Writers are people who write textual works that are intended for others to read. When we want to immerse ourselves in another Universe, we always turn to these very creations of writers. Their activities help us in many ways in life, teach us to be useful to society and mutual assistance.

Facts about writers

Any connoisseur of literature is familiar with. According to rumors, he was very loving, but at the same time plump and lame, but this did not stop him from luring women into his network.

I was not a child with a happy childhood. His father was sent to debtor's prison, and the boy himself had to work to feed his family. He was hired at a waxing factory, where every day from morning to night he glued labels to cans. Many will say that the work is not dusty, what's wrong with that? Try doing this all day instead of the usual children’s games and you’ll understand. That is why Dickens’s images of unhappy children came out perfectly.

We are all familiar with creativity. He was deathly afraid of the dark. Perhaps the reason for this was that the future writer studied in a cemetery. The school was too poor, so the math teacher brought the children there, where the children chose a monument for themselves and calculated how many years a person had lived. Now the themes of Allan Poe's works are not so surprising.

He was a friend of the inventor, who was considered the most secretive person of his time. Twain even invented a couple of things.

He was addicted to drugs, and he also supported the ideas of terrorists. Perhaps it was due to his drug addiction, who knows?

There was a whole team of proofreaders working on it. The thing is that he had absolutely no spelling and punctuation knowledge. Since he wanted his work to be published in good form, he had to hire people to correct his mistakes.

In Great Britain, she is revered little less than the Queen. It is also called the symbol of the country. Its sales circulation is practically the highest, second only to Shakespeare.

He was so popular that towards the end of his life, loving readers sent letters with the address “Avenue V. Hugo”, although the street had a specific name. However, the parcel always found its addressee.

About Russian writers and poets

All that can be said about Russian writers and poets is that they are loved all over the world. Every connoisseur of literary works says that Russian classics are a necessary foundation for any person.

The most popular poet in Russia was very ugly, which distinguishes him from his wife, Natalya Goncharova. He was ten centimeters shorter than her. That is why at balls Alexander Sergeevich tried to stay as far as possible from his beloved, so that such a contrast would not distract people too much.

When I was young, I spent a lot of time gambling. Once he even lost his estate in Yasnaya Polyana. He wanted to buy her back, but for some reason he didn’t.

Helped pack things for evacuation. He tied her suitcase with a strong rope, joking that she could at least hang herself with it. It was on this that Tsvetaeva ended up hanging herself.

Gogol was partial to needlework. For the summer he even sewed scarves for himself, which he loved very much.

Several years before his death, he wrote that he should not be buried until his body began to decompose. They didn’t listen to him and buried him almost immediately. After digging up the body, they said that the skull was turned to one side. Another version says that the skull was missing. The writer was very afraid that he would be buried alive. Whether this happened or not, no one knows.

The only word he used to describe his homeland was the word “steal” when asked about Russia in another country.

Tolstoy had terrible handwriting. Only the writer’s wife, who rewrote his famous novel “War and Peace,” could understand him several times. He wrote quickly, so that his handwriting became illegible. Looking at the volume of his works, the theory seems real.

The most readable handwriting was his, for which he was thanked many times.

She had a sensitive sense of smell. Once he broke down the scent of a French perfumer into its ingredients, to which the latter only sighed in disappointment, regretting that Kuprin was just a writer.

– a historian and philologist by training.

From the life of writers and poets

Writers are the same people; a lot of funny things happen in their lives:

As a joke, Sir chose twelve of the richest people in London, who had a reputation as honest and decent bankers, and wrote them notes saying that everything had come to light. The next day, every single banker left the city. This is how their criminal atrocities were revealed, and it was just a joke.

In his early years, Mark Twain worked as a journalist in Nevada. One day he went to a billiards club, but bet a young man 50 cents that he would beat him at the game. The stranger said that he would play with his left hand, so he felt sorry for Twain, who played worse than ever. Mark decided to teach him a lesson, but still lost, giving away his money. He then said that he would like to see how the guy plays with his right hand, if he is so good with his left, to which the latter said that he is actually left-handed.

Pushkin was gambling, he had large debts. When time was running out, he amused himself by drawing caricatures of creditors in his notebooks. One day it came out and there was a huge scandal.

One day, three local university students caught up with us on the embankment of the Fontanka River. One of them said: “Look, a cloud is approaching,” hinting at the fatness of the fabulist. The latter did not remain in debt, saying that the toads were croaking.

Once I collided with a cyclist, both escaped with only a slight fright. When the guy started to apologize to the writer, he laughed and said:

“It’s good that you didn’t kill me, otherwise you would forever remain the one who killed Bernard Shaw.”

About children's writers

Children's writers are just a title. Adults often like to read their works. There is even a list of the best children's literature writers:

Hans Christian Andersen is one of the most famous storytellers in the world. However, he always believed that his works were for an adult audience. He didn't even like children. When they decided to erect a monument to him, he demanded that the figures of children not be anywhere near them.

The works are familiar to each of us. He changed many professions before becoming a writer. During the Great Patriotic War, Dragunsky took part in the defense of Moscow.

- the person whose poems we learn first. His fairy tales are very firmly entrenched in the life of any person. Playing with children, he himself became a child. The children adored him for his simplicity of soul.

It is part of every person's childhood. She was a very determined woman: if she got something into her head, have no doubt that she would achieve her goal.

The work of a writer takes a lot of effort and time. People who study literature in this vein are spiritually developed much better than others. Their talent instills in us a love of beauty.

Having analyzed the personalities and creativity of the majority of children's and youth writers of the 20th century, we present to you a list of authors who are the best in terms of the quality of energy and purity of their works.

In our opinion, a child’s education should begin with familiarization with their creativity.

The information contained in Bazhov’s books will be developing for people for the next 100 years, Lewis Carroll’s books - for the next 50 years. The remaining works presented here will potentially carry an evolutionary message for about 20 years.

Parents, remember! Many books can be found in audio format, don’t be lazy, listen to something yourself!

