Jews. on the issue of Jewry Mikhail Weller
From 1972 to 1973 he worked as a teacher of an extended day group at a primary school, and as a teacher of Russian language and literature in a rural eight-year school.
In 1974, he was a junior researcher, tour guide, carpenter, supplier and deputy director for administrative and economic affairs of the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (Kazan Cathedral).
In 2010, the sociological treatise “Man in the System” was published, and in 2011, the collection “Mishaherazade” was published.
In the same year, a series was filmed based on Mikhail Weller's story "The Ballad of the Bomber".
In December 2011, the writer performed on the small stage of the School of Modern Play theater in a one-man show of his own production based on his book “Everything about Life.”
In 2016, Weller’s book “On the Eve of Unknown What” was presented.
In April 2018, his book of reflection on Russian and world literature “Fire and Agony” was published.
The total circulation of all Weller's books exceeds one million copies.
Mikhail Weller is a member of the Russian PEN Center, the International Big History Association and the Russian Philosophical Society.
The writer is married to journalist Anna Agriomati, they have a daughter, Valentina.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
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1964 g. - Moving to Belarus.
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↓Mikhail Iosifovich Weller was born on May 20 1948 years in the city of Kamenets-Podolsky in Ukraine in the family of an officer.
1950 g. - The family moves to the father’s new place of service in Transbaikalia. Until the age of sixteen, Mikhail changed schools - constantly moving around the garrisons of the Far East and Siberia. Glider pilot courses at the regional DOSAAF.
1964 g. - Moving to Belarus.
1965 g. - First publication of poems in a republican newspaper.
1966 g. - Finishes school in the city of Mogilev with a gold medal and enters the department of Russian philology of the philological faculty of Leningrad University. Lives in the family of his grandfather, a “professor-biologist”, head of a department at one of the Leningrad institutes.
1967-68 gg. - Summer trips to student construction teams in Mangyshlak and near Norilsk.
1969 g. - In the summer, on a bet with friends, leaving Leningrad without money, in a month I reached Kamchatka as a “hare”, using all types of transport and, by deception, received a pass to enter the “border zone” along the way, which became part of the legends of the Leningrad Philological Faculty. At the same time - Komsomol course organizer, one of the secretaries of the university Komsomol bureau.
1970 g. - Feigns mental illness in a psychiatric clinic in order to obtain academic leave from the university. In the spring he leaves for Central Asia, where he leads a wandering life in different places for six months. In the fall he moves to Kaliningrad, where he takes an accelerated course as a second-class sailor as an external student and goes on a voyage on a trawler of the fishing fleet.
1971 g. - He is being reinstated at the university, while simultaneously working as a senior pioneer leader at school. The first “publication” in Leningrad was a story in the university wall newspaper.
1972 g. - Graduates from university. Defends a thesis on the topic:
"Types of composition of a modern Russian Soviet story." The diploma was not accepted for the charge of “formalist bias.” Repeated defense was scheduled in the Pushkin House /Leningrad Institute of Russian Literature at the USSR Academy of Sciences/. The same diploma is protected. Assigned as a teacher to the Leningrad region. Due to lack of places, she works as a teacher for an extended day group at an elementary school.
1973 g. - Teacher of Russian language and literature in a rural eight-year school. Dismissed at his own request and at the request of the teaching staff.
A concrete worker at the prefabricated structures workshop 4-ZhBK in Leningrad In the summer, he travels with a team of so-called “shabashniks” to the Kola Peninsula, the Tersky coast of the White Sea. Logger and digger.
1974 Junior researcher at the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism /Kazan Cathedral/. Scientific topic: "The emergence of religion and its early forms." Leads tours of the cathedral. For economic reasons, he was transferred by the director of the museum to joiners, then to a supplier and deputy director for administrative and economic affairs. Dismissed "due to his own brutality."
1975 Correspondent of the factory newspaper of the shoe association "Skorokhod" "Skorokhodovsky worker", acting. Head of the Culture Department, Acting Head of the Information Department. The first publications of stories in the "official state press". Annual newspaper award for the best material on culture. Dismissed "due to moral idiosyncrasy."
1976 From May to October he works as a driver of imported cattle from Mongolia to Biysk along the Altai Mountains. According to mentions in the texts, I remembered this time as the best and coolest time in my life.
In the fall, returning to Leningrad, he switches entirely to literary work. The classic version: the first stories are rejected by all editors.
1977 g. - In May, he goes on foot and by passing cars to the Black Sea. Until October, it wanders along the Black Sea coast from Odessa to Batumi.
