Nikolay Andreyevich Borisov (, ; October 11, 1889 - September 3, 1937) was a Soviet Ukrainian writer best known for an adventure novel Ukrasia which was the base of the popular 1925 film directed by Pyotr Chardynin.Николай Андреевич Борисов (1889 — 1937), Забутий черкаський письменник і демократ. До 125-річчя з дня народження Миколи БорисоваA. Sherman, («Укразия» Н. Борисова) He wrote his books in Russian, but they were immediately translated in Ukrainian. Виктор Цион, Это была война, December 23, 2016
He graduated from the , and and fought in World War I, earning military decorations. During the Russian Civil War, for a short time he was with White Army, then joined the Red Army.
He wrote adventure novels he dubbed "cine-novels" (cinema novels), a popular form in these times. In 1920s he worked as a screenwriter in film studios of Odesa and Yalta. He knew several foreign languages and was a fan of Esperanto, which was a pretext for his ill fate. He was arrested and executed in 1937, accused of participation in the "counter-revolutionary Trotskyite organization among Esperantists".
Works 1925: "Укразия" (Ukraziya, Ukrasia), cine-novel (cinema novel, Кино-роман) 1925: Генерал с того света, a lost short film, co-authored the screenplay with Vladimir VajnshtokГенерал с того света (1925) time slip genre: a Russian Imperial Army general wakes up in the Soviet Union 1927: Green Apples: A Collective Novel pseudotranslation "from American language by Nikolay Borisov", allegedly written by a Kornelius Krok; in fact it was a "bouts-rimés-novel", a collage of excerpts of translations of 17 popular novels The subtitle "Collective Novel" is a parody on the real tradition of the crowdwritten collective novels of the timeMaria Malikova, Халтуроведение: советский псевдопереводной роман периода НЭПа, НЛО, no. 3, 2010 1927: Слово за наганом., cine-novel Subtitled "Из жизни белогвардейского поручика в период гражданской войны 1918 г." [From the life of a White Guard lieutenant during the civil war of 1918] 1928: Vive la commune! A novel from the epoch of 1871Chervonyĭ shli︠a︡kh, 1923-1936 rr: systematychnyĭ pokaz︠h︡chyk zmistu, p. 122 1929: "Четверги мистера Дройда", cine-novel, a sequel to "Ukrasia" set in near futureБОРИСОВ, Николай Андреевич (archived)Андреевич Борисов Четверги мистера Дройда (public domain) The story is set in a future capitalist country where total mind control has been invented, and the citizens are controlled by the "Committee for Human Salvation"
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