fiction.wikisort.org - WriterAlexander Melentyevich Volkov (Russian: Александр Мелентьевич Волков [ɐlʲɪˈksandr mʲɪˈlʲenʲtʲɪvʲɪtɕ ˈvoɫkəf]; 14 June 1891 – 3 July 1977) was a Soviet novelist, playwright, university lecturer. Аuthor of novels, short stories, plays and poems for children, mostly remembered for the Magic Land series of books, based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Soviet writer
For other people named Alexander Volkov, see Alexander Volkov (disambiguation).
Alexander Volkov |
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Russian writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, 1914 |
Born | Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1891-06-14)14 June 1891 Ust-Kamenogorsk, Semipalatinsk Oblast, Russian Empire |
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Died | 3 July 1977(1977-07-03) (aged 86) Moscow, Soviet Union |
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Biography
Volkov was born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Semipalatinsk Oblast, Russian Empire (now Oskemen, Kazakhstan). At the age of 12 he graduated from the Ust-Kamenogorsk town school as valedictorian, where he later began his pedagogical activity. In 1907 he entered the Tomsk Teachers Institute. In 1909 he graduated from it with right to teach all subjects of the school curriculum, except for the Law of God.
He began to work as a teacher in Ust-Kamenogorsk. Since 1910 he worked as mathematician teacher in the village of Kolyvan. In the 1920s he moved to Yaroslavl, where he worked as a school principal. In absentia he graduated from the mathematical faculty of the Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute.
In 1929 he moved to Moscow, where he worked as the head teacher of the rabfak. For seven months he completed the course and passed the external examinations at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University.
Since 1931 he worked as teacher, and later as Docent of the Department of Higher Mathematics of the Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold.
Writings
Magic Land series
The first of these books, The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города),[1] is a loose translation of the first Oz book, with chapters added, altered, or omitted, some names changed (for example, Dorothy becomes "Ellie", Oz is renamed "Magic Land", and Toto can talk when in Magic Land), and several characters given personal names instead of generic ones. Baum's name is mentioned in the first of Volkov books but the Soviet Union paid no royalties to the Baum estate. First published in 1939 in the Soviet Union, the book became quite popular; and in the 1960s Volkov also wrote his own sequels to the story. He liberally borrowed from some of the originals, such as using the "Powder of Life" idea from The Marvelous Land of Oz, but mostly created a divergent universe. From 1963 to 1970, four more books in the series were published, with the sixth and final story published posthumously in 1982. Other authors such as Yuri Kuznetsov, Sergei Sukhinov, and Leonid Vladimirsky (Volkov's original illustrator) have recently written additional sequels in Russian, creating in effect an alternative series of Oz books.
The context and situations found in the Volkov version are notably different from the original Baum version in their political tones. The situations, while still maintaining a childlike clarity of good versus evil, often involve the characters encountering very mature political and ethical decisions. The heroes are repeatedly called upon to defend Magic Land against invasions or topple feudalistic or aristocratic governments to free the populace. Both themes are often found in Soviet sci-fi and adventure literature (see the Strugatsky brothers' novels Hard to be a God and Inhabited Island).
Volkov had faith in the omnipotence of the man-made technique, so the wizardry of his heroes was usually won with the help of various technical inventions (a cannon designed by Charly Black, a mechanical drill, and Tilly-Willy's super-robot).
Volkov's Magic Land series was translated into many languages and was popular with children all over the Eastern bloc. Volkov's version of Oz seems to be better known than Baum's in some countries, for example in China, in Germany (especially former East Germany), and also in Arab countries such as Syria. In Germany, two authors have written her own set of sequels to Volkov's books. The books in Volkov's Magic Land series have been translated into English — or retranslated, in the case of the first book — by Peter L. Blystone, and were published by Red Branch Press in three volumes (two books a volume) in 1991 (revised edition 2010), 1993, and 2007.
