", "By the Moonbeam", "Snow and Coal" (all - 1977), "Gray-haired Soldier" (1985) , "The Gunsmith" (1986), "Caravan", "Rodnenky", "Muslim Wedding", "Kondagarskaya Outpost" (all - 1989), etc. For the story "Muslim Wedding" Prokhanov received the Prize. A.P. Chekhov, says the biography of Alexander Andreevich on the website of RIA Novosti.

After the collapse of the USSR, the novels "The Last Soldier of the Empire" (1993), "Red-Brown" (1999), "Chechen Blues" (1998), "Walking in the Night" (2001), "Mister Hexogen" were published from the pen of Alexander Prokhanov (2001).

Published in 2002, Prokhanov's novel "Mr. Hexogen" became a sensation and was awarded the "National Bestseller" literary prize. The book, describing the bombings of houses in 1999, as the result of a conspiracy by the authorities with the aim of transferring it from the decrepit Idol to the young Chosen One, caused, in particular, the following reviews:

“Through the sovpisovsky and at the same time hallucinatory prose of Prokhanov, the imperial“ Soviet ”, repressed politically, but lurking in language, architecture, music, rages on: Red Square, body Lenin, Stalinist avenues and skyscrapers, songs Pakhmutova and the opportunity to catch butterflies on the banks of the Rio Coco. Prokhanov is the only repeater preserved by the empire, capable of textually transmitting this power "( Lev Danilkin).

“Prokhanov's landscape is not nostalgic (sovimperial), but futuristic. Those who believed that Prokhanov's ideal Arcadia was an endless gallery of iconic frames, captured reddish slogans and half-rotted price tags from a seedy general store, after reading “Mister Hexogen”, they will be shocked by his most powerful technogenic pathos ”( Ivan Kulikov).

In the opinion Zakhara Prilepina, “Mr. Hexogen” in 2001 “hacked” the literary situation: “At that time, literature was at the mercy of the liberal community, which did not let 'scoundrels' like me onto the bookshelves. Thanks to Prokhanov, not only me, but also Mikhail Elizarov, Sergey Shargunov and other left-wing writers. "

"Mister Hexogen" became the last book of the "Seven Books" series by Alexander Prokhanov. The protagonist of these books is General Beloseltsev, who has a unique experience of vision and contemplation.

The "Seven Books" includes Prokhanov's novels: "A Dream of Kabul", "And Here Comes the Wind", "A Hunter in the Islands", "Africanist", "The Last Soldier of the Empire", "Red-Brown" and "Mister Hexogen".

In 2011, Alexander Prokhanov's books "Putin, in whom we believed" and "Russian" were published. In 2012, the writer published "The Tread of Russian Victory", which indicated the emergence of a new genre in the creative biography of Prokhanov.

In 2014, the author wrote the novel "Crimea". The hero of Alexander Prokhanov's book is identified with the new life of the peninsula, which began in the Crimea after joining Russia. In 2016, the book "New Russia, Washed in Blood" was published. The novel has become a kind of chronicle of recent events in the country. In February 2018, Ukraine published a list of books banned from import from Russia. It included Prokhanov's novel "New Russia, Washed in Blood".

In 2017, Prokhanov's new books "Russian Stone" and "Kill the Hummingbird" were published.

Based on scripts and works by Prokhanov, films were made: “Everything Paid For” (1988), “Shuravi” (1988), “Ghost Gorge” (1991), “Caravan Hunters” (2010), “Murder of Cities” (2016).

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov - laureate of many literary prizes: "Bunin Prize" (2009), All-Russian Literary Prize named after N.S. Leskov“The Enchanted Wanderer” (2011), the “White Cranes of Russia” awards with the wording “For Contribution to Russian World Literature” (2013) and others.

The style of the writer Prokhanov is called original, colorful, emphasized individual. Prokhanov's language, as many critics believe, is replete with vivid metaphors, original, flowery epithets, the characters are written out vividly, clearly, with an abundance of details, the description itself has a pronounced emotional and even passionate coloring, the author's attitude to this or that character is clearly traced.

According to the writer Yuri Polyakov, Prokhanov is perceived only as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Zavtra", but in aesthetics Alexander Prokhanov is a postmodernist, and in direction, in ideology - an imperial writer, and this is a rather rare combination.

Views and quotes by Alexander Prokhanov

“I have experienced horror twice in my life. The first time in 1991, when my country perished, I experienced horror, not fear, but horror. Well, in general, we feel fear ... Here you go, slippery, don't fall ... But such a mystical, pitch, universal horror, when everything in me screamed and my eyes fell out of their sockets - this is in 1991. Nightmare. And the second time, of course, in 1993, when everything died, and it seemed to me that it was not people in black uniforms and masks who were chasing me, but demons, ”said Alexander Prokhanov in an interview with Sergei Shargunov in the Free Press.

“I imagine myself as a huge rat the size of an elephant. I have such a long, slippery, scaly tail, and such a pink stigma that sniffs everything, and such a white gray mustache, and such a very sharp spiky mouth with incisors. And now this rat gnaws through all the firmaments. She gnaws everything, gnaws and grinds a move somewhere. If I were a butterfly, I wouldn't go anywhere, you know? I would sit on a flower and, waiting for winter, I fell asleep. I am a rat that nothing takes. There is, they say, a mole of history - is there such an expression? Here I am the rat of history, I gnaw through it every time. "

"... I would never give it (Lenin), I would leave it in the depths of Russian civilization, because Lenin marked the beginning of the Red Age - the century that shook this tired old world."

