Evgeny Nikolaevich Prilepin, better known under the pseudonyms Zakhar Prilepin and Evgeny Lavlinsky, was born on July 7, 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky District, Ryazan Region. His mother was a nurse in a rural hospital and his father was a history teacher.

Prilepin spent his childhood in Skopin, and in the mid-80s (according to Prilepin himself, "somewhere in 1986") his family moved to Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, where his parents got an apartment and quickly found work (mother began to work at the chemical plant "Korund"). At the age of 16, Prilepin himself began to work - he got a job as a loader in a bread store. When the young man was 17 years old and he was still studying at school number 10 in the city of Dzerzhinsk, his father died.

In 1994, Prilepin was drafted into the army. Details of his military service were not found (ed. note) - except for the mention that, according to some sources, the future writer was "commissioned for unknown reasons."

It is known that Prilepin studied at the Police School (in what years, it was not specified). In 1996, he began serving in the Special Purpose Police Detachment (OMON). In the position of commander of the OMON department in 1996 and 1999, he took part in armed operations on the territory of Chechnya and spent a total of six months there. Meanwhile, some observers who analyzed the writer's texts about the Chechen campaign aroused distrust about Prilepin as an riot policeman and the possibility of him getting the position of squad leader.

In parallel with his service in the riot police, Prilepin studied at the evening department of the philological faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky and lived "in two cities". According to some reports, he graduated from the university in 1999.

After the default of 1998, Prilepin, in his own words, began to lack the riot police salary to support his family, and sometimes he was forced to earn extra money as a bouncer in nightclubs. He did not hide the fact that in the last year of his work in the riot police "he took shifts on the Moscow highway, slowed down all the trucks from the Caucasus and took away watermelons, oranges, bananas from them, because there were only potatoes at home."

In 1999 (according to other sources - in 2000; it was also mentioned that 6 years after the start of work) Prilepin left the OMON and in 2000, together with his wife and son Gleb, moved to Nizhny Novgorod, where he began to write for one of the Nizhny Novgorod newspapers and made a quick career. In particular, he worked at the Political News Agency - Nizhny Novgorod. As a journalist, Prilepin used various pseudonyms, the most famous of which is Yevgeny Lavlinsky (sometimes it was noted in the media that Lavlinsky was his real name). Prilepin began to study literature later. His first publications - poetry - date back to 2003. In the same 2003, Prilepin wrote the novel "Patology" about the "second Chechen" war and began to look for an opportunity to publish it. The novel was first published in magazines, and in 2005 it was published as a separate book by the St. Andrew's flag publishing house.

Since 2006, various Russian publishing houses have published Prilepin's books "Sankya" (2006), "Sin" (2007), "Boots full of hot vodka: boy stories" (2008), "I came from Russia" (2008), " Terra Tartarara: This concerns me personally" (2008), "Name Day of the Heart: Conversations with Russian Literature" (2009) and others. By the summer of 2011, Prilepin had published 9 novels and compiled 4 anthologies. In addition, he wrote a biography of the writer Leonid Leonov for the series "Life of Remarkable People". Prilepin has won numerous awards, including "Faithful Sons of Russia" (2007, for the novel "Sin"), "Soldier of the Empire" (2008, for prose and journalism), "National Bestseller" (2008, for the novel " Sin") and the All-China Award "Best Foreign Novel" (2007, for the novel "Sankya"). In 2009, Prilepin became the secretary of the Writers' Union of Russia.

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Prilepin did not leave journalistic activity either. As of 2011, he was a columnist for the magazines Ogonyok, Russkaya Zhizn and Medved, and was also the editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Novaya Gazeta. In addition, Prilepin was a member of the editorial board of the Friendship of Peoples magazine. Prilepin's journalism appeared in other publications, including the magazines "Sex in the city" and "Glamour".

Prilepin's works also became the object of critical speeches. So, in October 2008, the president of Alfa-Bank, Pyotr Aven, wrote a negative review of the novel Sankya for the Russian Pioneer magazine, in which he indicated that Prilepin's heroes were engaged in revolutionary activities out of idleness and unwillingness to work. Aven's article gave rise to a heated discussion in the press, which was devoted to a separate section on Prilepin's official website. Aven was not Prilepin's only critic. Writer Alexander Bushkovsky, who himself served in the Special Rapid Response Squad - SOBR, in the article "Rereading" Pathologies. "Nonsense and Oddities in Stories about the War", published in "Questions of Literature" in 2011, noted that the novel is not plausible in that regarding the details of the conduct of military operations. The terminology used by the author was also distrustful of the critic.

The media wrote about the radical left views of Prilepin. In 1996, he met the head of the unregistered National Bolshevik Party, Eduard Limonov, and in 1997 he joined the NBP. In June 2005, the NBP was liquidated as a public organization and excluded from the unified state register of legal entities, and in March 2007, the Moscow prosecutor's office additionally announced the suspension of the NBP's activities for violating the law "On countering extremist activity" by the Limonovites. Nevertheless, in an interview with the French edition of Liberation in 2009, Prilepin spoke of himself as a National Bolshevik. He especially emphasized that the leader of his party is a "prophet of freedom", who is not a supporter of violence and "has never shed a single drop of blood." In addition, the writer mentioned Limonov among the writers most revered by him, noting that his influence on literature "is comparable to the influence that Dostoevsky and Tolstoy had in their time."

