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Today I will tell you 20 facts about writers and poets that you did not know. Or maybe they knew, of course. I can’t guarantee you that all this is true, and no one can. It’s your choice to believe it or not.

20 facts about writers and poets that you didn't know

Fact No. 1.Alexander Pushkin was blond!

True, only up to 19 years old. In Memories little Pushkin called a "frisky blond boy", he was blond as a child. Pushkin lost his blond locks due to illness. At the age of 19, he was struck down by fever, and the poet was shaved bald. For a long time Alexander Sergeevich wore a red skullcap, and then the cap was replaced dark blond hair. And he began to look the way we are used to.

Fact No. 2. Alexandre Dumas is Pushkin

There is a version according to which our beloved Pushkin did not die at all, but faked his death and left for France, since he spoke French perfectly. There is a whole lot of evidence. One of them is that until Pushkin died, Dumas could not write anything, but after 1837 he began to scribble brilliant novels. “The Count of Monte Cristo”, “The Three Musketeers”, “Twenty Years Later”, “Queen Margot”...

Fact No. 3. Conan Doyle believed in winged fairies

Yes, the man who invented Sherlock Holmes believed in the existence of fairies. He wrote the book “The Coming of Fairies”, in which he published photographs of winged fairies and examinations proving the authenticity of the photographs. The writer who believed in the existence of the little people spent more than a million dollars for this research.

Fact No. 4. Chekhov's pet was a mongoose

The writer brought this strange animal from a trip to the island of Ceylon. Chekhov himself called the mongoose “a cute and independent little animal,” and his family nicknamed him “Bastard.” By the way, Chekhov later exchanged Bastard for free ticket to the Moscow Zoo.

Fact No. 5.Nikolai Gogol invented the first attraction

The writer converted a windmill into a Ferris wheel and gave peasant children rides on it. But the problem is that Gogol didn’t think about reliable insurance. Then everything is like in the book: “The auditor is coming to us!” In general, the amusement park closed it down.

Fact No. 6. A St. Petersburg journalist received royalties for The Master and Margarita

Dying, Bulgakov bequeathed to give part of the royalties for the book to the one who, after the publication of “The Master and Margarita,” would bring flowers to the writer’s grave, and not just some day, but on the day when he burned the first version of the novel’s manuscript. This person was Vladimir Nevelsky, a journalist from Leningrad. It was to him that Bulgakov’s wife gave a check for a decent amount of royalties.

Fact No. 7.Lewis Carroll invented the tricycle

The author of "Alice in Wonderland" was a mathematician, poet and great inventor. He invented a tricycle, a mnemonic system for remembering names and dates, an electric pen (by the way, what is that?!), a dust jacket, a prototype of everyone’s favorite game Scrabble, which in its Russian counterpart is called “Erudite”.

Fact No. 8.Edgar Poe studied in a cemetery

And, by the way, he was terribly afraid of the dark. The school where little Edgar studied was very poor, and the children did not have textbooks. And a resourceful mathematics teacher took schoolchildren to the cemetery, where they counted the graves and calculated the years of life of the dead.

Fact No. 9. Hans Andersen had Pushkin’s autograph

The Danish storyteller received it from the wife of the owner of the “Kapnist Notebook”, into which Pushkin rewrote the poems he had selected in his own hand. The wife tore out one sheet from the notebook and sent it to Andersen, who was immensely happy. By the way, this leaflet is now kept in the Copenhagen Royal Library.

Fact No. 10. Nikolai Gogol was an excellent knitter.

Gogol had a passion for cooking and handicrafts. He treated his friends to personally prepared dumplings and dumplings, knitted and sewed scarves for himself. But he flatly refused to be photographed - he either covered his face with a top hat, or made faces in every possible way. Therefore, he was rarely invited to social events.

Fact No. 11. The army of Chekhov fans was nicknamed “Antonovkas”

When Anton Chekhov moved to Yalta, his enthusiastic fans also moved to Crimea. They ran after him all over the city, studied his gait and costume, and tried to attract attention. In January 1902, the newspaper “News of the Day” wrote: “In Yalta, a whole army of stupid and unbearably ardent fans of his artistic talent, called here “Antonovkas,” was formed.

