Today it is not difficult to find information about Russian children's writers, especially with a very interesting fate. One of them is Charskaya Lydia, who wrote children's books based on her personal experience and life situations that occur with her. Her tales and short stories are written in simple and easy language. They teach kindness and are very addictive.
short biography
Charskaya Lidia Alekseevna was born on January 19, 1875 in Tsarskoye Selo. Her upbringing was done by the mother's sisters.
Then, in her youth, she graduated from the Pavlovsk Women's Institute (now gymnasium No. 209). The impressions of Charskaya Lydia from training were so vivid that they were reflected in most of her works.
From the age of 15, the writer kept her personal diary, which is typical for many creative people. Most of it was kept by relatives. From these memoirs were born the notes of the gymnasium student Lydia Charskaya, which later grew into a book.
Much later, her son Yuri was born and this prompted Lydia to become an actress. To this end, she graduated from college in St. Petersburg. The work brought very little income, so the girl decided to publish her works.
In her writing, Lydia always put the moral education of the new generation in first place. For example, she opposed corporal punishment of children and even wrote an article on this subject.
As a result, she devoted her whole life to creativity: she was a Russian children's writer and actress.
Writing
For 20 years of the fruitful process of creativity, 80 stories, 20 fairy tales and 200 poems have come out from under her hand. Although her books were very popular and reprinted many times, she received almost no money.
Her works were forbidden, but still read and sold out, secretly transmitted manuscripts. The books always traced the line of kindness, hard fate, orphanhood. Often these were quite banal cases, but they are described in a very interesting way. It was a pleasure to read the books of Charskaya Liliya Alekseevna ... just in one breath ...
Reviews and criticism
Chukovsky spoke about her not very well. He said that she uses frayed images and words, all this is not new.
But Pasternak, on the contrary, considered it a success to become like her, writing is also easy and understandable.
Critics emphasized that she misused the Russian language.
But the recognition of people and mass love did not leave her alone. A lot of people wrote letters to Charskaya Lydia, they wanted to be like her. They liked the writer's creativity and approach, school librarians advised the younger generation to read her books and “be educated”.
Marina Tsvetaeva was delighted with the writer's work and was so immersed in the lives of the characters and their pain that she dedicated poems to them.
Many who spoke very unflattering about her at that time when the authorities so accepted it, over the years admitted that they read her books and were enthusiastic about the work of such a talented writer.
Girl's life at the institute and reflection of events in works
In the heroes of the books, the writer focused on their keen sense of justice. All actions and mistakes were experienced by the characters very painfully, emotionally. Critics believed that all the characters suffered from hysteria.
Chukovsky, for example, marks the moment when a little crippled girl asks for forgiveness from another: how should one not love oneself in order to humiliate oneself and ask for forgiveness for atrocities with the words "You are holy." After this, Viktor Rusakov wrote an unflattering comment about him, especially emphasizing that one must be very dishonorable in order to write such a thing.
The beginning of the “Notes of a little schoolgirl” is marked by the main character entering the institute, where her mother sends her with tears and without desire. In this place, Lyuda is hard, everything around him is inhospitable, non-native. But then she made friends with Nina (the Georgian princess), and everything began to sparkle with other colors. Their adventures, adventures, relationships between them at the institute are described in great detail and interestingly. The girls were very homesick and planning a summer vacation: how they would go to Luda in Ukraine and then to Nina in the Caucasus. But Nina does not survive until the summer and dies of consumption. Luda is very painfully experiencing the death of a close and almost unique friend.
Also, along the way, the life of the other girls from the institute is described very beautifully and in detail, how they are friends, worry, quarrel.
Then comes the description of the main character’s anxieties and feelings about the final exams, ball and future life outside the institute. Moreover, the wound is still fresh after the death of her best friend.
Lyudmila graduates with a gold medal, loses her mother and brother, the only relatives who could find support.
The whole action ends with a description of the new period: she begins to work as a governess in a rich Georgian family, with the prince, a relative of her friend Nina. Here she finds herself, her destiny and family: she becomes the mentor and friend of the second cousin of her late girlfriend.
The book is very touching and sad. It penetrates the very soul, makes you think.
Interesting fact
In the 20s after the revolution and the overthrow of the king, it was very embarrassing to hear that you are an institute, like Lydia Charskaya. It sounded very insulting, moreover, they pointed a finger at a schoolgirl.
Over the years, her work became popular, and the phrase lost its offensive meaning.
Quotes and connection with real life
The most popular expressions that "came out in people" can be found in one of the most striking works of Lydia Charskaya "Notes of a little schoolgirl."
“Remember, no vice is worse than a lie! Lying is the beginning of all evil. ”
Her very clear and subtle remarks about the vices of people made me think, touched upon the human, the living. They were very motivational for children of different ages. Instructive stories presented the truth in an interesting form of situations that the reader experienced with the characters, just reading a book.
Today, many quotes and aphorisms of the author roam the web. They are dedicated to discussions, pages, and even entire sites.
Popular books
Most loved by readers:
- “Notes of the institute”;
- “Princess of Javakh”;
- "Siren";
- "Notes of a little schoolgirl";
- "Sibirochka";
- “Bold life”;
- "Second Nina."
The heroine of the book by Lydia Charskaya "Siberian" reflects the essence of the life of an orphan. In the storyline is a very unusual and tragic combination of Siberian cold and circus. An interesting story about a painful one is the story of an orphan girl who lived in the taiga and, by the will of fate, many times appeared on the threshold of life and death. The book teaches good and will be useful for both children and adults. "Sibirochka" instills in young minds the idea of ​​kindness and value of what a person has now: parents, life, friends, etc.
Also wrote Lydia Charskaya and fairy tales. In some places they are cloyingly sweet, so that it even tears you away from the real world, but it immerses you in something good, fabulous, where everything always ends well. They are very unique in plot and affect the moral and material aspects of life, bring up children through beautiful images and experience of the characters. For example, the fairy tale "The Wizard of Hunger" about how the sorcerer made the boyar part with the riches in order to feed the poor.
Total
Summarizing, it is worth noting the talent for writing competent, motivational and instructive works of Lydia Charskaya. Her books were forbidden and even made a shameful insult of them. However, after many years, we again return to what we were leaving. The problems remained the same, the situation only changed. Therefore, we advise you to read the books of this children's writer to your children in order to develop good and bright feelings in them, to instill the ability to admit your mistakes and apologize without hesitation, otherwise how then to build relationships and communicate with people ?!