“Stalin is the great Russian monarch. Having won a mystical victory, he also became an anointed one. "

About the events in Ukraine, Alexander Prokhanov said that the entire Ukrainian reality - financial, political - is a growing chaos: “We see the fall of Ukraine. Someone may rejoice, someone may rejoice, but an observer who knows the fall of kingdoms sees that the Ukrainian kingdom is falling, not having time to form as a state. It flies into the abyss. "

In November 2014, the court ordered Izvestia to refute the article by Alexander Prokhanov "Singers and scoundrels" dated 17 August. The article contained information that Andrei Makarevich gave a concert in Ukraine in front of Ukrainian servicemen, "who immediately after the concert went to their positions and hammered houses, schools and hospitals in Donetsk from heavy howitzers, tearing Donetsk girls apart."

About the Soviet period: “... This is my life, this is the life of my mother, dying, she said that it was a great era, the meaning of the Soviet period was in winning a victory - not a military and geopolitical victory. This is, in essence, like the Second Coming of Christ, because if it were not for this victory, the world would have begun to develop in completely different, terrible fascist ways, and victory straightened this earth's axis, and 30 million Russians who died in the war are Christ's sacrifice. ... I believe that the meaning of the Soviet period is in victory. "

On perestroika: "Perestroika" is "the gates of hell have opened."

On the future of Russia: “The 'Russian miracle' is an acting powerful factor in Russian history, each time pulling Russia out of the hopeless abyss. And on earth I still have the confidence that the 'Russian miracle' will once again come true and the coming Russia will be wonderful. "

Prokhanov is very worried about the events taking place in the world, noting the growth of Russophobia.

“Quite recently, Montenegrins said that they adore Russia, and that if you climb to the top of the mountains in Montenegro, you can see the Kremlin from there,” Russian News Service quotes Alexander Prokhanov. - The Montenegrins adored Russia even more than the Belgrade Serbs. And what happened in this short time? How the consciousness of the Montenegrins was plowed up, how the presence there of American emissaries, the American government, American culture, American dominance, how they distorted the consciousness of this wonderful people. This is the bitterness. "

Personal life and hobbies of Alexander Prokhanov

Alexander Prokhanov was widowed in 2011. He lived a happy life with his wife Lyudmila Konstantinovna. Has two sons and a daughter. One of the sons of Alexander Prokhanov - publicist Andrey Fefelov, the other is a photographer and performer Vasily Prokhanov.

“Once I said to my son Vasya: 'I feel my guilt towards you, I have done very little with you. And moreover, I remember very little from your childhood, because all the time I was hanging out somewhere, was busy with my own affairs, novels, and you somehow passed, as if in a fog, in front of me. I didn’t deal with you. Forgive me for that. " And he said to me: “Father, you don’t blame, because you have been busy with us a lot. We looked at you, we saw you. We have seen your attitude towards your mother, we have seen your attitude towards work, towards friends, towards creativity. You influenced us very much, "" recalled Alexander Prokhanov in an interview with "SP".

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov is fond of collecting butterflies. Draws in the style of primitivism.

* « Letterseventy four"- the common alternative name of the two documents:" Letters of Russian writers to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, delegates to the XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ", signed by 74 writers, as well as its revised version after the election of the President of the USSR M. S. Gorbachev -" Letters writers, cultural and scientific workers of Russia to the President of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, delegates to the XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. "

Family

Prokhanov's ancestors, the Molokans, were exiled to the Transcaucasus during the reign of Catherine II. His grandfather, brother of Ivan Stepanovich Prokhanov, leader of the Russian Baptist movement, founder and leader of the All-Russian Union of Evangelical Christians (1908-1928) and vice-president of the World Baptist Alliance (1911). Uncle A. A. Prokhanov, a scientist botanist, remained in the USSR after the emigration of I. S. Prokhanov, was repressed, but then released due to the abandonment of the significant state inherited after I. S. Prokhanov's death in Berlin in favor of the state.

He is married and has two sons and a daughter. One of the sons is a publicist Andrey Fefelov.

Biography

Alexander Prokhanov was born on February 26, 1938 in Tbilisi. In 1960 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, worked as an engineer at a research institute. In the last year of the university, he began to write poetry and prose.

In 1962-1964 he worked as a forester in Karelia, took tourists to the Khibiny, took part in a geological party in Tuva. During these years, Prokhanov discovered A.P. Platonov and became interested in V.V. Nabokov.

In 1968 he began to work in "Literaturnaya gazeta".

Since 1970 he worked as a correspondent for Literaturnaya Gazeta in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Angola and other places. He was one of the first in 1969 to describe in his report the events on Damansky Island during the Soviet-Chinese border conflict.

In 1972, Alexander Prokhanov became a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR.

Since 1986 he has been actively publishing in the magazines "Young Guard", "Our Contemporary", as well as in the "Literary Gazette".

From 1989 to 1991 Prokhanov worked as editor-in-chief of the magazine "Soviet Literature".

I have never been a member of the CPSU.

In 1990 he signed the "Letter of the 74s".

In December 1990 he creates his own newspaper "Day", where he also becomes editor-in-chief.

