Good fame lies and bad fame flees. The meaning of good fame runs, but bad fame flies
The most precious thing a person has is life. It is given to him once, and he must live it in such a way that he is not painfully ashamed of the years spent aimlessly, so that he does not feel shame for mean things. petty past and so that, dying, he could say: all his life and all his strength were devoted to the most important thing in the world: the struggle for the liberation of humanity. And we must hurry to live. After all, a ridiculous disease or some tragic accident can interrupt it.
Triumph of the will.
The main feature of Nikolai Ostrovsky was the love of truth and the search for justice
On December 22, 1936, at eight o’clock in the evening, in Moscow, on Tverskaya, one person said:
“Did I moan? No? This is good. This means that death cannot overcome me.”
Nikolai Ostrovsky. 1926 © / RIA Novosti
He died half an hour later. died undefeated - proudly and with dignity. His name was Nikolay Ostrovsky. He was 32 years old.
Ostrovsky's novel has been published in approximately 60 million copies. “Approximately” - because China is participating in the race, where the book was published with a circulation of 15 million. And this is not the limit - “How the Steel Was Tempered” is considered to be in short supply in the Celestial Empire, but Chinese youth are met halfway and the circulation is constantly being reprinted.
Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky (1st from left) at a meeting of the Berezovsky district party committee (from meetings State Museum N. Ostrovsky). 1923 Photo: RIA Novosti
In 1934, a Lugansk philologist student Marchenko wrote an indignant letter to the Young Guard magazine (he wanted to borrow “How the Steel Was Tempered” from the library, but it turned out that there were 176 people in line for the book):
“Why do they do this to readers? Please reprint so that there is enough for everyone!”
8 years later, in the most severe winter of 1942, in besieged Leningrad“How the Steel Was Tempered” is being republished on the initiative of the townspeople. The text is being typed in a dilapidated building. The circulation is printed by turning the machines by hand, since there is no electricity. And they sell 10 thousand copies in two hours.
Covers of the book “How the Steel Was Tempered”, published in Hungarian, German and Portuguese Photo: Collage AiF
Covers of the book How the Steel Was Tempered, published in Spanish, Vietnamese and Hindi. Photo: Collage AiF
This is the USSR. But here is the letter that Ostrovsky received from the state of Queensland (Australia):
“If it weren’t for the leg injury, I would have worked and saved money for a trip to see you, my favorite Russian writer.” And here is the news from the prison of the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora: “After much ordeal, one copy of the book “How the Steel Was Tempered” was finally received. Two of us have already read it, and all 250 political prisoners are yet to read it... I am delighted with the book, and the comrade who is reading it now cannot tear himself away from it for a moment.”
The fact that the book is not primitive propaganda, but a great literary event, said many foreign reviewers. The English edition of the Daily Worker publishes an obituary:
“The fact that Ostrovsky died so young is a loss not only for the USSR, but also for literature around the world.”
Let's say this is a newspaper of British communists. But here’s how the weekly Reynold’s Illustrated News responded to the lifetime edition of “How the Steel Was Tempered”:
“Ostrovsky is, in a certain sense, a genius.”
“Genius”, “innovator”, “pride and glory of a generation”, “a torch for many thousands of people”, “the personification of courage” - that’s all about him. And they talk about it famous people. The authors of the last two definitions are Nobel laureate, writer Romain Rolland and poet, member of the Goncourt Academy Louis Aragon.
In his youth, Nikolai Ostrovsky suffered three typhus and dysentery. Then ankylosing spondylitis (inflammation of the joints and spine), glaucoma and blindness, heart damage, pulmonary fibrosis, kidney stones and regular pneumonia. Against this background, the following constantly happens:
“My gall bladder was ruptured by a stone, resulting in hemorrhage and bile poisoning. The doctors then unanimously said:
“Well, now amba!”
But they didn’t work out again, I scraped through, again messing up the medical axioms.”
