Zadornov Nikolay Pavlovich. After my father passed away, I became his obedient son.
Russian and Soviet writer - Nikolai Zadornov. All books are listed in order by series. Here are collected all his works that the author wrote during his life. The novels tell about the development of the Far East and the difficult fate of Russians in those parts in the 19th century.
Development of the Far East
The Far Land (1949)
This work begins a cycle of four books about the life and deeds of Gennady Nevelsky, the pioneering captain, as well as about the harsh everyday life of the Amur region aborigines. Every civilian must, almost with a knife at his throat, prove to the world that he has the right to freedom and a quiet life. The Chinese and Manchus are constantly attacking from neighboring sides, and the Jesuits also appeared, who came with their own orders and laws. Help could only be expected from the Russian Cossacks. Further
Captain Nevelskoy (1958)
Russian explorer Nevelsky sets off for the first time on a long expedition to Kamchatka. It was Captain Nevelsky who became the man who discovered and studied the Far East in detail. How did the settlement of the Amur mouth proceed? What did the Russian people have to face during the development of Sakhalin? You will learn how the famous traveler and patriot of Russia followed the difficult path of a pioneer. Further
Ocean War (2016)
This time we will follow Captain Nevelsky on a second expedition along the Amur, but now Chikhachev is leading the expedition. You will learn about the Russian-American campaign, the defense of the Kamchatka port in 1854 and further exploration of the harsh region. Further
Admiral Putyatin
Shimoda (1975)
Crimean War. 1855 Russian sailors are real heroes who sailed under the command of Admiral Putyatin. After a colossal ship disaster occurred, they found themselves cut off from their own in Japan, but even under such circumstances they did not allow foreigners to enter. Further
Heda (1979)
The novel continues the thread of events about how Russian sailors lived and fought in Japan, about how they had a long and difficult journey from a foreign land to their homeland, and about the fact that not all of them made it home, participating in the bloody mess of the Crimean War. Further
Hong Kong (1982)
This novel ends a series of works about the historical activities of Admiral Putyatin, who in the 19th century went to Japan to establish diplomatic relations there. Not all of the Russian sailors made it to their homeland at once. Many of the brave warriors were captured by the British and lived in Hong Kong until the end of the Crimean War. Further
Sibiriada
Cupid the Father (1946)
We will dive into the history of the past of the Amur region. Here in the 60s and 70s of the 19th century, migrant peasants lived, exploring a wild region with infinitely beautiful nature and friendly local people who helped newcomers survive in an unfamiliar place.
Zadornov Nikolay Pavlovich (1909 – 1992) lived in the Far East for only nine years, but he went down in the history of literary life as a truly Far Eastern writer, who devoted all his work to the Far East; historian and researcher of the era of the development of the eastern outskirts of Russia by Russian people.N.P. Zadornov was born in Penza on December 5, 1909 in the family of a veterinarian. Having worked in Central Asia for the required period after graduating from the Kazan Veterinary University (having served “his scholarship”), the father moved with his family to Siberia. Here, in Chita, the future writer spent his childhood years. He witnessed the events of the civil war, the battle of Chita, and saw a baggage car with gold reserves. At the age of ten, I became acquainted with the books of N. M. Przhevalsky and the newly published book by V. K. Arsenyev “Around the Ussuri Region.” By the age of fourteen, he became interested in theater and played in school plays; Without leaving school, he entered a professional theater. The love for art passed on from his parents, whose idol in Penza was V. E. Meyerhold. They told their son a lot about the theatrical life of Penza, the first roles of the future famous Soviet director.
After graduating from school, N.P. Zadornov continued his theatrical activities. After three years of work at the Siberian Experimental Theater, he joined the troupe of the Ufa City Theater. The beginning of his journalistic activity in the newspapers of Beloretsk in the Urals and Ufa dates back to this time. He writes about gold mines, oil fields, miners. In the summer of 1937, he brought his story “Mogusyumka and Guryanych” to the publishing house “Soviet Writer” in Moscow. Having registered at the actor's labor exchange and received an invitation to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, N.P. Zadornov appeared in the young city in the fall of 1937 with the last ship. He works as the head of the literary department of the Komsomol Drama Theater and at the same time plays in plays. On theater posters and programs from the 1930s. you can find his name among the performers of roles in N. Pogodin’s plays: Volzhanin in “The Man with a Gun” (1938), the carriage conductor in “Pavel Grekov” (1939), the Japanese in “Silver Padi” (1939), the everyman in the play “How steel was tempered" based on the novel by N. Ostrovsky (1939). Many years later, N.P. Zadornov, who had already become a famous writer, would again meet with the theater of his youth at the rehearsals of a play based on his novel “Cupid the Father.”