January 15 (27), 1879 - December 3, 1950 – teacher, journalist, ethnographer, writer. The book of essays “The Ural Were”, the autobiographical story “The Green Filly”, the author’s collections of tales: “The Malachite Box”, “The Key-Stone”, “Tales of the Germans”. Some of the most famous tales: “The Mistress of the Copper Mountain”, “The Malachite Box”, “The Stone Flower”, “The Mining Master”, “A Fragile Twig”, “Iron Tires”, “Two Lizards”, “The Clerk’s Soles”, “The Sochnevy Pebbles” , “Grass West”, “Melting Mirror”, “Cat Ears”, “About the Great Snake”, “Snake Trail”, “Gill Walker”, “Golden Dykes”, “Lapping Firefly”, “Blue Snake”, “Key” land”, “Sinyushkin Well”, “Silver Hoof”, “Ermakov’s Swans”, “Golden Hair”, “Dear Name”.

July 14, 1891 - July 3, 1977 - mathematician, teacher, translator, writer. He is best known as the creator of the six-book series “The Wizard of the Emerald City”: “The Wizard of the Emerald City”, “Oorfene Deuce and His Wooden Soldiers”, “The Seven Underground Kings”, “The Fire God of the Marrans”, “The Yellow Fog”, “The Secret of the Abandoned castle." His other works: “Architects”, “Wanderings”, “Two Brothers”, “Wonderful Ball”, “Invisible Fighters”, “Planes at War”, “The Wake of the Stern”, “Travelers in the Third Millennium”, “The Adventures of Two friends in the country of the past”, “The Constantinople Captive”, “Petya Ivanov’s Journey to an Extraterrestrial Station”, “In the Altai Mountains”, “Lapatin Bay”, “On the Buzhe River”, “Birthmark”, “Lucky Day”, “By the Campfire” "

Lewis Carroll, real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898 English writer, mathematician, logician, philosopher and photographer. His most famous works are “Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, “Sylvia and Bruno”, the humorous poem “The Hunting of the Snark”, “Phantasmagoria”, as well as a collection of riddles and games “The Story with Knots”.

BoRice Vladimirovich Zakhoder September 9, 1918 - November 7, 2000 – writer, poet, translator. Some of his collections of poems: “On the Back Desk”, “Monkey Tomorrow”, “Nobody and Others”, “Who is Like Whom”, “To Comrade Children”, “School for Chicks”, “Calculations”, “My Imagination”, “ If they give me a boat”, some works in prose: “The Monkey’s Tomorrow”, “The Good Rhinoceros”, “Once Upon a Time Fip”, fairy tales “The Gray Star”, “The Little Mermaid”, “The Hermit and the Rose”, “The Story of the Caterpillar”, “ Why are fish silent”, “Ma-Tari-Kari”, “A fairy tale about everyone in the world”.

Zakhoder is also well known as a translator of many masterpieces of foreign literature for children: A. A. Milne’s fairy tales “Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All”, P. Travers “Mary Poppins”, L. Carroll “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland", fairy tales by K. Capek and the Brothers Grimm, J.M. Barrie's play "Peter Pan", various poems.

, June 22, 1922 - December 29, 1996 - poet, prose writer, screenwriter. Novels and short stories: “He was a real trumpeter”, “Boys Station”, “The Mystery of Fenimore”, “Where the Sky Begins”, “Sentry Petrov”, “Where the Battery Stood”, “Fence with a Blue Eye”, “Salute”, “I I’m following the rhinoceros”, “Semyon the striped one”, “Temporary lodger”, “The game of beauty”, “Sretensky Gate”, “Heart of the earth”, “Son of a pilot”, “Self-portrait”, “Ivan-Willis”, “Company commander "", "Kingfisher", "Ballerina of the political department", "Girl, do you want to act in a movie?", "Travesties", "Persecution of redheads", "Elephant Driver", "Passion for Four Girls", "Difficult Bullfighting", "Difficult Blood”, “Lala Bullet”, “Party”, “Teacher”, “Sancho’s Faithful Friend”, “Samantha”, “And Vorobyov Didn’t Break the Glass”, “Ledum”, “Bambus”, “The Beauty Game”, “Boy” with skates”, “Boy with skates”, “Knight Vasya”, “Collecting clouds”, “Sons of Pedestrians”, “History teacher”, “Girls from Vasilyevsky Island”, “Friend of Captain Gastello”, “Naughty boy Icarus”, “ Memory”, “The Last Fireworks”, “Sapper”, “Goalkeeper”, “Bavaclava”, “Flower of Bread”, “One Voice”, “Change of Weather”, “Letter to Marina”, “Woke by Nightingales”, “Relic”, “ Violin”, “Horseman galloping over the city”, “My familiar hippopotamus”, “Old horse for sale”, “Shorn devil”, “Umka”, “Urs and Kat”, “Visiting the dog”, “Memories of a cow” , “The Girl from Brest”, “The Commander’s Daughter”, “The Preference Man’s Daughter”, “We are destined to live”, “The Invisible Cap”, “Lullaby for Men”, “Our Address”, “But Passaran”, “The day before yesterday there was a war” , “Post Number One”, “Constellation of Locomotives”.

