So, what about Pelevin's biography, interesting facts of life? First, let's start from the moment when any biography begins. A biography begins with birth. Boy Vitya was born in the Pelevin family on November 22, 1962. The Pelevin family lived in Moscow, the capital of Russia. It was there that interesting stories from Victor's life took place. Of course, initially they were not so interesting. As in the life of any modern person, it all began with school. Then there was the MEI University. There, Victor finished his postgraduate studies, and after that he entered the Gorky Institute. From this moment, and entertaining facts begin. For example, Pelevin worked as a correspondent for the year in the magazine Face of the Face. Since, for a good life there was not enough flat, Pelevin joined the union of journalists.
But let's go back a bit and learn the facts about Victor's school. His school numbered thirty-one was in the center of Moscow and was remarkable for its seriousness. There pupils received excellent knowledge in all subjects, and, in particular, in English. It was in this school, only a couple of classes older than the person that everyone now knows. They were Anton Tabakov, Misha Efremov, Sasha Basov, Sasha Messerer, Stalin's grand-nephew Seryozha Alilluyev, the daughter of Nikolai Slichenko, the sons of the Deputy Minister of the Interior of the USSR Vasily Trushin. By the way, Pelevin's mother worked at this school as a director of studies and taught English. His father was a teacher at the military department at the MVTU. Bauman. Even at school, Pelevin liked to invent a wide variety of stories. Someone could find this a lie, but, in fact, Victor did not lie. He just invented something that seemed to be like a real life, but at the same time it was not at all.
When Pelevin studied at the Moscow Power Institute, he was knowledgeable and received a red diploma. In the graduate school Victor worked on the project of electric drive of a city trolleybus with an asynchronous engine, but, in the end, did not begin to defend the thesis, deciding that he had enough technology and he wants to engage in literature. Therefore, in the summer of 1988, Victor Pelevin dropped his postgraduate studies and applied to the Gorky Literary Institute for a correspondence department. There he was noted as a sufficiently talented young man, who, however, is still looking for himself, because he lacks life experience. All his works are filled with philosophy. But, this philosophy is based more on his assumptions and observations, rather than on the real events that happened to him. While studying at the Literary Institute, Pelevin began to publish his stories. In 1989, the story "Sorcerer Ignat and the people" was published, and in the beginning of 1990 - the article "Guessing on the runes". Pelevin published his work in the journal Science and Religion, through which he tried to get into the Union of Journalists.
When the science fiction writer Edward Gevorgyan brought this magazine to him, soon everyone noticed that the format of the journal is clearly beginning to change. It was all in the young Pelevin. He was not interested in writing about scientific atheism, but a talented young man was happy to create stories and articles on topics about anthroposophy, theosophy, agni yoga, hermeticism, as well as articles dedicated to Blavatsky, Castaneda and Krishnamurti. Life in the Soviet Union was nearing perestroika, so everyone began to talk and write about what had been stupid, wrong and forbidden before.
In 1991 Pelevin was expelled from the Literary Institute. In his case, a strange phrase was written "for the separation from the institute." To tell the truth, it was difficult to understand, in what "exactly" administration this gap was brought. At that time, Pelevin constantly wrote. He was the editor of the prose department at the publishing house Den, which rented several rooms in the Literary Institute. The publishing house was organized by Pelevin's classmate Albert Yegazarov. He also, like Pelevin, was very interested in mysticism and various secret teachings. Young writers published Brodsky, Afanasiev, Jacques Berge and Louis Pauvel. Then, the publishing house was renamed the "Raven", and, in the end, it began to bear the name "Myth". This is how it remained until today, publishing various books on magic, occultism and esotericism.
Well, then, when the publishing house only appeared, Victor and Albert were seriously engaged not only in publishing other people's works, but also in writing their own. For example, they wrote the book "Red Magic", which narrated about Soviet society, as the last on earth ritual society. If we talk about Victor as a simple person, then his friends noted that he always knew how to get out of the water, despite the fact that he provoked all the conflicts himself. For this he was disliked.
By the way, Pelevin was an excellent karate player and loved to show his techniques. But his friends at the publishing house say that he did not have the same strength that he is credited to literary circles. For example, after the director of the publishing house Dima Vlasov, who was taught to fight the street, was defeated, he lost in the first battle and did not try to surprise anybody with his techniques and skills of the karate.
In 1992, Pelevin's novel "Aumont Ra" was published. After that, Pelevin became a famous person and every year, with every novel and story printed, his fame grew and grew.
Pelevin is a strange and strange person. For example, when he submitted to the publication "Aumont Ra", he called a friend to ask whether to take the job or not, and quickly, because he allegedly hangs in a cave and around fly mice. He considers magicians as his teachers and is engaged in divination. Often, it seems that he completely believes in what he writes. But, no one knows this, because the great mages have always been either "not of this world" or great charlatans, and no one has ever realized who they really are.