In addition to working in the theater, N.P. Zadornov led a Red Army literary circle, traveled a lot, and wrote essays for the city newspaper. From the first meeting, the Far East amazed the future writer: “The taiga ... seemed untouched, as if people were taking some small part of its wealth. Far Eastern rivers are clean and transparent. The leaves have fallen, and redwood twigs are visible everywhere - on the slopes against the background of the blue sky. The sun was setting into this red thicket. We saw the tracks of animals,” he wrote in his autobiography. An eyewitness to how a modern city grew up on the site of the remote village of Perm, he could not help but turn to the past, to those who were the first to come to the banks of the great river. “I understood that the past was passing away, that soon everything would change, and no one would see archery or spear hunting anymore. No one will tell you how the first grain was sown. I tried to see as much as possible." He traveled through the nearest villages, on foot, on boats and boats, on his own and on instructions from the editors of the newspaper “Amursky Shocked”, visiting Nanai camps, in Russian villages meeting with the descendants of the pioneers, and somewhere else with the participants in the resettlement themselves. , collecting material for a planned book about the first Russian settlers who came to these places on rafts, with their families, to explore these vast spaces. The first volume of the novel “Cupid the Father” was published in Khabarovsk in the last pre-war issues of the magazine “At the Turnover” (1941 – No. 2, 3). Two books of the novel were published as a separate edition in Dalgiz in 1944, and republished in Moscow in 1946. After that, the novel was reprinted many times and translated into many languages of the world.
After 30 years, the writer will again turn to the heroes of his first novel and create its sequel - the novel “Gold Rush” (1970). It features already familiar characters, their children who have adapted to local conditions; New faces, new heroes appear, whose destinies are intertwined with the destinies of the migrants.
During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Pavlovich worked as a traveling correspondent for the regional radio committee, remaining to live in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The regional radio committee gave him complete freedom of action in searching for materials. Over the years, he wrote 200 essays for the regional newspaper and regional radio about the workers and engineers of the city of his youth, the heroes of the labor front of other cities and villages of the region, about railway workers, builders, and aviators. In 1944 he was accepted as a member of the USSR Writers' Union.
In the fall of 1945, N.P. Zadornov, along with other Far Eastern writers, took part as a correspondent for the Khabarovsk regional branch of TASS in the Manchurian liberation campaign along with the troops of the Far Eastern fronts. He traveled a lot around Manchuria and other cities of China, met with different people, Chinese partisans, and talked with captured Japanese colonels and generals. What was seen and experienced during the war was later reflected in historical novels about Admiral Putyatin’s expedition to Japan.
While working on the novel “Father Cupid,” N.P. Zadornov hatched the idea of another novel - a book about captain G.I. Nevelsky. In the article “how I worked on my books” N.P. Zadornov writes: “Nevelsky’s personality interested me very much. He acted as a progressive man, as a patriot and a thinker who clearly saw the future of his homeland, which was in close connection with all the great countries lying in the Pacific Ocean. ... his expedition in its significance was more important than all the previously accomplished expeditions to the East and North of our homeland.” On small vessels and on boats, a motor-sailing ship, N.P. Zadornov repeated the path of a naval commander-researcher, and made a circle of trips to the places where Russian sailors made their discoveries. To fulfill the plan, other knowledge was needed, which was impossible to obtain far from the center of the country. “It was necessary to know the old society, the navy, customs, and the maritime classes of the educational institutions where our discoverers were educated,” he explains the reason for his departure.