This is what Ostrovsky wrote 4 months before his death. Of course, he was treated. But even treatment was often painful. So, in 1927, he was prescribed sulfur baths at the Goryachy Klyuch resort. The writer covered the distance from Krasnodar (which is 46 km) in 6 hours. During this time, he lost consciousness 11 times from pain. But he was silent.
Writer Nikolai Ostrovsky with his family on the day he was awarded the Order of Lenin. From left to right: the writer’s wife Raisa Porfiryevna, sister Ekaterina Alekseevna, niece Zina, brother Dmitry Alekseevich and mother Olga Osipovna. 1935 Photo: RIA Novosti/ O. Kovalenko
Nine years of continuous suffering. “The patient’s large joints freeze first, and then the rest. He turns into a living statue - his limbs are in different positions, depending on how they were filled with the lava of the disease” - this is the most approximate description of how Ostrovsky lived.
Nikolai Ostrovsky received the apartment on Tverskaya, which became his last refuge, in 1935, along with the Order of Lenin. What happened before this, the writer himself can tell:
“I’m not a champion of pull. Let the grabbers come in and take over the apartments, it doesn’t make me feel hot. A fighter’s place is at the front, and not in the rear squabbles. The purpose of my life is literature. It’s better to live in a closet and write than to get an apartment.”
"His main feature there was a love of truth. He was internally charged with the search for justice,” this is what the critic said about Ostrovsky Lev Anninsky. This is a very Russian trait. source
Jet Li:“My favorite hero is Pavka Korchagin. And by the way, there is one great book, which I read in my youth and which had a decisive influence on me - “How the Steel Was Tempered” by Nikolai Ostrovsky. As, indeed, main character— Pavel Korchagin.
This book, in fact, raised me as a person. And I still constantly re-read it, remember it, and, wherever I am - in the USA, in China, somewhere else in Asia - I always quote the words of Pavel:
“Don’t be afraid of any obstacles or twists and turns along your path, because steel can only be hardened this way.”
(September 16 (29), 1904, in the village of Viliya, Ostrog district, Volyn province - December 22, 1936, Moscow) - Soviet writer, author of the novel “How the Steel Was Tempered.”
Short biography.
Childhood and youth
Born on September 16, 1904 in the village of Viliya, Ostrog district, Volyn province Russian Empire(now Ostrog district, Rivne region of Ukraine) in the family of non-commissioned officer and excise official Alexei Ivanovich Ostrovsky (1854-1936).
He was admitted to the parochial school ahead of schedule “due to his extraordinary abilities”; He graduated from school at the age of 9, in 1913, with a certificate of merit. Soon after this, the family moved to Shepetivka. There, Ostrovsky worked for hire since 1916: first in the kitchen of a station restaurant, then as a cup maker, a material warehouse worker, and a fireman's assistant at a power plant. At the same time he studied at a two-year school (from 1915 to 1917), and then at a higher elementary school (1917-1919). He became close to the local Bolsheviks during German occupation participated in underground activities, in March 1918 - July 1919 he was a liaison officer of the Shepetovsky Revolutionary Committee.
Military service and party work
On July 20, 1919 he joined the Komsomol. “Together with the Komsomol card we received a gun and two hundred cartridges”- Ostrovsky recalled.
On August 9, 1919, he went to the front as a volunteer. He fought in the cavalry brigade of G.I. Kotovsky and in the 1st Cavalry Army. In August 1920, he was seriously wounded in the back near Lvov (shrapnel) and demobilized. Participated in the fight against the insurgency in special forces units (CHON). According to some sources, in 1920-1921 he was an employee of the Cheka in Izyaslav.
In 1921, he worked as an assistant electrician in the Kyiv main workshops, studied at the electrical technical school, and at the same time was secretary of the Komsomol organization.
In 1922 he participated in the construction railway line to deliver firewood to Kyiv, while he caught a bad cold, then fell ill with typhus. After recovery, he became the commissar of the Vsevobuch battalion in Berezdov (in the region bordering Poland).
