Autograph. Varshavsky V. Seven years.

Autograph. Varshavsky V. Seven years.
Paris. Imprimerie Abece. 1950 Circulation of 1000 copies 300 pages. Softcover, size 14 x 19.5 cm. Poor state. The block is beveled, the binding is glued with tape along the spine, departs from the block, dirt, traces of moisture. Autograph of the author on the flyleaf.

Vladimir Sergeevich Varshavsky (1906-1978) - novelist and publicist of the Russian Diaspora.

Born in Moscow on October 11 (new style 24), 1906, the son of a lawyer, lawyer, and journalist Sergei Ivanovich Varshavsky (1879-1945) and a dramatic actress of the Moscow art theater Olga Petrovna Norova (1875-1961). The youngest of three children in the family, Volodya was especially friendly with his older brother Yura. The Varshavsky family lived in 2 Granatny pereulok, spent summers on the Riga seaside, and after the outbreak of the First world war – at a dacha in Bolshevo near Moscow. Varshavsky's father took part in the war as an assistant chief of the flying ambulance detachment. In 1916, Volodya followed his brother to the Moscow men's gymnasium of A. E. Flerov at the Nikitsky gate (Merzlyakovsky lane, 11). During these years, Volodya became seriously interested in drawing, and his parents even hired him a home art teacher. Drawings and sketches made during the family's departure from Moscow have been preserved, where sketches of peaceful life are replaced by images of soldiers, bayonet attacks, General Shkuro's Cossacks and other military episodes. In the spring of 1918, the Varshavsky family fled from the Bolsheviks to Kiev, then to Odessa, from there to the Crimea, and in 1920 left Russia forever, leaving the Crimea for Constantinople.

Back in 1919, the Warsaw brothers became boy scouts in Odessa, and once in exile, they joined the Constantinople group of Russian scouts. In 1920, Varshavsky joined the Russian Mayak sports club, where he first met Boris Poplavsky. On June 6, 1921, Vladimir Varshavsky entered the 1st Constantinople Russian gymnasium, which soon moved to Moravian Trzebova (Czechoslovakia). Sergei Ivanovich Varshavsky remained in Constantinople, and the mother and her children went to the Moravian Trzebowa, but soon moved to Prague with her daughter. On March 8, 1923, Yura's beloved older brother died of meningitis. The death of his brother, with whom they were "one double, inseparable being" deeply shocked Vladimir and largely influenced his attitude. According to him, he experienced an "unbearable sense of stopping life" and became prone to bouts of distraction and weakness. On September 22, Varshavsky graduated from high school and in the fall of the same year was enrolled in the Russian law faculty in Prague. After studying for 8 semesters, in may 1926 he went to France for medical treatment, and in 1927 he left Czechoslovakia for good without passing the final exams. In 1928, the Prague magazine "Will of Russia" published its first publication-the story "the Noise of Francois Villon's steps" was published, which was awarded an honorary review at a literary competition. After moving to France, Varshavsky entered the University of Paris, where he studied literature, but, according to him, "instead of going to lectures, he sat all night in Montparnasse cafes", did not work anywhere, and lived on the modest funds sent by his father from Prague. Through Sergei Efron, Varshavsky became close to the Eurasians, but soon moved away from this trend; he was interested in the philosophy of Henri Bergson, attended meetings of the literary Association "Kochevye", since 1930 he became a regular participant in the meetings of the literary and philosophical society" Green lamp", where he made presentations. Varshavsky published in the magazines " Modern notes "and" Numbers", became a member of the Association of Russian writers and poets, from 1935 attended the literary and philosophical society" Circle "under the leadership Of I. Fondaminsky, and from 1936 published in the magazine" New city", whose ideas of" social Christianity "and" Christian democracy " were especially close to him.

In 1939, Warshawski voluntarily joined the French army, participated in the battles on the border with Belgium, for which he was later awarded the Military cross with a silver star on January 8, 1947. The order for the division stated: "Vladimir Varshavsky, a soldier of the 2nd class, a great fighter who withstood all the tests with bravery and loyalty. On may 14, 1940, he was the last in the line of fire to cover the retreat of his company... <...> Volunteered to defend the citadel of Boulogne, causing General admiration in this battle for his contempt for danger. Stopped resistance only on orders after the depletion of all combat supplies." After the defeat of the French army, Varshavsky was captured and held in the Stalag II-B camp in Hammerstein (now Charne, Poland), where his father was able to visit him. In February 1945, he was released by Soviet troops and soon returned to France. In may 1945, after the red army entered Prague, Varshavsky's father was arrested by the SMERSH authorities, deported to the USSR, and died in custody. About his participation in the war and the years spent in German captivity, Varshavsky wrote the story " Seven years "(excerpts were published in the emigrant press, published in a separate edition in Paris in 1950).

After the war, Varshavsky was in great need, lived on the allowance of the new York literary Fund and scanty fees, and worked as a night watchman in a garage. In the spring of 1951, he went to the United States, worked as a messenger for the United Nations, published in new York magazines "housewarming" and "New magazine", in 1954, he got a freelance correspondent for the Russian service Of radio" Liberation "(later renamed Radio"Freedom"). In 1955, a Chapter from the future book "the Unnoticed generation" was published in Novy Zhurnal. The publication immediately caused a heated discussion in the emigrant press, which Involved E. Kuskova, M. Slonim, V. Yanovsky, G. Adamovich, and others. At the beginning of 1956 in the Publishing house. Chekhov published the book "the Unnoticed generation". This name has gone down in the history of the Russian Diaspora as a definition of the young generation of the first wave of emigration. Russian Russian writer Varshavsky analyzes various political emigrant movements ("solidarists", "young Russians", "Eurasians"), describes the literary world of the "Russian Montparnasse" (especially a lot of space is given to B. Poplavsky, with whom the author was closely acquainted), tells about Russian heroes of the French Resistance and the spiritual quest of emigration (rshd, Novy grad magazine). At radio liberty, under the pseudonym Vladimir Norov, Varshavsky conducted long-term series of programs ("Modern thought", "New Milestones", "The years of the sixties", "Culture and freedom", "Bookshelf", "reader's Notes", etc.). in 1957, Varshavsky met the translator Tatyana Georgievna Deryugina (1923-2019), in 1959 they married, in may 1967 the family moved to Europe and settled in Munich, where Varshavsky continued to work for Radio Liberty "as a Permanent Employee. In 1972, the Paris publishing house YMCA-Press published Varshavsky's autobiographical novel "Waiting", which included the story"Seven years".

On March 31, 1972, Varshavsky retired from the staff of Radio Liberty, but as a freelance columnist, he continued a series of cycles for several years. In 1974, the Varshavsky family settled in the town of Ferney-Voltaire on the French-Swiss border. There, Varshavsky completed a new edition of the Unnoticed generation and began working on the historical and philosophical study "the Genealogy of Bolshevism". Russian Russian history and the very essence of the Russian soul, and he argued that Bolshevism was an inevitable consequence of the Marxist ideology brought to Russia from Europe. Varshavsky did not have time to complete the work on the book due to heart disease-after undergoing two major operations, he died in Geneva on February 22, 1978. He is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois near Paris.

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