On July 15, 1991, the newspaper published the "anti-perestroika" appeal "The Word to the People". The newspaper became one of the most radical opposition publications in Russia in the early 1990s and was published regularly until the October 1993 events, after which it was closed by the authorities.

In 1991, during the presidential elections in the RSFSR, Prokhanov was the confidant of the candidate general Albert Makashova... During the August putsch he supports GKChP.

In September 1993, spoke in his newspaper against what he believed to be anti-constitutional actions Yeltsin, calling them a coup d'état and supported the RF Armed Forces. After the shooting of parliament, the newspaper Den was banned by the Ministry of Justice. The editorial office of the newspaper was destroyed by riot police, its employees were beaten, property and archives were destroyed. Two issues of the newspaper, already banned by that time, were clandestinely printed in Minsk as special issues of the communist newspaper "We and Time".

On November 5, 1993, the writer's son-in-law A.A.Hudorozhkov established and registered the newspaper "Tomorrow", of which Prokhanov became the editor-in-chief. Some organizations accuse the newspaper of publishing anti-Semitic materials.

During the presidential elections in 1996, Alexander Prokhanov does not hide his preference - he strongly supports the candidacy of the leader. Subsequently, he was attacked several times, and the identity of the attackers was never established, as was the reason for the attacks themselves.

In 1997 he became a co-founder Patriotic Information Agencies.

In 1999, after a series of apartment bombings, Prokhanov describes his version of what happened in an artistic style, blaming the Russian special services for the incident. His considerations are set out in a literary work "Mister Hexogen", for which Prokhanov in 2002 received the National Bestseller Prize.

From 2007 to January 2014 - a regular guest of the "Minority Opinion" radio program on the "Echo of Moscow" radio station. He explained his termination of cooperation with the radio station as follows: " I work here as a journalist ... I am not a journalist. I want to talk with the world, with my friends as an artist, as a writer, as a philosopher, as a preacher and confessor, because I have lived a gigantic life and I would like to tell my listeners about this life".

Since September 2009 - on the radio station "Russian News Service" on Mondays at 21:05 he takes part in the program "Soldier of the Empire", and since January 2014 on Mondays at 20:05 he participates in the program "No Questions".

2003-2009 - one of the regular participants in Vladimir Solovyov's television talk show "Towards the Barrier!"

Since 2010 - one of the regular participants in the television talk show "Duel" by Vladimir Solovyov.

2013-2014 - one of the leading columns "Replica" on the TV channel "Russia 24".

November 2014 - The court ordered Prokhanov to pay 500 thousand rubles for a lie in an article in the newspaper Izvestia, which claimed that Makarevich gave a concert in Slavyansk, " and this music was heard by the captive militiamen languishing in the basements, whose hands were crushed with bats and their eyes were gouged out with knives". Makarevich assured (and was able to prove in court) that the case was not in Slavyansk, but in Svyatogorsk, and he sang not in front of the" punishers ", but in front of refugees. Prokhanov claims that the musician's representative put pressure on the court.

Prokhanov is an extremely prolific writer: his novel is published almost every year. Many critics consider Prokhanov's style to be original, colorful, emphasized individual. " Prokhanov's language is replete with vivid metaphors, original, flowery epithets, the characters are written out convexly, clearly, with an abundance of details, the description itself has a pronounced emotional and even passionate coloring, the author's attitude to this or that character is clearly traced". At the same time, there is another point of view among literary scholars who find his style" banal "," writing style - sugary, based on shameless lies and oversaturated with cheap adorning epithets".

Prokhanov is fond of drawing in the style of primitivism. Collects butterflies (there are over 3 thousand items in the collection).

Scandals, rumors

Prokhanov is credited with very close contacts with Berezovsky, during his London exile. In particular, BAB's interview to the chief editor of the newspaper "Zavtra" became the reason for the exclusion of Boris Abramovich from the party "Liberal Russia".

During the tragedy in Nord-Ost, Boris Berezovsky, State Duma deputy Victor Alksnis and Aleksandr Prokhanov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zavtra, criticized the actions of the Russian authorities to free the hostages.

They set out their position on this issue in a joint statement adopted following the meetings held in London on October 25 and 26, 2002. In their opinion " the terrorist attack would have been impossible without the blatant connivance and, possibly, complicity of certain government officials". "Russian President Vladimir Putin, from the very first hours of the tragedy, withdrew from participating in the settlement of the crisis. Neither he himself, nor his representatives offered any solution to the problem and did not take any part in the fate of the hostages", - note Berezovsky, Prokhanov and Alksnis." The most dramatic episode in less than three years of V. Putin's stay in power showed that today in the Kremlin there is no leader capable of protecting the citizens of Russia"- emphasized in the statement of Berezovsky, Prokhanov and Alksnis.

It is said that Alexander Prokhanov received $ 300,000 from Berezovsky in 2002 "for the development of his publication," tempting the exile with vague promises to become an opposition presidential candidate. No "development of the publication" happened: "to develop" A.A. Prokhanov decided his own dacha.

In 2003, the editorial office of Lenta.Ru received a statement from businessman Boris Berezovsky and Alexander Prokhanov, dedicated to the murder of a State Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov... The authors of the letter claim that the responsibility for the murder of Yushenkov lies with the Russian authorities, and also promise that the opposition will win the elections and "prevent the death of the country coming from the Kremlin."

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov. Born on February 26, 1938 in Tbilisi (Georgian SSR). Soviet and Russian journalist, writer, screenwriter, publicist, political and public figure. Chief editor of the newspaper "Zavtra".

