Background
Yuri Vladimirovich Davydov was born in a family of intellectuals-humanists.
Yuri Vladimirovich Davydov was born in a family of intellectuals-humanists.
In 1945 he graduated from the Vyborg Naval School. Until 1949 he studied at the Historical Faculty of Moscow State University.
Davydov was a Member of the Great Patriotic War, from 1942 to 1949 served in the military in the Navy. In 1949 he was repressed, released in 1954 and rehabilitated in 1957.
Began to publish his works in 1945.
From 1991 to 1995 - Secretary of the Writers' Union of Moscow. In 1993 he signed the "Letter of Forty-Two." In 2001 he headed the jury of the Booker Prize. The novel "Such a limit is laid to you" has remained incomplete (published in the journal "Znamya" in 2002).
He was buried at Peredelkino Cemetery near Moscow.
Evenings in Kolmov
(Journal “Friendship of Nations”, 1988, No. 5)
1988Golovnin
1968In the seas and wanderings: a collection of short stories
1949Straw lodge. Two bundles of letters
((1982, totally 1986), a novel about Herman Lopatin, the U...)
1986Bequeath to you, brothers.
(The Tale of Alexander Mikhailov (1975))
1975In the race field, near the slaughterhouse
(A Tale of Dmitri Lizogub (1978))
1978The Deaf Leaf Times
(A Novel about Narodnaya Volya)
1968John Franklin
(2nd ed. - M.: Thought, 1974. - (Remarkable geographers an...)
1974The Southern Cross
1957Captains are looking for a way
1959March
1959Go full wind
1961About your friends, Africa
1962I see the coast
1964This almond smell ...
1965Nakhimov
1970Senyavin
1972Herman Lopatin, his friends and enemies (1984)
1984Karzhavin Fedor, Volunteer of Freedom (1986)
1986Blue tulips
1990Zerubbabel
1993Bestseller
1998