Weller Mikhail is Jewish. Mikhail Weller: biography

Born in 1948 in Ukraine, he grew up mainly in Siberia and Transbaikalia in military garrisons, which is natural for officers’ children. He graduated from school in Belarus, and graduated from the philological faculty at Leningrad University in 1972. After which I changed—I don’t remember exactly—about thirty specialties. I have a work book with two inserts. He was a museum employee and a commercial hunter in the Arctic, a pioneer leader and forest feller in Komi, a teacher of Russian language and literature and a construction worker in Mangyshlak. And also a roofer, silk-screen printer, digger, journalist...

In 1979 he ended up in Tallinn. I moved from Leningrad for a simple reason: I only wanted to write and I put everything on the publication of a book. I left my city, family, beloved woman, friends, abandoned all types of careers, work, lived in poverty, drank second-class tea, smoked cigarette butts and did nothing but write.

Literature is a physically passive, relaxing activity and in some ways not even masculine. And until I was forty, it didn’t bring me any money to live on. I earned money from May to October - “in the pampas,” as I called it for myself. In the fall, he returned home thin, wiry, without any complexes or insomnia, and even with some money to live on until next summer.

The first book was published in 1983 - “I want to be a janitor”, and further there is nothing interesting in my private biography. What follows is the life of a man who sits at a table, writes, and even manages to live off the money from his books.

Mikhail Weller.
Top Secret - 21st century. Mikhail Weller.

Mikhail Weller
Date of birth: May 20, 1948
Place of birth: Kamenets-Podolsky, Khmelnitsky region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Citizenship: USSR→ Estonia
Occupation: novelist, philosopher
Awards: Order of the White Star, 4th class (Estonia)
http://weller.ru/

Mikhail Iosifovich Weller (born May 20, 1948, Kamenets-Podolsky, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian writer, philosopher, member of the Russian PEN Center and the Russian Philosophical Society and the International Big History Association, winner of a number of literary awards.

Until the age of sixteen, Mikhail constantly changed schools in connection with moves to garrisons in the Far East and Siberia.
In 1966 he graduated from school in Mogilev with a gold medal and entered the department of Russian philology of the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad University. Becomes Komsomol organizer of the course and secretary of the university Komsomol bureau. In the summer of 1969, on a bet, without money, he travels from Leningrad to Kamchatka in a month, using all types of transport, and fraudulently obtains a pass to enter the “border zone.” In 1970 he received academic leave from the university. In the spring he leaves for Central Asia, where he wanders until the fall. In the fall he moves to Kaliningrad and takes the accelerated second-class sailor course as an external student. Goes on a voyage on a trawler of the fishing fleet. In 1971 he was reinstated at the university and worked as a senior pioneer leader at school. His story was published for the first time in the university wall newspaper. In 1972 he defended his thesis on the topic “Types of composition of modern Russian Soviet short stories.”
Job

In 1972-1973, he worked on assignment 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. Dismissed at his own request.

Gets a job as a concrete worker at the ZhBK-4 prefabricated structures workshop in Leningrad. In the summer of 1973, as a forest feller and digger, he traveled with a brigade of “shabashniks” to the Kola Peninsula and the Tersky coast of the White Sea.

In 1974, he worked at the State Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (Kazan Cathedral) as a junior researcher, tour guide, carpenter, supplier and deputy director for administrative and economic affairs.

In 1975 - correspondent of the factory newspaper of the Leningrad shoe association "Skorokhod" "Skorokhodovsky worker", acting. O. Head of the Culture Department, and O. Head of the Information Department. The first publications of stories in the “official press”.

From May to October 1976 - 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 in my life.

Since 2006, he has been hosting a weekly program on Radio Russia “Let’s Talk” with Mikhail Weller.
Creation

Returning to Leningrad in the fall of 1976, he switched to literary work; his first stories were rejected by all editors.

In the fall of 1977, he entered the seminar of young Leningrad science fiction writers under the leadership of Boris Strugatsky.

In 1978, the first publications of short humorous stories appeared in Leningrad newspapers. He works part-time as a literary edit of war memoirs at the Lenizdat publishing house and writing reviews for the Neva magazine.

