Children Biography Charushin

The good world of Charushin is the world of children, the world of nature ... Published on the favorites: November 09, Pauline Dasmaeva, the leading librarian of the children's library of history and culture of St. Petersburg, tells about the life and work of Yevgeny Ivanovich Charushin. Evgeny Ivanovich Charushin has been familiar to many of us from childhood, from the first books.

For a large number of children, his illustrations, so realistic and warm, became the first contact with the world of nature. The artist always portrayed what he knew well and loved very much. The master was born in Vyatka in the year, in the family of the provincial architect Ivan Apollonovich Charushin. The father not only taught him the basics of drawing, but also instilled a love of nature and hunting.

My father took me on all his trips in the Kirov region, ”the artist recalled. And the wolves chased after us, and we drove into the current of the grouse, and the capercales scared the cape from the tops of the pines. And the sunrise, and the fogs are morning, and how the forest wakes up, how the birds sing, how the wheels crunch on white moss, how the runners whistle in the cold - I loved and survived all this, - Evgeny Charushin.

The impressions of childhood, bright and alive, could not help but nourish all the work of the artist. According to him, all the adventures of Nata Pinkerton and Nika Carter, he preferred Alfred Brem's Life, a book donated by his father. This popular science work, written by a German zoologist and traveler, was distinguished by an interesting content and an exciting syllable.

It is not surprising that the work released more than a century ago is reprinted and is still read with interest. Having graduated from school in the year and having worked for several years in decorative workshops, in the year Evgeny Ivanovich goes to Petrograd and enters the Academy of Arts. At the end of the institution, a short -term service in the Red Army is undergoing, and then begins to work in the field of children's literature first as an artist, and then as a writer.

Charushin himself recalled: overflowing to the edges by observations of childhood and hunting impressions, I became, with the hot participation and help of S. Marshak, to write myself.

What made me a great impression in childhood worries now. I want to understand the animal, convey it to the habits, the nature of the movement. When the child wants to feel my animal - I am glad most of all I like to portray young animals touching in their helplessness, and interesting ones, because an adult beast is guessed in them. Evgeny Ivanovich’s books have been published and reprinted for many years, children have been studying his works at school and very often take in our library.

Parents choose his works for their children, not only because they themselves remember them from childhood - they also pay tribute to the artist’s highest skill and the good message, which is laid down in the texts and drawings of Charushin. The artist’s books are invited to the knowledge of the world, because in childhood, the child always seeks to expand the boundaries of the expert.

More than ever, work is currently relevant, where there is no aggression and negativity, which are so many around us now. The children's library of the history and culture of St. Petersburg has in its fund not only the books of Evgeny Charushin of different years of publication, but also the publication about it. In the year, the album “The World of Charushin” was published, where not only the texts of his stories were collected, but also the memories of friends and colleagues about the artist, his own articles.

This is a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the lively speech of the painter, to feel a genuine connection with him. To recognize it not only as a master, but also as a witty and open person who was loved in the circle of Leningrad artists. Since childhood, Charushin associated friendly relations with Yuri Vasnetsov, they were both from Vyatka. In the memoirs of Vasnetsov, both their childhood years and the circumstances of admission to the Academy of Arts, as well as joint life in the hungry Petrograd, come to life.

It is amazing that friendship connected them with Valentin Ivanovich Kurdov. It seems that all the most iconic artists of the Leningrad Children's Book then agreed at the Academy of Arts and continued to be friends all their lives. The book of the remarkable art critic Erast Kuznetsov “The Beasts and Birds of Evgeny Charushin” continues to reveal to us Evgeny Ivanovich not only as an artist and writer, but also as a person.

For the first time published in the year, it was released a few years ago by the Publishing house "Detgiz" to the joy of many fans of the artist. Charushin appears before us as a multifaceted personality - a unique artist and children's writer, a lithography master and a skilled sculptor, a thoughtful observer and an inspired storyteller, a passionate hunter and traveler, a hospitable master of a large house and a faithful friend.

In the work of Kuznetsov there is no coldness of art history, this is a fictional biography of the children's author. The book reveals not only the personality and work of Charushin, but also the life of the Leningrad circle of his friends and like-minded people, which included the writers-Evgeny Schwartz, Vitaly Bianchi, Boris Zhitkov, Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov.These are quite adults, in the fourth ten, mostly family, connected by a common cause - art, a children's book, literature - these people were able to have fun with childhood carelessness.

Early maturely and sincerely, they retained spontaneity for a long time - talented, each in their own way, loving their own business and life - Erast of Kuznetsov, from the book “Beasts and Birds of Evgeny Charushin”. Our library was lucky enough not only to keep the books of Yevgeny Ivanovich Charushin in its funds, but also to maintain good relations with his family. This is an amazing dynasty of incredibly creative people, from generation to generation delighting with their talents, fidelity to traditions, innovation, a special sense of responsibility for the past and future of the family.

The house of artists is located on Fontanka, and our library for many years was located in the neighborhood. Once Nikita Evgenievich Charushin brought to write a little daughter Natasha into the library. It was hard to imagine then that after many years in the walls of the library, already on the street. Marat, 72 in a wonderful architectural house of architecture, will be exhibitions of all generations of the Charushin-Kapubny family.

In the year, after a long -term restoration, the library opened for readers the exposition “The Magic World of the Charushin”. At the end of the year, another unique exhibition “Eugene and Eugene, started. Great-grandfather and great-granddaughter ”, on which the works of two generations of the Charushin family-Evgeny Ivanovich and Evgenia Charushina-Kapustina-his great-granddaughter were presented.

Here it was possible to demonstrate the connection, continuity of generations and the unique creative look of each family member. One of the first works in children's literature for Evgenia Alekseevna was illustrations for the book of Evgeny Ivanovich “How the Horse of the Beasts was rolled”. This is a recognition of love to the great -grandfather, and the continuation of the traditions of the Charushin family.

Then there were an exhibition for the anniors of the birth of Nikita Evgenievich Charushin, and the personal exhibition of Evgenia Alekseevna “Mysterious paths”. And numerous creative meetings at all exhibitions and between them, presentations of books, family holiday programs and master classes for young people with the problems of health and development of the Center for Development "Anima", for parents with preschoolers and just everyone.

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