Annotation:
“Evil Spirit” is a book that Valentin Pikul himself called “the main success in his literary biography"- tells about the life and death of one of the most controversial figures in Russian history - Grigory Rasputin - and, under the pen of Pikul, develops into a large-scale and fascinating story about the most paradoxical period, probably for our country - the short break between the February and October revolutions...

I didn't read this book, but listened to it. I listened to the voice acting by Sergei Chonishvili. All on top level. Interesting, fascinating, in the faces.
BUT! Discouragingly sharp, harsh, unexpected. Like a tub with... filler!
The Emperor appeared before me as an uneducated, bloodthirsty, and worthless henpecked man.
The Empress is an ambitious slut and a hysterical woman.
Very unpleasant images that go against everything I've ever read. It left a nasty aftertaste. But it’s well written, and the voice acting is just incredibly cool.
In any case, there is something to think about on a large and small scale.

Well
Criticism (since the summary does not really reveal the nature of this book):
Pikul's works conveyed an unofficial, although very rarely incorrect, view of historical events. His novels were censored. The author could not print what he wanted.
Pikul's historical works have often been and continue to be criticized for careless handling historical documents, vulgar, according to critics, style of speech, etc.
The one that suffered the most in this sense was his last completed novel, “Evil Spirits” (magazine version: “At the Last Line”), despite the fact that the author himself considered it “the main success in his literary biography.”
The novel is dedicated to the period of the so-called. "Rasputinism" in Russia. In addition to the story about the life of G. Rasputin, the author historically incorrectly depicted moral character and the habits of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna (now considered Russian Orthodox Church to the face of the holy passion-bearers), representatives of the clergy (including the highest). Almost the entire royal entourage and the then government of the country are depicted in the same manner. The novel was repeatedly criticized by historians and contemporaries of the events described for its strong discrepancy with the facts and the “tabloid” level of the narrative. For example, A. Stolypin (the son of former Prime Minister P. A. Stolypin) wrote an article about the novel with the characteristic title “Breads of truth in a barrel of lies” (first published in the foreign magazine “Posev” No. 8, 1980), where, in particular, the author said: “There are many passages in the book that are not only incorrect, but also base and slanderous, for which rule of law the author would answer not to critics, but to the court.”
Soviet historian V. Oskotsky, in the article “Education by History” (Pravda newspaper, October 8, 1979), called the novel “a stream of plot gossip.”

In a reference article about V. Pikul in the newspaper “Literary Russia” (No. 43, October 22, 2004), literary critic V. Ogryzko spoke about the effect the novel had among writers at that time:
The publication of the novel “At the Last Line” in the magazine “Our Contemporary” (No. 4-7) in 1979 caused more than just fierce controversy. Among those who did not accept the novel were not only liberals. Valentin Kurbatov wrote to V. Astafiev on July 24, 1979: “Yesterday I finished reading Pikulev’s “Rasputin” and I think with anger that the magazine has very dirty itself with this publication, because such “Rasputin” literature has never been seen in Russia even in the most silent and shameful time. AND Russian word Never has there been such neglect, and, of course, Russian history has never been exposed to such disgrace. Now they seem to write more neatly in the restrooms” (“Endless Cross.” Irkutsk, 2002). Yuri Nagibin, as a sign of protest after the publication of the novel, resigned from the editorial board of the magazine “Our Contemporary”.
Despite this, V. Pikul’s widow believes that “... it is “Evil Spirits” that, in my opinion, is the cornerstone in understanding and, if you like, in knowledge of the character, creativity, and indeed the whole life of Valentin Pikul.”

Michael Weller in his book Perpendicular put it this way:
... all historians, on cue, began to write that Pikul was misrepresenting history. This is not true. Pikul did not distort history. Pikul took advantage of history. He took those versions that he liked best due to their scandalousness and sensationalism. He's in historical figures took those features that he liked best and were more suitable for this book. As a result, the books turned out to be quite exciting.

Valentin Savvich Pikul

Evil spirits

Valentin Pikul

Evil spirits

In memory of my grandmother, the Pskov peasant woman Vasilisa Minaevna Karenina, who throughout her life long life I lived not for myself, but for people - I dedicate it.