In the fall of 1979, he moved to Tallinn (Estonian SSR) and got a job at the republican newspaper “Youth of Estonia.” In 1980, he resigned from the newspaper and joined the “trade union group” at the Estonian Writers' Union. The first publications appeared in the magazines “Tallinn”, “Literary Armenia”, “Ural”. From summer to autumn, he travels on a cargo ship from Leningrad to Baku, publishing reports from the journey in the newspaper “Water Transport”.

In 1981, he wrote the story “Line of Reference,” in which he first formalized the foundations of his philosophy.

In 1982, he worked as a commercial hunter at the Taimyrsky state industrial enterprise in the lower reaches of the Pyasina River.

In 1983, the first collection of stories, “I Want to Be a Janitor,” was published, and the rights to the book were sold abroad at the Moscow International Book Fair. In 1984, the book was translated into Estonian, Armenian, and Buryat languages; individual stories were published in France, Italy, Holland, Bulgaria, and Poland.

In the summer of 1985 he worked on an archaeological expedition in Olbia and on the island of Berezan, and in the fall and winter he worked as a roofer.

In 1988, the Aurora magazine published the story “Testers of Happiness,” outlining the foundations of his philosophy. The second book of short stories, “Heartbreaker,” is published. Admission to the USSR Writers' Union takes place. Works as head of the Russian literature department of the Tallinn Russian-language magazine “Rainbow”.

In 1989, the book “The Technology of Story” was published.

In 1990, the book “Rendezvous with a Celebrity” was published. The story “Narrow Gauge Railway” is published in the magazine “Neva”, the story “I want to go to Paris” - in the magazine “Zvezda”, the story “Entombment” - in the magazine “Ogonyok”. Based on the story “But those shish”, a feature film was produced at the Mosfilm studio “Debut”. Founder and editor-in-chief of the first Jewish cultural magazine in the USSR, Jericho. In October-November he lectures on Russian prose at the universities of Milan and Turin.

In 1991, the first edition of the novel “The Adventures of Major Zvyagin” was published in Leningrad under the label of the Estonian publishing house “Periodika”.

In 1993, the Estonian Cultural Foundation published a book of short stories “Legends of Nevsky Prospekt” in Tallinn in a circulation of 500 copies. In this book, stylized as “urban folklore,” along with fictional characters, the author also depicts real characters, sometimes attributing to them fictitious stories, but readers perceive this fiction as truth and laugh at what did not happen, but could have been in accordance with the spirit time..

The top ten of the “Book Review” of 1994 is headed by the next hundred thousandth edition of “The Adventures of Major Zvyagin”. Gives lectures on modern Russian prose at the University of Odense (Denmark).

In 1995, the St. Petersburg publishing house "Lan" published the book "Legends of Nevsky Prospekt" in cheap mass editions. Reprints of all books follow in "Lani", publishing houses "Vagrius" (Moscow), "Neva" (St. Petersburg), "Folio" (Kharkov).

From September 1996 to February 1997. spends six months with his family in Israel. In November, a new novel, “Samovar,” is published by the Jerusalem publishing house “Worlds.” Gives lectures on modern Russian prose at the University of Jerusalem. In the spring of 1997 he returns to Estonia.

In 1998, the eight-hundred-page philosophical “universal theory of everything” “Everything about Life” was published, outlining the theory of energy evolutionism.

Trip around the USA in 1999 with performances before readers in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago. A book of short stories, “Monument to Dantes,” is published.

In 2000, the novel “The Messenger from Pisa” (“Zero Hours”) was published. Moving to Moscow.

2002: “Cassandra” is the next iteration of Weller’s philosophy, written abstractly and in places even academically. The name of the philosophical model also appears: “energy vitalism”. 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.

On February 6, 2008, by the decision of the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Mikhail Weller was awarded the Order of the White Star, 4th class. The order was presented on December 18, 2008 at an informal meeting at the Estonian Embassy in Moscow.

In 2009, the book “Legends of Arbat” was published.