It is known that Prilepin studied at one of the Schools of Public Policy, created in various regions of Russia by the Open Russia Charitable Foundation, founded by the head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It was not specified which School and in what years the writer studied (it is known that the Nizhny Novgorod Regional School of Public Policy was opened in the spring of 2005).

Prilepin was also mentioned as a member of the Other Russia coalition. In 2007, the writer became one of the organizers of the Nizhny Novgorod March of Dissent. In the same year, together with Alexei Navalny and Sergei Gulyaev, he founded the All-Russian public organization "People", which proclaimed its ideology "democratic nationalism" - the struggle for democracy and the rights of Russians (according to some reports, the organization ceased to exist already in 2008. By July The Other Russia coalition also ceased to exist in 2010. On its basis, on the initiative of Limonov, a party of the same name was created, which, however, could not be registered. Limonova, who became a member of this party, later called himself one of its most active figures in Nizhny Novgorod In 2011, in one of his interviews, Prilepin spoke about his inner need to participate in political life and that in Russia "a person who is a father of many children ... cannot be a member of United Russia, but must be physically present in the political space."

The writer met with Vladimir Putin several times in Novoogarevo when he was president of Russia. The conversation during the meeting of the head of state with writers was not only about literature, but also about politics. To sharp questions posed by Prilepin about Russia's relations with Georgia and Belarus, about Chechnya, about the situation of state employees and pensioners in Russia, Putin, according to the writer himself, answered "convincingly, but profoundly senseless."

In May 2011, Prilepin became the winner of the "Supernatsbest" award for the best prose of the decade, beating other contenders for this award - the writer Viktor Pelevin and the poet Dmitry Bykov. According to Prilepin, he gave part of the money received for Supernatsbest to the political prisoners of the National Bolsheviks, "helped several families," and planned to spend the rest on his family. In the same month, director Kirill Serebrennikov staged the play "Thugs" based on Prilepin's novel "Sankya". The writer spoke of this production, which he went to four times, as "incomparably good." In September 2011, Prilepin received the GQ men's magazine award in the Writer of the Year nomination.

The writer said that he likes all active and "wild" people who are not "state patriots", in particular, he mentioned the members of the art group "War". As for musical tastes, Prilepin separately noted his passion for Russian rock and the work of Boris Grebenshchikov. It was reported that Prilepin himself writes music. In his youth, he played in the rock band "Innonia", and in June 2011 he released an album recorded with the band "Elefunk" (also appeared in the press as "Elefank".

Prilepin repeatedly mentioned that writing for him is a way to feed his family. The writer is married (his wife also studied at the philological faculty of UNN), the couple has four children: Gleb, Ignat, Kira and Lilia, born on August 1, 2011. It was noted that Prilepin is an Orthodox Christian, regularly attends church, all his children are baptized. As of 2011, the writer lived in Nizhny Novgorod. It was reported that he has a house in the forest on the banks of the Kerzhenets River, where he likes to spend time with his family, St. Bernard Bumblebee and the cat Binya.

Prilepin has a sister, Lena, who lives with their mother in Dzerzhinsk. The media mentioned that Prilepin's relative is the first deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia, Vladislav Surkov. In addition, it was reported that Surkov and Prilepin grew up in the same city. The writer himself specified that he and Surkov "are not blood relatives, and have long been no relatives at all" - Prilepin's sister was previously married to Surkov's cousin.

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Russian writer and publicist, winner of the "Supernatsbest" award (2011). Known for his novels Pathologies, Sin, and Sankya. In the past - the commander of the OMON unit, a participant in the Chechen campaigns of 1996 and 1999. Member of the unregistered party "Other Russia" (chairman - Eduard Limonov).

Evgeny Nikolaevich Prilepin, better known under the pseudonyms Zakhar Prilepin and Evgeny Lavlinsky, was born on July 7, 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky District, Ryazan Region. His mother was a nurse in a rural hospital, and his father was a history teacher,,,.

Prilepin spent his childhood in Skopin, and in the mid-80s (according to Prilepin himself, "somewhere in 1986") his family moved to Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region, where his parents got an apartment and quickly found a job (mother began to work at the chemical plant "Korund"),. At the age of 16, Prilepin himself began to work - he got a job as a loader in a bread store. When the young man was 17 years old and he was still studying at school number 10 in the city of Dzerzhinsk, his father died,.

In 1994, Prilepin was drafted into the army. Details of his military service were not found (editor's note) - except for the mention that, according to some sources, the future writer was "commissioned for unknown reasons").

It is known that Prilepin studied at the School of Police (in what years, it was not specified),. In 1996, he began serving in the Special Purpose Police Detachment (OMON),,. In the position of commander of the OMON department in 1996 and 1999, he took part in armed operations on the territory of Chechnya and spent a total of six months there,. Meanwhile, some observers who analyzed the writer's texts about the Chechen campaign aroused distrust about Prilepin as an riot policeman and the possibility of him getting the position of squad leader.

In parallel with his service in the riot police, Prilepin studied at the evening department of the philological faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky and lived "in two cities",,. According to some reports, he graduated from the university in 1999.

After the default of 1998, Prilepin, in his own words, began to lack the riot police salary to support his family, and sometimes he was forced to earn extra money as a bouncer in nightclubs. He did not hide the fact that in the last year of work in the riot police "he took shifts on the Moscow highway, slowed down all the trucks from the Caucasus and took away watermelons, oranges, bananas from them, because there were only potatoes at home," .