A PROLOGUE THAT COULD BECOME AN EPILOGUE

The old Russian history was ending and a new one was beginning. Creeping through the alleys with their wings, the loudly hooting owls of reaction darted through their caves... The first to disappear somewhere was the overly perceptive Matilda Kshesinskaya, a unique prima weighing 2 pounds and 36 pounds (the fluff of the Russian stage!); a brutal crowd of deserters was already destroying her palace, smashing into smithereens the fabulous gardens of Babylon, where overseas birds sang in the captivating bushes. The ubiquitous newsboys stole notebook ballerinas, and the Russian man in the street could now find out how this amazing woman’s daily budget worked out:

For a hat – 115 rubles.

A person's tip is 7 kopecks.

For a suit – 600 rubles.

Boric acid – 15 kopecks.

Vovochka as a gift - 3 kopecks.

The imperial couple were temporarily kept under arrest in Tsarskoe Selo; at workers' rallies there were already calls to execute "Nikolashka the Bloody", and from England they promised to send a cruiser for the Romanovs, and Kerensky expressed a desire to personally carry out royal family to Murmansk. Under the windows of the palace, students sang:

Alice needs to go back, Address for letters - Hesse - Darmstadt, Frau Alice is going "nach Rhine", Frau Alice - aufwiederzein!

Who would believe that just recently they were arguing:

– We will call the monastery over the grave of the unforgettable martyr:

Rasputinsky! - stated the empress.

“Dear Alix,” the husband answered respectfully, “but such a name will be misinterpreted by the people, because the surname sounds obscene.” It is better to call the monastery Grigorievskaya.

- No, Rasputinskaya! - the queen insisted. – There are hundreds of thousands of Grigorievs in Rus', but there is only one Rasputin...

They made peace on the fact that the monastery would be called Tsarskoselsko-Rasputinsky; In front of the architect Zverev, the Empress revealed the “ideological” plan of the future temple: “Gregory was killed in damned Petersburg, and therefore you will turn the Rasputin Monastery towards the capital as a blank wall without a single window. Turn the façade of the monastery, bright and joyful, towards my palace...” On March 21, 1917, precisely on Rasputin’s birthday, they were going to found the monastery. But in February, ahead of the tsar’s schedule, the revolution broke out, and it seemed that Grishka’s long-standing threat to the tsars had come true:

“That's it! I won’t exist, and you won’t exist either.” It is true that after the assassination of Rasputin, the Tsar lasted only 74 days on the throne. When an army is defeated, it buries its banners so that they do not fall to the winner.

Rasputin lay in the ground, like the banner of a fallen monarchy, and no one knew where his grave was. The Romanovs hid the place of his burial...

Staff Captain Klimov, who served on the anti-aircraft batteries of Tsarskoe Selo, once walked along the outskirts of the parks; By chance he wandered to stacks of boards and bricks, an unfinished chapel lay frozen in the snow. The officer illuminated its arches with a flashlight and noticed a blackened hole under the altar. Having squeezed into its recess, he found himself in the dungeon of the chapel. There stood a coffin - large and black, almost square; there was a hole in the lid, like a ship's porthole. The staff captain directed the flashlight beam directly into this hole, and then Rasputin himself looked at him from the depths of oblivion, eerie and ghostly...

Klimov appeared at the Council of Soldiers' Deputies.

“There are a lot of fools in Rus',” he said. – Aren’t there already enough experiments on Russian psychology? Can we guarantee that the obscurantists will not find out where Grishka lies, as I did? We must stop all pilgrimages of the Rasputinites from the beginning...

Bolshevik G.V. Elin, a soldier of the armored car division (soon the first chief of the armored forces of the young Soviet Republic), took up this matter. Covered in black leather, creaking angrily, he decided to put Rasputin to death - execution after death!

Today, Lieutenant Kiselev was on duty guarding the royal family; in the kitchen he was handed a lunch menu for “Romanov citizens.”

“Soup soup,” read Kiselyov, marching along long corridors, “smelt risotto pies and cutlets, vegetable chops, porridge and currant pancakes... Well, not bad!”