Fact No. 12.Mark Twain invented suspenders

He was no worse an inventor than Carroll. He holds patents for self-adjusting suspenders and a scrapbook with adhesive pages. Mark Twain also invented a notepad with tear-off leaves, a closet with sliding shelves, but his most brilliant invention- machine for tying ties. Apparently it didn't get widespread...

Fact No. 13.Lewis Carroll - Jack the Ripper

Journalist Richard Wallis, author of Jack the Ripper, the Fickle Friend, claims that Jack the Ripper, who brutally murdered London prostitutes, is Lewis Carroll. And Carroll himself constantly repented of some sin in his diaries. But no one knew which one, because Carroll’s relatives destroyed all his diaries. Out of harm's way.

Fact No. 14. Boxing gloves helped Vladimir Nabokov emigrate

Nabokov became interested in boxing while in the army. When he emigrated to America in 1940, three customs officers at the border began to meticulously examine his luggage. But when they saw boxing gloves in the suitcase, they immediately put them on and began jokingly boxing with each other. In general, America and Nabokov liked each other.

Fact No. 15. Jack London is a millionaire

Jack London became the first American writer, who earned a million dollars with his work. London lived only 41 years, but began working at the age of 9 – selling newspapers. Having become a writer, London worked 15-17 hours a day and for his short life wrote about 40 books.

Fact No. 16. John Tolkien snored terribly

His snoring was so loud that he slept in the bathroom so as not to disturb his wife's sleep. And the author of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy bequeathed never, never to make films based on his books. But, apparently, the thirst for money prevailed over the wills of the brilliant father, and Tolkien’s children agreed to the film adaptation. Well, we all know what came of it.

Fact No. 17. Vladimir Mayakovsky - Puppy

Mayakovsky was terribly fond of various “cats and dogs,” as he called them. One day, while walking with Lilya Brik, they picked up a stray red puppy. They took him home and named him Puppy. Later, Lilya began to call Mayakovsky Puppy. And from then on he signed his letters and telegrams “Puppy” and always drew a puppy at the bottom.

Fact No. 18. Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day

And he wrote exclusively at night. He sat down to work at midnight, dressed in a white robe, he wrote for 15 hours straight, drinking up to 20 cups of strong Turkish coffee only at night or simply chewing coffee beans. So at night he wrote his 100 novels of the literary epic “The Human Comedy”.

Fact No. 19. The first kebab shop in France was opened by Alexandre Dumas

Yes, it was he who introduced kebab to France. Dumas first tried shish kebab while traveling through the Caucasus. He liked the dish so much that he included it in his “Big cookbook" Yes, Dumas had one like that. There are rumors that the writer even cooked crow kebab for the French. They praised.

Well, if you believe fact No. 2, then Alexander Pushkin was such an ardent lover fried meat on skewers...

Fact No. 20. Dickens slept with only his head to the north

And he sat down to write only when his face was turned to the north. And he couldn’t work at all if the chair and table in the office weren’t the way he wanted. Therefore, before starting to write, he always rearranged the furniture.

Illustrations by Katerina Karpenko

(except for the illustration to the fact about Vladimir Mayakovsky)

Having analyzed the personalities and creativity of the majority of children's and youth writers of the 20th century, we present to you a list of authors who are the best in terms of the quality of energy and purity of their works.

In our opinion, a child’s education should begin with familiarization with their creativity.

The information contained in Bazhov’s books will be developing for people for the next 100 years, Lewis Carroll’s books - for the next 50 years. The remaining works presented here will potentially carry an evolutionary message for about 20 years.

Parents, remember! Many books can be found in audio format, don’t be lazy, listen to something yourself!

January 15 (27), 1879 - December 3, 1950 – teacher, journalist, ethnographer, writer. The book of essays “The Ural Were”, the autobiographical story “The Green Filly”, the author’s collections of tales: “ Malachite Box", "Key-stone", "Tales of the Germans". Some of the most famous tales: « Copper Mountain Mistress", "Malachite Box", "Stone Flower", " Mining master"", "Fragile twig", "Iron tires", "Two lizards", "Clerk's soles", "Sapling pebbles", "Grass trap", "Tayutka's mirror", "Cat ears", "About the Great snake", "Snake trail”, “Zhabreev Walker”, “Golden Dykes”, “Jumping Firefly”, “Blue Snake”, “Key of the Earth”, “Sinyushkin Well”, “Silver Hoof”, “Ermakov’s Swans”, “Golden Hair”, “ Dear little name."