Father - Andrei Prokhanov, died at Stalingrad on Christmas night in 1943.

Mother - Tatiana Aleksandrovna Prokhanova.

According to his father, his ancestors are Molokans, who lived in the Tambov region and the Saratov province, and then moved to the Transcaucasus. Grandfather Alexander Stepanovich Prokhanov was a Molokan theologian and was the brother of Ivan Stepanovich Prokhanov, the founder and leader of the All-Russian Union of Evangelical Christians, as well as the vice-president of the World Baptist Alliance.

Uncle - I.S.Prokhanov, a botanist, remained in the USSR after emigration, was repressed, but then released.

He was born in a house that belonged to his great-grandfather - Titus Alekseevich Fefelov, which he bought, having become rich on the Georgian Military Highway (he was a coachman). Mother went to give birth in Tbilisi, since it was the ancestral city of his Molokan ancestors.

Three weeks after his birth, he ended up in Moscow, where his parents lived.

Alexander Prokhanov studied at the Moscow school number 204, which was located near the Minaevsky market and the Miussky cemetery.

In 1960, Prokhanov graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, worked as an engineer at a research institute. In the last year of the university, he began to write poetry and prose.

In 1962-1964 he worked as a forester in Karelia, took tourists to the Khibiny, took part in a geological party in Tuva. During these years he got acquainted with the work of Vladimir Nabokov and Andrei Platonov.

In 1968 he began working for the Literaturnaya Gazeta. He was taken as a connoisseur of folklore. At that moment, he was fond of children's toys, folk songs, wandering through the villages.

Since 1970 he worked as a correspondent for Literaturnaya Gazeta in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Angola and other places.

Prokhanov's first military mission was Damansky Island in 1969, where a clash with the Chinese took place. He recalled that this trip radically changed his life and the direction of his work: “I see the bodies of the executed border guards. Kulikovo and Borodino fields, on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. It changed me completely ... I turned my back on my previous hobbies, friends. In Literaturka I began to write about factories, highways, oil fields, bombers, submarines, the atomic triad, and later took up Chernobyl, Semipalatinsk and so on. "

On his account there are about 20 military missions.

The first stories and essays by Alexander Prokhanov were published in the newspaper Literaturnaya Rossiya, in the magazines Krugozor, Family and School, Rural Youth, Deer. The story "Wedding" (1967) was especially successful.

In the second half of the 1960s, essays and reports by the young writer attracted the attention of readers in the USSR. Prokhanov's first book, “I'm Going My Way” (1971), was published with a preface by Yuri Trifonov: “The theme of Russia, the Russian people for Prokhanov is not a tribute to fashion and not a profitable enterprise, but a part of the soul. Great sincerity is inherent in the prose of the young writer. " The collection "I'm on my way" depicts the Russian village with its rituals, old-fashioned ethics, distinctive characters and landscapes.

In 1972, Prokhanov published the essay book "The Burning Color" about the problems of the Soviet countryside.

In 1972 he became a member of the USSR JV.

In the early 1970s, Prokhanov published a number of stories: "Tin Bird", "Red Juice in the Snow", "Two", "Stan 1220", "Trans-Siberian Engineer" (all - 1974), "Fiery Font" (1975) and other. In 1974 the second collection of novellas and short stories "The Grass Turns Yellow" was published. The basis of the first novel "The Wandering Rose" (1975), which has a semi-essay character, was the writer's impressions of his trips to Siberia, the Far East and Central Asia. In this and in three subsequent novels - "Noon Time" (1977), "Scene of Action" (1979) and "The Eternal City" (1981), Prokhanov addresses topical problems of Soviet society.

Alexander Prokhanov's style- individual and original, distinguished by a colorful language that is replete with vivid metaphors, flowery epithets. His characters are written out convexly, visually, with an abundance of details, the description itself has a pronounced emotional and even passionate coloring, the author's attitude to this or that character is clearly traced.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, the writer began to work in the genre of a military-political novel; his numerous business trips serve as the material for new works. Travel novels "A tree in the center of Kabul", "In the islands a hunter ...", "Africanist", "And here comes the wind" form the tetralogy "Burning Gardens", created in the wake of events and characterized by intense plot development.

In 1984, the Chechen-Ingush Drama Theater staged the play "I'm Going My Way" based on Prokhanov's novel "A Tree in the Center of Kabul". The play was a success on various stages of the USSR.

Since 1985 Prokhanov has been the secretary of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR.

Since 1986 he has been actively publishing in the magazines "Young Guard", "Our Contemporary", as well as in the "Literary Gazette".

The protagonist of the novel "Drawings of a Battle Artist" (1986) is the artist Veretenov, who, on the instructions of the editorial board, is sent to Afghanistan in order to make a series of drawings of Soviet soldiers, and who wants to see his son, a soldier. The novel Six Hundred Years After the Battle (1988) tells the story of demobilized soldiers who served in Afghanistan.

From 1989 to 1991 Prokhanov works as editor-in-chief of the magazine "Soviet Literature". He was a member of the editorial board of the Soviet War magazine.

He was not a member of the CPSU.