He was secretary of the Komsomol district committee in Berezdovo and Izyaslav, then secretary of the Komsomol district committee in Shepetovka (1924). In the same year he joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Illness and literary creativity
From 1927 until the end of his life, Ostrovsky was bedridden incurable disease. By official version, Ostrovsky’s health was affected by the injury and difficult conditions work. The final diagnosis was “progressive ankylosing polyarthritis, gradual ossification of the joints.”
In the fall of 1927, he began writing the autobiographical novel “The Tale of the Kotovites,” but six months later the manuscript was lost in transit.
After unsuccessful treatment in a sanatorium, Ostrovsky decided to settle in Sochi. In a letter to an old Communist acquaintance in November 1928, he described his "political organizational line":
“I’m immersed in the class struggle here. All around us here are the remnants of the whites and the bourgeoisie. Our house management was in the hands of the enemy - the son of a priest...” Despite the protests of the majority of residents, Ostrovsky, through local communists, ensured that the “son of a priest” was removed. “There was only one enemy left in the house, a bourgeois underdog, my neighbor... Then the fight began for the next house... After the “battle” we also conquered it... Here there is a class struggle - for kicking out strangers and enemies from the mansions...”
From the end of 1930, using a stencil he invented, he began to write a novel "As the Steel Was Tempered". Ostrovsky dictated the text of the book to voluntary secretaries for 989 days.
In April 1932, the magazine "Young Guard" began publishing Ostrovsky's novel; in November of the same year, the first part was published as a separate book, followed by the second part. The novel immediately gained great popularity in the USSR.
In 1935, Ostrovsky was awarded the Order of Lenin, he was allocated a house in Sochi and an apartment in Moscow on Gorky Street (now his house-museum).
In 1936, Ostrovsky was enlisted in the Political Directorate of the Red Army with the rank of brigade commissar.
Over the past few months he has been surrounded by universal honor, hosting readers and writers at home. Moskovsky Dead Lane (now Prechistensky), where he lived in 1930-1932, was renamed in his honor.
Essays:
1927 - “The Tale of the Kotovtsy” (novel, manuscript lost in transit)
1930-1934 - “How the steel was tempered”
1936 - “Born by the Storm”
Where does the phrase “life must be lived in such a way that there is no excruciating pain” come from?
Everyone remembers these words from childhood. Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovsky's novel How Steel Was Tempered was included in school curriculum and was required reading. An excerpt from the novel with just this phrase was required to be learned by heart. Years have passed, the details have been erased, the names of the heroes, well, maybe, except for Pavka Korchagin, but the immutable truth and meaning of what the great classic said remained - a call to a worthy, active life, to commit thoughtful actions, responsibility for one’s life and what was done in it.
From the novel (Part 2, Chapter 3) How steel was tempered (1932-1934):
Now not many people remember where this phrase came from and who said it, because today its relevance has disappeared. This phrase was first voiced by Nikolai Ostrovsky in the work How the Steel Was Tempered. Its meaning is that you need to do good deeds such that your conscience does not torment you in old age. And what we have today: our society will suffer and suffer if someone does not deceive someone, and if this happens, it will be the height of happiness and good luck and no one will repent of it.
As the Steel Was Tempered. Ostrovsky. Good work.
Life must be lived in such a way that there will be no excruciating pain later - enough famous phrase every schoolchild from the book by the writer Ostrovsky - How the Steel Was Tempered. There is a film of the same name based on this book.
Now, most likely, not all schoolchildren know or remember it. But before, the topic of patriotism developed all the time, and when there were pioneers and Komsomol members, this work and phrase were very relevant.
IN this moment time, patriotism has been forgotten to some extent. The meaning of this phrase is that one must always be a decent and honest person who must love his Motherland, must improve and develop, so that later in his declining years he would not be ashamed of himself.
N. Ostrovsky How steel was hardened. Previously, at school they were forced to learn this passage by heart. Think about the content and compare it with your life. Are you ashamed of some actions that have already been committed? I think there are many such people. Then you live and worry that what has been done cannot be undone. Therefore, before you do something, you need to think about whether it is good, whether I will be ashamed of what I did for the rest of my life?