3 August 1910 – 18 August 1995, English children's writer, artist, film actor and theater director. He wrote two books of fairy tales: “Forgotten Birthday”, “Journey along the River of Time”. Here are the titles of some of his fairy tales: “The Dragon and the Wizard”, “Hide and Seek”, “Cows and the Wind”, “Mr. Crococat”, “Where did the starfish come from”, “Under the carpet”, “About the station that did not stand still” ", "About a puddle and a bun with raisins", "About policeman Arthur and about his horse Harry", "Dot-mother and Dot-daughter", "Fog", "Wow", "Breadcrumbs", "Cupid and the nightingale" , “Blackie and Reggie”, “Down!”, “The Big Wave and the Little Wave”, “The Philosopher Beetle and Others”, “Ginger Cookies”, “The Quacking Mailbox”, “Crow and the Sun”, “About the Boy Who growled at the tigers", "Miranda the Explorer", "Mice on the Moon", "Nelson and the Hen", "Knolls and the Juniper", "A Little Penguin Named Prince", "About the Little Bus Who Was Afraid of the Dark", "About Zzzzzzz”, “About Ernie the Parrot Who Got Measles”, “About Olivia the Seagull and Rosalind the Turtle”, “Joe’s Travels”, “Fish and Chips”, “St Pancras and King’s Cross”, “About Olivia the Snail and the Canary ", "Shhhhhh!", "Yak", "The Three Hats of Mr. Kepi", "About the Beetle and the Bulldozer", "About the Beauty Cow", "About the Piglet Who Learned to Fly", "About the Tiger Cub", "About the Tiger Cub Who Loved take a bath", "Daisy's Journey to Australia", "Annabelle", "Ant and Sugar", "Bam! ", "Everything is topsy-turvy", "Ha-ha-ha! ", "The Komodo Dragon", "The Forgotten Birthday of Komodo", "Little Red Riding Hood of Komodo", "The Grasshopper and the Snail", "The Milkman's Horse", "The Rhinoceros and the Good Fairy", "Do you want, do you want, do you want...", "Eagle and lamb".

Born May 18, 1952, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. The following works of hers are available in Russian:
“Young Wizards” Series: “How to Become a Wizard”, “Deep Magic”, “High Magic”, “Boundless Magic”
“Magical Cats” series: “The Book of Moonlit Night”, “A Visit to the Queen”
Star Trek Series: "Doctor's Orders", "Spock's World", "Wounded Sky"
“X-Team”, “Space Police”, “Space Police. Brain killer."

September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851, American novelist. Novels: “The Spy, or a Tale of No Man's Land”, “The Pilot”, “Lionel Lincoln, or the Siege of Boston”, “The Pioneers”, “The Last of the Mohicans”, “The Prairie”, “The Red Corsair”, “The Valley of Wish-ton” Vish", "Bravo, or in Venice", "Heidenmauer, or the Benedictines", "The Executioner, or the Abbey of the Winegrowers", "Pathfinder, or the Lake-Sea", "Mercedes from Castile", "St. John's Wort, or the First Warpath", "The Two Admirals", "Will-o'-the-Wisp", "Wyandotte, or the House on the Hill", "On Land and Sea", "Miles Wallingford", "Satanstowe", "The Surveyor", "Redskins", "Gleades in the Oak Woods, or Bee Hunter”, “Sea Lions”, “The fantastic story of the brigantine of the same name “Sea Sorceress”.

August 28, 1925 - October 12, 1991, born April 15, 1933, Soviet writers, co-authors, screenwriters, classics of modern science and social fiction. Novels and stories: “The Country of Crimson Clouds”, “From Outside”, “The Path to Amalthea”, “Afternoon, XXII Century”, “Interns”, “Attempt to Escape”, “Distant Rainbow”, “It’s Hard to Be a God”, “Monday” starts on Saturday", "Predatory Things of the Century", "Anxiety", "Ugly Swans", "Snail on the Slope", "The Second Invasion of the Martians", "The Tale of the Troika", "Inhabited Island", "Hotel climber”, “Baby”, “Roadside Picnic”, “Guy from the Underworld”, “Doomed City”, “A Billion Years Before the End of the World”, “A Tale of Friendship and Unfriendship”, “A Beetle in an Anthill”, “Lame Fate” ", "The waves extinguish the wind", "Burdened with evil, or Forty years later"
Plays: “The Jews of the City of St. Petersburg, or Sad Conversations by Candlelight”, “Five Spoons of Elixir”, “Without Weapons”
Stories: “Deep Search”, “Forgotten Experiment”, “Six Matches”, “SKIBR Test”, “Private Speculations”, “Defeat”, “Almost the Same”, “Night in the Desert” (another name is “Night on Mars” ), “Emergency”, “Sand Fever”, “Spontaneous Reflex”, “Man from Pasifida”, “Moby Dick”, “In Our Interesting Times”, “On the Question of Cyclotation”, “The First Men on the First Raft”, "Poor evil people."

In addition, Arkady Strugatsky wrote several works alone under the pseudonym S. Yaroslavtsev: a fairy tale in three parts “Expedition to the Underworld”, a story “The Devil Among Men” and a story “Details of the Life of Nikita Vorontsov”.

Boris Strugatsky alone, under the pseudonym S. Vititsky, wrote the following works: “The Search for Destiny, or the Twenty-Seventh Theorem of Ethics,” “The Powerless of This World.”

Born in 1931, artist, illustrator, screenwriter and director, author and illustrator of seventy books for adults and children. Three of his books “The Adventures of the Hryllops Family”, “Kriktor”, “Adelaide. Winged Kangaroo."

December 6, 1943 - April 30, 1992, poet and artist. Published collections of poems: “We went forward - we came back”, “Bird in a Cage”, “Cranks and Others”, “Hooligan Poems”, author’s collections: “Cranks”, “Talking Raven”, “Vitamin of Growth”.

Born in 1952 - teacher, playwright, writer. The author of more than 20 books, the books “The River Flowing Backwards”, “The Winter Battle” and “The Grief of the Dead King” were published in Russian.

Born on January 18, 1981, she wrote two books: “Waffle Heart” and “Tonya Glimmerdahl.” Both of these books by Maria Parr were translated into Russian.