In 1946, N.P. Zadornov left the Far East. At first he lived in Moscow, from 1948 until the end of his life - in Riga. But I came here several times. The new topic required a thorough study of historical and archival materials, numerous sea expeditions of the author himself, most of which repeated the routes of voyages and campaigns of the heroes of his books. Twenty-five years of work from conception to its implementation ended in 1962 with the creation of a cycle of novels about G. I. Nevelskoy, three of which: “The First Discovery”, “Captain Nevelskoy”, “The War for the Ocean”, constitute a single work. The fourth novel, “The Distant Land,” stands apart; it is a kind of introduction to the Amur epic. “The Distant Land” began with the story “Mangmu,” written in 1940 and telling about the life of the Nanai people before the Russian people appeared on the Amur. Subsequently, it became the first part of the novel, the second part of which, “Markeshkin’s Gun,” was completed by the author in 1948. The novels were published in Moscow, Khabarovsk, Riga as they were written, and were well received. In 1952, their author was awarded the State Prize.
While working on novels, N.P. Zadornov did not ignore the literary life of Riga. On his initiative, a section of Russian writers was created in the Latvian Writers' Union, which he headed. He collected and attracted talented youth, gave lectures on literature, and was the first editor of the literary and journalistic magazine “Parus”, which published works by Latvian authors in Russian. He was engaged in translations of his novels into Latvian. Translated the Latvian novel “Clearing in the Clouds” by A. Upit. A. Fadeev gave a brilliant review of the translation of the novel.
In the 1965–1970s. N.P. Zadornov is working on a new historical topic: the expedition of Admiral E.V. Putyatin to the shores of Japan to establish Russian-Japanese trade, economic, and diplomatic relations. One after another, novels were published: “Tsunami” (1972), “Shimoda” (1980), “Heda” (1980). In search of materials for his works, Nikolai Pavlovich visited Japan twice, lived in the village of Heda, sailed on a fishing boat to the foot of Mount Fuji, where Admiral E.V. Putyatin died, and sailed on a ship to Hong Kong. The trilogy, later united under the general title “The Saga of the Russian Argonauts,” was received with great interest not only by Russian readers, but also by masters of Japanese literature as a completely original phenomenon. In Tokyo, the books were published by Asahi Publishing House.
In subsequent years, the novels “Hong Kong” (1982) and “Mistress of the Seas” (1988) were written and published, opening a new cycle of works by the writer about relations between Russia and Great Britain in the Far Eastern seas at the end of the 19th century. “The Wind of Fertility” was the writer’s last published novel (1992), the plot of which continues the theme raised in the novel “Mistress of the Seas.” The writer’s plans were to create a novel about Vladivostok, the working title of which was “Rich Mane.” The novel remained unfinished. The writer died on June 18, 1992.
N.P. Zadornov also wrote works on modern topics, but his fame and name were brought to him by his historical novels, with which he drew attention to the Russian Far East and its history. Thanks to them, readers of Russia, the CIS countries and foreign countries were able to get acquainted with the history of the development of the Far Eastern territories and the pioneers of the Amur lands. “With everything I wrote, I tried to make up for our historical illiteracy. There are a lot of layers and ambiguities in Russia’s relations with its eastern neighbors, it is very important to know how everything really happened, how they developed in reality, what they led and are leading to,” he answered the question “Why such a persistent passion for history” .
Over the years, the historical novels of N.P. Zadornov do not lose their relevance and interest. This is evidenced by the facts of reprinting of his books. They are still published in various publishing houses throughout the country. Thus, in 2007, the Moscow publishing houses “Veche”, “Terra-Book Club” published his novels “Father Cupid”, “Gold Rush”, “Shimoda”, etc. Publishing house “Priamurskie Vedomosti” in Khabarovsk in In 2008, with the book “Cupid the Father” by N.P. Zadornov, he opened a new series “Literary Heritage of the Amur Region”.
On May 29, 1999, a monument to the writer was unveiled on the Amur embankment in Khabarovsk, designed by architect V. Baburin, and a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the drama theater in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Faraway land
The peace-loving and friendly aborigines of the Amur region, the Samaras and Gilyaks, are forced to constantly defend themselves from their cruel and greedy neighbors - the Chinese and Manchus.
And then a new misfortune is knocking on their doors: the missionaries, by hook or by crook, are trying to impose incomprehensible laws and orders on the Amur people.
The taiga inhabitants would have perished, but, fortunately, the locha - Russian settlers and Cossacks - came to the rescue...
Captain Nevelskoy
A novel about the first Russian expedition to Kamchatka and Amur under the leadership of Captain Nevelsky, who played a huge role in the study of the Far East.
