If your literary godfather was Samuel Marshak, who would you write for if it wasn't for children? But after the children read Vitaly Bianchi's book, take them to adulthood so that they can read it with the child later.
Bianchi was born in St. Petersburg on February 11, 1894. Loved by millions of Soviet children, this writer opened up a wonderful natural world for children. Dozens of his works, including Cuckoo, Forest Hut, and Mouse Peak, tell the story of magical adventures with animals. I tried to write in such a way that fairy tales are also interesting for adults. But now I realize that I work for adults who have children in mind.
However, Bian Qi's story cannot be called a novel in its purest form because Vitaly Valentinović was a genetic biologist, naturalist, and loved the natural world from an early age.
The author's father is a famous Russian scientist who worked in the Department of Ornithology of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences. As bian qi works researchers say in their house, the room is filled with bird cages, and nearby there is an aquarium and a glass container for lizards, snakes and turtles. The family left with their livestock and headed to the village of Lü Bo luxury for the summer. At one point, a calf was picked up by rangers and even settled in the yard of Villa Bianche, but in the fall the little animal was attached to the zoo.
Adventured in the forest with the sons of The Old Bianchi, who then recorded what they saw. As a result, the eldest son became a scientist in the field of entomology, and this branch of zoology studied insects. The second son devoted his life to meteorology. The youngest Vitaly wanted to become an ornithologist.
For some time, Bianchi worked in Bisk, in the public education sector of the museum section, and taught ornithology at the Altai Riu University, which aroused great public interest.
There, in Bisk, Bianchi met his second wife's first marriage with the daughter of a titular mp who did not last long. French and German teacher Vera Nikolaevna Klyureva had three children and became the writer's lifelong companion.
Bianchi was arrested twice in 1921, and that was how he came back to try his hand at politics. Like many students in the early 20th century, Bianchi was impressed by the Social Revolutionary Party and joined it at some point. During the turbulent revolutionary years, there was a time when he even managed to serve in Kolchak's army, and he quickly fled Kolchak. He remembered all these sins of youth. In September 1922, after receiving a new notice of arrest, Bianchi urgently arranged a business trip for himself and traveled with his family to Petrograd.
In 1923 his first novel, Journey of the Cardinal Sparrow, was published, followed by Whose Nose Looks Better? Again - obstacles. Biangene was arrested again for his involvement in an elaborate underground organization and exiled to Uralsk for three years. Thanks to Gorky's help, Bianchi was able to move to Novgorod a few years later, and then to Leningrad. But in 1932, he was arrested again. A month later, he was released for lack of evidence. In 1935 Bianchi was arrested again as the son of a private aristocrat, a former Socialist-Revolutionary, who actively participated in an armed uprising against Soviet power. Sentenced to 5 years of exile. Fortunately, with the help of his intercessors, he remained in Leningrad.
Perhaps Bianchi's most famous work is The Forest. Vitali Valentinović began studying it as early as 1924. By 1958 the encyclopedia had 10 editions, consisting of 12 chapters, each devoted to the month of the year. Telegrams and bulletins about forest life were printed on the pages. The Forest newspaper has been translated into many languages and is therefore loved by children all over the world.
Then Bianchi started hosting a show on radio interviews. The writer says it's a gift for children who suffered in the war: to make the children not bored, but happy.
According to the recollections of acquaintances and friends, Vitali Bianchi was a unique person who radiated light from him and he sought help for everyone. He spends a lot of time with young writers, organizes a literary school at home, and helps novice creators with editing. He strives to notice only the good in life and encourages his students to do the same.
I have a power of happiness in me. I understood: all the good things I have and have, all the good things I have... From this power. She was blessed in me and in others in people, birds, flowers and trees, in dirt and water, Bianchi wrote in his diary.
His house, like his father's, had almost turned into a zoo. The writer's son said in an interview that cats, canaries and dogs live in their houses and that there was once a bat settling.
The author of the children's work died at the age of 65 – he burned down from lung cancer. In an interview, Alexander Bianchi recalled that for the past 20 years, my grandfather had been preparing for death and lamented how much I wanted to live and write something else.
One of Bian Qi's sons, Vitaly Bianchi Jr., also devoted his life to science and became an ornithologist.