Max Fry- literary pseudonym of the authors Svetlana Martynchik and Igor Stepin. Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik (born February 22, 1965, Odessa) is a contemporary writer and artist. Igor Stepin (born 1967, Odessa) - artist.
Books in the “Labyrinths of Echo” series: “The Labyrinth” (“Stranger”), “Volunteers of Eternity”, “Simple Magical Things”, “The Dark Side”, “The Executor”, “Obsessions”, “The Power of the Unfulfilled”, “The Chatty Dead”, “ Labyrinth of Menin. Books in the “Chronicles of Echo” series: “Forehead of the Earth”, “The Tulan Detective”, “The Lord of Mormora”, “The Elusive Habba Han”, “The Crow on the Bridge”, “The Sorrow of Mr. Gro”, “The Glutton Laughing Man”. Books outside the series: “My Ragnarok”, “Encyclopedia of Myths”, “Book of Complaints”, “Nests of Chimeras”, “Fairy Tales and Stories”, “Book for People Like Me”, “Book of Lies”, “Book of Imaginary Worlds”, “The Ideal Novel”, “The Yellow Metal Key”.
Books will be educational for another 10 years.

(April 4, 1948; Peoria, Illinois) is a famous American science fiction writer. Books: 1985 “Song of Kali”, 1989 “Phases of Gravity” (not published in Russia), 1989 “Carrion Comfort”, 1989 “Hyperion” (“Hyperion”) 1990 “The Fall of Hyperion”, 1990 “Entropy’s Bed at Midnight” (not published in Russia), 1991 “Summer of Night” (“Summer of Night"), 1992 "The Hollow Man" (not published in Russia), 1992 "Children of the Night", 1995 "Fires of Eden", 1996 “Endymion”, 1997 “The Rise of Endymion”, 1999 “The Bell for Ham” (“The Crook Factory”), 2000 “Darwin’s Blade”, 2001 "Hardcase", 2002 "A Winter's Haunting", 2002 "Hard Freeze", 2003 "Ilium", 2003 "Tough as Nails" "("Hard as Nails"), 2005 "Olympos", 2007 "The Terror", 2009 "Drood", 2009 "Black Hills" (at this time not yet published in Russia), 2011 “Flashback” (at this time not yet published in Russia).

The books will be educational for another 10-20 years.

There are many interesting facts associated with Russian poets and writers that shed light on this or that event. It seems to us that we know everything, or almost everything, about the lives of great writers, but there are pages unexplored!

So, for example, we learned that Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was the initiator of the fatal duel and did everything possible to make it happen - it was a matter of honor for the poet... And Leo Tolstoy lost his house due to his addiction to gambling. And we also know how the great Anton Pavlovich loved to call his wife in correspondence - “the crocodile of my soul”... Read about these and other facts of Russian geniuses in our selection of “the most interesting facts from the life of Russian poets and writers.”

Russian writers came up with many new words: substance, thermometer ( Lomonosov), industry ( Karamzin), bungling ( Saltykov-Shchedrin), fade away ( Dostoevsky), mediocrity ( Northerner), exhausted ( Khlebnikov).

Pushkin was not handsome, unlike his wife Natalya Goncharova, who, in addition to everything, was 10 cm taller than her husband. For this reason, when attending balls, Pushkin tried to stay away from his wife, so as not to once again draw the attention of others to this contrast.

During the period of courtship with his future wife Natalya, Pushkin told his friends a lot about her and at the same time usually said: “I am delighted, I am fascinated, In short, I am enchanted!”

Korney Chukovsky- it is a nickname. The real name (according to available documents) of the most published children's writer in Russia is Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov. He was born in 1882 in Odessa out of wedlock, was recorded under his mother’s surname, and published his first article in 1901 under the pseudonym Korney Chukovsky.

Lev Tolstoy. In his youth, the future genius of Russian literature was quite passionate. Once, in a card game with his neighbor, the landowner Gorokhov, Leo Tolstoy lost the main building of his inherited estate - the Yasnaya Polyana estate. The neighbor dismantled the house and took it 35 miles away as a trophy. It is worth noting that this was not just a building - it was here that the writer was born and spent his childhood years, it was this house that he remembered warmly all his life and even wanted to buy it back, but for one reason or another he did not.

The famous Soviet writer and public figure lisped, that is, he could not pronounce the letters “r” and “l.” This happened in childhood when, while playing, he accidentally cut his tongue with a razor, and it became difficult for him to pronounce his name: Kirill. In 1934 he took the pseudonym Konstantin.

Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov were natives of Odessa, but met only in Moscow immediately before starting work on their first novel. Subsequently, the duo worked together so well that even Ilf’s daughter Alexandra, who is involved in popularizing the writers’ heritage, called herself the daughter of “Ilf and Petrov.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn communicated more than once with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. For example, Yeltsin asked his opinion about the Kuril Islands (Solzhenitsyn advised giving them to Japan). And in the mid-1990s, after Alexander Isaevich returned from emigration and restored his Russian citizenship, by order of Yeltsin, he was given the Sosnovka-2 state dacha in the Moscow region.

Chekhov sat down to write, dressed in full dress. Kuprin, on the contrary, he loved working completely naked.

When a Russian satirist-writer Arkady Averchenko During the First World War, he brought a story on a military theme to one of the editorial offices; the censor deleted the phrase from it: “The sky was blue.” It turns out that from these words, enemy spies could guess that what was happening in the south.

The real name of the satirical writer Grigory Gorin There was Ofstein. When asked about the reason for choosing the pseudonym, Gorin replied that it was an abbreviation: “Grisha Ofshtein decided to change his nationality.”

Initially at the grave Gogol in the monastery cemetery lay a stone nicknamed Golgotha ​​because of its resemblance to Mount Jerusalem. When they decided to destroy the cemetery, during reburial in another place they decided to install a bust of Gogol on the grave. And that same stone was subsequently placed on Bulgakov’s grave by his wife. In this regard, the phrase is noteworthy Bulgakov, which he repeatedly addressed to Gogol during his lifetime: “Teacher, cover me with your overcoat.”

After the outbreak of World War II Marina Tsvetaeva They were sent for evacuation to the city of Elabuga, in Tatarstan. Boris Pasternak helped her pack her things. He brought a rope to tie up the suitcase, and, assuring of its strength, joked: “The rope will withstand everything, even if you hang yourself.” Subsequently, he was told that it was on her that Tsvetaeva hanged herself in Yelabuga.