In 1990 he signed "Letter 74"(the common alternative name of the two documents: "Letters of Russian writers to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, delegates to the XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union", signed by 74 writers, as well as its revised version after the election of President of the USSR M. S. Gorbachev - "Letters from writers , cultural and scientific workers of Russia to the President of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, delegates to the XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union "). The letter said: “Russophobia in the mass media of the USSR has now caught up and surpassed foreign, transatlantic anti-Russian propaganda .. Russian people are often called a“ great-power chauvinist ”threatening other nations and peoples. For this, the history of Russia is being rewritten deceitfully, mockingly, so that the defense of the Fatherland, the holy heroic of the Russian patriotic feeling is interpreted as "genetic" aggressiveness, self-sufficient militarism ... fascism "...".

In December 1990 he creates his own newspaper "Day", where he also becomes editor-in-chief. On July 15, 1991, the newspaper published the "anti-perestroika" appeal "Word to the People". The newspaper became one of the most radical opposition publications in Russia in the early 1990s and was published regularly until the October 1993 events, after which it was closed by the authorities.

In 1991, during the presidential elections in the RSFSR, Prokhanov was a confidant of candidate General Albert Makashov.

During the August 1991 coup, Prokhanov supported the Emergency Committee.

In September 1993, in his newspaper The Day, he spoke out against the unconstitutional actions of the president, calling them a coup d'etat, and supported the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. After the tank shooting of the parliament (Supreme Soviet) building, the newspaper Den was banned by the Ministry of Justice. The editorial office of the newspaper was destroyed by riot police, its employees were beaten, property and archives were destroyed. Two issues of the newspaper, already banned by that time, were clandestinely printed in Minsk as special issues of the communist newspaper We and Time.

On November 5, 1993, the writer's son-in-law A.A.Hudorozhkov established and registered the newspaper "Tomorrow", of which Prokhanov became the editor-in-chief.

In the 1996 presidential elections, Prokhanov supports the candidacy of the Communist Party candidate. In 1997 he became a co-founder of the Patriotic Information Agency.

Twice - in 1997 and 1999 he was attacked by unknown persons.

In his journalism and artistic work, Prokhanov can trace sympathy for Christianity, Russia and everything Russian, criticism of capitalism and liberalism. He positioned himself as a Soviet man, noted that his philosophy is the philosophy of a soldier of the empire.

He said about the Soviet period: “This is my life, this is the life of my mother, dying, she said that it was a great era, the meaning of the Soviet period was in winning a victory - not a military and geopolitical victory. This is, in essence, like the Second Coming of Christ, because if it were not for this victory, the world would have begun to develop in completely different, terrible fascist ways, and victory straightened this earth's axis, and 30 million Russians who died in the war are Christ's sacrifice. ... I believe that the meaning of the Soviet period is in victory. "

Especially worth highlighting "Seven Books" by Alexander Prokhanov- a series of seven novels, the protagonist of which is General Beloseltsev, who has a unique experience of vision and contemplation. The "Seven Books" includes novels: 1. "A Dream of Kabul", 2. "And Here Comes the Wind", 3. "A Hunter Is in the Islands", 4. "Africanist", 5. "The Last Soldier of the Empire", 6. "Red -brown ", 7." Mister Hexogen ".

In 2002, Prokhanov's novel "Mister Hexogen"(in which the events of Russian history in 1999 and, in particular, the series of explosions of residential buildings in Russia, were presented as the result of a conspiracy of power during the operation of transferring power from the incumbent president to his successor), receives the National Bestseller award.

Later, Prokhanov, who initially viewed him as a person who "grew out of Yeltsin's overcoat", revised his attitude towards him, noting that Putin "harshly stopped the disintegration of Russia", "pushed the oligarchs away from the country's leadership", "created the plane of Russian statehood." He described the era of Putin as follows: “We are going through a period of powerful historical creativity, when the state of Russia is being created again. Since 1991, it has essentially not existed. Instead of the state, there was a sticky, disgusting, disgusting puddle in which a drunken monster was sitting. In the place of this puddle, nothing should have ever grown ... And we are growing again! "

On July 18, 2012, Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On the approval of the composition of the Council on Public Television”, including Alexander Prokhanov among the members of this council. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In 2012, Prokhanov released the book "The tread of the Russian victory" in an unusual genre for itself. The book tells about the ideologies of modern Russia and presents the history of Russia in the form of the so-called "four empires": Kievo-Novgorod Rus, Muscovy, Russian Empire of the Romanovs, Stalin's empire. The imperial outlook, from this position, is central to the Russian consciousness, as well as the attempt to embody the Kingdom of God on Earth. The central plot of the book is the idea of ​​the "Fifth Empire", which, according to the writer, is already emerging in modern Russia.

He worked a lot on radio and television. In 2007-2014, he was a regular guest of the "Minority Opinion" radio show on the Echo of Moscow radio station. Since September 2009, he was often on the air of the radio station "Russian News Service", took part in the programs "Soldier of the Empire" and "No Questions".

In 2003-2009, he was one of the regular participants in Vladimir Solovyov's television talk show "Towards the Barrier!" Since 2010 - one of the regular participants in the television talk show "Duel" by Vladimir Solovyov.

Since 2013 - one of the leading columns "Replica" on the TV channel "Russia 24".

In 2014, he supported the policy of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and Crimea. Alexander Prokhanov said about the events in Ukraine: “We see the fall of Ukraine. Someone may rejoice, someone may rejoice, but an observer who knows the fall of kingdoms sees that the Ukrainian kingdom is falling, not having time to form as a state. It flies into the abyss. "

In 2014 he wrote a novel "Crimea"... The hero of Alexander Prokhanov's book is identified with the new life of the peninsula, which began in the Crimea after joining Russia. In 2016 the book was published "New Russia, washed in blood"... The novel has become a kind of chronicle of recent events in the country.