Traveler and scientist, diplomat and naval commander, selfless defender of the interests of the Russian state.
The action of the novel unfolds around him about the complex and dramatic history of the development and settlement of the mouth of the Amur by Russian people.
Ocean War
Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov, a famous Russian writer, wrote two cycles of historical novels about the exploits of explorers and the exploration of the Far East in the 19th century.
The fate of the second expedition along the Amur, the active development of the Pacific coast of North America, the heroic defense of Kamchatka from the Anglo-French squadron back in 1854 became the basis of the novel “The War of the Ocean,” which chronologically continued the chain of events described in the novel “Captain Nevelsky.”
Ocean War. Volume one
Nikolai Zadornov is famous among readers for his novels in the genre of historical adventures.
In this novel, the author continues to talk about the series of events that began in the book “Captain Nevelsky”. Readers will learn about the adventures of Chikhachev's group, which went on an expedition along the Amur River and about the fate of the Russian-American company, which headed to the coast of North America.
Ocean War. Volume two
Nikolai Zadornov managed to create amazing novels dedicated to the Russian exploration of the Far East, as well as about the adventures of explorers.
The book “The War of the Ocean” continues to delight readers with the wanderings of the main characters, telling about further events. In it you will learn the history of the second expedition along the Amur, led by N. M. Chikhachev. And also about the development of the Pacific coast of North America by the Russian-American Company...
You will learn about all these exciting travels on the pages of this book...
Admiral Putyatin
Tsunami
The glorious history of the development of the Far Eastern lands is described in the novel “Tsunami”.
Admiral E.V. Putyatin on the frigate "Diana" set sail for the shores of Japan in December 1854.
The history of the Far East and the Russian fleet, thoroughly studied by Nikolai Zadornov, will be of particular interest to those who are interested in Russian history.
Shimoda
The novel “Shimoda” continues the story of the heroic adventures of the Russian sailors of Admiral Putyatin, who found themselves after an unprecedented disaster and the sinking of a frigate in Japan.
A country closed from the outside world, which did not allow foreigners into its territory.
The action takes place during the Crimean War in 1855.
Heda
The life of Russian sailors in Japan after the sinking of the frigate “Diana” is extremely interesting and unusual.
Their return to their homeland will be long and difficult, where new trials await them on the battlefields of the Crimean War.
But the adventures continue...
Hong Kong
The novel “Hong Kong” ends the cycle of works by Nikolai Zadornov, dedicated to the mission of Admiral Putyatin.
In the middle of the 19th century, Evfimy Putyatin went to Japan on a frigate to establish diplomatic relations with the imperial house.
Not all sailors were able to return to their homeland on the newly built ship. Some sailed later, were captured by the British and were forced to remain in Hong Kong until the Crimean campaign ended...
Sibiriada
Cupid-father
The past of the Amur region, the difficult living conditions of the first Russian peasants who settled the taiga lands, the development of wild and harsh nature, friendship with local peoples...
All these events became the basis for Nikolai Zadornov’s novel “Father Cupid”.
In 1952, the work was awarded the USSR State Prize.
Golden fever
At the end of the 19th century, gold placers were discovered on the tributaries of the Amur. Peasants, driven by poverty and need, sometimes took entire villages into the taiga forests to wash the precious metal.
Thus, in the depths of the Amur region, the first “fraternal republics” arose, in which their own orders, rules, laws were established, and rulers were elected. Some even challenged the royal authority and entered into open confrontation.
The life of one of these “republics” will be discussed in the novel “Gold Rush”.
First discovery
In the middle of the 19th century, French Jesuit missionaries conducted active intelligence activities in the Far East, hiding behind the noble goal of “converting wild people to the true faith.”
+A prominent Soviet writer, State Prize laureate Nikolai Zadornov is known to readers for his historical novels “Cupid the Father”, “The Distant Land”, “The First Discovery”, “Captain Nevelskoy”, “The War for the Ocean”, dedicated to the heroic past of Siberia and the Far East.
The novel “Captain Nevelskoy” creates a vivid image of a remarkable Russian patriot, a leading man of his time, sailor, scientist G.I. Nevelskoy, who made an invaluable contribution to the study and development of the Amur region. In the book, the writer gives a broad picture of the life of Russia in the 40s and 50s of the 19th century, tells in detail about the persistent, intense struggle that Nevelsky had to wage with stupid tsarist dignitaries to implement his progressive ideas, imbued with concern for the flourishing and prosperity of the Motherland.