The famous phrase “We all came out of Gogol’s overcoat,” which is used to express the humanistic traditions of Russian literature. The authorship of this expression is often attributed to Dostoevsky, but in fact the first person to say it was the French critic Eugene Vogüet, who discussed the origins of Dostoevsky’s work. Fyodor Mikhailovich himself cited this quote in a conversation with another French writer, who understood it as the writer’s own words and published them in this light in his work.

As a remedy for a “big belly” A.P. Chekhov prescribed a milk diet to his obese patients. For a week, the unfortunate people had to eat nothing and extinguish attacks of hunger with hundred-gram doses of regular milk. Indeed, due to the fact that milk is quickly and well absorbed, a glass of the drink taken in the morning reduces appetite. So, without feeling hungry, you can hold out until lunch. This property of milk was used by Anton Pavlovich in his medical practice...

Dostoevsky made extensive use of the real topography of St. Petersburg in describing the places in his novel Crime and Punishment. As the writer admitted, he drew up the description of the courtyard in which Raskolnikov hides the things he stole from the pawnbroker’s apartment from personal experience - when one day, while walking around the city, Dostoevsky turned into a deserted courtyard to relieve himself.

Do you know what Pushkin received as a dowry for N.N. Goncharova bronze statue? Not the most convenient dowry! But back in the middle of the 18th century, Afanasy Abramovich Goncharov was one of the richest people in Russia. The sailing fabric produced at his Linen Factory was purchased for the British Navy, and the paper was considered the best in Russia. The best society came to the Linen Factory for feasts, hunts, and performances, and in 1775 Catherine herself visited here.

In memory of this event, the Goncharovs bought bronze statue Empress, cast in Berlin. The order was delivered already under Paul, when it was dangerous to honor Catherine. And then there was no longer enough money to install the monument - Afanasy Nikolaevich Goncharov, Natalia Nikolaevna’s grandfather, who inherited a huge fortune, left his grandchildren debts and a disorganized household. He came up with the idea of ​​giving the statue to his granddaughter as a dowry.

The poet's ordeal with this statue is reflected in his letters. Pushkin calls her “copper grandmother” and tries to sell her to the State Mint for melting down (scrap non-ferrous metals!). In the end, the statue was sold to the foundry of Franz Bard, apparently after the poet's death.

The bard sold the long-suffering statue to the Ekaterinoslav nobility, who erected a monument to the founder of their city on the Cathedral Square of Ekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). But when she finally got to the city named after her, the “copper grandmother” continued to travel, changing 3 pedestals, and after the fascist occupation she disappeared completely. Has “grandmother” found peace, or continues her movements around the world?

The main plot of N.V. Gogol’s immortal work “The Inspector General” was suggested to the author by A.S. Pushkin. These great classics were good friends. Once Alexander Sergeevich told Nikolai Vasilyevich an interesting fact from the life of the city of Ustyuzhna, Novgorod province. It was this incident that formed the basis of the work of Nikolai Gogol.

Throughout the time he was writing The Inspector General, Gogol often wrote to Pushkin about his work, told him what stage it was in, and also repeatedly announced that he wanted to quit it. However, Pushkin forbade him to do this, so “The Inspector General” was still completed.

By the way, Pushkin, who was present at the first reading of the play, was completely delighted with it.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov In correspondence with his wife Olga Leonardovna, Knipper, in addition to standard compliments and affectionate words, used very unusual ones for her: “actress”, “dog”, “snake” and - feel the lyricism of the moment - “the crocodile of my soul”.

Alexander Griboyedov was not only a poet, but also a diplomat. In 1829, he died in Persia along with the entire diplomatic mission at the hands of religious fanatics. To atone for their guilt, the Persian delegation arrived in St. Petersburg with rich gifts, among which was the famous Shah diamond weighing 88.7 carats. Another purpose of the embassy's visit was to mitigate the indemnity imposed on Persia under the terms of the Turkmanchay Peace Treaty. Emperor Nicholas I went to meet the Persians halfway and said: “I consign the ill-fated Tehran incident to eternal oblivion!”

Lev Tolstoy was skeptical about his novels, including War and Peace. In 1871, he sent Fet a letter: “How happy I am... that I will never write verbose rubbish like “War” again.” An entry in his diary in 1908 reads: “People love me for those trifles - “War and Peace”, etc., which seem very important to them.”

The duel, in which Pushkin was mortally wounded, was not initiated by the poet. Pushkin sent a challenge to Dantes in November 1836, the impetus for which was the spread of anonymous lampoons exposing him as a cuckold. However, that duel was canceled thanks to the efforts of the poet’s friends and the proposal made by Dantes to Natalya Goncharova’s sister. But the conflict was not settled, the spread of jokes about Pushkin and his family continued, and then the poet sent Dantes’ adoptive father Heckern an extremely offensive letter in February 1837, knowing that this would entail a challenge from Dantes. And so it happened, and this duel became Pushkin’s last. By the way, Dantes was a relative of Pushkin. At the time of the duel, he was married to the sister of Pushkin’s wife, Ekaterina Goncharova.

Having fallen ill, Chekhov sent a messenger to the pharmacy for castor oil capsules. The pharmacist sent him two large capsules, which Chekhov returned with the inscription “I am not a horse!” Having received the writer’s autograph, the pharmacist happily replaced them with normal capsules.

Passion Ivan Krylov there was food. Before dinner at a party, Krylov read two or three fables. After the praise, he waited for lunch. With the ease of a young man, despite all his obesity, he went to the dining room as soon as it was announced: “Dinner is served.” The Kyrgyz footman Emelyan tied a napkin under Krylov’s chin, spread the second one on his knees and stood behind the chair.

Krylov ate a huge plate of pies, three plates of fish soup, huge veal chops - a couple of plates, a fried turkey, which he called “Firebird”, and also dips: Nizhyn cucumbers, lingonberries, cloudberries, plums, eating Antonov apples, like plums, finally began to eat Strasbourg pate, freshly prepared from the freshest butter, truffles and goose livers. After eating several plates, Krylov drank kvass, after which he washed down his food with two glasses of coffee with cream, into which you stick a spoon - it stands.

