Georgy Alekseevich Skrebitsky - a writer who was in love with his native fields, forests, mountains. His books tell of travels to the beautiful world of nature. In an amazingly accurate, juicy and figurative language, this master naturalist conveyed the beauty of central Russia, the habits of the most diverse inhabitants of the forest, and the customs of the Russian people. In his works, he invested extraordinary humanity, humanity, experience, peculiar artistic techniques and means. His stories are like fairy tales.
Childhood
In 1903, a talented master of pictorial descriptions, George Skrebitsky, was born. The biography of the writer is very complicated. He was raised by foster parents. At the age of four, N.N. was adopted. Skrebitsky. A little later, Zemstvo doctor A.M. Polilov became her husband. All his childhood Grisha spent in the small town of Chern in the Tula province, where the whole family moved.
George's adoptive father was very fond of fishing, hunting, often took a boy with him, which instilled in him a love for his native nature. Even in childhood, George learned to carefully and consciously relate to everything around him, to love his smaller brothers. This was reflected in his work and life credo. Skrebitsky’s favorite hobbies were reading books and natural history. He could not determine which of these two areas to choose, so he combined the two professions into one. He became a naturalist writer.
Knowledge acquisition
Having received secondary education in one of the schools of the town, George Skrebitsky goes to the capital, where he enters the Faculty of Literature at the Institute of Living Word. After the young man mastered writing skills, the Higher Zootechnical Institute became the next step in training. Here George mastered the basics of hunting and animal husbandry.
After graduating from this institution, the young man goes to work in a research institute for animal husbandry and hunting. Then he was a researcher in a laboratory at Moscow State University, where he studied the psychology of various animals. This work allowed Skrebitsky to participate in various expedition trips, to explore the life of animals in freedom.
He was engaged in such observations for 5 years. In 1937, Georgy Alekseevich was awarded the title of candidate of biological sciences. For some time he headed the Department of Animal Physiology at Moscow State University. All this time he worked on several scientific works related to zoology and zoopsychology.
Singer of Russian nature
The older the scientist became, the more often he wanted to record all his hunting adventures on paper, as well as capture childhood memories of his first encounters with nature. So gradually, Georgy Alekseevich began to turn into a singer of his native nature. Many younger schoolchildren are familiar with the first work by Skrebitsky "Ushan" about a hare born in autumn. This led the author to write animal stories. He is also the author of two short stories. His books are known not only in Russia, but also in Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Albania, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic.
In the 40s, George Skrebitsky worked closely with the famous animal writer Vera Chaplina. She helped him publish his work, and also prompted ideas for new stories. Together they wrote animal stories for the youngest readers and published in children's magazines.
Cartoon Scripts
Vivid features of the talent of the naturalist writer in creating scripts for filmstrips and cartoons were especially piercingly expressed. In all these works, the main characters were animals. The most memorable works are the filmstrip “Who's Winters,” “Who Spends Like Summer,” “About the Little Squirrel,” and “Little Bear”.
In 1949, George Skrebitsky visited Western Belarus. After that, he wrote many essays and collected them in the book "Belovezhskaya Pushcha". The writer did not finish his last story, it was completed by Vera Chaplin. Death overtook Georgy Alekseevich unexpectedly, in the summer of 1964 he had a heart attack and was taken to a hospital. An acute heart attack did not give a chance to Skrebitsky, he died on August 18 of that year.
Story Summary
- "White fur coat" - a story about the adventures and wintering of a white fluffy bunny.
- The Long Tailed Robbers discusses the behavior of feathered magpies.
- "Mitin friends" is a work about a boy who is attached to a calf and his elk mom.
- "House in the woods" introduces the adventures of an experienced hunter.
- "Mysterious find" - an interesting adventure that happened to schoolchildren during the manufacture of birdhouses.
- "Thief" talks about a smart handmade squirrel.
- "Forest voice" - a story about the native land, summer holidays, forest inhabitants.
Affectionate humor, poetry, warmth - these are the features inherent in the skill of George Alekseevich Skrebitsky. His works develop character, teach to love our smaller brothers, to take care of everything living. The smallest children and schoolchildren always enjoy the life of forest inhabitants with pleasure. Most often, his books are used for extracurricular and family reading, and the development of children's speech.