In 1999 (according to other sources - in 2000; it was also mentioned that 6 years after the start of work) Prilepin left the OMON, and in 2000, together with his wife and son Gleb, he moved to Nizhny Novgorod, where he began to write for one from Nizhny Novgorod newspapers and quickly made a career. In particular, he worked at the Political News Agency - Nizhny Novgorod. As a journalist, Prilepin used various pseudonyms, the most famous of which is Evgeny Lavlinsky, (sometimes it was noted in the media that Lavlinsky is his real name). Prilepin began to study literature later. His first publications - poetry - date back to 2003. In the same 2003, Prilepin wrote the novel "Patology" about the "second Chechen" war and began to look for an opportunity to publish it. The novel was first published in magazines, and in 2005 it was published as a separate book by the Andreevsky Flag publishing house,,,.

Since 2006, various Russian publishing houses have published Prilepin's books "Sankya" (2006), "Sin" (2007), "Boots full of hot vodka: boy stories" (2008), "I came from Russia" (2008), " Terra Tartarara: This concerns me personally" (2008), "Name Day of the Heart: Conversations with Russian Literature" (2009) and others. By the summer of 2011, Prilepin had published 9 novels and compiled 4 anthologies. In addition, he wrote a biography of the writer Leonid Leonov for the series "Life of Remarkable People",. Prilepin has won numerous awards, including "Faithful Sons of Russia" (2007, for the novel "Sin"), "Soldier of the Empire" (2008, for prose and journalism), "National Bestseller" (2008, for the novel " Sin") and the All-China Award "Best Foreign Novel" (2007, for the novel "Sankya"). In 2009, Prilepin became the secretary of the Writers' Union of Russia,,.

Prilepin did not leave journalistic activity either. As of 2011, he was a columnist for the magazines Ogonyok, Russkaya Zhizn and Medved, and was also the editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Novaya Gazeta. In addition, Prilepin was a member of the editorial board of the Friendship of Peoples magazine. Prilepin's journalism appeared in other publications, including the magazines "Sex in the city" and "Glamour".

Prilepin's works also became the object of critical speeches. So, in October 2008, the president of Alfa Bank, Pyotr Aven, wrote a negative review of the novel Sankya for the Russian Pioneer magazine, in which he indicated that Prilepin's heroes were engaged in revolutionary activities out of idleness and unwillingness to work. Aven's article gave rise to a heated discussion in the press, which was devoted to a separate section on Prilepin's official website. Aven was not Prilepin's only critic. Writer Alexander Bushkovsky, who himself served in the Special Rapid Response Squad - SOBR, in the article "Rereading" Pathologies. "Nonsense and Oddities in Stories about the War", published in "Questions of Literature" in 2011, noted that the novel is not plausible in that regarding the details of the conduct of military operations. The terminology used by the author also aroused distrust among the critic.

The media wrote about the radical left views of Prilepin. In 1996, he met the head of the unregistered National Bolshevik Party Eduard Limonov, and in 1997 he joined the NBP,. In June 2005, the NBP was liquidated as a public organization and excluded from the unified state register of legal entities, and in March 2007, the Moscow prosecutor's office additionally announced the suspension of the NBP's activities for violating the law "On countering extremist activity" by the Limonovites. Nevertheless, in an interview with the French edition of Liberation in 2009, Prilepin spoke of himself as a National Bolshevik. He especially emphasized that the leader of his party is a "prophet of freedom", who is not a supporter of violence and "has never shed a single drop of blood". In addition, the writer mentioned Limonov among the writers most revered by him, noting that his influence on literature "is comparable to the influence that Dostoevsky and Tolstoy had in their time" .

It is known that Prilepin studied at one of the Schools of Public Policy, created in various regions of Russia by the Open Russia Charitable Foundation, founded by the head of Yukos Oil Company Mikhail Khodorkovsky,,,. In which School and in what years the writer studied was not specified (it is known that the Nizhny Novgorod Regional School of Public Policy was opened in the spring of 2005).

Prilepin was also mentioned as a member of the Other Russia coalition. In 2007, the writer became one of the organizers of the Nizhny Novgorod March of Dissent,. In the same year, together with Alexei Navalny and Sergei Gulyaev, he founded the All-Russian public organization "People", which proclaimed its ideology "democratic nationalism" - the struggle for democracy and the rights of Russians (according to some reports, the organization ceased to exist already in 2008) , , , . By July 2010, the Other Russia coalition also ceased to exist. On its basis, on the initiative of Limonov, a party of the same name was created, which, however, failed to register. Limonova, who became a member of this party, later called himself one of its most active figures in Nizhny Novgorod,. In 2011, in one of his interviews, Prilepin spoke about his inner need to participate in political life and that in Russia "a person who is a father of many children ... cannot be a member of United Russia, but must physically be present in political space".

The writer met with Vladimir Putin several times in Novoogarevo when he was president of Russia. The conversation during the meeting of the head of state with writers was not only about literature, but also about politics. To sharp questions asked by Prilepin about Russia's relations with Georgia and Belarus, about Chechnya, about the situation of state employees and pensioners in Russia, Putin, in the words of the writer himself, answered "convincingly, but profoundly meaningless" ,,.

