Soviet writer, Stalin Prize laureate, talented teacher - Valentina Oseeva. Her biography is detailed in the article.
Troubled childhood
April 15, 1902 in Kiev in the family of an engineer a girl was born, who was named Valechka. Her father, Alexander Dmitrievich, a revolutionary, took an active part in the events of 1905. Gendarmes hunted for him; although he was hiding under a false name, the tsarist police eventually arrested him. Mother, Ariadna Leonidovna, worked as a proofreader in a local newspaper and also participated in revolutionary activities.
Valentina Oseeva, whose biography is described below, had two older sisters - Galina and Angelika.
The active participation of parents in the political life of the country led to the fact that the family often experienced night searches, and changed their place of residence. Valya especially remembered the cottage in the Drum Glade near Samara. Forever in the memory of the girl was the mighty Volga River, its steep ravine banks, the whistles of steamboats and barges, the bustle on the pier. While the adults were busy with their own affairs, little Valia ran away to the river. She closely communicated with port movers, fishermen, merchants, and was friends with the local barefoot children.
The girl reacted sharply to injustice, worried and sympathized with those with whom she talked, saw the daily hard work of her friends. Valentina Oseeva knew firsthand about the plight of the people. The biography of her childhood became the basis for the story "Dink". Almost all the facts presented in the book are taken from the life of Vali herself, the heroes are also real, close girls became their prototypes: Dinka is Valya herself, the middle sister Lika (she was affectionately called the Mouse for poor health and gentle disposition) was written from the middle sister Angelica, and strict Alina is the older sister of Vali Galina.
Young years of Oseeva
Valya received her primary education in a Kiev gymnasium, but then the family once again moved, and the heroine of our article finished school in Zhitomir. Back in school, she became interested in theater and really wanted to become an actress. After receiving a certificate, she entered the Drama Department of the Kiev Institute. Lysenko, but the family moved again - this time first to Moscow, and then to Solnechnogorsk. Therefore, she was forced to give up acting institute and part with the dream of Valentin Oseev. Her biography went a new way.
"My calling is a teacher"
In 1923, Ariadna Leonidovna on the instructions of the party was determined to work in the labor commune of them. Clara Zetkin, who was in Solnechnogorsk. Street children were brought up in the commune, whose parents died during the revolution or civil war. Valya, who was 21 years old, once went to her mother to work. Seeing the pupils, talking with them, remembering her half-starved childhood friends, the girl realized that her vocation was to educate and teach children. So she became a teacher Valentina Oseeva. The stories, tales and tales that she wrote later were intended to teach children goodness and honesty, to show them the truth of life, to light a spark of justice in their hearts.
The beginning of the creative path
Oseeva worked in the children's commune for sixteen years. It was here that her creative talent was revealed. She wrote short stories and tales for children, plays that they then put together with the pupils on the stage of the school theater. The children persuaded her to take the story "Grishka" to the editor, which was published in 1937, later, in 1940, they printed a whole collection of Oseeva's under the title "Red Cat".
At the beginning of World War II, a novice writer, along with her family and son, was evacuated to Bashkiria, where she got a job in a kindergarten. Having learned the Bashkir language, she translated children's fairy tales into Russian. And, of course, Valentina Oseeva continued to write. Even today children and adults alike read stories, fairy tales and novels with pleasure.
Author's library
The writer did not write so much, but all of her works, short and multi-page, found a response in the hearts of readers. What did Valentina Oseeva compose? Books of the writer:
- "Grandma."
- "Magic word".
- "Revenge."
- "Poorly".
- "Blue Leaves."
- "Three comrades."
- "Good."
- The Magic Needle.
- "Good hostess."
- "Who is all stupid."
- "Why".
- "Just an old woman."
- "Vasek Trubachev and his comrades."
- Dink.
- "Dinka says goodbye to childhood."
And other wonderful stories written by Valentina Oseeva. Tales and short stories, poems and plays, tales for the children of this writer were awarded the Stalin Prize in 1952.
V. Oseeva died in 1969, she was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow.