Dontsova biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. She wrote her first book in the Chamber of the Oncological Center. Having recovered, she began to help people, inspiring them to fight a similar diagnosis. True, they became “official” family only after seven years, when it was time for her daughter to go to first grade. Before that, the girl lived with her grandmother in a communal room.

He wrote, in particular, the novels “There is such a party”, “Monday is a heavy day”, “at one in the afternoon, your Excellency”. However, he entered history primarily as a public prosecutor of the dissidents of Sinyavsky and Daniel. The grandfather of Nicholas and grandmother Agrippin, in whose honor she was named, Grunya knew only from the stories of the pope - they died long before her birth.

Daria Dontsova in childhood Tamara Stepanovna Stefanovna, in those years the director of the Moskontzer, came from the Polish-Cossack family. Her father, the Polish communist Stefan Novatsky, was an ally of Felix Dzerzhinsky, and mother, Athanasius Shabanova, grew up in a rich Cossack family from Kislovodsk. On the eve of the October Revolution, they arrived in Moscow. The grandfather of the future detective woman did not pass by the repression of the year.

In order not to pull his wife and daughter, Stefan made a divorce almost on the eve of the arrest in the case of Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. He died in the camp, was rehabilitated posthumously. When the Vasilyev family moved to a new apartment in the Moscow writer, which was allocated to her father, for Gruni they found two governesses - a German woman and a Frenchwoman. They spoke Russian poorly, and the girl who grabbed foreign words on the fly, by the beginning of the first school year, spoke in two languages ​​fluently.

Daria Dontsova, in her youth with her father, mother and grandmother, avid lovers of classical music, brought Agrippina to a music school. But the teacher disappointed them - the girl had absolutely no hearing. Grun had to be bored in opera theaters and conservatories, since her mother firmly decided to introduce her to music at least in this way. It was much more interesting to her in the country in Peredelkino, where artists and writers gathered in the summer.

But most of all, Gruna liked to go to visit Korney Chukovsky, whose cottage was in the neighborhood. Remembering the legendary children's writer, Dontsova told about him: Korney Ivanovich ran with us, children, racing along Peredelkin’s paths - who is faster? .. And he always overtook us because he was high. Korney Ivanovich had a theater, he arranged bonfires for the guys: “Hello, summer!

There was a library, it now exists, which he created in Peredelkin specifically for children. When the Yunost magazine published Chukovsky’s memoirs, with insane amazement, I found us all there - the children who played in his theater, dancing around his bonfires and running with him race. It turns out that he recorded everything - our words, our ventures, the features of our behavior.

After graduating from school, Agrippina became a student at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, and after graduation, she worked as a French language translator in the Soviet consulate in Syria. Upon returning to Moscow, she became a correspondent for the newspaper Vechernyaya Moscow, then worked in the journal “Fatherland”. In parallel, she tried to write, even then nourishing a passion for a detective genre, but in those days women as authors of this genre were not recognized.

As the writer recalled, they were allowed to write either “about love” or “about Soviet workers”. Although the editor of the Yunost magazine, where Vasilieva brought her story, strongly recommended that she not abandon the writing. But Agrippina, disappointed, took up tutoring. Daria Dontsova in the early years of the literary career to return to writing a woman forced the diagnosis - breast cancer in the fourth stage, which was found in her year.

For almost three years, Dontsova was treated, for a long time lay in the hospital. And in order to distract from pain and depressive thoughts, she asked her relatives to bring her paper and a pen and began to compose detectives again. Her first creations were the novels “Cool Heirs” She wrote a book in just three days and “Behind two hares” issued in the publishing house “Eksmo” under the pseudonym “Daria Dontsova”.

The beginning heroine was named Dasha Vasilyeva. My hero is Daria Dontsova Genre, in which she composed her novels, the publishing house was called the “Ironous Detective”, and under this mark, starting from the year, Dontsova wrote an incredible number of books. The investigation is conducted by an amateur, "" Viola Tarakanova. In the world of criminal passions ”,“ The gentleman of the investigation Ivan Podushkin ”and others, came to the liking of readers.

According to the writer herself, she composes daily pages of manuscript text and completely denies the presence of “literary blacks”. Her secret is simple: at the age of 12, I asked Valentin Petrovich Kataev, who was also a very prolific writer against the background of other writers: “What is the most important thing for the writer? He replied: "Baby, for the writer, the main thing is a cast -iron ass."Then he explained that when the writer wants to go for a walk somewhere, to talk about his genius, to tell everyone what great books he will write, the cast-iron priest should pull it back in a chair.

