Biography Valentina Fedorovich

Bulgakova Bulgakov on November 25 - the year of the birth of Valentin Fedorovich Bulgakov 25 Valentin Fedorovich Bulgakov was one of those who are called ascetics. The secretary of Leo Tolstoy, a tireless fighter for the preservation of cultural values, he went down in history as the Savior of the Yasnaya Polyana and a significant part of the heritage of Russian emigration.

Born in the family of a full -time caretaker of the county schools of the Kuznetsk and Biysk districts, he from childhood amazed those around him with his abilities and interest in history and literature. So, while still studying in the Tomsk classical gymnasium, which he graduated from the gold medal, Bulgakov collected folklore and ancient legends in Altai. During the years of study, this amazingly gifted boy collaborated with Tomsk newspapers, published unknown materials about the wedding of F.

Dostoevsky and Maria Isaeva in Kuznetsk and letters by P. in the year Bulgakov released in the “Notes of the Krasnoyarsk Siberian Department of the Russian Geographical Society” Russian and Altai fairy tales, which were recorded during his expeditions. In the year, Bulgakov entered the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University. He immediately became noticeable, was elected chairman of the Siberian fraternity of young students.

In the year, Valentin Fedorovich first visited Tolstoy, and this meeting determined his life. In the year, Bulgakov’s work “Christian ethics. The systematic outline of the worldview L. Tolstoy occupied the main place in the thoughts and feelings of Valentin Fedorovich. He also liked the great writer very much and soon received an offer, about which, without exaggeration, thousands of people dreamed.

Bulgakov became the personal secretary of Tolstoy. True, for this I had to quit the university. So, he led the endless, truly huge correspondence of Tolstoy, helped him in the preparation of books and wrote a diary every day. After the death of the writer, at the insistence of Sofia Andreevna, he dismantled the Tolstoy archive. In the year, the famous Russian publisher Sytin published two books by Valentin Fedorovich at once - “L.

Tolstoy in the last years of his life ”and“ The biography of L. Tolstoy in the letters of his secretary ”. Also in those years, Valentin Fedorovich began his tireless museum activity, began to create a museum of L. Tolstoy in Khamovniki. As a true follower of the ideas of his idol about the non -resistance of evil, Bulgakov opposed the feather world war. For the authorship of the appeal “come to your senses, people-brothers” Valentin Fedorovich was almost convicted.

In the year, he became the keeper of the Museum of L. Tolstoy on the Povarskaya. After the October Revolution, despite the calls of a number of Tolstoyeans, not to recognize the Soviet regime, Bulgakov and Alexander Lvovna Tolstoy began to fight for the creation of the Museum of the great writer. With the help of V. Bonch-Bruevich, with incredible labor, a decision was made to create the Museum of L.

Tolstoy, and the Khamovniki estate and the Literary Museum on the Prechistenka were combined into one institution, and Valentin Fedorovich, of course, was the first director. In July, in connection with the hunger that erupted in the country, a public All -Russian Committee for Assistance to the Fasting was created. That is, those who organically did not coincide with the new authorities, but whose help the Bolsheviks needed, since the situation required this.

However, after some time, the game in liberalism ended. Some members of the committee, including Valentin Fedorovich, were arrested. Emigration began. In the expulsion of the abilities of this amazing person, they did not remain unclaimed. Once in Prague, he was almost immediately elected chairman of the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists of Czechoslovakia.

He played a huge role in the release of the almanac “Ark” - one of the few emigrant publications that published the verses of Marina Tsvetaeva. He was connected with her good relations, and they corresponded a lot. He continued his tireless pacifist sermons and lectures on Leo Tolstoy. One of the peaks of his life was the creation of a Russian cultural and historical museum in Prague.

This was the first state assembly of the values ​​of the Russian abroad. Valentin Fedorovich traveled to Paris, begged Alexander Benois, Konstantin Somov, Konstantin Korovin and other famous artists to sacrifice his work to create a museum. As many as 15 paintings were presented by father and son Nikolai and Svyatoslav Roerich. The opening of the museum in the Zkrlavsky castle in the year became a real triumph of emigration.

In the year, Bulgakov, along with A. Yepatov, prepared the fundamental reference book “Russian art abroad”. Valentin Fedorovich also worked on another reference book - a dictionary of writers of Russian abroad, but during his lifetime this work was never published. Before the war itself, on the recommendation of Roerich, for his titanic efforts to save cultural heritage, he was admitted to the League of Promotion of the Flamma culture, which contributed to the popularization of the ideas of Roerich.

Valentin Fedorovich spent almost the entire war in the German concentration camp. Having survived and returning to the liberated Prague, he found a ruined museum. But still he managed to collect what he could, and subsequently opened a picture gallery in a Soviet school.Bulgakov himself edited the Soviet magazine "Prague News", taught at school. In the year he returned to the USSR.

He could not live without his favorite business and almost immediately left for Yasnaya Polyana, where he worked for twenty years the main keeper. Remembering perfectly the years spent next to Lev Nikolayevich, and perfectly knowing the museum material, he helped restore the interiors, led the restoration of the manor atmosphere. In the year, Valentin Fedorovich visited Novokuznetsk, saw his home.

Subsequently, a number of relics from his personal archive were transferred to the Novokuznetsk Museum of Local Lore. Memories and stories ”, in the year -“ Meetings with Artists ”. In the year, September 22, there was no writer. After his death, the book “Meetings with Artists” saw the light, and in the year the book “Leo Tolstoy. His friends and relatives.

" Valentin Fedorovich Bulgakov all his life served Russian culture, the word of Tolstoy and museum treasures. His life is an example of the life of a genuine ascetic. Victor Leonidov.