July 14, 1891 - July 3, 1977 - mathematician, teacher, translator, writer. He is best known as the creator of the six-book series The Wizard Emerald City": "The Wizard of the Emerald City", "Oorfene Deuce and his wooden soldiers", "Seven underground kings", "Fire God of the Marrans", "Yellow Fog", "The Mystery of the Abandoned Castle". His other works: “Architects”, “Wanderings”, “Two Brothers”, “Wonderful Ball”, “Invisible Fighters”, “Planes at War”, “The Wake of the Stern”, “Travelers in the Third Millennium”, “The Adventures of Two friends in the country of the past”, “The Constantinople Captive”, “Petya Ivanov’s Journey to an Extraterrestrial Station”, “In the Altai Mountains”, “Lapatin Bay”, “On the Buzhe River”, “Birthmark”, “Lucky Day”, “By the Campfire” "

Lewis Carroll, real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898 English writer, mathematician, logician, philosopher and photographer. His most famous works are “Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, “Sylvia and Bruno”, the humorous poem “The Hunting of the Snark”, “Phantasmagoria”, as well as a collection of riddles and games “The Story with Knots”.

Borice Vladimirovich Zakhoder September 9, 1918 - November 7, 2000 – writer, poet, translator. Some of his collections of poems: “On back desk"", "Martyshkino Tomorrow", "Nobody and Others", "Who is Like Whom", "To Comrade Children", "School for Chicks", "Calculations", "My Imagination", "If They Give Me a Boat", some works in prose: “The Monkey’s Tomorrow”, “The Good Rhinoceros”, “Once Upon a Time Fip”, fairy tales “ Gray star", "Little Mermaid", "The Hermit and the Rose", "The Story of the Caterpillar", "Why are the Fish Silent", "Ma-Tari-Kari", "A Tale of Everyone in the World".

Zakhoder is also well known as a translator of many masterpieces of foreign literature for children: A. A. Milne’s fairy tales “Winnie the Pooh and All-All-All”, P. Travers “Mary Poppins”, L. Carroll “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland", fairy tales by K. Capek and the Brothers Grimm, J.M. Barrie's play "Peter Pan", various poems.

June 22, 1922 - December 29, 1996 - poet, prose writer, screenwriter. Novels and short stories: “He was a real trumpeter”, “Boys Station”, “The Mystery of Fenimore”, “Where the Sky Begins”, “Sentry Petrov”, “Where the Battery Stood”, “The Fence with blue eye", "Salute", "I'm following the rhinoceros", "Semyon the Striped", "Temporary Tenant", "Game of Beauty", "Sretensky Gate", "Heart of the Earth", "Son of a Pilot", "Self-Portrait", " Ivan-Willis”, “Company Commander”, “Kingfisher”, “Ballerina of the Political Department”, “Girl, Do You Want to Act in a Movie?”, “Travesties”, “Persecution of Redheads”, “Elephant Driver”, “The Passion of Four Girls” , “Difficult Bullfighting”, “Heavy Blood”, “Lala Bullet”, “Party”, “Teacher”, “Sancho’s Faithful Friend”, “Samantha”, “And Vorobyov Didn’t Break the Glass”, “Ledum”, “Bambus”, “Game of Beauty”, “Boy with Skates”, “Boy with Skates”, “Knight Vasya”, “Collecting Clouds”, “Sons of Pedestrians”, “History Teacher”, “Girls from Vasilyevsky Island”, “Friend of Captain Gastello” , “Naughty Boy Icarus”, “Memory”, “The Last Fireworks”, “Sapper”, “Goalkeeper”, “Bavaclava”, “Flower of Bread”, “One Voice”, “Change of Weather”, “Letter to Marina”, “Awakened” nightingales”, “Relic”, “Violin”, “Horseman galloping over the city”, “My familiar hippopotamus”, “Old horse for sale”, “Shorn devil”, “Umka”, “Urs and Kat”, “Visiting dogs”, “Memories of a cow”, “Girl from Brest”, “The commander’s daughter”, “The preferenceist’s daughter”, “We are destined to live”, “Invisible cap”, “Lullaby for men”, “Our address”, “But passaran”, “The day before yesterday there was a war”, “Post number one”, “Constellation of steam locomotives”.