In 2010 – the sociological treatise “Man in the System”. In 2011 - “notes of a Soviet tramp” “Mishaherazade”.

Currently lives in Moscow.
Philosophical views. Energy evolutionism

The philosophical views of Mikhail Weller were presented by him in various works, starting in 1988, until they were generalized by the author into a single theory, eventually called energy evolutionism. The fundamentals of energy evolutionism are that the existence of the Universe is considered as the evolution of the primary energy of the Big Bang, and this energy is bound into material structures, increasingly complex, which, in turn, decay with the release of energy, and these cycles proceed with acceleration. Weller considers the existence of a person subjectively as the sum of sensations and the desire to obtain the strongest possible sensations, and objectively as the desire to take maximum actions to change the environment, since a person receives sensations through actions. Thus, humanity, increasing the progress of civilization, captures free energy and, transforming, releases energy outward on an increasing scale and at an increasing speed, transforming the surrounding matter and thereby being at the forefront of the evolution of the Universe. The categories of morality, justice, happiness and love are considered as psychological and social support for the biosystem’s desire to perform maximum actions to transform the achievable part of the Universe. The end of history is extrapolated as the action of posthumanity to release all the energy of the matter of the Universe, that is, in fact, the New Big Bang, which will destroy our Universe and will be the birth of a New one.

Weller himself names many philosophers as his predecessors in the article “Information-theoretical predecessor of energy evolutionism” (“Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical Society” No. 2, 2012) and other works, primarily Arthur Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Wilhelm Ostwald, Leslie White and Ilyenkov Evald Vasilievich

In 2010, at the International Philosophical Forum in Athens, he gave a report on his theory, which was awarded the forum medal.

In 2011, at the London International Book Fair, a presentation of M. Weller’s four-volume book “Energy Evolutionism”, “Sociology of Energy Evolutionism”, “Psychology of Energy Evolutionism”, “Aesthetics of Energy Evolutionism” took place.

As part of the Philosophy Days 2011 in St. Petersburg, he speaks at the plenary symposium “Power and Values” with a report “The desire of society for structuring as the cause and source of power” and at the international conference “The Meaning of Life: Gaining and Losing” with a report “The Need for Meaning life as a social system-forming instinct."

“Russian Philosophical Newspaper” (2011, No. 9) publishes Weller’s essay “The Collapse of Civilization.”

The journal “Philosophical Sciences” (2012, No. 1) opens with Weller’s article “Power: synergetic essence and social psychology.”

In February 2012, at the opening of the International Congress “Global Future 2045”, he gave a plenary report on the essence of energy evolutionism and the role of man in the Universe.

In April 2012, he gave a presentation on “Energy Evolutionism” at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In June 2012, at the 4th All-Russian Philosophical Congress, he gave a presentation on “Historical and sociological aspects of energy evolutionism.” In August 2012, he took part in the Founding Conference of the International Big History Association in the USA. Over the years, he gave lectures on philosophy outlining his theory at the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University, the Department of Philosophy of MGIMO, and the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Jerusalem.

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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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 Iosifovich Weller(born May 20, 1948, Kamenets-Podolsky, Ukrainian SSR) - Russian writer.

Member of the Russian PEN Center, International Big History Association, Russian Philosophical Society. Winner of a number of literary awards.

Studies

Until the age of sixteen, Mikhail constantly changed schools in connection with moves to garrisons in the Far East and Siberia.

In 1966 he graduated from school No. 3 in Mogilev with a gold medal and entered the department of Russian philology of the philological faculty of Leningrad University. Becomes Komsomol organizer of the course and secretary of the university Komsomol bureau. In the summer of 1969, on a bet, without money, he travels from Leningrad to Kamchatka in a month, using all types of transport, and fraudulently obtains a pass to enter the “border zone.” In 1970 he went on academic leave. In the spring he leaves for Central Asia, where he wanders until the fall. In the fall he moves to Kaliningrad and takes the accelerated second-class sailor course as an external student. Goes on a voyage on a trawler of the fishing fleet. In 1971 he was reinstated at the university and worked as a senior pioneer leader at school. His story was published for the first time in the university wall newspaper. In 1972 he defended his thesis on the topic “Types of composition of a modern Russian Soviet story”.

