Georgy Skrebitsky - singer of native nature

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Georgy Alekseevich Skrebitsky - a writer who was in love with his native fields, forests, mountains. His books tell about travels in the beautiful world of nature. Surprisingly accurate, juicy and figurative language, this master naturalist conveyed the beauty of central Russia, the habits of the most diverse inhabitants of the forest, the customs of the Russian people. In his works, he invested extraordinary humanity, humanity, experience, original artistic techniques and means. His stories are like fairy tales.

Childhood

In 1903 Georgy Skrebitsky, a talented master of pictorial descriptions, was born. The biography of the writer is very difficult. He was raised by foster parents. At the age of four, N. N. was adopted. Skrebitskaya. A little later, the zemstvo doctor A. M. Polilov becomes her husband. Grisha spent his entire childhood in the small town of Chern in the Tula province, where the whole family moved.

Georgy's adoptive father was very fond of fishing, hunting, he often took the boy with him, which instilled in him a love for his native nature. As a child, George learned to carefully and consciously treat everything around him, to lovetheir smaller brothers. This was reflected in his work and life credo. Skrebitsky's favorite hobbies were reading books and natural history. He could not decide which of these two directions to choose, so he combined the two professions into one. He became a naturalist writer.

Gaining knowledge

Having received a secondary education in one of the schools of the town, Georgy Skrebitsky goes to the capital, where he enters the Faculty of Literature at the Institute of the Living Word. After the young man mastered the art of writing, the next step in his studies was the Higher Zootechnical Institute. Here George mastered the basics of hunting and fur farming.

After graduating from this institution, the young man goes to work at a research institute for fur farming and hunting. Then he was a researcher in a laboratory at Moscow State University, where he researched the psychology of various animals. This work allowed Skrebitsky to participate in various expedition trips, to explore the life of animals in freedom.

He has been making such observations for 5 years. In 1937, Georgy Alekseevich was awarded the title of Candidate of Biological Sciences. For some time he headed the Department of Animal Physiology at Moscow State University. All this time he worked on several scientific papers related to zoology and animal psychology.

Singer of Russian nature

The older the scientist got, the more often he wanted to write down all his hunting adventures on paper, as well as capturechildhood memories of the first encounters with nature. So gradually Georgy Alekseevich began to turn into a singer of his native nature. Many younger schoolchildren are familiar with Skrebitsky's first work "Ushan" about a bunny born in autumn. This led the author to the idea of writing stories about animals. He is also the author of two short stories. His books are known not only in Russia, but also in Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Albania, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic.

In the 40s, Georgy Skrebitsky worked closely with the famous animal writer Vera Chaplina. She helped him publish his work and also gave him ideas for new stories. Together they wrote stories about animals for the youngest readers and published in children's magazines.

Scripts for cartoons

The bright features of the writer-naturalist's talent in creating scripts for filmstrips and cartoons were especially poignant. In all these works, the main characters were animals. The most memorable works are filmstrips "Who spends the winter like", "Who spends the summer like", "About the troublesome squirrel", "Bear cub".

In 1949, Georgy Skrebitsky visited Western Belarus. After that, he wrote many essays and collected them in the book "Belovezhskaya Pushcha". The writer never finished his last story, it was completed by Vera Chaplina. Death overtook Georgy Alekseevich unexpectedly, in the summer of 1964 he had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. An acute heart attack did not give Skrebitsky a chance, he died on August 18 of the same year.

Basic information about the stories

• "White coat" - a story about the adventures and wintering of a white fluffy hare.
• The behavior of feathered magpies is examined in "Long-tailed Thieves".
• "Mitya's friends" is a story about a boy who became attached to a moose calf and his moose mother.
• "The House in the Woods" introduces the adventures of a seasoned hunter.
• "The Mysterious Find" is an interesting adventure that happened to schoolchildren while making birdhouses.
• "The Thief" is about a clever pet squirrel.
• "Forest voice" - a story about the native land, summer holidays, forest dwellers.

Tender humour, poetry, spiritual warmth - these are the features inherent in the skill of Georgy Alekseevich Skrebitsky. His works develop character, teach us to love our smaller brothers, to take care of all living things. The smallest children and schoolchildren are always happy to be imbued with the life of forest dwellers. Most often, his books are used for extracurricular and family reading, the development of children's speech.