Inna Goff is a popular Soviet writer who is the author of the text of the legendary song called “Russian Field”. Want to know more about the life and work of this poetess?
Biography
The future writer was born on October 24, 1928 in the family of a successful TB doctor Anatoly Goff and French teacher Zoe Goff. Unfortunately, the girl's youth fell on the years of World War II, which influenced her work. In the summer of 1941, the city of Kharkov was under siege. It is for this reason that the Goff family is being evacuated to the Siberian city of Tomsk. There, Inna goes to the hospital and works as a nanny. She went on more than once in her works about the hard years that have been spent in the military rear (hospitals, queues, constant deaths, shattered hopes, etc.).
Post-war period
When the war ended, Inna moved to Moscow. There she enters the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute and attends the seminars of the poet Mikhail Svetlov. And later, having changed direction, he comes to the lecture of the prose writer Konstantin Paustovsky. In her student years, Inna married her fellow student Konstantin Vanshenkin, who will become a famous poet in the future.
It was during this period that Goff Inna would awaken herself in the literary craft. And success does not pass by a talented writer. The first rays of fame illuminate Inna in 1950. At the first All-Union competition of the best children's books, Goff received her first prize for a short story entitled “I am the Taiga”. Another work of Inna - “Heartbeat” attracted great interest. A few years later, a new book by the writer, “Boiling Point,” is published. In it, Goff Inna talks about ordinary workers at a chemical plant located in the Moscow Region.
Creation
Inna's work was a huge success both among critics and ordinary readers. Literary experts noted the liveliness of the language and the enthusiasm that was present in the works of Goff. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that large publishers willingly printed a young writer. Thus, in 1960, the story "Northern Dream" was published. And in 1961, a cycle entitled “Queue for Kerosene” was published. The year 1963 was marked by the release of Inna's novel “The Phone Rings at Night”. In these works, the girl reproduced her youthful impressions of the difficult times of World War II.
The writer perfectly mastered the genres of story and story. All Goff characters were endowed with living human characters, so they wanted to empathize. The heroes of Inna fell into a difficult, but nonetheless beautiful world. And the writer’s atypical views on seemingly banal things and her delightful sense of humor gave the works a special charm.
Gradually, Goff Inna begins to change her repertoire: the girl moves from folk images to more elegant, one can say elitist prose. Thus, the cycles “How Gondoliers Are Dressed” and “Travel Stories” are devoted to travels in Italy, and “Familiar Trees” are sketches of the writer about the Moscow Region.
Inna Goff's Poems
Nowadays, the writer is known not only for writing interesting stories, but also for her lyrical works.
Goff Inna started writing poems in her youth. However, the girl pretty quickly and unexpectedly switched to prose. Nevertheless, she did not stop writing poems. For many years, Inna wrote what is called the “table”. And only thanks to Mark Bernes, Ian Frenkel and Eduard Kolmanovsky, who put Goff's verses to music, could the general public familiarize themselves with the lyrics of the writer. At the moment, songs such as “North Wind”, “I smile at you”, “Russian Field”, “When you stop loving you”, “August” and others are recognized folk classics.