In May 2011, Prilepin became the winner of the "Supernatsbest" award for the best prose of the decade, beating other contenders for this award - writer Viktor Pelevin and poet Dmitry Bykov. According to Prilepin, he gave part of the money received for Supernatsbest to the political prisoners of the National Bolsheviks, "helped several families", and planned to spend the rest on his family,,. In the same month, director Kirill Serebrennikov staged the play "Thugs" based on Prilepin's novel "Sankya",. The writer spoke of this production, which he went to four times, as "incomparably good." In September 2011, Prilepin received the Men's GQ Magazine Writer of the Year award.

In July 2012, Prilepin became the editor-in-chief of the Free Press Internet portal.

Prilepin repeatedly mentioned that writing for him is a way to feed his family,. The writer is married (his wife also studied at the philological faculty of UNN), the couple has four children: Gleb, Ignat, Kira and Lilia, born on August 1, 2011,,. It was noted that Prilepin is an Orthodox Christian, regularly attends church, all his children are baptized. As of 2011, the writer lived in Nizhny Novgorod. It was reported that he has a house in the forest on the banks of the Kerzhenets River, where he likes to spend time with his family, St. Bernard Bumblebee and the cat Binya,,.

Prilepin has a sister, Lena, who lives in Dzerzhinsk with their mother. The media mentioned that Prilepin's relative is the first deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia Vladislav Surkov. In addition, it was reported that Surkov and Prilepin grew up in the same city. The writer himself specified that he and Surkov were "not blood relatives, and have not been relatives at all for a long time" - Prilepin's sister in the past was married to Surkov's cousin,,.

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Today he is a welcome guest everywhere — with his songs on the rock scene, with his books at a literary evening, with sharp polemical attacks in articles and on the front pages of newspapers, with provocative publications on social networks, with humanitarian aid in bombed-out villages in Donbass. You can disagree with him, but it is impossible to deny him his talent: with a word or personal example, he straightens people's shoulders, restores their dignity and the ability to walk with their heads held high on their land.

Zakhar Prilepin (according to his passport, Evgeny Nikolaevich Prilepin) is a Russian writer, journalist, and musician. Born in the village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky district, Ryazan region, in the family of a teacher and a nurse. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Nizhny Novgorod State University and the School of Public Policy. He worked as a journalist, handyman, security guard, loader, served as the commander of the OMON department, took part in the hostilities in Chechnya in 1996 and 1999.
Already the first novel "Pathology", published in 2005, brought Prilepin wide popularity, and the novel "Sankya", published a year later, made the author a cult figure in modern Russian prose. Prilepin is a laureate of prestigious international and Russian awards in the field of literature. The writer's works have been translated into 20 foreign languages. Films are made based on Prilepin's books, performances are staged, he himself actively tours with the Elefank group.
By his own admission, Zakhar Prilepin is happily married, and lists four children among his most important achievements.

- In his works, the writer often endows the characters with their own traits. Did something from your parents find reflection in your works?

- It is difficult to play with such things as parents, I hardly would. You can crush, refract, modify, improve, worsen your biography and yourself. But with your parents you will not have fun like that. For example, the father in the story "Forest" is really my father, and the grandfather in "Sin" is my grandfather, Semyon Zakharovich Prilepin. And my grandmother is also there, the real one. They were such colorful people, I loved them so much, they had such diverse, complex feelings that there was no need to draw any monograms. To invent something is an unnecessary and false occupation. It is much more important to try to understand and describe how people lived, what pain they had, what passions, thoughts. After all, in childhood you don’t feel anything of this, you live in your magic solar ball. And then suddenly something, much later, you begin to realize.

- And what are the results? What did you manage to "dig up" about your father? In one of the interviews, you said that in all sorts of “corner” situations you always took the side of your mother, and only later did you realize that everything was “much more complicated.”

- This is a purely domestic topic. My father, like many intelligent people, in some way abused alcohol, which, however, never interfered with his work. He was the director of the school, and it never happened that he did not go to work. But he allowed himself to drink an insane amount of alcohol and then he was violent - his mother could have fallen. Of course, I was on the mother's side, because she is weaker. Years later, I realized what an inner torment was in my father. She was not visible to anyone. No one could have thought that he needed to somehow calm down, help. He was a multi-talented person, he knew how to do all sorts of things with his hands: he painted pictures, carved various figures with a knife, sculpted sculptures, built several houses in his life, knew how to harness a horse and plow the land. Everything I can't do in life, he could do.

In the postwar period, the father's family lived in the village of Kalikino, Lipetsk region. He was eight years old. And so he says to his mother: "Buy me a guitar." My grandmother went, sold a pig, bought a guitar. Guitars were expensive then, I gave half of the pig for it. Her grandfather almost nailed her then. And my father sat down with this guitar in a chicken coop and taught himself to play. Was a great guitarist. Two years later: "Mom, buy me a button accordion." Grandmother handed over two hundred eggs and bought a button accordion. And the father again mastered it himself - he was called at all weddings, he knew many songs, he accompanied perfectly.

Years later, I discovered a letter from my father from the time he was caring for my mother. She was 17, he was 22. In that letter, he writes that he wants to achieve something in life, but has not yet decided - in literature, in music or in painting. He was a versatile, gifted person, but he could not decide. So he did not realize himself in anything, in fact. Many people get depressed when something fails in life, and my father was always outwardly calm, reserved, imperturbable, I never saw him in a bad mood. But inside, he was tormented.

Are there any books you inherited from your father?