In the fall he enters a seminar of young Leningrad science fiction writers under the leadership of Boris Strugatsky. For the story "The Button" he received first prize at the North-West science fiction competition.
Participates in the Conference of Young Writers of the North-West. The stories were marked and approved, but were not recommended for publication by the conference management /?!/.
Doesn't work anywhere. A period of complete beggary.
1978 g. - The first publications in city Leningrad newspapers were short humorous stories.
Leto is a timber feller at the Ust-Kulomsky state farm in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, a foreman of railway construction workers there.
Autumn-winter - short-term service in the Soviet Army: senior officer of a ground artillery battery, senior lieutenant.
1979 g. - Stories continue to be rejected by all magazines and publishing houses.
Prize at the next North-West science fiction competition.
Lithographic processing of war memoirs at the Lenizdat publishing house and reviews in the Neva magazine.
Joining the prose studio at the Zvezda magazine with the intention of facilitating publication. There should be no publications.
Autumn - moving to Estonia, to Tallinn, in an attempt to publish a collection of short stories in a local publishing house. Work in the republican newspaper "Youth of Estonia".
The book was rejected by the publishing house "Eesti Raamat".
1980 g. - First publications in magazines: “Tallinn”, “Literary Armenia”, “Ural”.
Dismissal from the newspaper.
Joining the "trade union group" at the Estonian Writers' Union, which gave the right not to officially work in the USSR.
Summer-autumn - a journey from Leningrad to Baku on a cargo ship, reports from the journey in the newspaper "Water Transport". Wandering in the Caucasus and Transcaucasia.
1981 g. - The book has been approved and accepted by the publishing house.
The Estonian Puppet Theater staged the play "The Real Baby Elephant" and paid a fee.
1982 g. - Work in the state industrial enterprise "Taimyrsky" in the lower reaches of the Pyasina river as a hunter-commercial.
1983 g. - Publication of the first book - a collection of stories “I Want to Be a Janitor”. First reviews, recommendations to the Writers' Union from Boris Strugatsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Participation in the Moscow International Book Fair. Selling rights abroad.
1984 g. - Translation of the book into Estonian, Armenian, Buryat languages. Translations of individual stories in France, Italy, Holland, Bulgaria, Poland.
1985 g. - Summer work on an archaeological expedition in Olbia and on the island of Berezan. Autumn-winter: roofing worker.
1986 g. - Marriage to a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow University, Anna Agriomati.
1987 g. - Birth of daughter Valentina.
1988 g. - Release of the second book of stories “Heartbreaker”. Admission to the USSR Writers' Union.
Head of the Russian literature department of the Tallinn Russian-language magazine "Rainbow" The first publications of Brodsky, Dovlatov, Aksenov, Mandelstam, Vvedensky.
The first edition of Orwell's book "Animal Farm" in the USSR.
1989 g. - First edition of the book "Technology of Story".
1990 g. - Publication of the story “Narrow Gauge Railway” in the magazine “Neva”,
the story “I want to go to Paris” in the magazine “Zvezda”, the story “Entombment” in the magazine “Ogonyok”.
Status of a professional writer.
The book "Rendezvous with a Celebrity" is published.
The appearance of publications of stories in the emigrant Russian press.
Based on the story “But those shish”, a feature film was produced at the Mosfilm studio “Debut”.
Editor-in-Chief and founder of the first Jewish cultural magazine in the USSR, Jericho. Release of the first issue.
October-November - lecturing on Russian prose at the universities of Milan and Turin.
1991 g. - The first edition of the novel "The Adventures of Major Zvyagin" - in Leningrad, but under the brand of the Estonian publishing house "Periodika". The 100,000th circulation sold out in three weeks.
1993 g. - Not a single Russian publishing house accepts the book of short stories “Legends of Nevsky Prospekt”. Circulation: 500 copies. it is published in Tallinn by the Estonian Cultural Foundation.
1994 g. - The next hundred thousandth edition of “The Adventures of Major Zvyagin” tops the top ten of the “Book Review”.
Lectures on modern Russian prose at the University of Odense /Denmark/.
1995 g. - The St. Petersburg publishing house "Lan" publishes "Legends of Nevsky Prospect" in cheap mass editions - about 800,000 copies are sold. The most read book of the year in St. Petersburg. Reprints of all books follow in "Lani", publishing houses "Vagrius" (Moscow), "Neva" (St. Petersburg), "Folio" (Kharkov).
