To be a truly talented writer is to have the ability to create incredibly interesting works. Poems of such an author will fall in love and everyone will know. World recognition and love is when music is written on poems, and people know and sing songs. The fate of being a people's favorite fell to Lev Oshanin.
The difficult childhood of the poet
Lev Oshanin is a native of the city of Rybinsk. His date of birth falls on May 1912. Leo's parents were very educated people. His dad worked in court as an attorney, and his mother was a music teacher. The talent to create and write was transferred to the young Leo from his mother. As befits the families of that time, there were six children - five sons and one daughter.
Very difficult years in the family came when Leo's father passed away. The poet at that time was only four years old. The writer's mother had to work very hard to feed her family. So, in 1917 they moved to Rostov, where the writer’s mother became the head of the kindergarten.
The years of youth of Lev Oshanin
Lev Oshanin with his family moved to live in Moscow in 1922, where he graduated from eight classes. Graduation meant the beginning of very difficult and difficult days of life. In order to earn at least some money, the young poet had to get a few jobs. In his youth, Lev Oshanin managed to be a turner at the factory, and a guide, and just a laborer.
The literary activity of the poet
Despite the hard work on weekdays, the young writer always found time to visit his favorite literary circle - Zakal. Lev Oshanin was very interested in literature and, with the support of his literary friends, was able to print the first book, Floors. This story carried readers to school, which made a great impression on them. Later Leo was invited to print in Komsomolskaya Pravda and Spark. Subsequently, Oshanin was accepted into the association of writers. For a young man who used to work tirelessly, this event was a real breakthrough.
Lev Oshanin. The biography of the writer in the war years
Hard work could not but affect the health of Leo. He began to see poorly. For this reason, the young writer was not accepted into the army. The fate of Oshanin, like many other writers of that time, was overshadowed by the Great Patriotic War. As a patriot of his country, he wanted to go to the front. But he was not taken for health reasons, even as a war correspondent.
The idea that he would be away from the front, that he could not fight with his comrades, overshadowed the writer. Oshanin learns from his friend Pasternak B. L. that he has every chance to get into the Writers' Union. Members of this union had a ticket in their hands, which was a pass to the front. With success, the writer exercises this membership, and immediately there is the opportunity to ride on the front line and speak to the fighters.
Ballads - amazing works of Lev Oshanin
Oshanin was very fond of writing ballads. They are small poems, but very capacious in content. The ballads of Lev Oshanin are works that are easy to hear. Reading into each of them, you can seem to travel back in time, put yourself in the place of the heroes and survive their fate. The writer himself has repeatedly mentioned that he loves to write ballads. The result of such fruitful activity was the publication of a number of books. Oshanin’s most famous ballads are “The Ballad of the Two Proud Men,” “The Ballad of the Seagulls,” the “Volga Ballad,” and others.
Description of the Volga Ballad by Lev Oshanin
Oshanin is a sensitive writer. Many years after the publication of his work did not lose relevance. In his ballads, the writer always sought to show how the simple Russian people cope with the heavy burden and at the same time do not lose their humanity, how wide and responsive the Russian soul is. However, her kindness knows no bounds. Only genius can convey such emotions with the help of poetic lines. That was Lev Oshanin. “Volga Ballad” is a text narrating about difficult wartime.
The work touches not only events at the front, but also the difficult life in the rear. At the time when husbands gave their lives for freedom, their wives tried to feed their children, working for the good of the front, falling asleep and waking up each time with only one thought - so that the husband returned alive. This ballad is about a simple Soviet family, of which there were thousands during the war years, and there was one fate for all.
Natalia received a telegram saying that her husband was in the hospital. Of course, clutching fear into a fist, she goes to him. Having been horrified at his sight, Natalya decides to take her husband home. She did not recognize him. Very crippled husband husband. He became dumb, with no arms and no legs. A simple Russian woman brought her husband home, the children bowed to him, and the whole collective farm bowed. Resigned to grief, Natalia accepted her fate. But her calm did not last long. A new explosion of emotions happened when the real husband Alexei Kovalev entered the house . It is the one whom she was waiting for from the war. The writer shows how noble the soldiers were. Seeing a cripple at home, Alex did not drive his wife out. He did not blame her for betrayal, he silently bowed to the dumb hero and began to respect his wife more than ever.
It would seem a simple story of an ordinary family, but it has a deep meaning.
The real hero is Lev Oshanin. Poems of the poet remain beloved now. His works supported the spirit of the soldiers at that time. Poets like to read now. No wonder. After all, all the works are written in a very simple and subtle language, which is so familiar to the Russian soul.