Writer V.V. Veresaev recalled that all the pleasure, all the bliss of life for Krylov lay in food. At one time he received invitations to small dinners with the Empress, about which he later spoke very unflatteringly because of the meager portions of the dishes served to the table. At one of these dinners, Krylov sat down at the table and, without greeting the hostess, began to eat. The poet who was present Zhukovsky exclaimed in surprise: “Stop it, let the queen at least treat you.” “What if he doesn’t serve you?” answered Krylov, without looking up from his plate. At dinner parties he usually ate a dish of pies, three or four plates of fish soup, several chops, roast turkey and a few "trifles." Arriving home, I ate it all with a bowl of sauerkraut and black bread.

By the way, everyone believed that the fabulist Krylov died of volvulus due to overeating. In fact, he died from double pneumonia.

Gogol had a passion for handicrafts. I knitted scarves, cut out dresses for my sisters, wove belts, and sewed scarves for myself for the summer.

Did you know that the typical Russian name Svetlana is only 200 years old? Before it was invented in 1802 by A.Kh. Vostokov, such a name did not exist. It first appeared in his romance “Svetlana and Mstislav.” Then it was fashionable to call literary heroes pseudo-Russian names. This is how Dobrada, Priyata, Miloslava appeared - purely literary, not listed in the calendar. That’s why they didn’t call children that.

Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky took the name for the heroine of his ballad from Vostokov’s romance. "Svetlana" became a very popular work. In the 60s and 70s of the 19th century, “Svetlana” stepped into the people from the pages of books. But there was no such name in the church books! Therefore, girls were baptized as Photinia, Faina, or Lukerya, from Greek and Latin words meaning light. It is interesting that this name is very common in other languages: Italian Chiara, German and French Clara and Claire, Italian Lucia, Celtic Fiona, Tajik Ravshana, ancient Greek Faina - all mean: light, bright. Poets simply filled a linguistic niche!

After the October Revolution, a wave of new names swept over Russia. Svetlana was perceived as a patriotic, modern and understandable name. Even Stalin named his daughter that. And in 1943, this name finally made it into the calendar.

Another interesting fact: this name also had a masculine form - Svetlana and Svet. Demyan Poor Light named his son.

How many monuments to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin are there in the world? The answer to this question is contained in the book of the Voronezh postcard collector Valery Kononov. All over the world there are them - 270 . No literary figure has ever been awarded so many monuments. The book contains illustrations of one hundred of the best monuments to the poet. Among them are monuments from the era of Tsarist Russia and Soviet times, and monuments erected abroad. Pushkin himself was never abroad, but there are monuments to him in Cuba, India, Finland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Spain, China, Chile and Norway. There are two monuments each in Hungary and Germany (in Weimar and Dusseldorf). In the USA, one was staged in 1941 in Jackson, New Jersey, the other in 1970 in Monroe, New York. V. Kononov drew one pattern: monuments to Pushkin are usually erected not in large squares, but in parks and squares.

I.A. Krylov in everyday life he was very unkempt. His disheveled, unkempt hair, stained, wrinkled shirts and other signs of sloppiness caused ridicule from his acquaintances. One day the fabulist was invited to a masquerade. - How should I dress to remain unrecognized? - he asked a lady he knew. “Wash yourself, comb your hair, and no one will recognize you,” she answered.

Seven years before death Gogol in his will he warned: “I bequeath my body not to be buried until obvious signs of decomposition appear.” They did not listen to the writer, and when the remains were reburied in 1931, a skeleton with a skull turned to one side was found in the coffin. According to other data, the skull was completely absent.

The duels were quite diverse both in weapons and in form. For example, few people know that there was such an interesting form as the “quadruple duel”. In this type of duel, their seconds fired after the opponents.

By the way, the most famous quadruple duel was over the ballerina Avdotya Istomina: the opponents Zavadovsky and Sheremetev had to shoot first, and the seconds Griboyedov and Yakubovich - second. That time, Yakubovich shot Griboyedov in the palm of his left hand. It was from this wound that it was later possible to identify the corpse of Griboyedov, who was killed by religious fanatics during the destruction of the Russian embassy in Tehran.

An example of the wit of a fabulist Krylova serves as a famous incident in the Summer Garden, where he loved to stroll. Once he met a group of young people there. One of this company decided to make fun of the writer’s physique: “Look what a cloud is coming!” Krylov heard, but was not embarrassed. He looked at the sky and added sarcastically: “It’s really going to rain. That’s why the frogs started croaking.”

Nikolay Karamzin belongs to the briefest description of social life in Russia. When, during his trip to Europe, Russian emigrants asked Karamzin what was happening in his homeland, the writer answered with one word: “they are stealing.”

The handwriting of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy the handwriting was terrible. Only his wife could understand everything that was written, who, according to literary researchers, rewrote his “War and Peace” several times. Perhaps Lev Nikolaevich simply wrote so quickly? The hypothesis is quite realistic, given the volume of his works.

Manuscripts Alexandra Pushkina always looked very beautiful. So beautiful that it is almost impossible to read the text. Vladimir Nabokov also had the most terrible handwriting, whose sketches and famous cards could only be read by his wife.

Sergei Yesenin had the most legible handwriting, for which his publishers thanked him more than once.

The source of the expression “No brainer” is a poem Mayakovsky(“It’s clear even to a no brainer - / This Petya was a bourgeois”). It became widespread first in the Strugatskys’ story “The Country of Crimson Clouds”, and then in Soviet boarding schools for gifted children. They recruited teenagers who had two years left to study (classes A, B, C, D, D) or one year (classes E, F, I). Students of the one-year stream were called “hedgehogs”. When they arrived at the boarding school, the two-year students were already ahead of them in the non-standard program, so at the beginning of the school year the expression “no brainer” was very relevant.