You are a writer - sit, write. You are a writer, not a speaker. I remembered it. And I live according to the rule that Kataev shared with me. In addition to directly literary creativity, Dontsova became the author of scripts for films from her books. Later, in addition to detective stories, Dontsova released the “Culinary Book of Lazyki”, which became a bestseller, and in total published about a dozen culinary books.

Then she began to compose fabulous plots for the children's cycle “Fairy Tale of a beautiful valley”, the heroes of which were her favorite pugs. Daria Dontsova and her books The total number of Dontsova’s books has about three hundred items as of the year. According to the Russian Book Chamber, Dontsova for a long time headed the list of authors of adult fiction for the total circulation of books published over the year.

Television and social activities were the owner of several prizes “Writer of the Year” and “Besseller of the Year”, the winner of the “Book of the Year” contest has always participated in events in support of people fighting oncology. It was chosen by the ambassador of the charity program “Together against Cancer” organized by Avon, and the fee received for the novel “Emperor of the village of Gadyukino” was transferred by the Russian Scientific oncological Center named after Nikolai Blokhin.

On the first popular radio, the writer for several years led the program “I want to live! In the years, Dontsova became the host of his own author's program on the television channel "Savior" under the name "I really want to live." Oncom -patient people became the guests of her studio - both in the stage of remission and the defeating cancer. So, especially meticulous critics saw recipes in the “Culinary Book of Lazyki”, allegedly written off from Gunter Linde and Hinobobloch, “pleasant appetite”.

And the editor of the Maxim magazine Igor Chersky said that the story he wrote in the year was included in one of the heads of Daria’s novel “Zhabet in a wallet” published in the year. In the year of the Hudkruk “Conceptual Theater”, Kirill Ganin accused the writer of slander: in the book “Dentists also cry,” the hero mentions his theater and calls the productions of “pornographic” in it.

Ganin was refused a lawsuit, and Pavel Astakhov, a lawyer Dontsova, said that Ganin himself had previously used the name of the writer in his play “Daria Dontsova. Erotic fantasies ”without coordination with her. The personal life of Daria Dontsova first love overtook Agrippina at the age of seventeen.

At the International Automobile Exhibition in Moscow, where the girl worked as a translator, she met a French race car driver - twenty years older and married. Roman flashed instantly. The man promised that he would go to France to divorce his wife, and return back, but disappeared without a trace. Only during perestroika, the racer’s wife wrote that her husband divorced her, but later she would call this marriage by mistake.

The marriage lasted about a year, but gave her a son who was born in a year. A month and a half before his birth, Father Agrippina died, so there were no questions about the name - the boy was called Arkady. The young Daria Dontsova with her son was left without support, Agrippina did not give up, but grabbed for any opportunity to earn. At one time, I even washed the toilets at the station, I was a single mother, after a divorce from my first husband, he never paid alimony.

It was hard. I was so happy when I got a job at the station, beautiful people worked there, and there was a wonderful boss. The second time, Agrippina married Boris Kapustin, a witness at her first wedding. She admitted that she fell in love with a young man at first sight, but still married Demin. This marriage lasted seven years, after which the woman decided that she no longer wanted to marry.

But in the year, a friend introduced her to psychologist Alexander Dontsov, who at first Agrippina did not even like it. She immediately stated that she was not looking for the groom. Alexander Ivanovich was delighted and said that marriage was not included in his plans. Satisfied with each other, they sat down to drink tea, talked ... and no longer parted. However, Dontsova always says that she has three children - the son of a spouse, Dmitry, lived with them since the age of ten.

Dontsova loves dogs, and her heart belongs to pugs. In addition to living pets, she has an extensive - more copies - a collection of pugs: figures, images, accessories. Daria Dontsova with her pugs Daria Dontsova now the writer very hard survived the death of her husband in March. Alexander was nearby when she struggled with oncology, passed away from the bowel cancer of the third degree.

He survived two operations, the doctors were going to do the third. But Alexander Ivanovich, as his wife respectfully called him, could not cope with a long, exhausting disease. Dontsov found the comfort of Dontsov in Orthodoxy.Daria Dontsova in the year, a friend of the writer Tatyana Ustinova invited her to her program “My Hero”, where they talked about creative secrets and future works.

Daria said that in the years three new detective Dontsova expected the release: “Pie from the shoemaker” cycle “Tatyana Sergeeva. Detective on the diet, "" Lobster for Emely "cycle" Viola Tarakanova. In the world of criminal passions ”,“ A ball of salvation ”the cycle of“ Tales of a beautiful valley ”. Daria Dontsova really wanted to play interesting facts in childhood to the princess in the performance of Chukovsky, which he put in the theater circle in Peredelkino.

But the other girl got the role. In his book of memoirs, Korney Ivanovich wrote how once a neighbor Grunya Vasiliev came to him and, having burst into tears, told him about her grief.