At the autumn Moscow Book Fair, Weller is the most published Russian writer of the year.
1996 g. - In the summer, he and his whole family go to Israel for a long time.
In November, the first edition of the new novel "Samovar" is published by the Jerusalem publishing house "Worlds". Presentations of the book at the government press center and at the Tel Aviv New Year's fair.
Lectures on modern Russian prose at the University of Jerusalem.
1997 - April - return to Estonia.
September - release of a four-volume book with a circulation of two hundred thousand by the St. Petersburg financial holding company "United Capital".
1998 g. - Release of the eight-hundred-page philosophical “universal theory of everything” “Everything about life”.
A trip to Germany with reading meetings and performances in Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Dresden, Hanover, Cologne, Aachen.
Readers' meetings in Holland - Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
A Dutch film based on the story "The Ring" was presented at the Amsterdam Film Festival.
1999 - The OLMA-PRESS publishing house reprints Weller's books more than twenty times in different formats and covers in mass editions.
Trip around the USA with speeches to readers in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago.
Publication of the book of short stories "Monument to Dantes".
2000 g. - New novel “The Messenger from Pisa”, also originally “Zero Hours”. Countless reissues. Moving to Moscow.
2002 Mr. “Cassandra” is the next iteration of Weller’s philosophy, written abstractly and in places even academically. The name of the philosophical model also appears: ENERGOVITALISM. But two years later the collection “B. Babylonian”, where in the story “White Donkey” it is corrected to ENERGY-EVOLUTIONISM. There the author cites the distinctive features of his model.
December 18 2008 By the decision of the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Mikhail Weller was awarded the Order of the White Star.
2009 - The book “Legends of Arbat” was published.
In September 2011 Mikhail Weller called for voting for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, arguing: the turnover of power should give all parties the understanding that at the next elections they will “re-elect and throw out the party” if it does not meet the expectations of voters. He is also convinced that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is the only independent party in 2011 year. Weller said that you must vote, even if you don’t like any party, because... “at least something in these Augean stables will be cleaned.”
Mikhail Weller was born in the Ukrainian city of Kamenets-Podolsk in 1948. His father was a military man, so the family often moved from one city to another throughout the Soviet Union. He spent most of his childhood in garrisons in Siberia. The future writer graduated from school in Belarus, and went to Leningrad to enter a higher educational institution. There Mikhail mastered philological sciences, wrote his first works and periodically published in local newspapers.
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Biography
After finishing his studies at the university, Mikhail Iosifovich did not work in his specialty. He cunningly prepares documents for himself and goes to the north of the country, trying to discover something new and unknown for himself. He was interested in the work of a museum employee, he was a hunter-trade in the Arctic, a teacher in children's summer camps, a logger in the Komi Republic, a builder on the island of Mangyshlak, a teacher of Russian language and literature, a silk-screen printer, a journalist, and a digger. He mastered many other specialties, which in the future helped him create vivid images in his works. An interesting fact from the writer’s life is the huge number of entries in his work book. Firstly, the writer has two books, and both are supplemented with inserts.
Seven years after graduating from university, with a lot of experience and his own stories, Mikhail Weller goes to Tallinn.
Here Mikhail decided to devote all his time to writing books. He abandoned his usual rhythm of life, communication with friends and family. The writer practically starved, since he did not have the means to buy food for himself. Mikhail told reporters that at that time he only drank tea and smoked. Mikhail Weller was unable to find a sponsor to publish his books; he had to earn his own living. His life was divided into two parts. He worked for one half of the year, mastering new specialties again and again. The other one was writing books.
The writer's debut book was published in 1983. His collection of short stories, entitled “I Want to Be a Janitor,” was not received well by critics. Unexpectedly, the book's success came from abroad. The author's works have been translated into many languages and published in Estonia, Armenia, Buryatia, France, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria and other countries.
In 1993, one of the writer’s best books, “The Adventures of Major Zvyagin,” was published. Literally a year after its publication, the book is among the top ten best works of Russian writers.
Currently, Weller lives in Estonia, travels to other countries and regularly releases his new works.
Personal life
Very little is known about the writer’s personal life. His wife is Anna Agriomati, they have a daughter, Valentina. Mikhail Weller does not consider it necessary to talk about his family; he is convinced that the personal life of one person should not concern others.