In May 2015, during a meeting of the plenum of the Union of Writers of Russia in Belgorod, he brought in an image made by order of the Izborsk club by artists from the city of Rybinsk, called "The Icon of the Sovereign Mother of God", where he was presented surrounded by Soviet military leaders, which was then brought to the Prokhorov field to participate in the celebrations of the famous tank battle, where a certain "Athos hieromonk Athenogen" performed a litiya in front of her. In the official press release of the Belgorod Metropolitanate it was reported that this is not an icon, but a painting, painted in the "icon-painting style", none of the characters depicted on it are canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church, and some of them were outspoken persecutors of the church. The press release also indicates that this picture is a kind of manifesto and illustration of the ideas of the so-called "civil religion", which is opposed to the revealed religion and the Orthodox Church.

“Stalin is the great Russian monarch. Having won a mystical victory, he also became an anointed one, ”noted Prokhanov.

In August 2017, he acted as one of 20 signers of a letter to the President of France with a request to pardon the terrorist Ilyich Ramirez Sánchez, who is serving a prison sentence.

Alexander Prokhanov in the program "The Fate of a Man"

Personal life of Alexander Prokhanov:

Wife - Lyudmila Konstantinovna Prokhanova (died in 2011). At the time of their acquaintance, Lyudmila was an artist, later devoted herself to family and raising children.

Alexander Andreevich said: "This was my only wife, there were no others. She bore me three children. She was an elevated person. Now that she is gone ... she appeared to me in a completely different, crystal image, in which everything that was connected with earthly life, which annoyed, quarreled. Like a genius of pure beauty ... I think about my wife every day, I dream of meeting her. I believe that she also dreams about it. And I think she and I will see each other very soon ".

Daughter - Anastasia Prokhanova, graduated from the textile institute.

The eldest son is Vasily Prokhanov, photographer, songwriter.

The youngest son is Andrei Fefelov, a well-known publicist.

There are eight grandchildren.

Alexander Prokhanov with his wife Lyudmila and daughter Anastasia

Lyudmila Prokhanova with children

Anastasia is the daughter of Alexander Prokhanov

He is fond of drawing in the style of primitivism. Collects butterflies (there are over 3 thousand items in the collection).

Filmography of Alexander Prokhanov:

2009 - Sokha and the cross of Vasily Belov (documentary)

Scripts by Alexander Prokhanov:

1988 - Shuravi
1988 - Everything is paid for
1991 - Gulch of the Spirits

Screen adaptations of the works of Alexander Prokhanov:

1972 - Homeland
1983 - Scene
1988 - Shuravi
1988 - Everything is paid for
1991 - Gulch of the Spirits
2010 - Caravan Hunters

Bibliography of Alexander Prokhanov:

1971 - I'm on my way
1971 - Letters about the village
1972 - Burning color
1974 - The grass turns yellow
1975 - In your name
1975 - Reflections of Mangazeya
1976 - Wandering Rose
1977 - Time noon
1980 - Scene
1981 - The Eternal City
1982 - A tree in the center of Kabul
1984 - Hunter in the Islands
1984 - Burning Gardens
1984 - Nuclear Shield
1985 - And the wind comes
1985 - At the far frontiers
1985 - Brighter than azure
1988 - There, in Afghanistan
1989 - Drawings of a battle artist
1989 - Notes on the armor
1989 - 600 years after the battle
1993 - The last soldier of the empire (original version)
1994 - Angel flew by
1995 - Palace
1998 - Chechen blues
1999 - Red-brown
1999 - The Word Carried Through Hell (collection of editorials by Prokhanov, drawings by G. Zhivotov and poems by E. Nefedov)
2002 - Africanist
2002 - Mr. Hexogen
2003 - The last soldier of the empire (final version)
2004 - Cruiser Sonata
2005 - Chronicle of the diving time (collection of editorials of the newspaper "Zavtra")
2005 - Inscription
2005 - Political scientist
2006 - Gray-haired soldier
2006 - Motor ship "Joseph Brodsky"
2006 - Symphony "Fifth Empire"
2007 - Behind the fence of Rublevka
2007 - The choice of weapons (Africanist)
2007 - War Matrix (Hunter in the Islands)
2007 - Contrast on feet of clay (And the wind comes)
2007 - East Bastion (Dream of Kabul)
2007 - Among the bullets (Parliament on fire, Red-brown)
2007 - The death of the red gods (The last soldier of the empire)
2007 - Fifth Empire
2007 - Friend or Foe
2008 - Hill
2008 - Hamas - school of heroes ("Hamas - glory to the heroes", "Hamas - praise to the heroes")
2009 - Virtuoso
2010 - Eye
2010 - Fighter (originally "Speed ​​of Darkness")
2010 - Collected works: in 15 volumes
2011 - Aluminum face
2011 - Walking into the fire
2011 - Rock Book
2011 - Russian
2011 - Putin, in whom we believed (Four colors of Putin)
2012 - Man of the Star
2012 - The tread of the Russian victory
2013 - Golden Time
2014 - Crimea
2015 - Murder of Cities
2016 - Governor
2016 - New Russia, washed with blood
2016 - Orientalist
2017 - Russian stone
2017 - Kill the hummingbird