The doors leading to the royal chambers opened.

“Citizen Emperor,” said the lieutenant, handing over the menu, “allow me to draw your highest attention...

Nicholas II put aside the tabloid Blue Magazine (in which some of his ministers were presented against the backdrop of prison bars, while others had ropes wrapped around their heads) and answered the lieutenant dimly:

– Don’t you find it difficult to use the awkward combination of the words “citizen” and “emperor”? Why don't you call me simpler...

He wanted to advise that they address him by his first name and patronymic, but Lieutenant Kiselev understood the hint differently.

“Your Majesty,” he whispered, looking towards the door, “the soldiers of the garrison became aware of Rasputin’s grave, now they are holding a meeting, deciding what to do with his ashes...

The Empress, all in keen attention, quickly spoke with her husband in English, then suddenly, without even feeling pain, she tore off a precious ring from her finger, a gift from the British Queen Victoria, and almost forcibly put it on the lieutenant’s little finger.

“I beg you,” she muttered, “you will get whatever you want, just save me!” God will punish us for this crime...

The empress's condition "was truly terrible, and even more terrible - the nervous twitching of her face and her entire body during a conversation with Kiselyov, which ended in a strong hysterical attack." The lieutenant reached the chapel when the soldiers were already working with spades, angrily opening the stone floor to get to the coffin. Kiselev began to protest:

“Are there really no believers in God among you?” There were also such among the soldiers of the revolution.

“We believe in God,” they said. - But what does Grishka have to do with it? We are not robbing a cemetery to make money. But we don’t want to walk on the ground in which this bastard lies, and that’s all!

Kiselev rushed to the office phone, calling the Tauride Palace, where the Provisional Government was meeting. Commissar Voitinsky was on the other end of the line:

- Thank you! I will report to Minister of Justice Kerensky... And the soldiers were already carrying Rasputin’s coffin through the streets. Among the local inhabitants, who came running from everywhere, wandered “material evidence” taken from the grave. It was the Gospel in expensive morocco and a modest icon tied with a silk bow, like a box of chocolates for a name day. From the underside of the image, with a chemical pencil, the Empress wrote her name with the names of her daughters; Vyrubova signed below; around the list with a frame there are the words: YOURS - SAVE - US

“A formidable husband came and asked her:

- Who conceived this trash, tell me! - He took the child by the leg, like a lousy frog, and carried him to drown him in the river. “That’s where he belongs,” he said, stumbling drunkenly over pots.

The baby, hanging upside down, didn’t even make a sound. Potemkin shook the child one more time over a deep pool, in which lazy catfish quietly swayed and black crayfish crawled.

- So who is it from? From Glinki or from the Tukhachevskys?

The mother’s bestial cry filled the dense forest:

- He’s Potemkin... Calm down, you old dog!

This is how Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, His Serene Highness Prince of Tauride, Field Marshal and brilliant holder of various orders, including all foreign ones (except the Golden Fleece, the Holy Spirit and the Garter), Governor General, was born New Russia, creator of the glorious Black Sea Fleet, he’s its first commander-in-chief, and so on, and so on, and so on...!”

Valentin Pikul, “Favorite”

Jung of the Northern Fleet

In the mid-1980s, at the beginning of perestroika, the most reading nation in the world, in addition to current articles in the press, showed great interest in the past of its country. The established portraits of historical figures, familiar from textbooks, no longer suited me - I wanted something new, unconventional.

This unconventional approach to Russian history gave readers Valentin Pikul, a writer whose book circulation broke all records during this period.

Valentin Savvich Pikul was born on July 13, 1928 in Leningrad. In 1939, his father, a former Baltic sailor and then a shipbuilding engineer, was transferred to a new shipyard in the city of Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk). Soon after him, his family moved to the North.

In the summer of 1941, Valya Pikul visited his grandmother in Leningrad and remained in the city, blockaded by the Germans. He and his mother were taken from Leningrad along the “Road of Life” in 1942. After returning to Molotovsk, Valentin fled to Solovki, to the cabin school. After its completion, until the end of the war, Pikul served on the destroyer Grozny.