Determination of Agnia Barto. She was always determined: she saw the goal - and forward, without swaying or retreating. This trait of hers appeared everywhere, in every little detail. Once in Spain, torn by the Civil War, where Barto went in 1937 to the International Congress for the Defense of Culture, where she saw firsthand what fascism was (congress meetings were held in the besieged, burning Madrid), and just before the bombing she went to buy castanets. The sky howls, the walls of the store bounce, and the writer makes a purchase! But the castanets are real, Spanish - for Agnia, who danced beautifully, this was an important souvenir. Alexei Tolstoy later asked Barto sarcastically: had she bought a fan in that store to fan herself during the next raids?..

One day Fyodor Chaliapin introduced his friend to the guests - Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin.“Meet, friends, Alexander Kuprin - the most sensitive nose in Russia.” Contemporaries even joked that Kuprin had something “of a big beast.” For example, many ladies were very offended by the writer when he actually sniffed them like a dog.

And once, a certain French perfumer, having heard from Kuprin a clear layout of the components of his new fragrance, exclaimed: “Such a rare gift and you are just a writer!” Kuprin often delighted his colleagues in the workshop with incredibly precise definitions. For example, in an argument with Bunin and Chekhov, he won with one phrase: “Young girls smell like watermelon and fresh milk. And the old women, here in the south, use wormwood, chamomile, dry cornflowers and incense.”

Anna Akhmatova I composed my first poem at the age of 11. After re-reading it “with a fresh mind,” the girl realized that she needed to improve her art of versification. Which is what I began to actively do.

However, Anna's father did not appreciate her efforts and considered it a waste of time. That is why he forbade using his real last name - Gorenko. Anna decided to choose her great-grandmother’s maiden name, Akhmatova, as her pseudonym.

Children's literature extremely important in raising a child. It is worth paying a lot of attention to reading, as it greatly influences the baby’s character. Books allow a child to enrich his vocabulary, explore the world and learn to solve possible life issues. brings you a list of the best children's authors.

Source: miravi.biz

Astrid Lindgren

It's hard to imagine your childhood without Baby with Carlson and Pippi Longstocking. In addition to the fairy tales you already know, there are also such as “Emil of Lenneberga” - about a little tomboy who fed a pig drunken cherries and set fire to all the firecrackers in the burgomaster’s garden. Lindgren was great at writing captivating stories. When they asked her how she managed to guess children’s desires so accurately, she answered that she writes in such a way that it would be interesting for her to read.

Source: fastcult.ru

Janusz Korczak

A successful doctor, teacher and writer, he founded an orphanage for Jewish orphans in Poland and developed the basic principles of raising children. His book "King Matt the First" at one time it amazed many children and parents - it tells about a little boy who suddenly began to lead an entire state. Of the pedagogical works, the most famous book is “How to Love a Child.”

Charles Perrault

It is impossible to introduce a child to literature without reading "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Red Riding Hood". It’s as if these fairy tales are written into our DNA; we remember them by heart and retell them to our children. Perrault is considered the founder of the genre of fairy tales for children, although he himself was shy and initially published the collection “Tales of Mother Goose” under a pseudonym, taking the name of his son.

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Lewis Carroll

The English writer Lewis Carroll loved children very much. He is the author of famous works for children, in which adults find many allusions and veiled meanings. These are fairy tales " ", "Alice in the Wonderland", a humorous poem, “The Hunting of the Snark.”

Hans Christian Andersen

The famous storyteller wrote children's stories, skillfully integrating into them elements of comedy and satire, social criticism and philosophy, addressed primarily to adults. Andersen is the author of numerous fairy tales, which continue to be filmed to this day. In his fairy tales, good always defeats evil, the main characters are endowed with intelligence, kindness, and courage. But there are also sad tales like "Matchstick Girls" and "The Little Mermaids", which will show the child that the world around him is not ideal.

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Alan Alexander Milne

Alan Milne became famous for his teddy bear books Winnie the Pooh and various poems for children. For more than 70 years, readers all over the world have known the character with sawdust in his head, who nevertheless possesses worldly wisdom and sincere kindness. For many children, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Eeyore and the rest of the heroes of Milne's fairy tale have become good friends. Like the characters of Lindgren, who began to write stories for her daughter, and Andersen, who amuses the children he knew, Winnie was created for one child - the son of a writer named Christopher Robin.

Korney Chukovsky

“Fedorino grief”, “Moidodyr”, “Aibolit”, “Tsokotukha fly”, “Telephone”, “Cockroach”- poems that do not lose their meaning to this day and teach good deeds. Emotional, rhythmic, they are so easy to remember that many adults remember them to this day. In addition, Chukovsky translated fairy tales from other countries and recorded his observations of children, which were reflected in the book “From Two to Five.”

Today I will tell you 20 facts about writers and poets that you did not know. Or maybe they knew, of course. I can’t guarantee you that all this is true, and no one can. It’s your choice to believe it or not.

20 facts about writers and poets that you didn't know

Fact No. 1.Alexander Pushkin was blond!

True, only up to 19 years old. In the memoirs, little Pushkin is called a “frisky blond boy”; in childhood he was blond. Pushkin lost his blond locks due to illness. At the age of 19, he was struck down by fever, and the poet was shaved bald. For a long time, Alexander Sergeevich wore a red skull cap, and then the cap was replaced by dark brown hair. And he began to look the way we are used to.

Fact No. 2. Alexandre Dumas is Pushkin

There is a version according to which our beloved Pushkin did not die at all, but faked his death and left for France, since he spoke French perfectly. There is a whole lot of evidence. One of them is that until Pushkin died, Dumas could not write anything, but after 1837 he began to write brilliant novels one after another. “The Count of Monte Cristo”, “The Three Musketeers”, “Twenty Years Later”, “Queen Margot”...

Fact No. 3. Conan Doyle believed in winged fairies

Yes, the man who invented Sherlock Holmes believed in the existence of fairies. He wrote the book “The Coming of Fairies”, in which he published photographs of winged fairies and examinations proving the authenticity of the photographs. The writer, who believed in the existence of the little people, spent more than a million dollars on this research.

