Blaginina Elena, whose biography is closely connected with the world of childhood, is a famous Russian poetess and translator. More than one young generation has grown up on the kind and sincere poems of the author , the theme of her works is understandable to an adult.
The work of Elena Blaginina is based on Russian folklore. Her poems, songs, tales, jokes, teasers, counters, tongue twisters sparkle with good humor, and topics: the world around, mother's care for her child, communication with peers, rural nature are close to both children and adults.
Blaginina Elena: a brief biography
A native of the Oryol province (the village of Yakovlevo), Elena was born on May 14, 1903 in the family of a railway worker. She began to receive education at the Mariinsky Gymnasium (the city of Kursk), during the Soviet era she was already graduating from high school.
From childhood, Elena dreamed of working as a teacher. For this purpose I entered the pedagogical institute. Despite the great distance to the educational institution (7 kilometers), the girl tried not to miss a single lesson and in any weather she covered a long way in makeshift shoes.
Elena continued her education at the capital's Literary and Art Institute, which gave her a powerful impetus to realize herself in the literary field.
The literary path of Elena Blaginina
The love of rhyming lines manifested itself in young years and became a determining factor in choosing a life vocation. Blaginina Elena, a short biography, photos of which are printed in many collections for preschool and school children, first wrote poems on lyrical themes. Her first pen samples are imbued with real deep feelings and are read in one breath. Gradually, the desire to write intensified, because Elena began to do it well, moreover, in the almanac of Kursk poets, her works were published.
Subsequently, the work of the talented poetess was addressed to the children's generation - naive and sincere in their attempts to study the world around them. The year 1936 was a good start for the poetess: the poem “Sadko” was written and the first book, Autumn, was published. Then such collections saw the light: “Forty-white-sided”, “Let’s sit in silence”, “Here is a mother”, “Twinkle”, “Rainbow”.
Blaginina Elena, whose biography is interesting to fans of her literary talent, was not only writing poetic lines. The author was a talented translator: she easily managed to acquaint the domestic reader with the works of Taras Shevchenko, Lev Kvitko, Maria Konopnitskaya, Julian Tuvim.
Blaginina Elena, whose biography is a vivid example of determination and love for poetry, and about an adult audience for whom two collections of poems were published: in 1960 - “Window to the Garden”, in 1973 - “Folding”.
Creative contribution to children's literature
In her personal life, Elena Blaginina was married to the Russian poet Georgy Obolduyev, whose original work was hidden for many years by Soviet censorship from the reader. The poetess subsequently wrote a book of memoirs about her original and bright wife.
Many works of Elena Blaginina were translated into other languages, and the best were included in the domestic fund of children's books, becoming on a par with the poems of Samuel Marshak and Korney Chukovsky.
The talented poetess, the beloved author of many children, lived a long life, which put an end to April 24, 1989. Blaginina Elena, whose biography went down in the history of Russian literature, is buried in Moscow at the Kobyakovsky cemetery near her spouse.