He read a lot, but we didn't discuss it much. My father instilled in me a love of poetry. I read my first poem to him at the age of nine: “I love Russia, I swear.” Father says: “Well done! But it is necessary that there be metaphors, that there be imagery. This was the only such conversation. And so ... He read "village people", read books rare for the rural world: Hemingway, a little later - Gazdanov. But most of all he loved poetry: Yesenin, Rubtsov. What I definitely inherited from my father is the love of creativity and Dolsky.

- Do you remember examples of male upbringing, some life lessons taught by your father?

- I remember we were once at the sawmill, and my father “plowed open” his hand with a circular saw. And nothing: he wrapped it in a handkerchief and went off as if nothing had happened. Absolute calm. And so in all situations when something happened: always a calm look, everything is under control, always calm, no fuss ...

I had a feeling of absolute invincibility of my father. Years passed, but this feeling remained. There was no education in the form of edifying conversations: his example was education in itself.

I also inherited this, I am sick of any didacticism. My beloved woman, Masha's wife, asks when her son Gleb begins to "mow": "Talk to him!" Me: “Yes, okay, I’ll talk.” We go out into the street, silently get into the car, just as silently we reach the school, he silently leaves. I say goodbye to him: “Well, do you understand”? He understood". And that's all. I can't read instructions. Why pronounce it at all, if it is enough to straighten out one's own life, which the child constantly observes.

How did you develop as a father? In imitation, or, perhaps, on the contrary, in opposition to his own father?

- I always had the feeling that my father is an adult, a real “man”. And I still feel like a teenager. The appearance of children is, of course, happiness in its purest form, on the one hand. And, on the other hand, I perceive everything that happens to me in adult life as a misunderstanding: “Wait, what children?! I'm a child myself. Not a writer, not the commander of the OMON department - this is all some kind of nonsense. I deceived you all." To the way I felt at the age of 17-18, nothing was added. Emotions, ideas, a palette of feelings are the same. Although children really appeared and are growing, and my wife says that it will be very difficult for them to get out of my influence. Masha believes that I am replacing their teenage environment. My father and I had an extraordinary closeness, but he had Dolsky, Vertinsky, and I had Grebenshchikov, Tsoi, Revyakin and something else, partly even in defiance. The group "TV" had a song "Get out of control." I wrote this on my door, grew my hair out, put an earring in my ear, which was a rarity then.

What about my children? What I watch is what they read, what I read, they read. I find music - they drag it to class. That is, here the reverse process is obtained. All their idols rest in my dacha, they are friends with me. And we have the same vocabulary plus or minus. The wife says, "They need to get rid of it." Children should strive to outgrow their parents. Well, it seems to them that they are outgrowing, in fact, they just go to the side, begin to make their own way in life.

I remember taking the kid to hockey practice. I sit with a bottle of cognac and a book on the podium. And all the fathers at the box are shouting to their sons: “Come on, come on!” I think, well, let me go down too. He came up, called his son, I said: “Gleb, is everything okay?” Him: "Yes, fine." And I went back to sit and wait.

There was a situation when one cocky boy started pushing while his son was playing. I went down, I said: “Why is he pushing you”? He: “Well, I don’t know, it sticks.” Me: “You can do the cutting. He will fall - sit on his chest and hit right into the net. He made a hook, dropped, but did not hit. Then he says: “I couldn’t knock, dad.” “Okay,” I answer, “it will do.” This was perhaps the only time I entered into the role of a father. I've never done it again and don't feel the need to.

What else do you do together?

- At first we lived very poorly, ate almost all the time one fried potato and cabbage. And then, when fees appeared, they began to travel a little. We ride around Russia: we visited Sarov, Arzamas, Boldino several times. And around the world too - India, France, Tunisia, Thailand. We are going to Serbia. We wander at night through some quarters, clubs, and the children are with us. I try to behave in such a way that the wife and the guys feel completely safe every second. Recently, the nanny said about Gleb that he behaves calmly and calmly in public, trying to control the situation. These manners he, I hope, adopted from me.

Sometimes I let my wife rest and stay with four children. Nothing, I'm fine. And I have time to work, and take care of the children. All I have are full, washed, satisfied. I think children take it for granted, it is deposited in them as a norm, which they will then reproduce in their families. I do not understand men who are afraid to be alone with a small child. You can entrust me with eight or ten children - everything will be fine. Caring for children - it simply obliges you to constantly be on the alert, constantly work. It's like in the countryside, where you just can't help but get up for work in the morning. Peasant life cannot be suspended - you cannot pull a cow out of the socket, you have to feed it, milk it. Probably, this total, indestructible working capacity of my father, my grandfathers and great-grandfathers, this peasant hardening, was genetically deposited in me.

But in general, we do not have much time for joint studies. I'm constantly on the road.

- Who has a more prosperous childhood - your generation or the generation of your children?

“You know, we have very different childhoods. With all the nostalgia for the "Soviet", I, of course, understand what kind of country it was, what hypocrisy reigned in other areas. And the late Soviet Union is generally a nightmare. When I write about the USSR, first of all, I talk about the principles that were still present there. For example, when we lived in Dzerzhinsk, when I left for school, I left the key under the rug. And so many did. There were no code locks and iron doors. All this is difficult to underestimate. On the other hand, it seems they drank more: the whole circle of my father's acquaintances drank terribly. Now, in my opinion, they don’t drink like that.

