Павлиний трон

Avtor — Laureat Pervoy premyy «ASKY»Leonyd Makhlys — pysatel, zhurnalyst y perevodchyk. Rodylsya v 1945 g. v Moskve. Zakonchyl fylologycheskyy fakultet MGU y v 1971 g. emygryroval. V 1973–1995 gg. rabotal rezhysserom, kommentatorom, redaktorom y vedushchym programm v Russkoy sluzhbe «Radyo Svoboda». V 2000e gody — redaktor zhurnalov «Athena Papers» y «Connections» (v ramkakh programmy «Partnerstvo vo ymya myra») y drugykh yzdanyy po problemam mezhdunarodnoy bezopasnosty. Zhyvet v Myunkhene.V 2014 godu vyshla v svet pervaya knyga pysatelya «Shest karer Mykhayla Aleksandrovycha. Zhyzn tenora», vyzvavshaya shyrokyy rezonans sredy chytateley y muzykovedov.V 2024 godu v Leyptsyge vyshla ego knyga «Gospody, napugay, no ne nakazyvay!». V tom zhe godu byla yzdana knyga «Myky» (ee zhanr avtor opredelyl kak «yronycheskaya pesaparabola») — pervoe obrashchenye pysatelya k dramaturgyy.«Pavlynyy tron» — eto vtoraya knyga zayavlennoy memuarnoy trylogyy.

The author is the winner of the First ASKI AwardLeonid Makhlis is a writer, journalist and translator. Born in 1945 in Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State University and emigrated in 1971. In 1973-1995 he worked as a director, commentator, editor and presenter of programs in the Russian service of Radio Liberty. In the 2000s, he was the editor of the magazines Athena Papers and Connections (within the framework of the Partnership for Peace program) and other publications on international security issues. He lives in Munich.In 2014, the writer's first book, The Six Careers of Mikhail Alexandrovich, was published. The Life of a Tenor", which caused a wide resonance among readers and musicologists.In 2024, his book "Lord, scare, but do not punish!" was published in Leipzig. In the same year, the book "Miki" was published (its genre was defined by the author as "an ironic play parabola") — the writer's first appeal to drama.Peacock Throne is the second book of the announced memoir trilogy.