Awards and titles of Alexander Prokhanov:

Order of the Red Banner of Labor (11/16/1984);
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (05/10/1988);
- Order of the Badge of Honor (08/07/1981);
- Prize of the Lenin Komsomol (1982) - for the novel "A tree in the center of Kabul";
- Prize named after K. A. Fedin (1980);
- Gold medal named after A. A. Fadeev (1987);
- Prize of the USSR Ministry of Defense (1988);
- Prizes of the magazines "Znamya" (1984), "NS" (1990, 1998);
- International Sholokhov Prize (1998);
- medal "Defender of Transnistria";
- Prize "I have the honor" (2001);
- Bunin Prize (2009) - for the filing of the editorials of the newspaper “Zavtra” for 2008 and the collection “Symphonies of the Fifth Empire” on March 23, 2010 in the nomination “The best editor-in-chief / publisher of a socio-political mass media” was awarded the prize “Vlast No. 4” established by the Institute for Public Planning and the "November 4 Club" (as editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Zavtra");
- All-Russian literary prize named after V.I. NS Leskova "The Enchanted Wanderer" (2012);
- International Literary Prize "White Cranes of Russia" (2013);
- Prize "Golden Delvig" (2013) - "For outstanding contribution to Russian prose and enrichment of the genre of political novel";
- International Prize of Kim Il Sung (2016) - "for publicistic activities that make a significant contribution to the creation of a powerful Russia, the achievement of global independence and peace, friendship, unity, progress and prosperity among different countries of the world";
- Medal "For the liberation of Crimea and Sevastopol" (March 17, 2014) - for personal contribution to the return of Crimea to Russia.

Alexander Prokhanov, whose biography is given in this article, is a famous Russian writer, public and political figure. He is the editor-in-chief and publisher of the newspaper "Zavtra".

Biography of the politician

Alexander Prokhanov, whose biography you can read in this article, was born in Tbilisi in 1938. His ancestors were Molokans. These are representatives of a separate branch of Christianity who do not recognize the cross and icons, do not make the sign of the cross and consider it sinful to eat pork and drink alcohol. They were from the Saratov and Tambov provinces. From there we moved to Transcaucasia.

Grandfather Prokhanov was a Molokan theologian, was the brother of Ivan Prokhanov, the founder of the All-Russian Union of Evangelical Christians. Uncle Prokhanov, who was a famous botanist in the USSR, is also well known, was repressed in the 30s, but later rehabilitated.

Alexander Prokhanov, whose biography is in this article, graduated in 1960. After he went to work at the Research Institute as an engineer. While still a senior student, he took up writing poetry and prose.

In 1962-1964 he worked as a forester in Karelia, worked as a guide, took tourists to the Khibiny, even took part in a geological expedition in Tuva. It was in those years that Prokhanov Alexander Andreevich, whose biography can be found from this article, discovered such writers as Vladimir Naborov and Andrei Platonov.

Literary career

In the late 60s, the hero of our article decided for himself that he would link his future destiny with literature. In 1968 he came to Literaturnaya Gazeta. Two years later, as a special correspondent, he went to report to Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Angola and Cambodia.

One of Prokhanov's main journalistic successes is reporting on the events that took place at that time on the Soviet-Chinese border. He was the first to write and talk about it openly.

In 1972, journalist Alexander Prokhanov, whose biography you are now reading, was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1986 he began to publish in the thick literary magazines "Our Contemporary", "Young Guard", continued cooperation with "Literaturnaya Gazeta".

In 1989, Prokhanov became editor-in-chief of the magazine "Soviet Literature", was a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Soviet Warrior".

The Day newspaper

During perestroika, he took an active civic position. At the very end of 1990, Prokhanov created the newspaper Den. He himself becomes its editor-in-chief. In 1991, he published his famous anti-perestroika address, which he entitled "A Word to the People." At that time, the newspaper became one of the most radical and oppositional mass media, published until the October 1993 events. After that, the authorities closed the publication.

In 1991, Alexander Prokhanov, whose biography is contained in this article, was a confidant of the general during the presidential elections in the RSFSR. Makashov ran for the Communist Party of the RSFSR. As a result, he took only fifth place, gaining less than 4% of the vote. Boris Yeltsin won then, having secured the support of more than 57 percent of the votes of Russians. During the August putsch, our hero openly sided with the Emergency Committee.

In 1993, Prokhanov, in his newspaper The Day, called Yeltsin's actions a coup d'etat, calling for support for the members of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet. When tanks fired at the Soviet parliament, the newspaper Den was banned by a decision of the Ministry of Justice. The room in which the editorial office was located was smashed by riot police. The employees were beaten and the property was destroyed, as were the archives. By that time, the banned newspaper was being printed in Minsk.

The appearance of the newspaper "Tomorrow"

In 1993, the writer Prokhanov's son-in-law by the name of Khudorozhkov registered a new newspaper - "Zavtra". Prokhanov became its editor-in-chief. The publication is still being published, many accuse him of publishing anti-Semitic materials.

The newspaper in the 90s was famous for its harsh criticism of the post-Soviet system, it often publishes materials and articles of popular opposition figures - Dmitry Rogozin, Vladimir Kvachkov, Sergey Kara-Murza, Maxim Kalashnikov.

