Agnia Barto Biography Print

According to some reports, at birth, the girl was called Getel Leibovna Volova. Agnia was born in an educated family of Jewish origin. Her father was Lev Nikolaevich Volov, a veterinarian, and Maria Ilyinichna Volova in the girlishness of the flea, who, after the birth of her daughter, took up the household. The girl’s father loved Krylov’s fables very much and from his very childhood his daughter regularly read them for her at night.

He taught the little daughter to read, according to the book of Leo Tolstoy. Agnia's father loved the works of the classic of Russian literature very much, because on his first birthday he gave his daughter a book under the name “How Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy lives and works”. Agnia Barto in her youth in early childhood, Agnia began to write poetry. As the poetess itself was subsequently recognized, in the first grades of the gymnasium, she paid tribute to a love theme: she wrote more than one sheet with naive poetic stories about “lovers and states”.

However, to compose poems about daliy beauties and their ardent lover, the girl is quickly tired of, and gradually such poems in her notebooks were replaced by bold epigrams to friends and teachers. Agnia Barto in his youth, like all children from intelligent families of those times, Barto studied German and French, went to a prestigious gymnasium. In addition, she entered the choreographic school, intending to become a ballerina.

At the same time, the financial situation of the Jewish family, and even in the conditions of the October Revolution, left much to be desired. Therefore, at the age of 15, Agnia forged documents, increasing her age by a year, and went to the Others store by the seller to the Others store issued herring heads from which the soup could be boiled. The creative career once the choreographic school in which Agnia Barto was engaged, Anatoly Lunacharsky visited the People's Commissar of Education.

He came to the graduation tests of the pupils of the school and, among other things, heard how the young poetess to the accompaniment of Chopin’s music was read out a very impressive poem “The funeral march” of his own composition. Although the work was by no means humorous, Lunacharsky hardly resisted laughter and confidently stated that the girl would write beautiful, funny and joyful verses.

Agnia Barto in the ballet troupe in the year Agnia Lvovna completed her studies at the choreographic school and successfully entered the ballet troupe. However, she still failed to build a successful career on stage: the troupe emigrated, and Agnia's father did not agree to let her go from Moscow. The poetess carried her first works to the State Publishing House in the year. Next followed by collections of poems “Toys”, “Brother”, “Boy on the contrary”, “Snegier”, “talker” and many others.

Agnia Barto and her readers of the work of a young poetess quickly ensured her great popularity among Soviet readers. She was not a fan of fables, but created humorous and satirical images, ridiculed human shortcomings.

Her poems were read not as boring notations, but as funny teasers, and thanks to this they were much closer to children than the works of many other children's poets of the early century. At the same time, Agnia Lvovna always remained a very modest and shy person. So, she was crazy about Mayakovsky, but at the first meeting with him she did not even dare to open her mouth. However, subsequently, the conversation about children's poetry at Barto and Mayakovsky still took place, and Agnia gathered a lot from it for her future creativity.

And when one of the poems by Agnia listened to Korney Chukovsky, she stated that he was written by a five -year -old boy. The conversation with Maxim Gorky became no less exciting for the writer. Agnia Barto and Vladimir Mayakovsky, both in his youth and in more mature years, Agnia Lvovna was distinguished by a kind of linguistic perfectionism. Once she went to the Book Congress, which was held in Brazil.

She had to make a report, and translated into English. Nevertheless, Barto repeatedly changed the text of the Russian -language version of her speech, which almost drove the translator crazy. She performed a lot on the radio, printed military articles, essays and poems in newspapers. In the years, she had the plan of the work about young teenagers who tirelessly work in defense plants in numerous machines.

To master the topic, she even took possession of the profession of a turner, and in the year she wrote the long -awaited work "The student is going." The post -war period after the war, the poetess very often attended orphanages, talked with orphans, read her poems, even whispering some orphanages over some orphanages. In the year, Agnia Barto published one of her most psychological heavy works - the poem "Zvenigorod" dedicated to numerous children from whom the war took the parents.

After the publication of Zvenigorod, a woman from Karaganda wrote to her, who lost her daughter in the war years. She asked Agnia Lvovna to help find her.The poetess took the letter to the organization that was engaged in the search for people, and the miracle happened: the mother and daughter found each other after a few years of separation. They wrote about this case in the press, and soon numerous letters from children and parents who were eager to find each other began to come to Barto.

The poetess took up the work that was beyond the power of anyone. In her radio broadcasting to “find a person”, children talked about their fragmentary memories from those times when they still lived with their parents. Barto read out excerpts of letters, her listeners helped her: as a result, a huge number of people found their relatives precisely thanks to Agnia Lvovna.

Agnia Barto naturally, the poetess did not forget about the work, and continued to write books for the smallest. Her poems for children “Grandfather and granddaughter”, “Leshenka, Leshenka”, “Bear and Uncle Vova”, “First -grader”, “Vovka is a kind soul” and many others were published in large circulations and were happy to read children throughout the country. In addition, according to Agnia's scenarios, the films “Alyosha Ptitsyn produces character”, “Elephant and rope” were shot.

A small filmography of the poetess also includes the picture “Subbing”, to write a script for which Barto was helped by Rina Green. Personal life, the first husband of Agnia Lvovna - poet Pavel Barto, whose name the poetess subsequently wore all her life. This marriage, concluded in the youth of both poets, lasted less than ten years. The second spouse of the writer was Andrei Scheglyaev, with whom she lived in happiness and love up to a year, when Andrei Vladimirovich died due to cancer.

Agnia Barto with her husband Andrei in this marriage was born a daughter Tatyana, who later became a candidate of technical sciences. The death of Agnia Barto died on April 1, the cause of death - heart problems. After the autopsy, the doctors were amazed that the poetess lived a fairly long life despite the fact that she had extremely weak vessels. The grave of Agnia Barto, many fans of Agnia's work subsequently recalled her phrase “almost every person has a minute in life when he does more than he can” - and noted that for Barto such minutes stretched out for entire years.