With perestroika, boyish violence, smoking, and mass fights appeared. Dzerzhinsk at that time was a nightmarish city: you go out into the street and every time you are in a pool with your head, all around gopota. True, then there was no such blatant debauchery among teenagers.

And today... Today my children go to a good school where no one smokes, drinks or fights with the teachers. The school has a very high standard of upbringing and education. They study from morning to evening plus sports sections. By the end of the year they are none. And I, I remember, came from school, did my homework for about fifteen minutes and was free.

In general, it is difficult to bring everything to one denominator.

- Do you watch your children? Do you note for yourself any features of their growing up?

- I confess, there is such a cult created in the family without me - the cult of the pope. They will not come to me with their weaknesses or doubts, we do not accept this. Such things are discussed with mom. It seems to me that they have no secrets from her.

They try to show me their success. And the eldest, Gleb, is already interested in global things. If he hears that my wife and I are talking about politics, he can come up and ask about Crimea, about Donbass. He often asks about literature.

Have you ever apologized to your children?

— No, God forbid. And they don't have to face me either. There was only one situation. They made a mess in the room, I asked them to clean up, and they began to blame each other. I had to get angry and forbid them to watch cartoons. After some time they came and said: "We were wrong, forgive us." Not even because of cartoons, just for conscience. This was the only time. And to me in front of the children - no, I didn’t do anything bad to them.

- How do children relate to your activities: literary, musical, social?

Now only my sons read my books. The girls are too early. Gleb has read all my books, some of them several times. I didn't even ask which ones he liked and what he understood from them.

With music, fortunately, I have support at home. My children are my fan club. The album "Hunter" was especially loved by everyone. I know for sure they wouldn't listen if they didn't like it.

Sons read all materials about me. I don't read. Everything is clear to me in literature. And they are worried. With them, I first realized that the publicity of the parent puts children at risk. Unfortunately, in social networks sometimes they do not adhere to any moral and ethical standards, a huge number of people write vile things to me, shamelessly lie and be rude. In personal polemics, you can put a person in his place, force him to comply with the limits of decency, but not here. Gleb recently read some rubbish about me. If I had read this about my father on the fence as a child, it would have been very difficult for me. But he knows the real me, understands how irresponsible people can behave on social networks, so I don’t think it hurts him much.

Now Zakhar Prilepin is known as a writer and columnist, actor and TV presenter, musician and politician. He writes for LiveJournal, maintains a Youtube channel and edits the Free Press website. At the same time, he does not suffer from the pangs of creativity and "does not know what inspiration is." The main chagrin is the lack of time: children grow up, and the moments of their growing up are missed.

In such a cycle, Prilepin draws strength from the fact that he has no "pretensions to life."

"I'm always happy with everything. I've been like this since childhood. And the logic of the higher powers that bestow us with all this is probably the following: if you're happy, then - on, here's a little more strength for you."

Childhood and youth

Zakhar Prilepin was born in July 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Ryazan Region. At birth, the boy was named Eugene. The Prilepin family was not rich: father Nikolai worked as a history teacher at school, and mother Tatyana worked as a nurse in a hospital. Therefore, the future writer had to start working from an early age.

Close people, Zakhar later recalled, are so colorful and he loved them so much that he endowed the heroes of the works with their inherent features. In the story "Forest", the father is written off from Prilepin Sr., the grandfather from "Sin" is the author's grandfather, Semyon.

In 1986, the family moved to the Nizhny Novgorod region, to the city of Dzerzhinsk, where the parents were given an apartment. Prilepin's mother got a job at the Korund chemical plant. At the age of 16, the boy began working as a loader in a bakery. A year later, his father died, after his death, the guy had a hard time. After graduating from school, he changed his place of residence to Nizhny Novgorod, after which he joined the army in 1994, but was subsequently discharged.

Then Prilepin entered the police school - tall (185 cm), a strong young man served in the riot police.

In parallel with the work, the future writer studied at the philological faculty of the Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod. However, it was not destined to continue his studies then - in 1996, Prilepin was sent to Chechnya. After another 3 years, Zakhar took part in the hostilities already in another Caucasian region - in Dagestan.

In the 90s, Prilepin did not have enough riot police salary, and he worked as a security guard in nightclubs. He worked as a security guard and a handyman. In 1999, the man graduated from the university and left the OMON.

Books and creativity

In 2000, in Nizhny Novgorod, Prilepin began working in the local newspaper Delo, after which he quickly became a fairly popular journalist. A year after being hired, Zakhar became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.

The first opuses of Prilepin the writer began to appear in 2003, then they were poetic works. At this time, the first novel "Pathology" was written, in which the theme of the Chechen war runs like a red thread. At first, it was printed piece by piece in magazines, and was published as a separate book in 2005.

Since 2006, various publishing houses have published the works “Sankya”, “Sin”, “Boots full of hot vodka”, “I came from Russia”, “Terra Tartarara. This concerns me personally” “Name day of the heart. Conversations with Russian Literature.

Prilepin was educated at the School of Public Policy, which was founded by the Open Russia Foundation. In 2007, the writer became one of the co-founders of the "People" movement, whose ideology was "democratic nationalism".

In the same year, Zakhar Prilepin started a blog on the open platform LiveJournal. Here the writer boldly covers topics of interest to him, writes about his personal work, literature and politics. Zakhar does not hide his firm position on many acute political issues.

