There are things that would not seem to put inone row. Love for nature and love for mother, love for life and love for four-legged friends - this love is very far from death and war. But such stories - about children and about war, about animals and about people - managed to unite and make wise and instructive complement each other the writer Yakovlev Yury Yakovlevich.
Biography of the writer: the early years
Yuri Yakovlevich Yakovlev was born in Petrograd 26.06.1922. The real name of the author is Khovkin. Six months before the start of the Great Patriotic War, in November 1940, he was drafted into the army. Mother died in the summer of 1942 during the siege. Yuri Yakovlevich served as an anti-aircraft gunner, their battery was located near Moscow. The front came so close that the distance to the enemy was several kilometers. In those critical days, Yuri Yakovlevich applied to the party.
Poems of war
Poems began to write back in school.And the war turned this childhood hobby into a passion. In those days, he learned how great the power of poetry is when life comes into contact with death. Poems Yakovlev Yuri Yakovlevich wrote, when possible. Most often this happened at night, in the light of a smoke lamp. Throughout the war, he was a military officer of the newspaper "Alarm". It often printed his poems and essays. Once, after the war, I saw poems of an “unknown author” in one newspaper. These were his poems. So the war determined his future path.
Literary life
Enroll in the Literary Institute Writer YuriYakovlev came back in his overcoat. Cycles of Yakovlev’s army poems appeared in print several years after the war. Then began their acquaintance with M. A. Svetlov, who voluntarily was his mentor. In children's poetry he was admonished by A. L. Barto. In 1952, already the author of several books, he graduated from the institute. A new life has begun.
In 1949, the publishing house "Detgiz" goesThe first children's book, "Our Address." In the second book - "In our regiment" - he collected poems about the war, about the army. From the very first lines he wrote about childhood and about the war, about what he knew and experienced himself. Literature for him was not only work, but also passion.
Yakovlev Yuri Yakovlevich collaborated in magazines andnewspapers. He traveled a lot around the country - he met with oil workers in Baku, was at the construction site of the Stalingrad hydroelectric station, in the collective farms of Ukraine, at the frontier posts of Belarus. In all corners of the country visited, met with children and teachers. In a word, he always tried to get to know his heroes closer, “live” their lives, and not just gather material.
For little readers
The first story was published in 1960 inmagazine "Spark", it was called "Boys Station". It was a transitional moment of his work - he became a prose writer. Following this story is published another - "A boy with skates." In his “prosaic” fate, Izvestiya and Ogonyok played a large role. Writer Yury Yakovlev was always proud of what he wrote for children. He loved little readers. He loved his heroes.
L.A. HouseKassil for creative people was a kind of university. Cassil became for them both the mentor, and the inspirer, and the teacher. In 1972, Yakovlev turned 50 years old - he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Throughout his life, the writer Yuri Yakovlev has been searching for heroes for his works. And he found them very close, and they helped him with amazing fates.
Where heroes come from
Once told him about his son oldartists - about the small Leningrad Gavroche. So there was a film and the story "It was a real trumpeter." The pupils of A. Obrant told how young dancers came with the teacher to the front and performed in front of the soldiers - they showed about three thousand concerts. This is how the story “The Ballet Dancer of the Political Department” and the feature film “We Have Faced Death”. The basis of the story "The Girl from Brest" and the feature film "Lullaby for Men" was the life of K. I. Shalikova - the heroine of war. The story and screenplay for the film “Daughter of the Commander” was helped by the young defenders of the Brest Fortress.
Creativity writer
Writer Yury Yakovlev could not help but talk about the war. She was remembered and echoed. Yakovlev wrote the following military books:
- "Relic".
- "We are destined to live."
- "Where was the battery."
- "The day before yesterday was war."
Short stories and stories about children, about a difficult age, about experiences, when their future life is decided - this is exactly what Yakovlev Yuri Yakovlevich told. Books in this direction are listed below:
- "Travesty".
- "Difficult bullfight."
- "Self-portrait".
- "Ivan-jeep".
- "Daughter of preference".
Life scenarios
Cinema occupied a large place in Yakovlev's life. Films were made according to his scripts:
- "First Bastille".
- "We are with Vulcan."
- "Beauty".
- "Horseman over the city."
- "Pushchik goes to Prague."
Yakovlev’s books are original textbooks of life.The main themes are the school life of children, war, friendship between people, a good attitude towards animals, a sense of gratitude and love for mother. The main ideas of his prose are nobility, loyalty to the chosen landmark, meaningful existence.
The stories of this author penetrate the heart, affect the soul and make them rethink their actions and behavior. Without notations and teachings. Each of his stories reveals some important truth:
- "Ledum".
- "He killed my dog."
Three simple stories
- "The Mystery of Fenimore" - every night in the bedroomboys in the pioneer camp "Dubki" appears mysterious Fenimore. He turned their lives into a real adventure. He knew many stories and was able to tell. Nights away, with bated breath, the boys listened to adventure stories in the Wild West. In the afternoon, having painted their faces with toothpaste, they were worn with arrows and bows, tracking down Native American enslavers. And they fell asleep "where it is necessary", at night they could not sleep. This story was filmed in the third series of the film "Three funny shifts."
- "Sold the old horse" - the boy saw onthe fence among the ads is an old yellowed leaf, on which it was written that a horse is being sold. I read and began to imagine, and what is it, this old horse? Pondered and slipped past his house. Then I decided to go to the address specified in the old ad. Comes to the house, asks the owner about the horse. He replied that the horse had fallen in spring. “Oh, if I came earlier, I would definitely save her,” the upset boy thinks.
- "Striped stick" - Bear caught onthe intersection of a passer-by who has a gaping stick. He liked her very much - striped, black and white. A little later, he learns that these sticks help blind people to move around the city. Bear is suffering conscience. A black and white stick became a silent accusation for the boy. He runs around the city and tries to find the owner. So the attitude of the child to their actions.
The writer taught the good of little readers, taughtunobtrusively and wisely. “Good must be courageous and strong, only then it will win,” said Yakovlev Yury Yakovlevich. The stories, so small, on one or two pages, touch for a living. Piercing, calling for help, crying out for conscience, they teach to understand others, to love people, not to treat animals cruelly. They learn to look deep and see the inner essence of each story.