Valentin's father, who served in Marine Corps, died in the battles near Stalingrad.

From ginseng to Ocean Patrol

After the war, Pikul worked as the head of a diving team and served in the fire department, but the main interest of his life was literature. He devoted a lot of time to self-education, went to a literary circle, and talked with young writers.

It is interesting that Pikul’s first published story had nothing to do with history at all - it was an educational article about ginseng, which was published in 1947. The self-taught writer was pondering the idea of ​​his first novel when a book about the destroyers of the Northern Fleet caught his eye. Pikul found it very boring and decided that he could write much better on this topic that was close to him. But several versions of the planned story were destroyed by him, since Pikul considered them unsuccessful. However, some of these materials were published in the form of fragments in the Tallinn naval newspaper “On Watch”.

Pikul's real success came in 1954 after the release of his first novel, Ocean Patrol, dedicated to the fight against the Nazis in the Barents Sea. And although the writer himself subsequently considered this book unsuccessful, he received high marks from critics and became a member of the USSR Writers' Union.

The maritime theme was one of the main ones in his work, but far from the only one. His works covered several centuries of Russian history, starting from the time of creation Russian Empire and ending with the Great Patriotic War.

Monument to Valentin Pikul. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / Nikolay Maksimovich

30 novels in 40 years

Pikul was an extremely prolific author by the standards of the time, when most writers were in the habit of creating books on their own. For 40 years creative life he created about 30 novels and stories, not counting numerous historical miniatures - short stories about historical figures and events of the past.

In the early 1960s, Pikul moved to Riga, where he lived until his death. It was there that he created his most famous works, such as “Requiem for the PQ-17 Caravan”, “Moonzund”, “Word and Deed”, “Pen and Sword” and others.

“To judge the Russian court of the 18th century by those palaces that we have now turned into national museums is erroneous and incorrect.

The royal court then resembled a bivouac, or rather, a walking camp. And the courtiers are nomads, Scythians! Hence the costume the women wore was often not women’s, but paramilitary; pants replaced their skirts.

State ladies lived in tents and huts for a long time. And they warmed themselves by the fires. And they gave birth in the barracks. And the maids of honor knew the landmaps of the empire no worse than the lieutenants of geodesy.

Where the hell did he take them!..

- Touch it! - And Her Majesty’s court takes off.

Sets, chests of drawers, toilets, Rubens and beds are piled onto carts. Kalmyk and arapok are planted on top, and off we go.

Everything cracks, beats, rings. Everything is stolen!

On one night alone, the imperial palaces used to catch fire three times in a row.”

Valentin Pikul, “With a Pen and a Sword”

In bed with Elizabeth

Pikul's style was completely different from the classic historical novels of the Soviet era. The author put a personal touch into his books, drew extremely three-dimensional images of the characters, showed their emotions and experiences, and colorfully described the life of that era. At the same time, Pikul’s main characters were often not fictional characters or prototypes of famous figures, but the most real historical figures.

Pikul in his works is not a detached conventional author, but an emotional storyteller who openly sympathizes with some individuals and is completely merciless towards others.

This method of storytelling alarmed colleagues in the writing workshop, caused horror among professional historians and attracted the close attention of those in power, who, in Pikul’s disrespect for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, Catherine the Great And Grigory Potemkin saw some hidden hints of modernity.

That's why real success I came to Pikul during perestroika, when it became fashionable to allow everything to everyone.

The more popular the writer’s books became, the more harshly professional historians criticized him. Pikul's fans to this day take such criticism with hostility, arguing that the author worked a lot with sources before each book. Opponents object - Pikul did not spend a single day in the archives, preferring to work with the memoirs of participants in the events or with the books of those writers who had already created works on this topic.

Special look

Connoisseurs of naval history note that Pikul, despite his own naval past, sometimes describes naval battles extremely freely, gives incorrect characteristics to ships, and the portraits of some naval commanders even look like caricatures.

Pikul really has a lot of factual inaccuracies, but, mainly, the complaints are still not against them, but against historical portraits the personalities he described. In his unfinished novel"Barbarossa" Valentin Pikul gave extremely derogatory characteristics to the entire Soviet leadership of the Great Patriotic War, almost without mincing words.