Job

After graduating from the university, he was drafted into the army, served as an officer in the artillery for up to six months - he was commissioned. In 1972-1973, he worked on assignment 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. Dismissed at his own request.

From May to October 1976 - 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 in my life.

In 1982, he worked as a commercial hunter at the Taimyrsky state industrial enterprise in the lower reaches of the Pyasina River.

In the summer of 1985 he worked on an archaeological expedition in Olbia and on the island of Berezan, and in the fall and winter he worked as a roofer.

Since 2006, he has been hosting a weekly program on Radio Russia, “Let’s Talk to Mikhail Weller.”

Creation

Returning to Leningrad in the fall of 1976, he switched to literary work; his first stories were rejected by all editors.

In the fall of 1977, he entered the seminar of young Leningrad science fiction writers under the leadership of Boris Strugatsky.

In 1981, he wrote the story “Line of Reference,” in which he first formalized the foundations of his philosophy.

In 1989, the book “The Technology of Story” was published.

In 1991, the first edition of the novel “The Adventures of Major Zvyagin” was published in Leningrad under the label of the Estonian publishing house “Periodika”.

In 1998, the eight-hundred-page philosophical “universal theory of everything” “Everything about Life” was published, outlining the theory of energy evolutionism.

Trip around the USA in 1999 with performances before readers in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago. A book of short stories, “Monument to Dantes,” is published.

In 2000, the novel “The Messenger from Pisa” (“Zero Hours”) was published. Moving to Moscow.

In 2009, the book “Legends of Arbat” was published.

In 2010 – the sociological treatise “Man in the System”.

In 2011 - “notes of a Soviet tramp” “Mishaherazade”.

Lives in Moscow.

Philosophical views. Energy evolutionism

The philosophical views of Mikhail Weller were expounded by him in various works, starting in 1988, until they were generalized by the author into a single theory, eventually called energy evolutionism. The fundamentals of energy evolutionism are that the existence of the Universe is considered as the evolution of the primary energy of the Big Bang, and this energy is bound into material structures, increasingly complex, which, in turn, decay with the release of energy, and these cycles proceed with acceleration. Weller considers the existence of a person subjectively as the sum of sensations and the desire to obtain the strongest possible sensations, and objectively as the desire to take maximum actions to change the environment, since a person receives sensations through actions. Thus, humanity, increasing the progress of civilization, captures free energy and, transforming, releases energy outward on an increasing scale and at an increasing speed, transforming the surrounding matter and thereby being at the forefront of the evolution of the Universe. The categories of morality, justice, happiness and love are considered as psychological and social support for the biosystem’s desire to perform maximum actions to transform the achievable part of the Universe. The end of history is extrapolated as the action of posthumanity to release all the energy of the matter of the Universe, that is, in fact, the New Big Bang, which will destroy our Universe and will be the birth of a New one.

Weller himself names many philosophers as his predecessors in the article “The information-theoretical predecessor of energy evolutionism” (“Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical Society” No. 2, 2012) and other works, primarily Arthur Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Wilhelm Ostwald and Leslie White.

In 2010, at the International Philosophical Forum in Athens, he gave a report on his theory, which was awarded the forum medal.

“Russian Philosophical Newspaper” (2011, No. 9) publishes Weller’s essay “The Collapse of Civilization.”

The journal “Philosophical Sciences” (2012, No. 1) opens with Weller’s article “Power: synergetic essence and social psychology.”

In February 2012, at the opening of the International Congress “Global Future 2045”, he gave a plenary report on the essence of energy evolutionism and the role of man in the Universe.

In April 2012, he gave a presentation on “Energy Evolutionism” at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In June 2012, at the 4th All-Russian Philosophical Congress, he gave a presentation on “Historical and sociological aspects of energy evolutionism.” In August 2012, he took part in the Founding Conference of the International Big History Association in Grand Rapids (USA). Over the years, he gave lectures on philosophy outlining his theory at the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University, the Department of Philosophy of MGIMO, and the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Jerusalem.