Fact No. 4. Chekhov's pet was a mongoose

The writer brought this strange animal from a trip to the island of Ceylon. Chekhov himself called the mongoose “a cute and independent little animal,” and his family nicknamed him “Bastard.” By the way, Chekhov later exchanged Bastard for a free ticket to the Moscow Zoo.

Fact No. 5.Nikolai Gogol invented the first attraction

The writer converted a windmill into a Ferris wheel and gave peasant children rides on it. But the problem is that Gogol didn’t think about reliable insurance. Then everything is like in the book: “The auditor is coming to us!” In general, the amusement park closed it down.

Fact No. 6. A St. Petersburg journalist received royalties for The Master and Margarita

Dying, Bulgakov bequeathed to give part of the royalties for the book to the one who, after the publication of “The Master and Margarita,” would bring flowers to the writer’s grave, and not just some day, but on the day when he burned the first version of the novel’s manuscript. This person was Vladimir Nevelsky, a journalist from Leningrad. It was to him that Bulgakov’s wife gave a check for a decent amount of royalties.

Fact No. 7.Lewis Carroll invented the tricycle

The author of "Alice in Wonderland" was a mathematician, poet and great inventor. He invented a tricycle, a mnemonic system for remembering names and dates, an electric pen (by the way, what is that?!), a dust jacket, a prototype of everyone’s favorite game Scrabble, which in its Russian counterpart is called “Erudite”.

Fact No. 8.Edgar Poe studied in a cemetery

And, by the way, he was terribly afraid of the dark. The school where little Edgar studied was very poor, and the children did not have textbooks. And a resourceful mathematics teacher took schoolchildren to the cemetery, where they counted the graves and calculated the years of life of the dead.

Fact No. 9. Hans Andersen had Pushkin’s autograph

The Danish storyteller received it from the wife of the owner of the “Kapnist Notebook”, into which Pushkin rewrote the poems he had selected in his own hand. The wife tore out one sheet from the notebook and sent it to Andersen, who was immensely happy. By the way, this leaflet is now kept in the Copenhagen Royal Library.

Fact No. 10. Nikolai Gogol was an excellent knitter.

Gogol had a passion for cooking and handicrafts. He treated his friends to personally prepared dumplings and dumplings, knitted and sewed scarves for himself. But he flatly refused to be photographed - he either covered his face with a top hat, or made faces in every possible way. Therefore, he was rarely invited to social events.

Fact No. 11. The army of Chekhov fans was nicknamed “Antonovkas”

When Anton Chekhov moved to Yalta, his enthusiastic fans also moved to Crimea. They ran after him all over the city, studied his gait and costume, and tried to attract attention. In January 1902, the newspaper “News of the Day” wrote: “In Yalta, a whole army of stupid and unbearably ardent fans of his artistic talent, called here “Antonovkas,” was formed.

Fact No. 12.Mark Twain invented suspenders

He was no worse an inventor than Carroll. He holds patents for self-adjusting suspenders and a scrapbook with adhesive pages. Mark Twain also invented a notepad with tear-off leaves, a closet with sliding shelves, but his most ingenious invention was a tie-tying machine. Apparently it didn't get widespread...

Fact No. 13.Lewis Carroll - Jack the Ripper

Journalist Richard Wallis, author of Jack the Ripper, the Fickle Friend, claims that Jack the Ripper, who brutally murdered London prostitutes, is Lewis Carroll. And Carroll himself constantly repented of some sin in his diaries. But no one knew which one, because Carroll’s relatives destroyed all his diaries. Out of harm's way.

Fact No. 14. Boxing gloves helped Vladimir Nabokov emigrate

Nabokov became interested in boxing while in the army. When he emigrated to America in 1940, three customs officers at the border began to meticulously examine his luggage. But when they saw boxing gloves in the suitcase, they immediately put them on and began jokingly boxing with each other. In general, America and Nabokov liked each other.

Fact No. 15. Jack London is a millionaire

Jack London became the first American writer to earn a million dollars from his work. London lived only 41 years, but began working at the age of 9 – selling newspapers. After becoming a writer, London worked 15-17 hours a day and wrote about 40 books in his short life.

Fact No. 16. John Tolkien snored terribly

His snoring was so loud that he slept in the bathroom so as not to disturb his wife's sleep. And the author of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy bequeathed never, never to make films based on his books. But, apparently, the thirst for money prevailed over the wills of the brilliant father, and Tolkien’s children agreed to the film adaptation. Well, we all know what came of it.

Fact No. 17. Vladimir Mayakovsky - Puppy

Mayakovsky was terribly fond of various “cats and dogs,” as he called them. One day, while walking with Lilya Brik, they picked up a stray red puppy. They took him home and named him Puppy. Later, Lilya began to call Mayakovsky Puppy. And from then on he signed his letters and telegrams “Puppy” and always drew a puppy at the bottom.

Fact No. 18. Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day

And he wrote exclusively at night. He sat down to work at midnight, dressed in a white robe, he wrote for 15 hours straight, drinking up to 20 cups of strong Turkish coffee only at night or simply chewing coffee beans. So at night he wrote his 100 novels of the literary epic “The Human Comedy”.

Fact No. 19. The first kebab shop in France was opened by Alexandre Dumas

Yes, it was he who introduced kebab to France. Dumas first tried shish kebab while traveling through the Caucasus. He liked the dish so much that he included it in his “Big Cookbook.” Yes, Dumas had one like that. There are rumors that the writer even cooked crow kebab for the French. They praised.

Well, if you believe fact No. 2, then it was Alexander Pushkin who was such an ardent lover of fried meat on skewers...

Fact No. 20. Dickens slept with only his head to the north

And he sat down to write only when his face was turned to the north. And he couldn’t work at all if the chair and table in the office weren’t the way he wanted. Therefore, before starting to write, he always rearranged the furniture.

Illustrations by Katerina Karpenko

(except for the illustration to the fact about Vladimir Mayakovsky)