Alexey Cherkasov - biography and creativity

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Today we will tell you who Alexey Cherkasov is. The books of this author, as well as the biography will be discussed below. We are talking about a Soviet prose writer. He created the trilogy "Tales of the People of the Taiga", which included the novels "Red Horse", "Black Poplar", "Hop".

Biography

Alexey Cherkasov was born in 1915, in a village in the Yenisei province, into a peasant family. Adolescence, as well as youth, was forced to spend within the walls of orphanages in Kuragino and Minusinsk. Alexei Cherkasov began to write from an early age. At first he composed poetry, and later (in 1934) he produced the play For Life. It was staged at the Minusinsk Drama Theatre.

As part of the representatives of the Kuraginskaya commune, A. Cherkasov was sent to study at the Krasnoyarsk Agro-Pedagogical Institute. Without graduating from high school, after 2 years of study, he left for the Balakhtinsky district to carry out collectivization in accordance with the Komsomol appeal. He worked as an agronomist on collective farms in Northern Kazakhstan and the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Alexey Cherkasov: "Hop" and other works of the trilogy "Tales of the People of the Taiga"

In 1941, the writer received a letter sent from the village of Podsineya, which is located near Minusinsk. The letter, according to the recipient, had the letter “yat” in the lines, was written in a petrified, direct handwriting and resembled a message from the world of the dead. The text ended with the signature "Efimiya". The author stated that she was the daughter of Avvakum and lived with Alevtina Krushinina in the village of Podsineya. Aleksey Cherkasov at the same moment decided to visit the envoy and found the Log Cabin, which was half grown into the ground. Our hero found Euphemia. Her story formed the basis of the works of interest to us. The sender of the letter was 136 years old. She had a Soviet passport, which she was given in 1934. The document indicated the year of birth - 1805. The Old Believer told the writer that in 1812, during the First Patriotic War, as a child, she saw Napoleon with her own eyes. During the revolution, in 1917, she was 112 years old. And she lived to see the Great Patriotic War.

The great-great-grandfather of our hero, who was the legendary Decembrist, exiled to Siberia, became the prototype of the convict Loparev - Efimiya's lover. The story was also based on the stories of the writer's grandfather, Zinovy Andreevich Cherkasov.

The narrative describes the time after the Decembrist uprising. In 1830 Efimiya turned 25 years old. By the time the heroine appears in the main scene of the novel - Belaya Elani - she is already 55 years old. The entire trilogy is made up of sections that are divided into chapters. The period of action of the plot is 1830-1955. Narration of the workKhmel ends after the October Revolution of 1917. A novel called "Red Horse" covers the events in the Yenisei Siberia during the civil war. The work "Black Poplar" covers a significant period of history from the defeat of Kolchak to the Great Patriotic War, as well as the first peaceful years. Actions take place on the territory of the Yenisei province, in Minusinsk and Krasnoyarsk. In the 1950s, when creating the novel "Hop", the author actively used materials from the Martyanovsky Museum. In 1963, the first edition of this work was published in Krasnoyarsk. During the life of the writer, five editions were published with a total circulation of over 3 million copies.

Artworks

In 1933-1934, Alexei Cherkasov wrote another novel, Ice Cover. He also wrote the following works: "The World as It Is", "Towards the Siberian", "The Day Begins in the East", "Lika", "Swallow".

Memory

Alexey Cherkasov did not live long in the capital of Crimea, in a five-story building located on 14 Samokish Street. Only from 1969 to 1973 (until April 13 - the day of his death). However, the ashes of this man rest in the city cemetery of Simferopol.