This phrase was once said a long time ago by a pristine old maid, when she realized that there was no chance for her in this matter. Since then, every old maid who has never experienced joy in her life intimacy, justifies herself before people and herself with these words.
This phrase belongs, so to speak, to writer N. Ostrovsky.
The phrase is philosophical, as I believe, there is a double subtext in it. In general, each of us perceives it in our own way, I think!!!
In fact, this phrase is now used so often in speech and it has acquired so many meanings that not everyone knows where it came from. I, too, to be honest, before I read the answers that Life must be lived in such a way that it would not be excruciatingly painful, I did not know that this was from the work How the Steel Was Tempered. In general, it makes a good motto)
I remember that in literature class at school we wrote something like this in notebooks with aphorisms and learned it by heart. The work is called How Steel Was Tempered. , written by Nikolai Ostrovsky.
This phrase is from famous work Nikolai Ostrovsky How the Steel Was Tempered, a film about Pavka Korchagin was created based on this book. Life must be lived in such a way that there is no excruciating pain for the years spent aimlessly, for the petty, petty past.... Previously, it was included in the program of Russian literature for mandatory learning by heart.
Nikolai Ostrovsky very succinctly, literally in one phrase, expressed the whole philosophy human life and relationships between people in society.
The work is called How the Steel Was Tempered - the title is also very powerful and figurative with a deep inner subtext of self-improvement of human character.
I recently read about this interesting research, which simply shocked me!
A survey was conducted at a hospice (a place where terminally ill people in the last stages of their illness are cared for) asking what people regret most before they die.
And 87% responded that their biggest regret was living a meaningless and empty life! Think about these wild numbers!!! 9 out of 10 people, instead of doing what they really like and going towards their dreams, essentially just threw their lives into the trash! The survey is very revealing: after all, young and healthy person It always seems that there is a lot of time ahead to fix and change everything. But life flies by very quickly, and by the end we get such a sad result.
What exactly did the dying people regret?
They regretted that during all the allotted time they did not have the courage to live the life that was right for them, and not the life that others expected from them. Most people have barely attempted half of what they dreamed of. They died knowing that all this happened as a result of their choices, which they made or did not make. If you do not take responsibility for your life, do not go towards your goals, then there will always be someone else for whose goals you will live.
They were sorry that they worked so hard, doing something they didn’t like, and life passed them by. Think about the activity you are currently engaged in, whether you are ready to devote your whole life to it. Do you consider it your favorite thing, purpose, mission? Would you do this activity as a hobby? People think they need a lot of money and spend all their time earning it. They do not think that before death, which is inevitable, they will not be able to take all this condition with them. In fact, all the money you make at this point will have no value. Much more important are the memories and emotions that you receive during life, so that when you die, you say: “I lived a bright and rich life“I’ve seen a lot in my life and I’m not ashamed to retire.” Leave time for hobbies, family and friends and your life will become happier.
Many regretted that they did not have the courage to express their feelings, then perhaps their lives would have turned out completely differently. They regretted that they didn't stay in touch with their friends, that their friendship wasn't given as much effort and time as it deserved, everyone misses their friends when they die. Sometimes pride outweighs everything in the world, which is why in old age or before death you are left completely alone, no one needs you. Imagine your funeral for a second. How many people came to them? What words would people say about you? Would it be true?
Perhaps you are already regretting that there is one girl you like, but you still don’t dare talk to her. Or you want to return this girl, having foolishly parted with her once, but later you realized how dear she really is to you. Maybe every day, when you are in crowded places, you see beautiful girls, but you still don’t dare to come up and get acquainted, putting off your personal life for later. Don't be surprised if you end up living a life you didn't choose.
In general, people on the verge of death regretted that they did not allow themselves to be happy. This was a surprisingly common regret. Many have not fully understood that their happiness is a matter of their choice. Be happy today, you have one life, live it right, so that you don’t regret anything at the end.
