Nosov Nikolai Nikolaevich: childhood, youth and creativity

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Nosov Nikolai Nikolaevich was born in 1908, November 10, old style. His early childhood was spent in the city of Irpin. At that time it was a railway station located near Kyiv. Residents of Kyiv rented dachas here for the summer, built houses, as the nature in this area was very beautiful. The station was located in a forest area, on the banks of the Irpen River. In modern times, it is a city in the Kyiv region, very beautiful and cozy, with many parks and alleys, rest houses, sanatoriums and boarding houses. It is an all-Ukrainian he alth resort with a rich cultural life.

Family

Nikolai's family at that time consisted of himself, his parents and his older brother. Father, Nikolai Petrovich, worked as an artist, gave concerts as part of the Siberian Tramps quartet, and sometimes toured. Mom, Varvara Nikolaevna, was engaged in housekeeping. The older brother Peter was Nikolai's weatherman. Therefore, they have always been inseparable friends - and in the game, and in pranks, and fishing, and traveling. The time was carefree, happy. The arrival of the father was always a wonderful holiday for the brothers.

Their mother was a calm and happy woman. Toddler days were filled with games or anything else. Many years later, the writer Nikolai Nosovin his work "The Secret at the Bottom of the Well" he will describe this time in great detail, down to the brightness of the sun, the color of the tablecloth on the veranda, where in the morning, small and sleepy, he ran to drink tea with his mother. And it will become clear how, probably, the writer yearned for that time, why he carried this memory through his whole life. And how it is reflected in all the works of the author. It is known that a little later, Nikolai had a younger brother and sister.

Kyiv

When Nikolai Nosov was 6 years old, the family decided to move to Kyiv, as the children had to enter the gymnasium. And the next stage in the life of the writer was a private seven-year gymnasium in the city of Kyiv. Education at school took place with varying degrees of success. Times changed: the First World War, the February Revolution, then the October Revolution, the Civil War … All this happened during the school years of Nikolai Nosov's student.

There was not enough food, heat, clothes, factories, factories, transport stopped working. The whole family of the writer suffered typhus. The gymnasium worked, and the teachers, although not full, tried to give the children knowledge. The writer had many hobbies at that time: he learned to play the mandolin, tried to love the violin, but left this occupation. Also, with friends, he published the X magazine, or rather, a monthly notebook with stories, pictures, and tales. At the same time, he became interested in chess, theater, went with his brother to all the performances where his father participated. But most of all he was fascinated by chemistry. Even with a classmate, together he created a laboratory at thatat home.

And so the decision came: after the seven-year period, finish the evening school to get a secondary education, and then enter the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute at the Faculty of Chemistry. But during his studies at the evening school, Nosov Nikolai Nikolayevich became seriously interested in photography and entered the Kyiv Art Institute in the film and photo department. It was already 1927, and two years later Nikolai decided to transfer to the Moscow Institute of Cinematography.

Moscow

In 1932, student Nosov Nikolai graduated from the institute and got a job at Soyuzkino as a director of educational, popular science and animated films. Then he got married and had a son. Started creative activity. In 1943 he received a state award - the Order of the Red Star - for a series of training films for the Red Army.

Writer's work

We have known the writer's work since childhood. Every Soviet schoolchild from early childhood had books by Nikolai Nosov in his closet or table. Some of them had swollen covers from time to time, leafed pages. Many have read and re-read the funny, light, kind stories of Nikolai Nosov. In addition to books, he published in the magazines "Murzilka", "Koster", in the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda". The first publication of his work occurred in 1938.

Nikolai began his work by writing the stories "Entertainers", "Live Hat", "Cucumbers", "Mishkin's porridge" and so on. All of them are collected in the collection "Knock-knock-knock", which was published in 1945. Next were writtennovels "Merry Family", "Vitya Maleev at school and at home" (for the last story, the writer was awarded a state prize). The writer received the next state award in 1969 for a fairy tale novel, a trilogy created in the fifties. It tells about the adventures of little people living in the Flower City. Parts of this novel were called by Nikolai Nosov: "Dunno in the Sunny City", "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends", "Dunno on the Moon".

The sunniest and most flowery city that is in the soul of the writer seems to be the place where he was born and raised.

Reading his works, one can understand how kind, talented and responsible the author is. It can be seen that Nikolai is a person with a huge soul, a desire to help everyone, to teach fools. Since childhood, he was distinguished by such positive character traits. They can be seen when he dragged his younger brother and sister to school or when he taught homeless children to read poetry so that their work would be easy in the future. Or when, after the war, for children who survived the hostilities, he began to write stories and novels for educational purposes. Caring and love for people, homesickness, I think, is in all the works of Nikolai Nosov.