Fiction writer Alexander Romanovich Belyaev.
It was he who invented the head of Professor Dowell, the flying man Ariel, Ichtiander...
He invented it because he did not give up. Although his entire life is a typical manifestation of what is called the "genus curse" in the people. How it really is called, nobody knows.
As a child, Alexander Belyaev first lost his sister - she died of sarcoma. Then his brother drowned. Then his father died, and Sasha had to make a living for himself - he was still a teenager. And as a child, he damaged his eye, which later led to almost loss of vision. As a child, he learned to play violin and piano. He started writing, composing, playing in theatre. Then, in his youth, Stanislavsky himself invited him to his troupe — but he refused.
Maybe because of my family. Who knows? He just got married for the first time. Two months later, his wife left him and went to another. Time passed, the wound lasted and he married a lovely girl again. At the same time, he became ill with bone tuberculosis. It was almost a sentence. Belyaev was enclosed entirely in plaster, like a mummy - for three years. Three years in the plaster had to lie in bed. The wife left, saying that she was not going to take care of the ruins, not for this she married. And Belyaev was lying down, all wrapped in the plaster. It was then that he invented Professor Dowell's head - when a fly sat on his face and began to crawl. And he could not move his finger to drive her out... But this horrible incident prompted Belyaev to write a novel. Then, when he still stood on his feet, he began to walk in a celluloid corset. Half blind and ugly. He was a beautiful man in his youth.
He wrote and wrote his famous novels Fantasy did not exhaust it, good defeated evil, people went beyond their possibilities, flew to other planets, invented rescue technologies, loved and believed. He wrote a little sad. quite a little. If you remember what he was in...
He later married a good woman. Two daughters were born. One died of meningitis, the other also became ill with tuberculosis. Then the Nazis came to the Tsarskoye Selo and the occupation began. Belyaev could not fight — he barely walked. I could not leave. He died semi-paralyzed, from hunger and cold. His wife and daughter were abducted to Germany. They did not even know where Alexander Romanovich was buried.
He then handed over to his wife all that was left of her husband, the glasses. Nothing else remains. Novels, novels and stories. And the glasses. To which was attached a curved paper, a note. There were words that the dying writer wrote to his wife: “Don’t look for me on earth. There is nothing left of me here. “Your Ariel...”
by Anna Kirjanova