Volkov's Magic-Land books
- The Wizard of the Emerald City (Волшебник Изумрудного города, 1939)
- Urfin Joos and his Wooden Soldiers (Урфин Джюс и его деревянные солдаты, 1963)
- The Seven Underground Kings (Семь подземных королей, 1964)
- The Fiery God of the Marrans (Огненный бог марранов, 1968)
- The Yellow Fog (Жёлтый туман, 1970)
- The Secret of the Deserted Castle (Тайна заброшенного замка, 1975, published in 1982)
Other books
- Wonderful balloon (The first aeronaut) (1940)
- The Two Brothers (1950, rewritten in 1961)
- The Architects (1954)
- Astern trace (1960)
- The Wandering (1963) (about childhood and youth of Giordano Bruno)
- Prisoner of Zargrad (1969)
- Land and Sky (1972)
References
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
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Canonical books | L. Frank Baum |
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
- The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
- Ozma of Oz (1907)
- Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
- The Road to Oz (1909)
- The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
- Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
- The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
- Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
- The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
- The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
- The Magic of Oz (1919)
- Glinda of Oz (1920)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson |
- The Royal Book of Oz (1921)
- Kabumpo in Oz (1922)
- The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923)
- Grampa in Oz (1924)
- The Lost King of Oz (1925)
- The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1926)
- The Gnome King of Oz (1927)
- The Giant Horse of Oz (1928)
- Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929)
- The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930)
- Pirates in Oz (1931)
- The Purple Prince of Oz (1932)
- Ojo in Oz (1933)
- Speedy in Oz (1934)
- The Wishing Horse of Oz (1935)
- Captain Salt in Oz (1936)
- Handy Mandy in Oz (1937)
- The Silver Princess in Oz (1938)
- Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939)
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Others |
- The Wonder City of Oz (1940)
- The Scalawagons of Oz (1941)
- Lucky Bucky in Oz (1942)
- The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946)
- The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949)
- The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951)
- Merry Go Round in Oz (1963)
- Yankee in Oz (1972)
- The Enchanted Island of Oz (1976)
- The Forbidden Fountain of Oz (1980)
- The Ozmapolitan of Oz (1986)
- The Wicked Witch of Oz (1993)
- The Giant Garden of Oz (1993)
- The Runaway in Oz (1995)
- The Rundelstone of Oz (2000)
- The Emerald Wand of Oz (2005)
- Trouble Under Oz (2006)
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Alternate |
- Dorothy of Oz (1989)
- Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage (1995)
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Locations and elements |
- Land of Oz
- Emerald City
- Munchkin Country
- Gillikin Country
- Winkie Country
- Quadling Country
- Yellow brick road
- Deadly Desert
- Land of Ev
- Merryland
- Nome Kingdom
- Noland
- Ruby slippers
- Silver shoes
- The Oz Film Manufacturing Company
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Characters | |
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Other writers | |
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Related |
- Political interpretations
- Copyright status
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Adaptations and other derivative works |
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Stage |
- The Wizard of Oz (1902)
- The Woggle-Bug (1905)
- The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913)
- The Wizard of Oz (1942)
- The Wiz (1974)
- The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981)
- The Wizard of Oz (1987)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2000)
- The Wizard of Oz (2011)
- The Woodsman (2012)
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American films | |
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Foreign language films | |
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Other films | |
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Television | |
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Comics |
- Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1904–05)
- Adventures in Oz (1986–1992)
- The Enchanted Apples of Oz (1986)
- Oz Squad (1991)
- Lost Girls (1991–92)
- Oz (1994)
- MÄR
- Dorothy of Oz (2006)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2009)
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Video games | |
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Reimagining |
- The Wizard of the Emerald City (1939)
- The Number of the Beast (1980)
- A Barnstormer in Oz (1982)
- The Wizard of A.I.D.S. (1987)
- Sir Harold and the Gnome King (1991)
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
- Visitors from Oz (1998)
- Dorothy Must Die (2014)
- The Wicked Will Rise (2015)
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The Wicked Years |
- Wicked
- Son of a Witch
- A Lion Among Men
- Out of Oz
- Wicked (musical)
- Characters
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Others | |
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Related |
- The International Wizard of Oz Club
- Twister (1994)
- Oz Park
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- Category
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Authority control |
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General | |
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National libraries | |
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Biographical dictionaries | |
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Other | |
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На других языках
- [en] Alexander Volkov (writer)
[ru] Волков, Александр Мелентьевич
Алекса́ндр Меле́нтьевич Во́лков (2 [14] июня 1891[lower-alpha 1], Усть-Каменогорск, Семипалатинская область — 3 июля 1977, Москва, СССР) — русский и советский писатель, драматург, переводчик, педагог. Наиболее известен как автор цикла книг «Волшебник Изумрудного города».
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