The famous children's writer Tatyana Ivanovna Alexandrova was a real storyteller. She impressed readers with her stories, which taught kindness, affectionate words and left a mark in the soul of every person.
Biography
Tatyana Alexandrova was born on January 10 in 1929 in Kazan. However, it so happened that her childhood passed in Moscow. Tatiana had a twin sister, Natasha. Girls often stayed at home with only a nanny. After all, my mother worked as a doctor. Therefore, she often had to stay the night of duty. Dad worked as a forest engineer. He was rarely at home, as he had to travel on business trips.
During the war, the writer worked as a teacher. Then, for the first time, she composed an interesting story that the children really liked. This subsequently led her to enter the Institute of Cinematography at the Faculty of Art. After training, she became a famous storyteller.
Tatyana Alexandrova was also an artist. She often painted children, but so that they sat quietly and did not move, she told interesting stories and tales that children listened with pleasure.
The writer composed her whole life, until she was fatally ill. She never found out that her first book about the Kuzyu blast-house brought tremendous success. The writer died on December 23, 1983 from a serious illness that they did not want to advertise.
Interesting facts from life
As described above, Tanya and her sister had a nanny, whose name was Tsaryova Matryona Fedorovna. It was she who replaced the girls' parents. Matryona often told Tanya and Natasha tales and stories about goblin and brownies. She sang songs and read poems about these heroes. Therefore, Tanya, after her nanny, herself began to compose various stories.
When Tatyana Alexandrova taught children to draw, she asked to paint landscapes calmly, not to be afraid of anyone. To do this, she drove the kids into the forest to get acquainted with nature, birds and some animals.
Oddly enough, after several such trips, animals and birds began to get used to young artists.
Tatyana had a husband, Valentin Berestov. It was with him that she composed many books that became famous over time.
However, at first the writer helped her husband and drew pictures for books, then he introduced her to his work, and together they wrote in 1973 the first book, entitled “Katya in the Toy City”, which brought great success to the family.
As it turned out later, Tatyana Alexandrova was a wonderful author. Her biography is interesting, lively and touching. It is very sad for many readers that Tatyana could not be happy when the cartoon about Kuzya in her script was published.
The best books of the author
Was a good and kind writer Tatyana Alexandrova. The author’s best books are the novel “Katya in the Toy City” and “The Kuzya Brownie”.
Stories about the blast furnace were easy for the author. However, she worked on a fairy tale for several years. After all, several memorable stories were created about the fidget Kuzy, in which Tatyana Ivanovna Alexandrova put her whole soul into it.
Then came the book "A chest with toys." Thanks to her, children learn to fantasize, imagine and create their own fascinating stories. In fact, the author has a lot of fairy tales and stories, but they are not as famous as the first two.
"Tales of the wise professor"
This is another wonderful book that appeared recently (in 2010), although it was written a very long time ago. Therefore, the book "Tales of the Wise Professor" contains ancient traditions and rites.
This book often mentions the Russian stove, goblin, brownies and kikimors. The heroes of this book live in the modern world, although according to the old rules. Here you will read many interesting teasers, sayings or proverbs with meaning that teach children only the good. A wonderful writer was Tatyana Alexandrova. The author’s books were loved not only by children, but also by adults.
In each character, you can find similarities with your child, which attracts to reading even more.
Writing a fairy tale about the Kuzyu domain
The first edition accepted only the introduction of the story. However, it was decided that the title should not contain the word “house-keeper”. As it turned out, this is a dubious word that no one knew. Also, they were not allowed to illustrate the books, because Kuzya is an invented character, and it is not known how he should look.
To make drawings for the story, it was necessary that the writer was a member of the Union of Artists, but she was not. Although she had a lot of experience in painting.
Due to some specific circumstances, the writer was not allowed to finalize her tale. Therefore, when the fairy tale came out, Tatyana was not happy, as the story was not altered very well and the character turned out to be more negative than positive.
After the death of the writer, three days after the funeral, they called her. For her husband it was a big surprise. After all, they called from Soyuzmultfilm itself and asked Tatiana to write a script for them. Then, Valentin Berestov wrote in memory of his wife the rest of the story about the Kuzyu domain, which became very popular with children of any age.
There is a character in the fairy tale - the girl Natalya. Tatyana not just called her. The writer wanted to leave a memory of her beloved sister in a fairy tale, which is why she named the heroine in her honor.
Positive Reader Feedback
Many people like fairy tales, short stories, and tales of Tatyana Alexandrova. Fun and kind adventures help children better understand the author. After all, the writer wanted to open for the children a world of kindness, to help understand the essence of the house, its character and unique features.
Some mothers encourage children 4-5 years old to read the author’s books. Together with the child they spend interesting time, present funny stories, laugh, joke. The author’s books help children to reason, draw conclusions and discuss what they read.
Negative reviews
Without a doubt, there are people who do not like stories about Kuzka. Some parents claim that they are meaningless, the humor is wrong. Someone believes that not only books, but cartoons are bad.
Such people claim that they do not teach children anything clever. However, not everyone agrees with such conclusions, but everyone has the right to a personal opinion. After all, all cannot be well.
Some readers did not like the pictures of the characters. They were sure that the children would be scared of these illustrations. Take only one Kuzyu, which was painted scruffy, dirty, thick and ugly. However, I am glad that not everyone thought so.
Conclusion
As mentioned above, Tatyana Ivanovna Aleksandrova was a wonderful person, artist and author. Her biography affected many hearts. After all, it is very unfortunate that the author was not appreciated at the right time, and only after her death could they understand what interesting stories, fairy tales and novels are.
When the war ended, Tatyana was only about 13 years old. The most amazing thing is that at this age she worked as a kindergarten teacher. And, being a child herself, she brought up children.
Tatyana’s husband, Valentin Berestov, always supported his wife and helped in the work of authorship, since at that time he was a famous writer, who was loved by many readers. And after the death of his beloved wife, Valentin did everything to preserve the memory of her in the hearts of many people.