3 August 1910 - 18 August 1995, English children's writer, artist, film actor and theater director. He wrote two books of fairy tales: “Forgotten Birthday”, “Journey along the River of Time”. Here are the titles of some of his fairy tales: “The Dragon and the Wizard”, “Hide and Seek”, “Cows and the Wind”, “Mr. Crococat”, “Where did the starfish come from”, “Under the carpet”, “About the station that did not stand still” ", "About a puddle and a bun with raisins", "About policeman Arthur and about his horse Harry", "Dot-mother and Dot-daughter", "Fog", "Wow", "Breadcrumbs", "Cupid and the nightingale" , “Blackie and Reggie”, “Down!”, “The Big Wave and the Little Wave”, “The Philosopher Beetle and Others”, “Ginger Cookies”, “Quacking Mailbox"", "Crow and the Sun", "About the Boy Who Growled at the Tigers", "Miranda the Explorer", "Mice on the Moon", "Nelson and the Hen", "Knolls and the Juniper", "A Little Penguin Named Prince", “About the Little Bus Who Was Afraid of the Dark,” “About Zzzzzzz,” “About Ernie the Parrot Who Got the Measles,” “About Olivia the Seagull and Rosalind the Turtle,” “Joe’s Journey,” “Fish and Chips,” “St. Pancras and King's Cross", "About Olivia the Snail and the Canary", "Shhhhhh!", "Yak", "The Three Hats of Mr. Kepie", "About the Beetle and the Bulldozer", "About Beauty the Cow", "About the Piglet Who Learned fly”, “About a tiger cub”, “About a tiger cub who loved to take a bath”, “Daisy’s Journey to Australia”, “Annabelle”, “Ant and Sugar”, “Bang! ", "Everything is topsy-turvy", "Ha-ha-ha! ", "The Komodo Dragon", "The Forgotten Birthday of Komodo", "Little Red Riding Hood of Komodo", "The Grasshopper and the Snail", "The Milkman's Horse", "The Rhinoceros and the Good Fairy", "Do you want, do you want, do you want...", "Eagle and lamb".

Born May 18, 1952 - American writer science fiction and fantasy. The following works of hers are available in Russian:
“Young Wizards” Series: “How to Become a Wizard”, “Deep Magic”, “High Magic”, “Boundless Magic”
“Magical Cats” series: “The Book of Moonlit Night”, “A Visit to the Queen”
Series " Star Trek": "Doctor's Orders", "Spock's World", "Wounded Sky"
“X-Team”, “Space Police”, “Space Police. Brain killer."

September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851, American novelist. Novels: “The Spy, or a Tale of No Man's Land”, “The Pilot”, “Lionel Lincoln, or the Siege of Boston”, “The Pioneers”, “The Last of the Mohicans”, “The Prairie”, “The Red Corsair”, “The Valley of Wish-ton” Vish", "Bravo, or in Venice", "Heidenmauer, or the Benedictines", "The Executioner, or the Abbey of the Winegrowers", "Pathfinder, or the Lake-Sea", "Mercedes from Castile", "St. John's Wort, or the First Warpath", "The Two Admirals", "Will-o'-the-Wisp", "Wyandotte, or the House on the Hill", "On Land and Sea", "Miles Wallingford", "Satanstowe", "The Surveyor", "Redskins", "Gleades in the Oak Woods, or Bee Hunter", "Sea Lions", " Fantastic story brigantine of the same name “Sea Sorceress”.

August 28, 1925 - October 12, 1991, born April 15, 1933, Soviet writers, co-authors, screenwriters, classics of modern science and social fiction. Novels and stories: “The Country of Crimson Clouds”, “From Outside”, “The Path to Amalthea”, “Afternoon, XXII Century”, “Interns”, “Attempt to Escape”, “Distant Rainbow”, “It’s Hard to Be a God”, “Monday” starts on Saturday", "Predatory Things of the Century", "Anxiety", "Ugly Swans", "Snail on the Slope", "The Second Invasion of the Martians", "The Tale of the Three", " Inhabited island", "Hotel "Hotel "At the Dead Climber", "Baby", "Roadside Picnic", "Guy from the Underworld", "Doomed City", "A Billion Years Before the End of the World", "A Tale of Friendship and Unfriendship", “A Beetle in an Anthill”, “Lame Fate”, “Waves Quench the Wind”, “Burdened with Evil, or Forty Years Later”
Plays: “The Jews of the City of St. Petersburg, or Sad Conversations by Candlelight”, “Five Spoons of Elixir”, “Without Weapons”
Stories: “Deep Search”, “Forgotten Experiment”, “Six Matches”, “SKIBR Test”, “Private Speculations”, “Defeat”, “Almost the Same”, “Night in the Desert” (another name is “Night on Mars” ), “Emergency”, “Sand Fever”, “Spontaneous Reflex”, “Man from Pasifida”, “Moby Dick”, “In Our Time” interesting time", "On the issue of cyclotation", "The first people on the first raft", "Poor evil people."

In addition, Arkady Strugatsky wrote several works alone under the pseudonym S. Yaroslavtsev: a fairy tale in three parts “Expedition to the Underworld”, a story “The Devil Among Men” and a story “Details of the Life of Nikita Vorontsov”.

Boris Strugatsky alone, under the pseudonym S. Vititsky, wrote the following works: “The Search for Destiny, or the Twenty-Seventh Theorem of Ethics,” “The Powerless of This World.”

Born in 1931, artist, illustrator, screenwriter and director, author and illustrator of seventy books for adults and children. Three of his books “The Adventures of the Hryllops Family”, “Kriktor”, “Adelaide. Winged Kangaroo."

December 6, 1943 - April 30, 1992, poet and artist. Published collections of poems: “We went forward - we came back”, “Bird in a Cage”, “Cranks and Others”, “Hooligan Poems”, author’s collections: “Cranks”, “Talking Raven”, “Vitamin of Growth”.

Born in 1952 - teacher, playwright, writer. Author of more than 20 books, the books “River Flowing Backward”, “Winter Battle” and “ Grief of the Dead king."

Born on January 18, 1981, she wrote two books: “Waffle Heart” and “Tonya Glimmerdahl.” Both of these books by Maria Parr were translated into Russian.

Max Fry- literary pseudonym of the authors Svetlana Martynchik and Igor Stepin. Svetlana Yurievna Martynchik (born February 22, 1965, Odessa) - modern writer and artist. Igor Stepin (born 1967, Odessa) - artist.
Books in the “Exo Labyrinths” series: “Labyrinth” (“Stranger”), “Volunteers of Eternity”, “Simple Magical Things”, “ Dark side", "The Executor", "Obsession", "The Power of the Unfulfilled", "The Chatty Dead", "The Labyrinth of Menin". Books in the “Chronicles of Echo” series: “Forehead of the Earth”, “The Tulan Detective”, “The Lord of Mormora”, “The Elusive Habba Han”, “The Crow on the Bridge”, “The Sorrow of Mr. Gro”, “The Glutton Laughing Man”. Books outside the series: “My Ragnarok”, “Encyclopedia of Myths”, “Book of Complaints”, “Nests of Chimeras”, “Fairy Tales and Stories”, “Book for People Like Me”, “Book of Lies”, “Book of Imaginary Worlds”, " Perfect Romance", "Yellow metal key."
The books will be educational for another 10 years.

(April 4, 1948; Peoria, Illinois) is a famous American science fiction writer. Books: 1985 “Song of Kali”, 1989 “Phases of Gravity” (not published in Russia), 1989 “Carrion Comfort”, 1989 “Hyperion” (“Hyperion”) 1990 “The Fall of Hyperion”, 1990 “Entropy’s Bed at Midnight” (not published in Russia), 1991 “Summer of Night” (“Summer of Night"), 1992 "The Hollow Man" (not published in Russia), 1992 "Children of the Night", 1995 "Fires of Eden", 1996 “Endymion”, 1997 “The Rise of Endymion”, 1999 “The Bell for Ham” (“The Crook Factory”), 2000 “Darwin’s Blade”, 2001 "Hardcase", 2002 "A Winter's Haunting", 2002 "Hard Freeze", 2003 "Ilium", 2003 "Tough as Nails" "("Hard as Nails"), 2005 "Olympos", 2007 "The Terror", 2009 "Drood", 2009 "Black Hills" (V given time not yet published in Russia), 2011 “Flashback” (not yet published in Russia at this time).

