|
 On
June 12 a brass dedicated to a writer Yury Dombrovsky appeared in Almaty. The
citizens of Almaty have can consider him to be their countryman. In 1932, being
22 years old, he was exiled to a village near Almaty. Having obtained a right
to live in the capital, he worked in the Central Museum of Kazakhstan, participated
in archeological dig, was a teacher at school, and kept writing. For three times
he was sent to different concentration camps and back as an epileptic.
 Dombrovsky
went through hard times during Stalin's regime, but he preserved his passion
for life. Being almost killed in a concentration camp, he got an idea of a novel
"A Monkey Comes after Its Skull". His arrest during the war was an
incitement to him to write "Antiquities Keeper" and "Faculty
of Unnecessary Things" that stroke the Kremlin.
 Yury
Dubrovsky was a many-sided person. And though it is impossible to write all
about him here, but the fact that Almaty citizens still haven't forgotten him
is significant itself.
Ludmila Varshavskaya
|
