Once upon a time there was a dad
Very kind
Only came late
And he wore work home.
He was angry with this mom.
These lines belong to the Soviet writer and poet Sergei Baruzdin. Simple and artless, but at the same time warm as summer rain, they remain in our memory for a long time.
Creativity of Sergey Baruzdin
The writer lived and worked at a time when literature was closely monitored by censorship. All published works were to glorify Soviet power. Rarely did any of the writers manage to create a work that was not politicized, while Sergey Baruzdin did it.
All his work illuminates the warm light of humanity and love for people. He did not read morality and sermons, he showed with his creativity and his life how to live, so that it would be good not only to his beloved, but to all the people around. He was called a true friend of the children.
Throughout his life, the writer has written more than 200 books for children and adults. The total circulation of his works is about 100 million copies. Books were published in approximately 70 languages ​​of the world. His work was highly appreciated by Nadezhda Krupskaya and Lev Kassil, Konstantin Simonov and Maria Prilezhaeva.
Sergey Baruzdin: biography
He was born in Moscow in 1926. Dad wrote poetry and his son also taught to love poetry. Everything turned out very well: his works were published in the school wall newspaper, and then in the Pioneer magazine and the Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya drew attention to the young talent and sent him to the literary studio of the House of Pioneers.
New acquaintances with interesting people, doing what you love — life was easy and beautiful, but everything changed, and the familiar world collapsed within a few hours when the Great Patriotic War began. A few months after that, his father died. Grief and death quickly broke into the world of fantasies and dreams of a young poet.
Sergei was only 14 years old, and he was eager for the front, but for obvious reasons they did not take him there. A year after the outbreak of the war, attributing to himself a couple of years, he had already fought in artillery reconnaissance, participated in the defense of Moscow, took Berlin and liberated Prague. He was awarded orders and medals. More expensive than all other awards was the medal “For the Defense of Moscow”.
After the war, he entered the M. Gorky Literary Institute . After graduating, he was the editor of the magazines "Pioneer" and "Friendship of Peoples." He worked on the board of the USSR Writers Union. Sergey Baruzdin died on March 4, 1991.
Friendship of Peoples Magazine
At 39, Baruzdin became the editor of the not-so-popular publication in the Soviet Union. The magazines that were read out were “New World”, “October”, “Banner”. “Friendship of Peoples” was called the “mass grave of fraternal literature”, and this publication was absolutely not in demand.
But thanks to Sergey Baruzdin, K. Simonov, Yu. Trifonov, V. Bykov, A. Rybakov and other not only well-known, but also unknown authors were published in it. Many national writers and poets became popular only after publication in the Friendship of Peoples. Baruzdin always had problems with censorship, but he knew how to defend writers and defend his position.
After the publication of the journal to all the authors that were published in this issue, he wrote letters of gratitude for the work. Moreover, the size of the publication did not matter: from the novel to a small note.
Baruzdin was able to make "Friendship of Peoples" one of the most beloved and read in the Soviet Union. True, no matter how bitter it may be, has become one of the features that distinguish the magazine. On its pages, Russian and translated literature were perfectly combined.
Sergey Baruzdin: books
The formation of the personality of the writer was greatly influenced by the war. He went to the front as a boy, and came as a soldier who saw a lot. At first he wrote about the war. These were stories, but the writer did not describe the horrors, but the funny stories that happened at the front with him and his comrades.
In 1951, the author wrote a book, which is one of his business cards. This is a trilogy about the girl Svetlana. At the beginning of the book she is three years old, the girl only gets acquainted with the vast world that surrounds her. Short stories describe cases from her life. Simple and understandable Baruzdin teaches the reader important things: responsibility for a perfect deed, respect for elders, helping older people and much more.
Nearly fifteen years after the war, he wrote an autobiographical novel, "Repetition of the Passed." The book covers a large period of time: peacetime, years of confrontation, and post-war time. Baruzdin wrote about how difficult it was for yesterday’s schoolchildren and schoolgirls in the war, and how early domestic boys and girls became warriors who defended their homeland. Truthfulness and sincerity are the hallmarks of this book. At first it was written for an adult reader, and later it was remade for children by Sergey Baruzdin.
Poems and prose, as well as journalism, were written by this author. He has many books for children, in which he acquaints them with the history of our homeland: “Soldiers Walked along the Street” and “The Country Where We Live”. Books were also published about the Great Patriotic War: “Tonya from Semenovka” and “Her name is Christmas Tree”. There were also works about animals: "Ravi and Shashi" and "How Snow got to India." In addition, it should be noted a collection of literary essays called "People and Books."
The works of E. Asadov, A. Barto, L. Voronkova, L. Kassil, M. Isakovsky and many other Soviet writers and poets become closer and clearer after reading the essays about their life written by Sergei Baruzdin.
Basic principles
- In no case do not distort the existing reality.
- Good must triumph.
- Do not use complex sentences in the works - everything should be written in a simple language, understandable to the smallest reader.
- A sense of duty, justice, internationalism.
- Awaken in your readers the best and most humane feelings.
Reviews
Many admirers of Baruzdin’s work say that his works are very kind and easy to read. Moreover, they are interesting not only for children, but also for adults. It reminds one of a carefree childhood, while others are interested in learning how their distant peers lived.
Poems and short stories, novels and novels were written not only for children, but also for adults by Sergey Baruzdin. The books of this amazing writer are interesting today. Of great interest to children are poems. The most famous of them: “Tick and so”, “Who is studying today”, “My grandfather”, “Step by step”, “Log” and many others.
It should be noted that the work of this amazing writer is interesting today. It is so simple to tell a child about the main things in life, not teaching and moralizing, not every writer has been given. This is a real gift, and Sergei Baruzdin, the writer, for whom the most important was responsibility to the younger generation, possessed it in full.