The writer's biography would not be complete without highlighting his philosophical views. In 2007, he published his book “The Meaning of Life,” in which he outlined in detail his own theory of “Energy Evolutionism.” Mikhail harbored similar ideas for a long time and studied the literature of his predecessors. Weller is aware that his conclusions are something new for readers; there will be many who disagree with the presentation of his thoughts. But he still publishes the book. The writer believes that the main value for a person is an understanding of his objective integrity in the Universe. Man is capable of using the Earth's energy on any scale.
According to his theory, human energy can be compared with the energy of the Universe. Humanity is the highest creation on the entire planet; it represents the total amount of sensations and aspirations to obtain the most powerful actions to change the environment and the world as a whole.
Readers liked the writer’s simple and interesting style. In his books, Mikhail Weller presents in accessible language things and concepts that are at first glance difficult for humanity. His books are permeated with male chauvinism, personal experiences in the form of a traveler, Don Juan, a devourer of films and fiction, and many others.
In 2010, Weller takes part in the international philosophical forum, where he gives his lectures. At the end of the forum, his theory was awarded a medal. The following year, the writer was able to publish his new four books on the same philosophical topic. His works have been translated into many languages and published in other countries. Some of his judgments remain controversial; Weller's work has been criticized by modern authors.
The writer’s political views also differ from the usual slogans heard on television screens. He openly gives interviews regarding the political situation in Russia and its relations with other countries.
Date of Birth: 20.05.1948
Soviet, then Russian writer, publicist, philosopher, playwright.
Mikhail Iosifovich Weller was born in the city of Kamenets-Podolsky in Ukraine into the family of an officer. Until the age of sixteen, Mikhail changed schools, constantly moving to garrisons in the Far East and Siberia. In 1965, the family moved to Belarus, where in 1966 Mikhail graduated from school with a gold medal and entered the department of Russian philology of the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad University. Lives in the family of his grandfather, a biologist professor, head of a department at one of the Leningrad institutes. The future writer’s student years were not without adventures:
In a month without money, I “hare” got from Leningrad to Kamchatka, using all types of transport,
To obtain academic leave, he feigned mental illness,
Having received this leave, he led a vagabond life in Central Asia for six months, and then worked as a sailor on a trawler of the fishing fleet in Kaliningrad.
In 1971, Mikhail Weller was reinstated at the university and graduated a year later. The future writer managed to defend his diploma on the topic “Types of composition of modern Russian Soviet stories” only the second time (the first time the work was rejected for “formalist bias”). After graduating from the institute, he worked for some time in the Leningrad region as a teacher of an extended-day elementary school group and as a teacher of Russian language and literature in a rural eight-year school. Subsequently, he tried many professions: a concrete worker in a prefabricated structures workshop, a timber feller, a digger, a junior researcher at the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (Kazan Cathedral), a tour guide, deputy director for administrative and economic affairs, a correspondent for the factory newspaper of the Skorokhod shoe association. , a cattle driver from Mongolia to Biysk along the Altai Mountains.
In the fall of 1976, having returned to Leningrad, Mikhail Weller switched entirely to literary work, but his first stories were rejected by all editors. Enters the seminar of young Leningrad science fiction writers under the leadership of Boris Strugatsky. For the story “The Button” he received first prize at the North-West science fiction competition. However, Weller is still not published, and a period of “complete beggary” begins for the writer. Only in 1978 did the first publications appear in Leningrad city newspapers - short humorous stories. The lack of means of subsistence once again prompts Mikhail to take up various ways of earning money; he even briefly serves in the army as an officer in a ground artillery battery, earns extra money by lithographing military memoirs, and writes reviews for Neva magazine. Hoping to publish his first book, Mikhail Weller moves to Tallinn; the book is rejected, but some publications appear in periodicals. In 1983, the first book was finally published - a collection of stories “I Want to Be a Janitor.” Boris Strugatsky and Bulat Okudzhava recommend accepting Mikhail Weller into the Writers' Union, but he was accepted only after the publication of the second book in 1988. In 1986, the writer married Anna Agriomati, a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow University, and a year later the couple had a daughter.
Since the early 90s, he has been involved in literary and publishing activities - he worked as the head of the Russian literature department of the Tallinn Russian-language magazine "Rainbow", later he was the editor-in-chief and founder of the first Jewish cultural magazine in the USSR "Jericho", and gave lectures on Russian prose at various foreign universities .
In 1988, Mikhail Weller’s eight-hundred-page philosophical book “Everything about Life” was published, which contains the foundations of his philosophical system and becomes the beginning of a cycle of philosophical works. In 2003, the writer called his system of views on the Universe and man “energy-evolutionism.” According to this theory, “all subjective and objective human activity is completely consistent with and lies in line with the general evolution of the Cosmos, which boils down to the complication of material and energy structures, increasing the energy level of material systems, and from the beginning of the Universe has been developing with a positive balance, in increasing progression.”
Currently, the writer lives in Moscow and Tallinn, continues to work on his journalistic and philosophical books, hosts his own program “Minority Opinion” on the radio station “Echo of Moscow” and the talk show “Let's Talk” on Radio Russia.
M. Weller has two work books, but they were not enough to record all the places of his work - in one there is an insert, in the other there are two.
In September 2011, Mikhail Weller called for voting for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, arguing: the turnover of power should give all parties the understanding that at the next elections they will “re-elect and throw out the party” if it does not meet the expectations of voters. He is also convinced that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is the only independent party in 2011.
Writer's Awards
Order of the White Star, 4th class (Estonia, 2008)
Bibliography
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Childhood and adolescence
Mikhail was born in the small ancient town of Kamenets-Podolsky in western Ukraine, into a family of hereditary Jewish doctors. His father was a military doctor, so he was forced to frequently move from place to place, changing garrisons. As a child, Mikhail had to change more than one educational institution, wandering with his parents to military camps in the Far East and Siberia. 
This did not prevent the talented boy from graduating from school with a gold medal and entering the philological faculty of Leningrad University. But, despite his extraordinary abilities and outstanding organizational skills (he was a Komsomol organizer of the course, secretary of the university bureau), Mikhail did not study at a prestigious university for long. He was so interested in life in all its multifaceted manifestations that he soon abandoned his studies and went traveling.
First, on a bet, the young man, penniless, traveled as a “hare” from Leningrad to Kamchatka, and a year later, having taken an academic leave, he left for Central Asia. After this, Weller moved to Kaliningrad, where, having completed an external course for sailors, he went to sea on a fishing boat.
Having wandered around the country and gained impressions, in 1971 Mikhail returned to the university and a year later successfully defended his diploma. After graduating from high school, the young man served two years in the army and upon his return was assigned as a Russian language teacher to a rural school, where he also stayed for only a year.
"Duel": Weller VS Khakamada
During his life, Weller, by his own admission, had about thirty different types of activities: felled wood in Komi, worked as a hunter-procurer in the Arctic, drove cattle in Mongolia, worked as a teacher, pioneer leader and kindergarten teacher, and mastered many construction specialties.
Writer's career
By the end of 1976, Mikhail finally realized that he wanted to devote his future life to literary work. He wrote his first story while still studying at the university, and since then, a notebook and pencil have become his constant companions on trips around the country.He tried to begin his literary activity in Leningrad, but his works did not find understanding and were rejected by all editors. Weller had to limit himself to publishing short humorous stories and writing reviews for the Neva magazine.
But the aspiring writer was not satisfied with this state of affairs, and two years later, having given up everything, he left for Tallinn and began exclusively writing books. In 1983, his first collection of short stories, “I Want to Be a Janitor,” was published, which was published in several Western European countries, including France and Italy.
From that moment on, Weller's writing career began to actively gain momentum, and now he is the author of more than fifty literary works, translated into many languages of the world. The writer's track record includes many philosophical works devoted to the place and role of man on the scale of the Universe. You can read in detail about his views on the universe in the book “The Meaning of Life,” on the pages of which he outlined his theory of “Energy Evolutionism.”
Excerpts from Weller’s book “All About Life”
By 2017, his bibliography included 10 novels: the controversial “The Adventures of Major Zvyagin”, “Samovar”, “All about Life”, “Cassandra”, “The General Theory of Everything”, “Perpendicular and others; 13 stories (6 of them were published in a separate collection “Cruel”), and several dozen short stories published in 18 collections.
Political Views
Since 2011, Mikhail has been seriously interested in the political situation in the country, calling on his like-minded people to vote for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which he considers the only party in Russia independent of the oligarchs. Weller often defends his point of view in various television debates and political talk shows, some of which, due to the writer’s excessive emotionality, end in scandals and brawls. Mikhail Weller lost his temper on Echo of MoscowA similar incident occurred a month later on the radio program “Special Opinion” (“Echo of Moscow”). Mikhail Weller shouted at presenter Olga Bychkova, tore the microphone, threw a mug of water and left the studio, and later announced that he was breaking off his cooperation with the radio station that had lasted since 1993. He explained his behavior by saying that the presenter behaved unprofessionally and constantly interrupted him.