Writer Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich. Biography

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Rasputin Valentin Grigorievich, whose biography will be described in this article, is certainly one of the pillars of Russian literature. His works are known and popular with Russian and foreign readers. Let's get acquainted with the life path of our great compatriot.

The writer was born in the village of Atalanka on the Angara River in 1937. Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin, whose biography is very interesting and full of events, often recalls the war years and the famine, although he was still a child then. Despite this, he calls his childhood happy: he spent it in the village, he often went fishing with the guys and went to the taiga for mushrooms and berries.

In 1959, Valentin graduated from Irkutsk University, after which he began working as a journalist in the publications Soviet Youth and Krasnoyarsk Komsomolets.

Already in 1961, his first work was published - “I forgot to ask Leshka …” The plot of the story is as follows: a fallen pine tree at a logging sitehurts young Leshka, who is escorted to the hospital on foot by two friends, in whose arms he dies. Already in the first story of the writer there are characteristic features of his work - nature as a character in the work, which sensitively reacts to what happened, and the hero's thoughts about justice and fate. A few more early stories followed: “Rudolfio”, “A bear skin for sale” and “Vasily and Vasilisa”.

As the writer recalls, he was an able student and loved to read. After completing four years of school in the village, he was recommended to continue his education. Rasputin Valentin Grigoryevich, whose biography was partially reflected in one of his most popular stories - “French Lessons”, in the boy, the main character, described himself in many ways. The plot of the story: a boy of eleven is sent from the village to the city, where there is an eight-year school. He is gifted and the whole village hopes that he will become an educated man. However, the time after the war, hungry. The boy barely has enough money for a rare can of milk. He starts gambling, his French teacher finds out about it. Deciding to help her pupil, she plays with him for money at home, since the boy did not want to borrow them. This story was made into a feature film.

In the collections of works by the young writer “What to pass to the crow?” and “Live a century - love a century” included stories about the life of people on Baikal and nature.

In the late 1960s, young Rasputin was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSRValentin Grigorievich, whose biography is replenished with new works: “Money for Mary”, the story “Deadline” and many others. The distinctive features of these and all subsequent creations of the author were the theme of the Siberian village, a loving description of the life of the common people, traditions and moral conflicts.

Rasputin writes about his grandparents in the story “Vasily and Vasilisa”. As the writer admitted, the image of his grandmother lives in the old woman Anna in the work “Deadline”, and in the old Daria from “Farewell to Matera”. Rasputin Valentin Grigoryevich, whose biography began in the Russian village and has been closely connected with it all his life, admits that the stories of the lives of his fellow villagers and his native village are in almost all books.

In 1974, the story “Live and Remember” was published, in which the writer reflects on how an ordinary village resident Andrei Guskov could desert and betray. Thanks to this work and the story "Fire", Rasputin twice became a laureate of the USSR State Prize.

In 2007, Valentin Rasputin was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 3rd class, for many years of creativity and active participation in the development of Russian literature.

A brief biography of him was presented here. To this day, the writer takes an active civic position, speaking out for the protection of nature and Lake Baikal, he writes articles for newspapers and magazines.