Kondrat Krapiva - Belarusian writer, public figure, translator, playwright, satirist, poet, Hero of Socialist. labor. The author of fables, feuilletons, stories and works on Belarusian linguo-geography. Three times was awarded the USSR State Prize. In this article, you will be presented with a brief biography of Kondrat Nettle. So let's get started.
Childhood
Nettle Kondrat was born in the village of Nizok in 1896. The boy's parents were peasants. Initially, he was educated at a parish school, and then changed several schools. In 1913 he became a national teacher, passing exams externally. A year later, he began teaching at a school in the village of Mishany. In 1915 he was mobilized in the army.
Army service and work
In military service, Kondrat Krapiva graduated from the school of ensigns and went to the front (just the 1st World War was on). He participated in battles in the Romanian fleet until 1918. Then he was demobilized as a teacher. After this, Nettles got a job as a teacher in the village of Kamenka, but then the future writer was again drafted into the army, where he served until 1923.
After returning, Nettle is again arranged to work as a teacher. This time in the village of Ostrovok. But here he will not stay long. In 1926, Kondrat decided to raise the level of education and entered the pedagogical department of BSU. Four years later, he successfully completes it. From 1932 to 1936 he worked as an editor in the journal Flame of the Revolution.
Re-call
Soon he was again mobilized as a former military man. Nettle Kondrat as part of the Red Army went on a campaign in Western Belarus. In the 1939-1940s he took part in the Soviet-Finnish war. After that, the writer took off his uniform forever. But then he worked as a front-line journalist for the newspaper "For Soviet Belarus".
New posts
In 1945-1947 he worked as the editor of the publication "Leader". In 1946, he was sent to the UN General Assembly as a delegate from the BSSR.
From 1947 to 1952, Nettle headed the linguistics sector at the Institute of Literature and Language at the Academy of Sciences. And in 1952 he received the post of director of the University of Linguistics.
From 1956 to 1982, Nettle was vice president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. And from 1982 to 1989 - a leading research associate in the lexicology department of the Yakub Kolos Institute.
Throughout his life, Nettle was elected to the Supreme Council of the BSSR many times. The writer died in 1991 in Minsk.
Creation
Kondrat Krapiva, whose biography is described in this article, began to write in two languages ​​at once - Belarusian and Russian. His first work in Russian “Once upon a time” (feuilleton in verse) was published in 1922 in the “Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda”. In the same year, the newspaper “Soviet Belarus” published a satirical poem “Matchmakers” in Belarusian. In the mid-1920s, the first collections of Kondrat appeared - Nettle and Osti.
Nettles are now known as a satirical writer, but in reality he tried to write serious stories. The editors praised him, but published exclusively satire. And readers can observe a similar duality in the entire work of Nettles.
Until 1926, Kondrat was a member of the literary association Maladnyak, and then transferred to Uzvyshsha.
At the beginning of his career, Nettle tried to master the prosaic genre, creating feuilleton. But then he abandoned this activity.
In all the magazines where Kondrat worked as an editor, he defended the Belarusian language. Any criticism of him was ridiculed. On this subject, the writer even has a fable "Goat."
Nettle made many translations. He translated into Belarusian Shevchenko, Twardowski, Mayakovsky, Chekhov, Ostrovsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Krylov, Fonvizin, Shakespeare and many others.
Kondrat wrote until the end of his life. He put the typewriter aside only when his vision deteriorated. The writer completed his last melodramatic work, “At the Wall,” at the age of 86.
Interesting Facts
- A noteworthy story is about how Nettle Kondrat generally engaged in writing. Once he was walking around the village and saw a newspaper attached to the wall called “Soviet Belarus”. Stopping, the future writer decided to read a couple of articles. Kondrat liked them, and he decided to try his hand at the literary field.
- Nettle's life motto is “Not a single day without a line”. But at the same time, the author never told anyone what he was working on. For example, Kondrat wrote his “Gates of Immortality” for about 6 years. And they found out about this only after the publication of the work.
- Nettle Kondrat possessed a phenomenal memory. He did not keep a diary and never wrote down phones and addresses. Everything important was stored in his head. When someone from the writer’s circle of contacts needed to find the phone number of a certain person, everyone immediately turned to Nettle. If Kondrat knew him, then instantly issued numbers. In old age, the writer's vision fell sharply, which prevented him from engaging in editorial work. Again, a phenomenal memory helped him out, allowing you to edit dictionaries without resorting to specialized literature. Nettle kept all the dialect variants and meanings of the terms.
- But the writer often took notes. For all his life he has accumulated a lot of notebooks. Most often these were travel notes or quotes. Kondrat had a beautiful, even handwriting. He never made notes on the margins and did not draw.
- In addition to literature, Kondrat Nettle (photo above) had another passion - chess. He could sit at the board for many hours. The writer also had a special chess set, the figures of which were carved from a rare tree.