The year 2009 was marked for Prilepin by receiving the silver medal of the Bunin Prize for the collection “TerraTartarara. This applies to me personally." Then Zakhar was appointed secretary of the Russian Union of Writers. In addition, he began his career as a TV presenter, working in the PostTV program.

In 2010, Zakhar Prilepin signed an appeal to the Russian authorities from the opposition and explained in an interview that he considers the system, and "the whole system needs to be changed in order to get an open political space." The activist met with the President of Russia personally more than once, talking with him on various topics, including political ones.

Zakhar loves Russian rock and sometimes writes music himself. In 2011, he made his debut with the album "Seasons", recorded with his own group "Elefunk" on the label "Midday Music".

In the same 2011, the well-known men's magazine GQ named Prilepin the writer of the year. At the same time, the author was awarded the Bronze Snail Prize for the novel The Black Monkey.

In 2012, Zakhar wrote a manual on modern literature "Book Reader" and published stories in the collection "Eight".

In 2014, the novel The Abode brought Zakhar Prilepin the prestigious Big Book Award, established by Russian business circles. The winners are selected by a jury of 100 people, including scientists and artists, journalists and public figures.

In 2015, the writer continued his television career. Zakhar undertook to host the musical show "Salt" on the REN TV channel, where he talked with popular Russian musicians on important social topics. 65 episodes went on the air, and at the beginning of 2016, Prilepin opened a new author's program "Tea with Zakhar" on the Orthodox channel Tsargrad TV. This project closed after a year.

“My programs on the channel were the most rated. That is why they tolerated me, with all my leftist agenda.”

Politics

Politics is a tedious business, says Zakhar, people are tired, and few people want to plunge into this swamp, but they feel that they are obliged. Prilepin's main interest was the Ukrainian question. The writer's blogs are mainly devoted to the situation in the Donbass.

In 2015, Prilepin took the post of adviser to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, in 2016 he began to participate in military clashes. The man became deputy commander of a special forces battalion for work with the personnel of the DPR army, where he later rose to the rank of major.

In the same year, Prilepin took part in a public discussion of political and social issues at the site of the Trend discussion club in St. Petersburg. Together with Zakhar, the famous translator spoke. Speakers agreed on many issues.

Zakhar Prilepin shared his views with Altai readers during joint press conferences with journalist and writer Sergei Shargunov in Barnaul.

In 2017, the media reported that Prilepin was tired of simply delivering humanitarian aid to the Donbass. The Russian writer gathered a battalion of local residents, "whom he knew where to look for." It was not without accusations of promoting mercenarism, when in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda the words were heard that "there is a turn of guys from Russia."

Prilepin responded to the press on LiveJournal that he did not announce conscription into the DPR army and did not invite people to the battalion, especially mercenaries. There is no such thing as an invitation.

“When it all started, in the spring of 2014, we launched the Interbrigade project and began to slowly supply volunteers here. First to Luhansk, then to Donetsk.” The idea that you need to create your own division was constantly present.

Prilepin also asked not to invite him to TV - he refused to give interviews, reproaching the media for misinterpreting his words and "arranging a farce." To prove his words, the man publishes on his blog links and excerpts from materials dedicated to him, where he is either called "Putin's agent", or they prophesy an early cleansing by the Russian authorities.

This social and political situation inspired the author to write a collection of biographies of writers who participated in various wars of the past centuries. The book was published in 2017 under the title Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature.

Critics responded to the release of the book and the fact that Prilepin continues to broadcast television, accusing him of hypocrisy, of a frivolous understanding of the war. The writer responded to these claims by saying that if he quits everything and fights quietly in the Donbass, then he, his battalion and his ideas will lose stable funding and a platform for statements, which will not be an “act” at all, as Prilepin’s opponents characterize.

Zakhar donates the money earned by creativity to charity. According to the writer, he has one and a half million requests for assistance to families affected by the conflict. Prilepin contributed to the large-scale music festival "Lava Fest" with the invitation of rappers,

Zakhar is an Orthodox Christian, he constantly goes to church, baptized children. The Prilepins live in Nizhny Novgorod, in a house on the banks of the Kerzhenets River. In November 2017, Zakhar and Maria got married in Donetsk.

In addition to "LJ", Zakhar uses

Zakhar Prilepin- Russian writer, philologist, journalist.

Zakhar Prilepin- Member of the National Bolshevik Party since 1996. Was born Zakhar Prilepin July 7, 1975 in the village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky district, Ryazan region, in the family of a teacher and a nurse. He began his career at the age of 16. Zakhar Prilepin Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Nizhny Novgorod State University. N. I. Lobachevsky and the School of Public Policy. Zakhar Prilepin worked as a handyman, a security guard, served as a squad leader in the OMON, took part in the hostilities in Chechnya in 1996 and 1999.

Birth name: Evgeny Nikolaevich Prilepin
Aliases: Zakhar Prilepin
Date of birth: July 7, 1975
Place of birth: village of Ilyinka, Skopinsky district, Ryazan region, RSFSR, USSR
Citizenship: Russia
Occupation: Russian writer, philologist, journalist
Years of creativity: since 2003
Direction: realism

In 1999, due to financial difficulties, Zakhar Prilepin leaves the service in the riot police and gets a job as a journalist in the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper Delo. Published under many pseudonyms, the most famous of which is "Eugene Lavlinsky".
In 2000 Zakhar Prilepin becomes editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Parallel Zakhar Prilepin begins work on his first novel, Pathologies.
“The newspaper, however, was yellow, terrible, in some places even Black Hundred, although it was part of the holding of Sergei Kiriyenko. And I realized that I was wasting my life for nothing - and began to write a novel. At first it was a novel about love, but gradually (I worked for three or four years) it turned into a novel about Chechnya as about my strongest life experience - as they say, no matter what we do, a Kalashnikov assault rifle comes out.

