And Zverev is biography

Vasilievich - Siberia ... How much it has changed over the past hundred years! Now it is difficult to imagine how our grandparents or more distant ancestors lived in this region at the beginning of the twentieth century, whose share fell a difficult test - revolution and civil war. In that distant time, the future writer Alexei Zverev was born in the land of Siberian. The impressions of a hard childhood did not erase over the years - on the contrary, they became brighter and brighter.

By the power of his talent, Alexei Vasilievich gave us the opportunity to end up in the village of his childhood and youth, to survive the tests that have fallen to their share, cry and rejoice with them, along with the heroes of his books. Alexei Vasilievich Zverev was born in the year in the old Siberian village of Ust-Maid of the Irkutsk Region. In those years, it was a deaf village, where the old -timers still remembered the exile Decembrists, where at night they were exhibited on the special windows of the krynka of milk and the signs of bread for fugitive convicts, i.e.

the family of the future writer was large: parents, three sisters and five brothers. This is a hereditary peasant family, friendly and working. Memories of their village, family, childhood will sound in many works of the writer. Together with the heroes of the novels, stories and stories of Alexei Zverev, we will love this corner, as the writer himself loved, we will recognize his streets, huts, courtyards, outskirts, feel the whole of fragrant haying grounds, fishing on the treasured Angarsky pits.

Children in the Bely family began to work very early - barely learning to walk: either chickens should be fed, then the calves of the mouth; About seven years old, or even earlier, a small “peasant” is already quite skillfully holding on a horse. There were no words “I do not want” in the family, “I will not”. Neither father nor take smoking, vodka in the house was a rarity.

But on the other hand, everyone was singing, witches, the first artists and storytellers in the village, played on the balalaika, guitar, and harmony. Zverev wrote: "Now, from afar, I will call my childhood happy, because it was labor and song." In addition to peasant labor, there was also study at school. At the age of thirteen, after the end of the seven -year -old, Alyosha Zverev leaves for Irkutsk to study at the livestock technician.

The first post -revolutionary years were going on, a commune was organized in the village, which directed the curious guy to the agricultural technical school, putting him a scholarship of a half pounds of grain. He returned to his native village, began to work in his specialty. But according to the laws of that time, every educated person also had to teach the literacy of others - this is how the country fought with universal illiteracy.

And Zverev became a teacher. The writer will later write about this period of his life in the stories “Pantelees”, “The time of searches”, in the story “There were teachers.” Teachers captured him and for almost forty years became the main profession. Zverev was always proud that, having learned his students to literacy, he himself prepared numerous readers. But many of his students did not have the opportunity to read the books of his teacher: some had already died, because adults taught to read and write the “grabbed Alyoska”, as he was called, the war claimed others.

The first book was published when its author was already 55 years old. In youth, the desire to see the world attracted the future writer to other lands: he worked in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, on the Volga, in Gorky. Here he taught again, worked at the Gorky Automobile Plant, and graduated from the teacher's institute in absentia.

Nevertheless, the writer returns to his homeland, to his beloved and "distant side of Irkutsk." But already little time has been left for peaceful teacher work. The Patriotic War struck. In the summer of the year, Alexei Zverev goes to the front. He went along many military roads, cleansing his native land from German invaders. He fought with an enemy with an enemy on the Kursk arc, with battles in the ranks of the first Ukrainian front, participated in the hottest battles.

For his military work, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star and combat medals. Later, he will describe the last firing, “recovery”, “wounds” experienced in the stories. Almost at the end of the war, in January of the year, Zverev receives a severe injury, for about a year he is treated in hospitals, and then demobilized from the army. Alexey Vasilievich returns to Irkutsk to his purely peaceful profession of a literature teacher.

But now he combines his hard teacher work with no less difficult, requiring the complete dedication of the writer's work. In the afternoon - lessons at school, in the evening work at the desk. Even in his youth, Alexei Zverev wrote poetry, they were published in newspapers, later printed in front -line publications. But he creates truly mature works after the war, having a lot of life experience behind him.

The generation to which Alexei Vasilievich belonged passed through terrible shocks, survived and changed his mind a lot. A great many large and small tests, physical and moral, fell to them, when a person’s soul and conscience are checked for strength. All this, probably, led to the fact that the rural, and then the city teacher reached for artistic creativity, at the age of forty became a professional writer.In recent years, having left the school and completely devoting himself to literature, Alexei Vasilievich has stubbornly and worked hard.

His works capture the characters and fate of the Siberians, the life and customs of the modern Siberian village - all that was his life. Reading, plunging into the elements of folk speech - bright, mark, figurative, you join the eternal poetry of the people - sayings, exposure, beliefs. In his novels, stories, stories, the centuries of experience and wisdom of the people were reflected.

For the writer, the main thing is the criteria of good and evil, the desire to comprehend the origins of the strength of the spirit of the people, about which the armored fascist hordes broke. His gaze at people is wise and kind. He is angry with human indifference, soullessness, lack of good memory. In Zverev and on the eighth ten, it was easy to recognize the teacher: restrained in words and movements, a direct article, a good listener and an amazing storyteller, constantly ready to help everyone and everyone.

An amazing artist of the word, Alexei Zverev had his talent with a deep knowledge of the village, her life, her way, memory of childhood and love for his native land. There was no writer in the year. But his books remained, capturing a difficult time that fell to the share of our people. On their pages live the heroes of Alexei Zverev - village boys and girls. They love and suffer, grow, comprehending the truth of life, the price of human relations, the wonderful and harsh beauty of their homeland, affirming it with labor, protecting their life.

Irkutsk Regional Children's Library. Mark Sergeyev.