The newspaper is featured in many contemporary art works. For example, in the novel "Monoclon" by Vladimir Sorokin or in "Akiko" by Viktor Pelevin. Gleb Samoilov even dedicated his song of the same name to this newspaper.

In recent years, the publication has changed its concept. Publications of state-patriotic content appeared in it. Prokhanov proclaimed the "Fifth Empire" project, while he became more loyal to the authorities, although he still often criticized the existing situation in the country.

In 1996, Prokhanov again took an active part in the presidential campaign. This time he supported the candidacy. It was not possible to decide the fate of the winner in the first round. Yeltsin got 35%, and Zyuganov - 32. In the second round, Yeltsin won with a score of 53 with a small percentage of the vote.

Prokhanov's political activity did not suit many. In 1997 and 1999, he was attacked by unknown persons.

"Mister Hexogen"

As a writer, Prokhanov became known in 2002, when he published the novel "Mister Hexogen". For him he received the National Bestseller Award.

Events are developing in Russia in 1999. The series of apartment bombings that took place at the time is presented as a secret conspiracy of the authorities. In the center of the story is an ex-KGB general by the name of Beloseltsev. He is involved in an operation, the ultimate goal of which is the coming to power of a certain Chosen One.

Prokhanov himself admitted that at that time he viewed Putin as a man of Yeltsin's team. But over time, he changed his point of view. Prokhanov began to assert that it was Putin who harshly stopped the disintegration of the country, removed the oligarchs from direct control of it, and organized the Russian statehood in its modern form.

In 2012, he became a member of the Council on Public Television, which was formed by the decree of President Vladimir Putin. He currently holds the post of Deputy Chairman of the Council under the Federal Ministry of Defense.

Icon with Stalin

Prokhanov is known to many thanks to his shocking deeds. For example, in 2015, he came to a meeting of the plenum of the Union of Writers of Russia, which was held in Belgorod, with the icon "The Sovereign Mother of God". It depicted Joseph Stalin surrounded by Soviet-era military leaders.

After that, the icon was brought to the Prokhorovskoye field during the celebrations of the famous tank battle, which largely decided the outcome of the Great Patriotic War.

At the same time, the Belgorod metropolitanate officially announced that it was not an icon with the generalissimo that was present at the service, but a painting that was painted in the iconographic style, since none of the characters depicted on it were canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. And some were even persecutors of the church.

It is also widely known that Prokhanov is fond of primitivism and collects butterflies. There are already about three thousand copies in its collection.

Personal life

Of course, telling the biography of Alexander Prokhanov, one cannot fail to mention the family. He's big and strong. His wife's name was Lyudmila Konstantinovna. After the wedding, she took her husband's surname.

In the biography of Alexander Prokhanov, family and children have always been among the main priorities. He lived with his wife until 2011. She died suddenly. They have a daughter and two sons. Children in the personal life of Alexander Prokhanov (his biography is full of interesting events) play an important role.

Prokhanov's sons

His sons earned a certain fame in society. Andrei Fefelov became a publicist, is the chief editor of the Internet channel The Day. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, graduated from the Faculty of Engineering.

After graduating from high school, he immediately went to the army, served in the border troops. During perestroika, he took the path of his father, became a publicist and writer, and began publishing in political journals. In 2007 he was promoted to editor-in-chief at the newspaper Zavtra, where his father worked. He has a family.

The second son's name is Vasily Prokhanov, he is a singer-songwriter. In the biography of Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov, the family is important. He always paid a lot of attention to her. All fans of his work are interested in the biography, personal life of Alexander Prokhanov.

Litigation

Repeatedly Prokhanov became a participant in court proceedings. In 2014, he wrote an article for Izvestia entitled "Singers and Scoundrels". It told about the speech of Andrey Makarevich in front of the Ukrainian military personnel. Prokhanov claimed that immediately after the concert, the soldiers went to their positions to fire at civilians in Donetsk.

The court ordered to refute these facts, as well as pay Makarevich 500 thousand rubles for moral damage. Then the city court overturned the decision of the lower court and ordered to post only a rebuttal.

Prokhanov's work

Russian by nationality Alexander Prokhanov. In his biography, it is imperative to mention this. His style is distinguished by original and colorful language. It has many metaphors, unusual epithets, and each character is individualized.

In Prokhanov's work, real events almost always coexist with absolutely fantastic things. For example, in the novel "Mister Hexogen" already mentioned in this article, an oligarch, similar in description to Berezovsky, just melts in the air when he gets to the hospital. And the Chosen One, in whom many guessed Putin, sitting at the helm of the plane, turns into a rainbow.

Also in his work you can see sympathy for Christianity, everything Russian. He himself still considers himself a Soviet person.

Early works

The first works of Prokhanov were stories that he published in newspapers and magazines. Many will remember his story "The Wedding" in 1967.

His first collection, entitled "I'm on my way," was published in 1971. The preface to it was written by the then popular Yuri Trifonov. In it, Prokhanov describes the Russian village with its classical rituals, distinctive characters and established ethics. A year later, he published another book about the problems of the Soviet countryside - "The Burning Color".

His first novel was published in 1975. It was called The Wandering Rose. It has a semi-essay character and is dedicated to the author's impressions of his trips to the Far East and Siberia.

In it, as well as in several subsequent works, Prokhanov addresses the problems of Soviet society. These are the novels "Scene of Action", "Noon Time" and "The Eternal City".