The books will be educational for another 10-20 years.

Modern Russian children's writers of the 21st century and their works have replaced the long-familiar Chukovsky, with his Aibolit, and Nosov, with his beloved Dunno. Some modern works very controversial. After all, we are accustomed to the fact that children's fairy tales, stories and poems should be kind, instructive in some way, and goodness should certainly win.

In addition, there are outright graphomaniacs with unstable psyches, but they have enough money to publish their collections.

Therefore, it is very important to carefully sift out the literature that falls into the hands of children. After all, it shapes their psyche and suggests the line of their behavior in various situations.

Modern children's writers in Russia have moved away from classical Soviet children's literature and do not always put morality first. And yet, they manage to convey in a fun and accessible way to children what “good” is and what “bad” is.

Contemporary children's writers of Russia, list:

• Tatyana Bokova (I fell in love on Thursday. Miracles under New Year. Mom, Dad and I.)
• Sergey Georgiev (Christmas trees: Field Marshal Pulkin. Ball from Australia. Little green frog)
• Arthur Givargizov (Notes of an outstanding student. About dragons and policemen.)
• Tamara Kryukova (Shiny galosh with right leg. Zhenya Moskvichev and his friends)
• Oleg Kurguzov (Birthday upside down. In the footsteps of Pochemuchka)
• Sergey Sedov (Hercules. 12 great labors. An eyewitness account.)
• Maria Bershadskaya (Big little girl.)
• Stanislav Vostokov (Do not feed, do not tease...)
• Arthur Givargizov (From grandfather's to children's.)
• Maria Aromstam (When the Angels rest.)

In fact, there are now a lot of children's writers, and only the most famous ones are listed here. How do people become writers? Most of them are dreamers and inventors, who themselves, having become parents, discovered that their children have nothing to read. Old fairy tales have long been read, and some of them are better protected from. It is difficult to teach children to read when there is a vacuum around, and this is in best case scenario. It's worse if the child gets stuck in computer games, where he develops not the simplest character.

Modern children's writers are psychologists, teachers and simply parents who endlessly love children, their own and others, and they grow up with their children, telling more and more fairy tales. They know the children, and sometimes it is the children who give advice fairy tales. Only the person who communicates with children every day can write an exciting story and tear the child away from the TV with cartoons.

And the influence of children's fiction on the child's psyche cannot be underestimated. Books force a child to think and imagine images on his own, which does not happen when watching cartoons.

Parents should pay more attention to their child and choose fairy tales/stories that the child will understand and will like. He simply doesn’t know that such a fabulous world of literature exists and doesn’t know how to separate good books from the bad ones.

Didactic manual for lessons literary reading in grades 1-4 "Children's writers in primary school»

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (1805-1875)

AGNIYA LVOVNA BARTO (1906-1981)

VITALY VALENTINOVICH BIANCHI (1894-1959)

JACOB and WILHELM GRIMM (1785-1863; 1786-1859)

VIKTOR YUZEFOVICH DRAGUNSKY (1913-1972)

SERGEY ALEXANDROVICH ESENIN (1895-1925)

BORIS VLADIMIROVICH ZAKHODER (1918-2000)

IVAN ANDREEVICH KRYLOV (1769-1844)

ALEXANDER IVANOVICH KUPRIN (1870-1938)

MIKHAIL YURIEVICH LERMONTOV (1814-1841)

DMITRY NARKISOVICH MAMIN-SIBIRYAK (1852-1912)

SAMUIL YAKOVLEVICH MARSHAK (1887-1964)

SERGEY VLADIMIROVICH MIKHALKOV (1913)

NIKOLAI ALEXEEVICH NEKRASOV (1821-1878)

NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH NOSOV (1908-1976)

KONSTANTIN GEORGIEVICH PAUSTOVSKY (1892-1968)

CHARLES PERROT (1628-1703)

ALEXANDER SERGEEVICH PUSHKIN (1799-1837)

ALEXEY NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY (1883-1945)

LEV NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910)

Poets and writers for some are crazy geniuses, for others they are nothing special, but only annoying in schools with their poems, stories and biographies. But some people don’t even realize how interesting many personalities are beyond their creativity. What about the most unusual and unknown interesting facts about writers and poets?