The author's high artistic skill, depth and plasticity in the depiction of the characters' images, rich, rich language - all this is fully reflected in the novel "Captain Nevelskoy", which will be read with great interest by a wide circle of readers.
“Captain Nevelskoy” is the third novel in the series dedicated to the Russian exploration of the Far East. The first two novels - “The Distant Land” and “The First Discovery”, first published by N. Zadornov in 1949, are dedicated to the life of the Amur region and the first discoveries of G. I. Nevelsky. The last novel in the series, “The War for the Ocean,” about the last years of G. I. Nevelsky’s stay in the Far East, was published in 1960-1962.
The first book of the novel “Captain Nevelskoy” was first published in the magazine “Far East”, 1956, No. 3-6; the second book - in the same magazine, 1958, No. 1-2. In 1958, the novel was published in separate editions in Riga and Moscow, and since then several times...
Years of life: 12/05/1909 - 09/18/1992.
Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, author of the books “Father Cupid”, “Captain Nevelskoy”, “Distant Land”, etc. Lived in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur from the autumn of 1937 to 1946.
The outstanding Far Eastern writer Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov spent his entire life studying the topic of the Far East. He was born in Penza on December 5, 1909. The writer’s childhood and school years also came to Chita, where the Zadornov family lived. Since childhood, he touched history. He saw the Japanese occupation, lived in a city that was given life by exiled Decembrists. At school he was the organizer of a propaganda theater. In the early years of Soviet power, this was considered revolutionary and very modern. After graduating from 8th grade, Zadornov was sent by his father to his homeland, Penza. Without leaving school, in the last school year Nikolai began working in a professional theater, where he was given small weekend roles. In 1926, after graduating from school, he became a professional actor. With the theater he traveled to many cities in Siberia and the Far East, his work in Vladivostok was especially successful. He tried his hand at journalism. 1937 was a significant year for Nikolai Pavlovich. His first story, “Mogusyumka and Guryanych,” appears in print. And later he moves to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the city of pioneer builders, with which Zadornov will be connected for nine years of his life.
In the city of his youth, he began working as the head of the literary department of the theater and at the same time collaborated in the local city newspaper and on the radio, and led a circle of military construction workers. The Komsomol Theater played plays about the Far Eastern border. They were then staged in the best theaters in the capital and throughout the country. In 1939 For playing the role of a Japanese in N. Pogodin’s play “Silver Pad,” Zadornov received gratitude and a certificate from the command of the corps of military construction units, and in 1940. was awarded and received gratitude from the directorate for his work in preparing the play “The Man with a Gun.”
The literary association of Komsomolsk, having decided to publish a collection about the history of the city of youth, instructed Zadornov to write an essay about the village of Perm. His search for material led him to the 60s of the last century, when Russian peasants came to the Far East. Participants in the resettlement who came to the Amur with their children were still living in Komsomolsk at that time. Their memory stored interesting information about the past. This is how the novel “Father Cupid” was born, the first part of which was published in 1940. In Khabarovsk, where the author took his work, the novel was published in the second and third issues of the magazine “At the Turnover” in 1941, before the start of the Great Patriotic War.
More than half a century later, in 1997, the Far Eastern writer Vsevolod Petrovich Sysoev, in one of his speeches regarding the construction of a monument to Zadornov in Khabarovsk, said this: “It’s rare that someone manages to write an eternal book that is republished all over the world. Nikolai Pavlovich wrote such a book, this is “Father Amur” - the best book about Amur.” At the same time, the story “Mangmu” was written - from the life of the Nanai people at a time when only sparsely dispersed clans lived in the region. During the war, while remaining to live in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Zadornov became the author of 200 essays about the heroes of the labor front for the regional Radio Committee.
In 1944 Nikolai Pavlovich was accepted as a member of the Russian Writers' Union. A year or two before this event, the writer conceived a novel about Nevelskoy. In search of heroes for his essays about the workers of the Sea of Okhotsk, Zadornov traveled a lot throughout the Far East to the places where Russian sailors made their discoveries. The writer became increasingly interested in the personality of the admiral.
