Nikolay Borisov

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Nikolay Andreyevich Borisov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Борисов, Ukrainian: Микола Андрійович Борисов; October 11, 1889 - September 3, 1937) was a Soviet Ukrainian writer best known for an adventure novel Ukrasia which was the base of the popular 1925 film Ukrasia [uk; pl; ru; sh] directed by Pyotr Chardynin. [1][2][3]He wrote his books in Russian, but they were immediately translated in Ukrainian.[4]

He graduated from the Yaroslavl Cadet Corps [ru], and Kiev Military School [uk; ru] and fought in World War I, earning military decorations. During the Russian Civil War, for a short time he was with White Army, then joined the Red Army. [4]

He wrote adventure novels he dubbed "cine-novels" (cinema novels), a popular form in these times. In 1920s he worked as a screenwriter in film studios of Odesa and Yalta.[5] He knew several foreign languages and was a fan of Esperanto, which was a pretext for his ill fate. He was arrested and executed in 1937, accused of participation in the "counter-revolutionary Trotskyite organization among Esperantists".[4][2]

Works

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  • 1925: "Укразия" (Ukraziya, Ukrasia), cine-novel (cinema novel, Кино-роман)
  • 1925: Генерал с того света, a lost short film, co-authored the screenplay with Vladimir Vajnshtok[6]
    time slip genre: a Russian Imperial Army general wakes up in the Soviet Union
  • 1927: Green Apples: A Collective Novel
    pseudotranslation "from American language by Nikolay Borisov", allegedly written by a Kornelius Krok; in fact it was a "bouts-rimés-novel", a collage of excerpts of translations of 17 popular novels
    The subtitle "Collective Novel" is a parody on the real tradition of the crowdwritten collective novels of the time[7]
  • 1927: Слово за наганом., cine-novel
    Subtitled "Из жизни белогвардейского поручика в период гражданской войны 1918 г." [From the life of a White Guard lieutenant during the civil war of 1918]
  • 1928: Vive la commune! A novel from the epoch of 1871[8]
  • 1929: "Четверги мистера Дройда", cine-novel, a sequel to "Ukrasia" set in near future[5][9]
    The story is set in a future capitalist country where total mind control has been invented, and the citizens are controlled by the "Committee for Human Salvation"

References

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  1. ^ Николай Андреевич Борисов (1889 — 1937)
  2. ^ a b Volodymyr Polishchuk [uk], Забутий черкаський письменник і демократ. До 125-річчя з дня народження Миколи Борисова
  3. ^ A. Sherman, («Укразия» Н. Борисова)
  4. ^ a b c Виктор Цион, Это была война, December 23, 2016
  5. ^ a b БОРИСОВ, Николай Андреевич (archived)
  6. ^ Генерал с того света (1925)
  7. ^ Maria Malikova, Халтуроведение: советский псевдопереводной роман периода НЭПа, НЛО, no. 3, 2010
  8. ^ Chervonyĭ shli︠a︡kh, 1923-1936 rr: systematychnyĭ pokaz︠h︡chyk zmistu, p. 122
  9. ^ Андреевич Борисов Четверги мистера Дройда (public domain)