Anatol Volny

Anatol Iustsinavich Azhgirey (; 1902 – 29 October 1937), better known by the literary pseudonym of Anatol Volny was a Belarusian artist, poet, writer and journalist. During the Great Purge, he became a victim of the 1937 mass execution of Belarusians. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.

Biography

Azhgirey's father was a civil servant. In 1911, he entered the Abbot's Gymnasium, where he received his secondary education. He graduated from the Marinagore Railway School of the 2nd degree. In 1920, he joined the Red Army as a volunteer, and took part in battles with the interventionists. After demobilization in 1921, he worked in the Central Committee of the LKSM, at the newspaper Moladi Arati. He studied at BSU. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was an active participant in the literary and artistic movement in Belarus. From 1923 he was a member of the Maladnyak literary association, and from 1928 - in Polimi. He was a member of the SP of the BSSR (from 1934). He was married, with one child.

Azhgirey was arrested on 4 November 1936 in Minsk. On 28 October 1937, as a "member of a counter-revolutionary organization", he was convicted by an extrajudicial body of the National Security Service of Ukraine to the VMP. His property was confiscated, and he was executed by shooting in Minsk on 29 October 1937.

He was posthumously rehabilitated by the military panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 3 December 1957. The personal file of A. Volny No. 11054-c is kept in the archive of the KGB of Belarus.

Creativity He made his debut in print in 1922. One of the pioneers of the adventure genre in Belarusian prose. Author of collections of poetry "Kamsamolskaya nota" (1924, with A. Aleksandrovich), "Black-haired joy" (1926), "To you" (1927). In 1925, the novel "Wolves" was published (co-authored with A. Aleksandrovich and A. Dudar). Author of the short stories "Two" (1925), "Anton Savitsky" (1927, "Soviet Belarus" newspaper). The author of a collection of feuilletons (1927) and a book of humor and feuilletons "Neighbors" (1932), which were published under the pseudonym Alyosha.

Wrote plays, dramatized campaigns ("When the old man tells the truth", "Mykolka", "At the farmer's house" - 1924), the comedy "Save me, God!" (with R. Kobets, 1932) . He also worked as a film dramaturg - his scripts were used to produce the films "The Pines Are Roaring" (with K. Dzerzhaviny, 1929), "Savoy Hotel" (1930), "Born in Fire" (1930), "Sunny Hike" (1931), "New Homeland" (1935) and others. In 1935, the short story "The Sixtieth Parallel" was released.