A.S. Pushkin is “our everything,” I hope everyone remembers this. The line “let’s drink from grief” immediately comes to mind; where is the mug? - these words are partly true, although the most favorite drink was sweet lemonade!

In the process of creating the work, the writer refreshed himself not with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, but with a glass of lemonade, the poet especially loved it at night.

Surprisingly, before the duel with Dantes, Pushkin went into a pastry shop and drank a glass of aromatic lemonade with great pleasure.

Gogol's eccentricities

Oh, how many myths there are around the author of the famous “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”. Contemporaries confirmed some of the writer’s oddities. Gogol slept sitting, loved to do needlework (sewed scarves and vests), wrote all his brilliant works only while standing!

For example, as a child I loved to roll bread balls, for which I usually got slapped on the wrist. And Gogol calmed his nerves by rolling balls all his life! Nikolai Berg, remembering the writer, said that Gogol constantly walked from corner to corner or wrote, while at the same time rolling balls of bread (precisely wheat). And the writer also threw rolled balls into kvass for his friends!

The Amazing Habits of Chekhov

But Chekhov, calming his nerves, did not roll balls, but used a hammer to smash crushed stone into dust, which was then used to sprinkle garden paths. The writer could spend hours breaking rubble without distraction!

Deep psychologist Dostoevsky

By the way, the characters of all the characters in Dostoevsky’s works were copied from real people. Dostoevsky constantly made new acquaintances, starting conversations even with random passers-by.

Contemporaries note that when the writer was immersed in writing works, he became so carried away that he forgot to eat. He walked around the room all day, saying sentences out loud. One day while writing famous novel Dostoevsky wandered from corner to corner and talked to himself about Raskolnikov’s attitude towards the old pawnbroker and his motive. The footman got scared when he accidentally overheard the conversation and decided that Dostoevsky was going to kill someone.

Religious philosopher Leo Tolstoy

Here you can make a huge list of the eccentricities and oddities of the author of Anna Karenina, War and Peace and much, much more.

Firstly, as an 82-year-old man, he ran away from his wonderful wife, who could spend hours copying his works into clear copy. And all because of a discrepancy in views, which emerged only after 48 years of marriage.

Secondly, Leo Tolstoy was a vegetarian. Thirdly, the writer lost the family estate at cards. Fourthly, Leo Tolstoy denied all material wealth, constantly communicated with peasants and valued physical labor. The writer said about himself that if he doesn’t work at least a little in the yard a day, he will be very irritable. He also loved to do handicrafts, especially sewing boots for relatives, friends and even strangers.

Vladimir Nabokov and his butterflies

Entomology was a huge passion for Nabokov; he could spend hours running around the area looking for beautiful butterflies.

One of the most funny photos Nabokov with a net. But anyway main love For Nabokov, the craft of writing remained. The author's principle of writing texts is interesting. The works were written on 3-by-5-inch cards, which were then used to create a book. The cards had to have pointed ends straight lines and an elastic band.

Mystical letters of Evgeny Petrov (Kataev)

The main hobby of the co-author satirical works“Twelve Chairs”, “Golden Calf”, etc. there was collecting stamps, but even here it’s not so simple. Petrov sent letters to invented addresses to cities that did not exist on the world map. First he chose a real country, and then fantasized about what city was missing there, who would live there, etc. You may ask: why did he do this?

After long travels around the world, the letter was returned, crowned with numerous stamps marked “Addressee not found.” But one day Petrov received a response from New Zealand; everything matched: the address, the name, and even the situation described by the domestic writer. Petrov wrote in a letter that he condoled the death of a certain Uncle Pete, and asked how his wife and daughter were doing. The addressee replied that he missed Petrov, remembered the days spent with him in New Zealand, his wife and daughter also said hello and hoped to see him soon. One would think that someone was playing a joke, but the interlocutor attached a photograph that showed a large man hugging Petrov!

The poor satirist got so excited that he ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. He had absolutely no idea who the person in the photo was and had never been to New Zealand! This story was adapted into the plot of the 2012 film “The Envelope.”