Writer Biography

The writer, journalist - this unusual surname for the Russian ear is very well known to many generations of Soviet and then Russian children. She is familiar to children and abroad. Vitaly Bianchi is a children's writer who devoted all his work to nature. He became famous for the books: “Forest Newspaper”, “Forests were also fables”, “First hunt”, “How did an ant were in a hurry home”, “Whose nose is better?

In e gg. Bianchi led the Radio Radio Gazeta radio broadcasts, and "News from the forest." Not all South Urals know that Vitaly Valentinovich in the city of the writer lived a difficult life. In his biography, for many years there were “white spots”.

The surname of Bianchi comes from the Italian ancestors. Vitaly Valentinovich had a happy childhood. He was born on February 11, on January 11, according to the old style of G., his father was an organic scientist, worked at the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and headed the bird department. Near the museum there was an apartment where the family lived.

Vitaly was the youngest of the three sons. The boys often visited the museum. There was a small zoo in their apartment: aquariums, terrariums, turtles, dogs, cats, birds, hedgehogs, etc. Every summer, the family lived in the village of Lebyazhye, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. All the "living creatures" from the apartment on the carts were taken to the cottage. He called every grass, every bird and a little animal called me by name, patronymic and surname ...

". The boy from childhood fell in love with the forest. At 13, he received the first gun as a gift. Carried away by hunting. Father taught to record observations of natural phenomena. Like all the boys, he was fond of football. Vitaly Bianchi entered a good gymnasium, after its completion he studied at the faculty of natural sciences of Petrograd University. Then, in his life, difficult years began, about which Biangs tried not to write.

Traveling around the country is not of their own free will, arrests, links. Now much has become known not only from archival documents, but also thanks to the memoirs of the writer’s daughter - Elena Bianchi. In the city of Vitaly Valentinovich, they mobilized the army. He graduated from military courses in Vladimir, received the rank of ensign in the artillery brigade, began to serve in Tsarskoye Selo near Petrograd.

He was married to the first marriage. After the October Revolution of G., parents died during this time. Only in the city, much later, close to him learned from him that back in G. at the same time, a friend persuaded him to join the party of Socialist-Revolutionaries, that then he had already “came around”. He worked in the Commission for the Protection of Art Monuments of the Tsarskoye Selo.

In the spring, G. in Ufa replaced military clothes to civilian clothes, left for Tomsk, then to Altai, in Biysk. Upon the rule of Kolchak, he lived in Biysk under a strange surname. He became Vitaly Belyanin - the "student" of Petrograd University. So in the documents he remained until the end of his life with a double surname: Bianchi-Belyanin. Vitaly Valentinovich gave lectures at the teacher's courses, was connected with the local nature of nature lovers, wrote notes in newspapers.

And also under a fictional surname - Baheev. Vitaly Valentinovich was mobilized by Kolchak A. Kolchak, as a scientist, was familiar with the father of Bianka. As a competent man, he was taken by the clerk to the artillery division. Transferred to Barnaul. He helped the mobilized run from the unit. In the summer of G. In July, there was a heavy battle at Verkhneuralsk, now the Chelyabinsk region.

The White Army retreated, passed Orsk, Orenburg, Aktobe. Miraculously survived. In the fall of the same year, he and 7 ordinary people fled from the front. Bianchi returned to Biysk, to the family. The deserter could not live at home, a friend hid him in the village. Kolchak’s army was defeated. Bianchi returned to Biysk. Under the Soviet regime, he worked in the department of public education, headed the museum, and taught at school.

Organized the Altai expeditions. The first family broke up. The second time, Bianchi married in Biysk in the French teacher Vera Nikolaevna Klyazheva, with whom he lived until the end of his days. In Altai, daughter Elena was born. They survived a very difficult time, it was cold both at work and at home. Products were difficult to get, and Vitaly Valentinovich was a very impractical person.

He wrote in a letter to a friend: “... I'm afraid to believe myself, but, probably, I'm still a poet. In love with this beautiful and terrible world, but I want to penetrate all his secrets ... ". Biangs were arrested twice for contact with the Socialist Revolutionaries, once he sat in prison as a hostage. For four years he lived in Biysk. In September, he urgently with his family left for Petrograd.

Here, Bianchi met S. Marshak and other children's writers. Bianchi began to be published in all children's magazines of that time. She was reprinted more than ten times, she was translated into foreign languages. Several editions of the work came out. The writer worked on him from G. All the time Bianchi lived under the pain of arrest. The books were published, but tried not to talk about him.

The writer Maxim Gorky helped Vitaly Bianchi to move to the city in a new arrest for the fact that he is “the son of a personal nobleman, a former Socialist -Revolutionary, an active participant in an armed uprising against the Soviet regime ...”, although he was not any participant. The whole family was sent for five years to the Aktobe region.Bianchi went to Ekaterina Peshkova’s wife Gorky, who saved many.

She ensured that the link was canceled. For 14 years I survived 6 arrests! During the Great Patriotic War - GG. No matter how complicated the life of Bianchi was, he never complained. His books are surprisingly bright, kind, optimistic. They combined real observations of the inhabitants of the forest and some special poetry, fabulousness. The writer called some of his works-“Snow fairy tales”.

In every story there are miracles that our nature is full of. Bianchi not only wrote books, but also performed on the radio. His Forest Radio Gazeta was very popular. The writer had many students, he called them “translators from the wordless”: S. Sakharnov, N. Schim, E. Shim, B.