Nikolai Pavlovich saw in the Russian admiral an advanced patriot and thinker who clearly imagined the future of his homeland as a country in close connection with all the great countries lying in the Pacific Ocean. “There was no due respect for such scientists as Nevelskoy,” he believed. They were hated by the open and secret enemies of Russia, as well as by reactionaries who did not imagine the future of their Fatherland and had never been beyond the Urals. Admiral Nevelskoy made his discoveries in the Far East contrary to orders, at his own peril and risk.”
In the autumn of 1945 The liberation campaign of the Soviet Army against the Japanese militarists began. Together with the writers A. Guy D. Nagishkin, N. Rogal, Yu. Shestakova, Zadornov asked to go to the front. All Far Eastern writers were not enlisted in the army, but were registered as correspondents of the Khabarovsk regional branch of TASS and transferred to China. Zadornov traveled a lot around Manchuria, talking with captured Japanese colonels and generals. What he saw and experienced during the war was later reflected in historical novels about Admiral Putyatin’s expedition to Japan. All these years he studied the life of local peoples, worked in archives and wrote a continuation of the first part of the novel “Cupid the Father.” In 1946, the second book of the novel was published. It was republished in Moscow and Leningrad, then translated into many European languages. The writer continued the novel. A new book, The Gold Rush, was published in 1969.
Since the autumn of 1946, working as the editor of the Russian Almanac and the head of the section of Russian writers in Latvia, he continues to write the stories “Mangmu” and “Markeshkin’s Gun”. The result was the novel “The Distant Land.”
After working in the central archives of the country, in the fall of 1948, the writer returned to Riga and wrote the novel “To the Ocean” in 3 months. Both of these novels were published in 1949, and in 1956-1958 two books of the novel “Captain Nevelskoy” were published. The cycle of novels about the historical feat of the Russian people in the Far East was completed with the publication of the book “The War for the Ocean” (1963).
In 1952, N. P. Zadornov was awarded the USSR State Prize for the creation of historical novels “Father Cupid”, “The Distant Crane”, “To the Ocean”.
The Riga period of Zadornov's life was the longest and most fruitful. On his initiative, a section of Russian writers was created in the Latvian Writers' Union, which he headed. He collected and attracted talented young people, gave lectures on literature, and was the first editor of the literary and journalistic magazine “Parus”, which published works by Latvian authors in Russian.
He was engaged in translations of his novels into Latvian. In the late sixties and seventies, N. Zadornov wrote a trilogy - “Tsunami”, “Shimoda” and “Heda”. The action of these historical novels takes place in the middle of the last century. Crimean War. The south of Russia is on fire. And at this time, Admiral Putyatin goes to the shores of Japan to establish trade, economic, and diplomatic relations with it, the expedition members find themselves in a dramatic situation: the crushing impacts of a tsunami destroy the Russian ship "Diana". Russian sailors remain in Japan and begin to build a new ship to return to their homeland...
In search of material for his work, Nikolai Pavlovich visited Japan twice, lived in the village of Heda, sailed by sea on a fishing boat to the foot of Mount Fuji, where Admiral Putyatin died, and sailed on a ship to Hong Kong. Zadornov was not allowed to access Japanese archival documents. But interesting information about historical figures who interested the writer was told to him by Mr. Kawada, a young scientist from the archives of the imperial court. The trilogy of “Heda”, “Tsunami” and “Shimoda”, later united under the common title “The Saga of the Russian Argonauts”, was received with great interest not only by Russian readers, but also by masters of Japanese literature as a completely original phenomenon. In Tokyo, the books were published by Asahi Publishing House.
In 1977-1979, the publishing house “Khudozhestvennaya Literatura” published a six-volume collected works of N.P. Zadornov.
In the last years of his life, Zadornov conceived a series of novels about Vladivostok. The novels “Hong Kong”, “Mistress of the Seas”, “Wind of Fertility” were written and published, and work was underway on the novel “Rich Mane”. In his last completed novel, “The Wind of Fertility,” the writer raised the historical theme of the relationship between Russia and China. With deep knowledge, he revealed the diplomatic, trade, everyday, cultural, and economic ties of peoples.
Many critics, researchers and biographers of Zadornov noted his exactingness towards himself. Nikolai Pavlovich was never satisfied with the first edition. He edited, added, crossed out, Managed, new episodes appeared, dialogues were polished.... The work began all over again.
Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov died in 1992 at the age of 83. Until his last day he continued to work on the Far Eastern theme.
Japanese criticism has repeatedly noted the Russian writer Zadornov as “a unique artist of nature and man.”
The American Literary Encyclopedia writes that Zadornov “raised layers of the history of peoples hitherto unknown to civilization. He colorfully depicted their life, spoke with deep knowledge about morals, habits, family disputes, love, misfortunes, everyday troubles, craving for the Russian language, Russian rituals and way of life.”
Without the historical novels of N. Zadornov today it is impossible to have a complete understanding of the development of historical themes in Russian literature.
Works by Nikolai Zadornov
Zadornov, N.P. Mogusyumka and Guryanych: A Tale / (Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov). - Riga: Liesma, 1969. - 335 p. - autograph of the author
Zadornov, N.P. Father Cupid: a novel / N. P. Zadornov. - M.: Artist. lit., 1987. - 671 p.
Zadornov, N.P. Faraway land; First discovery: [novels] / N. P. Zadornov; artist V. Chebotarev. - Vladivostok: Dalnevost. book publishing house, 1971. - 648 p.
ZADORNOV, N.P. First discovery. Captain Nevelskoy: Novels / N. P. ZADORNOV. - M.: Voenizdat, 1982. - 704 p.
Zadornov, N.P. Captain Nevelskoy: Novel / N. P. Zadornov. - Riga: Latv. state publishing house, 1958. - 872 p.
Zadornov N.P. Ocean War: A Novel. T. 1 / N. P. Zadornov. - M.: Veche, 2007. - 384 p. - (Sea Odyssey). - ISBN 978 - 5 - 9533 - 2386 - 4.
Zadornov N.P. Ocean War: A Novel. T. 2 / N. P. Zadornov. - M.: Veche, 2007. - 384 p. - (Sea Odyssey). - ISBN 978 - 5 - 9533 - 23867 - 1.
Zadornov, N.P. Gold Rush: 3rd book. novel "Cupid the Father" / N. P. Zadornov. - Khabarovsk: Book. publishing house, 1971. - 448 p.
Zadornov N.P. Tsunami: a novel / N. P. Zadornov. - M.: Veche, 2007. - 384 p. - (Sea Odyssey). - ISBN 978 - 5 - 9533 - 2432 - 8.
Zadornov N.P. Shimoda: novel / N. P. Zadornov. - M.: Veche, 2007. - 448 p. - (Sea Odyssey). - ISBN 978 - 5 - 9533 - 2433 - 5.
Zadornov N.P. Heda: a novel / N. P. Zadornov. - M.: Veche, 2007. - 448 p. - (Sea Odyssey). - ISBN 978 - 5 - 9533 - 2551 - 6.
Zadornov N.P. Hong Kong: novel / N. P. Zadornov. - M.: Veche, 2007. - 416 p. - (Sea Odyssey). - ISBN 978 - 5 - 9533 - 2552 - 3.
Zadornov, N.P. Mistress of the Seas: Novels / (Zadonov Nikolai Pavlovich). - M.: Sov. writer, 1989. - 464 p. : ill. - (Library of the Far Eastern Novel).
Zadornov, N.P. Yellow, green, blue: Roman / (Nikolai Pavlovich Zadornov). - M.: Sov. writer, 1967. - 215 p.
Zadornov, N.P. Wind of Fertility: Novel / (Zadonov Nikolai Pavlovich). - M.: Sov. writer, 1992. - 256 p.
The novel "Wind of Fertility" is about the conclusion of the Aigun Treaty between Russia and China. Diplomatic trade and labor ties are revealed here. And the young sailor Alexey Sibirtsev meets in China a young Englishwoman who is an educator and a teacher of Chinese children. They seem to be experiencing the winds of Chinese fertility. In those years, the foundation of the city and port of Vladivostok began on the coast of Primorye.
Zadornov, N.P. Blue Hour: Essays / (Zadonov Nikolai Pavlovich). - M.: Sov. writer, 1968. - 183 p.
In these essays, the author talks about his trips to the East of the country. Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Amur estuary, the Okhotsk coast - this is the geography of the essays. The writer is interested not only in the problems of developing the riches of the region, but also in the problems of the moral life of people who have linked their fate with it
