Vitali Gubarev
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Vitali Georgievich Gubarev ' onMouseout='HidePop("34148")' href="/topics/Rostov-on-Don">Rostov-on-Don
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-History:The mouth of the Don River has been of great commercial and cultural importance since the ancient times. It was the site of the Greek colony Tanais, of the Genoese fort Tana, and of the Turkish fortress Azak...

, Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

 - 1981, USSR) was a Soviet fiction (fairy tale
Fairy tale
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...

s) writer.

In 1931, he started to work as a journalist. He covered the murder of Pavlik Morozov
Pavlik Morozov
Pavel Trofimovich Morozov , better known by the diminutive Pavlik, was a Soviet youth praised by the Soviet press as a martyr. His story, dated to 1932, is that of a 13-year old boy who denounced his father to the authorities and was in turn killed by his family. His story was a subject of reading,...

, and he was one who created the myth about him. In 1933, Gubarev wrote One from eleven, about the same character, a work later rewritten into the novel Pavlik Morozov and a play.

As a fiction writer, his masterpiece was the fairy-tale novel Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, written in 1951 and made into a play a year later and into a film, Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev.In the end of 2007 the Russia TV filmed a musical remake - with the same name, featuring stars of Russian scene Nikolay Baskov and Alla Pugacheva. The...

, in 1963.

He was married to actress Tamara Nosova
Tamara Nosova
Tamara Nosova was a Soviet and Russian actress, who was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1992. She appeared in 27 films between 1948 and 1999. She was married to writer Vitali Gubarev.-Biography:...

.

Literature works

  • В Тридевятом царстве (fairy tale novel)
  • Королевство кривых зеркал (Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors; fairy tale novel)
  • Преданье старины глубокой (fairy tale novel)
  • Путешествие на утреннюю звезду (fairy tale novel)
  • Трое на острове (fairy tale novel)

External links

Vitali Gubarev at the Library of Soviet Fiction
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