First works Zahara Prilepina were published in 2003 in the newspaper Day of Literature.
Artworks Prilepin were published in various newspapers, including Literaturnaya Gazeta, Limonka, On the Edge, General Line, as well as in the magazines Sever, Friendship of Peoples, Roman-newspaper, Novy Mir ”,“ Snob ”,“ Russian Pioneer ”,“ Russian Life ”.
He was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper of the National Bolsheviks of Nizhny Novgorod "People's Observer". Zakhar Prilepin participated in the seminar of young writers Moscow - Peredelkino (February 2004) and in the IV, V, VI Forums of young writers of Russia in Moscow.

Zakhar Prilepin- a convinced National Bolshevik, at different time intervals - a consistent supporter of the NBP coalition "The Other Russia", took part in the organization of the March of Dissenters in Nizhny Novgorod on March 24, 2007.
In 2007 Zakhar Prilepin became a co-founder of the national-democratic movement "People". On June 23-24, 2007, the founding conference of the movement and the first meeting of its political council were held in Moscow. Sergei Gulyaev and Zakhar Prilepin became co-chairs of the movement. Subsequently, the People movement was supposed to join the Other Russia coalition, but this did not happen.

March 10, 2010 Zakhar Prilepin signed the appeal of the Russian opposition "Putin must go." In an interview published on March 16, 2010, he said in response to a question about the goals of the campaign:
“Putin is a system, and the whole system needs to be changed. An open political space is needed. First of all, the country must be brought out of the political freeze. This requires a free parliament, discussion, and an independent press.”

Currently Zakhar Prilepin works as editor-in-chief of the Political News Agency - Nizhny Novgorod, general director of Novaya Gazeta in Nizhny Novgorod. Since July 2009, he has been the host of the No Country for Old Men program on the PostTV channel. Member of the Civil Literary Forum of Russia.
July 1, 2012 Zakhar Prilepin Together with Sergei Shargunov, he headed the editorial office of the Free Press website. Shargunov became editor-in-chief, and Zakhar Prilepin became editor-in-chief.

Zakhar Prilepin successfully and happily married. Has four children.

Zakhar Prilepin's awards

Winner of the Boris Sokolov Prize (2004)
Laureate of the Literaturnaya Rossiya newspaper award (2004)
Zakhar Prilepin- Laureate of the "Roman-newspaper" award in the "Discovery" nomination (2005)
Eureka Award Diploma (2006)
Shortlisted for the National Bestseller Award in 2005 and 2006 (2005, 2006)
In 2006, he became a finalist for the Russian Booker Prize.
Winner of the All-China International Literature Award "The Best Foreign Book of 2006" (2007)
Laureate of the annual literary prize "Yasnaya Polyana" named after Leo Tolstoy (nomination "XXI century") for the novel "Sankya" (2007)
Zakhar Prilepin- Laureate of the literary award "Faithful Sons of Russia" named after Alexander Nevsky for the novel in the stories "Sin" (2007)
Laureate of the All-Russian award of the Institute of National Strategy "Soldier of the Empire" (2008)
Winner of the National Bestseller Award for the novel in the stories "Sin" (2008)
Silver medal of the Bunin Prize for the book "TerraTartarara: It concerns me personally" (2009)
Winner of the "Super National Best" award, the novel "Sin" is named the best book of the decade (2011)
Winner of the Russian Booker of the Decade Award (2011)
Zakhar Prilepin- winner of the "Bronze Snail" award in the "Large Form" nomination for the best fantasy novel of the year - "Black Monkey" (2012).

Books by Zakhar Prilepin

"Pathologies" (novel) - 2004 ed. "St. Andrew's Flag"
Sankya (novel) - 2006 ed. "Ad Marginem"
"Sin" (novel) - 2007 ed. Vagrius (Super-National Best Award, 2011)
"Boots Full of Hot Vodka" (collection of short stories) - 2008 ed. "AST"
"I came from Russia" (collection of essays) - 2008 ed. "Limbus Press"
Terra Tartarara. This concerns me personally ”(collection of essays) - 2009 ed. "AST"
"Leonid Leonov: His game was huge" (biography) - 2010 ed. "Young Guard", series Life of Remarkable People
"Black Monkey" (novel) - 2011 ed. "AST"
"Eight" (collection of stories) - 2012 ed. "Astrel"
"Knigochet" (a manual on the latest literature) - 2012 ed. "Astrel"

Compilations by Zakhar Prilepin:

"What Day of the Week Will Happen" (collection of selected stories from the books "Sin" and "Boots Full of Hot Vodka") - 2008 ed. "Yasnaya Polyana"
"Sin and Other Stories" (collection of stories including the books "Sin", "Boots Full of Hot Vodka" and 2 stories not included in these books) - 2011 ed. "Astrel"
“Peresvet is coming to us” (a collection of essays based on the books “I came from Russia” and “It concerns me personally” with the inclusion of several new essays) - 2012 ed. "Astrel"
"Road in December" (collection of prose in one volume; with the exception of the collection "Eight") - 2012 ed. "Astrel"