“Stalin learned about the beginning of the war from Molotov.

— Border incident? - Stalin didn’t believe it.

- No, war...

Everyone saw how the color drained from his face, and Stalin sank into a chair. Everyone was silent, and he was silent. (“Hitler deceived Stalin, and Stalin deceived... Stalin himself!” - this is exactly what was stated later at the Nuremberg trials.)

“We need to detain the German,” he said.

— Marshal Timoshenko has already given the order to western districts, so that the enemy is not only detained - to destroy him!

“And... destroy,” Stalin repeated like a parrot.

General Vatutin arrived from the General Staff with a report: the German army is advancing along the entire front - from and to, from sea to sea, early in the morning the Germans have already bombed cities, the list of which is too long, battles are taking place on Soviet soil. Stalin immediately became shorter, as if crushed from above by something heavy, and his words were the most obscene:

“The great Lenin bequeathed to us a great proletarian state, and you (he didn’t say “I”!) - you all pro...lied it!”

Valentin Pikul, "Barbarossa"

Professional historians note that the writer often wove into his narrative outline events that never actually happened and appear only in the form of rumors and historical anecdotes. Pikul presented this as an immutable truth.

But if Pikul was forgiven for the unfinished “Barbarossa”, published at the peak of revelations of the Soviet system, then for the novel “Evil Spirit” many fans of “The Russia We Lost” are still ready to posthumously anathematize the author.

Riot of “Evil Spirits”

"Evil Spirit" is dedicated to recent years Russian monarchy and influence Grigory Rasputin to the fall of the Russian Empire. Pikul treated the images in an extremely unflattering manner Nicholas II and his wife, who are now canonized. The writer's view would hardly have surprised the contemporaries of the last Russian emperor, however, at a time when it is customary to attribute only benefactors to Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov, some see the book as blasphemy.

“Surrounded by uncles and brothers, among whom the most vile forms of depravity flourished, Alexander III managed to maintain a healthy male insides. They said that the king was generally monogamous. In his diary, he filled a page with an immaculate description of his wedding night. And - no orgies! A terrible drunkard, he did not organize homeric drinking bouts, but got drunk on the sly. The head of his security, General Pyotr Cherevin, also served as the tsar’s drinking companion... Poets of the democratic camp even praised the emperor for his obvious modesty.”

Valentin Pikul "Evil Spirit"

Pikul’s toughness in “Evil Spirits,” released in 1979, amazingly united the CPSU Central Committee and the descendants of Russian emigrants abroad. The Soviet leadership, which allowed the book to be published only with significant cuts, placed the writer’s activities under special control. And in the emigrant press, the son of a Russian attacked Pikul Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, who strongly disliked the way Soviet writer treated the image of his father, and even the painting of that era.

As a result, the entire “Evil Spirit” was first published only in 1989.

Russian Dumas

Both fans and critics of Valentin Pikul make the same mistake when trying to evaluate him as a historian. Pikul is not a historian, he is the creator of historical novels.

At one time he was called the “Russian Dumas,” and this is a very accurate description. After all, France, created Alexandre Dumas, was radically different from real France. For someone who grew up watching The Three Musketeers, it's hard to come to terms with the idea that Richelieu, Anne of Austria, Buckingham in reality they were completely different from how Dumas described them. But the literary genius turned out to be stronger than historical truth.

Almost the same situation applies to Pikul’s works. His historical narrative is the author’s view of the era, which does not claim absolute objectivity. The magic of Pikul’s works made many believe that everything he told was true from beginning to end. When it turned out that this was not so, disappointment set in.

Valentin Pikul's real merit lies in the fact that he managed to awaken millions of readers with a genuine interest in history. Many modern professional historians admit that their choice life path influenced by Pikul's books read in his youth. And the fact that much in his novels is not confirmed by historical documents is why history as a science differs from fiction.

Valentin Savvich Pikul died on July 16, 1990, without realizing many of his ideas. The second volume of the novel “Barbarossa”, the book “When Kings Were Young” (about the events of the 18th century), historical novels about Princess Sophia, ballerina Anna Pavlova, artist Mikhail Vrubel...

