Biography of birch bark

Quotes Biography of the line Valentin Berestov are familiar to Russian readers from early childhood. But not everyone knows that the writer, whose summer anniversary was celebrated in the year, seriously engaged in archeology, stood up for dissidents and sang perfectly. Valentin Berestov in childhood with his parents and brother Valentin Berestov is from the city of Meshchovsk, located southwest of Kaluga.

Although the population of the town never exceeded 5 thousand, 82 years before the writer, another Russian celebrity was born in it - statesman Vyacheslav Pleve. But the boy Vale, who was born on the most playful day of the year, was to be famous for the literary field. The poet called himself a social semicircle: his father was from the peasants, his mother was from the nobles.

Both parents loved music and theater: Dmitry Matveevich sang perfectly and performed Valentina and then two other sons of the cradle songs of Tchaikovsky and Mozart, Zinaida Fedorovna played in an amateur theater. Valentin Berestov in his youth, the boy took possession of a letter of 4 thanks to the great -grandmother, who, contrary to loss of vision, wrote out newspapers and asked Valya to retell the cartoons published in them.

The old woman often guessed what signatures accompany these drawings, and so the great -grandson got acquainted with the first letters. In the prewar years, he studied at the Kaluga school, which was then called railway. With the outbreak of war, the father - a school teacher of history - went to the front, and the rest of the Berestovs - in evacuation to the capital of Uzbekistan.

Valentine became the older man in the family. Separation from his father and anxiety for him prompted the summer teenager to express thoughts and feelings in poems that were recorded in albums glued from fragments of packaging paper. Valentine's works were transferred by Tashkent schoolchildren from hand to hand, adults read them with interest. So the verses of the young talent reached the poet Chukovsky, who is in evacuation.

Offensive writers saw in a awkward guy a real talent, high performance and morality. In the year, their letters of recommendation helped Valentine go to school at a boarding school for gifted children in the suburbs, and after 2 years to publish their works for the first time. However, with literature, another passion of a talented young man - history and archeology competed.

Chukovsky predicted that Berestov would move from lyrical poetry to children's, and from books for kids to serious scientific research. And so it happened: Valentine graduated from the Historical Department of the Main Soviet University and graduate school at the ethnographic institute, and still went to archaeological expeditions. The work of Valentin Berestov is known, first of all, as the author of poems, fairy tales and stories for children.

The works of the writer are filled with soft humor and the game of words. So, the hero of the poem “Pictures in Puddles” poetically tells about what he saw in the first, second and third water obstacles, but the fourth is wonderful because the narrator soaked his legs in him. The writer Valentin Berestov poet wrote two primers in verses - “Fun ABC” and “Circus Alphabet”, and the second birch bark managed to compose in such a way that not one, but 3 or 4 lines of the quatrains dedicated to a certain letter began with it.

Valentin Dmitrievich translated the verses of the Belgian poet Maurice Karem, it is especially known for the overflow into the Russian cycle “By Christmas”. Among Berestov’s prosaic children's works, the fairy tale “How to Find the Walk” and co -authored with his wife “Magic Garden” are most popular. Illustrations for the books of Valentin Dmitrievich were performed by artists V. Suteev and L.

Tokmakov, T. Galanova and A. Eduard Uspensky and Valentin Berestov was written by the writer for adults. Among Berestov’s heritage there are lyrical verses and epigrams, memoirs and popular science literature on history and archeology. Essays on the work of Pushkin and Vysotsky are of great value. In the last decade of life, Valentin Dmitrievich performed city romances in the radio programs of Eduard Uspensky.

Personal life Valentin Berestov marriage has married three times. The first time the writer took a girl named Larisa as a wife. This happened in m. After 2 years, the couple had the only heiress Valentin Dmitrievich - daughter Marina.

The appearance of the baby prompted the poet to write poetry for children. The words of the girl “How good to be able to read! The daughter is dedicated to the work "About the girl Marina and her car." Valentin Berestov with her daughter Marina, however, did not work out personal life - Larisa did not like the writer’s mother and brother, in their opinion, the woman did not care about Valentina and slightly corresponded to the image of a life partner that was formed by Berestov after meeting the wives of senior colleagues - Marshak and Chukovsky.

The final gap of the spouses occurred in the year. The second companion of the writer was the “best of women” artist and writer Tatyana Ivanovna Alexandrova, an old acquaintance of Berestova on folklore expeditions.The couple lived together for 15 years, 10 of which Tatyana was ill with cancer, wrote several children's fairy tales together, made up a collection based on the main book of Vladimir Dal.

Valentin Berestov and Tatyana Alexandrova, after the death of his second wife, the man felt deeply unhappy and, in order not to be lonely, in the year he concluded a marriage with Tatyana Ivanovna's twin sister. The third wife of the poet was called Natalia. All those who knew Valentina Dmitrievich noted the exceptional decency of the writer. Confirmation of the writer’s moral qualities is the fact of a biography: in the year, Berestov, risking many, signed a letter in defense of Sinyavsky and Daniel.

Death in the photo of recent years, a once -thin writer appears as an overwhelming gray -haired elderly person. The writer suffered from hypertension and constantly carried nitroglycerin with him. The writer celebrated the anniversary, together with an adult daughter who married a Dominican citizen and living in the United States, and lectured about the unknown poem by Pushkin at the University of New York.

After returning to the Russian capital, Valentin Dmitrievich had a heart attack, which caused death on April 15. Valentina Berestov was buried next to Tatyana Alexandrova in the Khovansky cemetery.