Rasputin Valentin Grigoryevich, whose biography will be described in this article, is certainly one of the pillars of Russian literature. His works are known and popular among Russian and foreign readers. Let us get acquainted with the life path of our great compatriot.
The writer was born in the village of Atalanka on the Angara in 1937. Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin, whose biography is very interesting and full of events, often recalls the war years and the famine, although he was still a child then. Despite this, he calls his childhood happy: it was spent in the village, with the guys he often fished and went to the taiga for mushrooms and berries.
In 1959, Valentin graduated from the University of Irkutsk, after which he began working as a journalist in the publications “Soviet Youth” and “Krasnoyarsk Komsomolets”.
Already in 1961 his first work was published - “I forgot to ask Leshka ...” The plot of the story is this: on a logging tree, a fallen pine touches a young Leshka, who is accompanied by two friends on foot to the hospital, in whose hands he dies. Already in the first story of the writer there are characteristic features of his work - nature as a character in a work that is sensitive to what happened, and the hero’s thoughts about justice and fate. This was followed by several more early stories: “Rudolfio”, “Bear's skin for sale” and “Vasily and Vasilisa”.
As the writer recalls, he was a capable student and loved to read. After graduating from four classes in a village, he was advised to continue his education. Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich, whose biography was partially reflected in one of his most popular stories - “French Lessons”, in a boy, the main character, described himself in many ways. The plot of the story: a boy of eleven years is sent from the village to the city, where there is an eight-year school. He is gifted, and the whole village hopes that he will become an educated person. However, the time is post-war, hungry. The boy barely has enough money for a rare can of milk. He begins to play for money, his French teacher learns about this. Deciding to help her pupil, she plays with him for money at home, as the boy did not want to borrow them. Based on this story, a feature film was shot.
In the collections of works of the young writer “What to convey to the crow?” and “Live and Love,” included stories about the life of people on Lake Baikal and nature.
In the late 1960s, the young Rasputin Valentin Grigoryevich was admitted to the USSR Writers Union, whose biography is replenished with new works: “Money for Mary”, the story “Deadline” and many others. The distinguishing features of these and all subsequent creations of the author were the theme of the Siberian village, a loving description of the life of the common people, traditions and moral conflicts.
Rasputin writes about his grandparents in the story “Vasily and Vasilisa”. As the writer admitted, the image of his grandmother lives in the old woman Anna in the work “The Last Term” and in the old Daria from “Farewell to Mater”. Rasputin Valentin Grigoryevich, whose biography began in the Russian village and has been closely connected with her all his life, admits that almost all books have stories of the lives of his fellow villagers and his native village.
In 1974, the story “Live and Remember” was published, in which the writer reflects on how an ordinary villager Andrei Guskov could go on desertion and betrayal. Thanks to this work and the story “Fire”, Rasputin twice became a laureate of the USSR State Prize.
In 2007, Rasputin Valentin Grigoryevich was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 3 degrees for many years of creativity and active participation in the development of Russian literature.
A brief biography of him was presented here. To this day, the writer takes an active citizenship, advocating for the protection of nature and Lake Baikal, he writes articles in newspapers and magazines.