David shalamov biography

“I managed to find the form of existence that is very simple and in its simplicity has been honed by the experience of generations of Russian intelligentsia. Without prison, without having lived through penalty, Russian intelligentsia is not quite itself”.

Varlam Shalamov

June 18, 1907 — Varlaam (Varlam) was born in the family of an Orthodox priest Tikhon Nikolayevich Shalamov and his wife Nadezhda Alexandrovna.

1914 — Varlam becomes a student of St.

Alexander’s Gymnasium (grammar school) in Vologda.

1923 — Graduates from Uniform Labour School N6, situated in the same building as the former gymnasium.

1924 — Leaves Vologda and finds a job of a tanner at a leather factory in Kuntsevo which at the time wasn’t part of Moscow.

1926 — Through a referral from the factory becomes a first-year student of Moscow Textile Institute and at the same time is accepted into the department of Soviet Law at Moscow State University through open competition.

He chooses MSU.

1927 (No