“I wanted to cry - this is the end of the novel:

How beautiful, how fresh the roses will be, thrown into my coffin by my country...

I think I said everything I knew. Farewell. I have the honor!

Valentin Pikul, “I have the honor”

Scandals of the Soviet era Razzakov Fedor

Seditious Pikul (“Evil Spirit”)

Seditious Pikul

("Evil spirits")

IN July 1979 At the center of the scandal was Valentin Pikul’s novel “Evil Spirit” about Georgiy Rasputin. Publication of the novel began in the magazine “Our Contemporary” with April and was due to end at the end of the year. But everything ended much earlier. A total of four issues with the novel were published (4-7), after which the novel caught the eye of the wife of one of the Politburo members. What she read outraged the woman to the core. She saw in it a frank allusion to the modern mores of the Kremlin court. The fact is that in the novel the writer adhered to the version that Rasputin was a puppet in the hands of the Jews. Meanwhile, similar rumors were spreading in the USSR about Brezhnev, whose wife was Jewish, as well as almost all of his assistants and consultants. As a result, the publication of the novel was demanded to be closed. True, to make everything look civilized, they “lay down straw.” IN July The last part of “Evil Spirits” was released, after which the novel was thoroughly “fucked up” in the press. July 27 In “Literary Russia” an article by Irina Pushkareva was published under the characteristic title “When the sense of proportion is lost...”. The critic left no stone unturned in her novel.

And yet, no matter how much the “tops” wanted to, they still failed to put an end to this. There was too much talk about this book. And after its ban, interest in it soared to even greater heights. Sovremennik issues with " Evil spirits"already cost fabulous amounts of money on the black market (in open sale they simply did not exist), and now they have completely soared into the sky. The fame of Valentin Pikul has climbed another couple of steps up. And no critics could overthrow him from there.

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Less than a year after the publication of the first separate edition of M. Kasvinov’s book, the magazine “Our Contemporary” began publishing the novel “At the Last Line” by the popular and, of course, talented writer V. S. Pikul. There is another curious coincidence. According to the writer, he sat down to write the novel on September 3, 1972, following the appearance of the beginning of Kasvinov’s book in the magazine (August issue of Zvezda of the same year). It was completed by V. Pikul on January 1, 1975. Our Contemporary published the novel in four issues in 1979.

...The demon led him to compose this false and slanderous novel about Nicholas II and Grigory Rasputin,” A. Segen, the current head of the prose department of “Our Contemporary,” assesses this work by Pikul. - For what? Not clear. Knowing, for example, that the scar on [Emperor] Nicholas’s head remained from the time of his trip to Japan, where the Russian Tsar was attacked with a saber by an overzealous samurai, Pikul composed a scene in which young Nicholas urinates in an Orthodox Serbian temple and for this receives a well-deserved blow with a saber on the head from a Serbian policeman. And such examples are a dime a dozen in Pikul’s novel. This is all the more offensive since Valentin Savvich was a truly wonderful writer and patriot of our Motherland!

The first separate edition of Pikul’s novel was published in the year of the “volley release” of M.K. Kasvinov’s book (1989).

Since then, this work, published under the title “Evil Spirit,” was published annually in mass editions until 1995. During this time, the total circulation of the two-volume book amounted to more than 700 thousand copies.

1990 The height of the prayer standing of the Orthodox for the glorification of the saints Royal Martyrs. “On July 13,” writes A. Segen, “Pikul celebrates his 62nd birthday. Three days later, on July 16, he felt unwell all day, and on the night from the 16th to the 17th, precisely on the anniversary of the execution Royal family, Valentin Savvich dies of a heart attack. What is this? Sign? If so, a sign of what? The fact that Tsar Nicholas summoned him to trial, or the fact that the Tsar forgave the writer?..”

One way or another, Pikul’s “Evil Spirit” stands in the same series of falsifications of history as Kasvinov’s “Twenty-three steps down” and Klimov’s “Agony”. I repeat once again that one can hardly blame the authors for this - they wrote what they knew from Soviet sources. But these sources were full of myths and slander, dating back to 1916–1917.

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