Assumption stories for children are short. Ouspensky's childhood and youth

Nikolayevich is one of the most popular children's writers in the post-Soviet space. More than one generation of children grew up reading books written by him.

Ouspensky's childhood and youth

The future writer was born in 1937 in the small town of Yegorievsk, which is located in the Moscow region. His parents were educated people, they had Edward - not the only child in the family, the boy had an older brother Igor, and later Yuri was born. After the start of the war, young Edward, along with his mother and brothers, was evacuated. Until 1944, the family lived in the Urals.

Returning to Moscow, the future writer went to school, but did not study very well. Only in the seventh grade did he begin to make progress in his studies, mathematics was best given to him. A big role in Edward's passion for reading was played by stepfather Nikolai Stepanovich Pronsky, who had a huge library, carefully kept books and forbade exchanging them for food.

The first experiments in versification date back to the time when the young Uspensky was in the ninth grade. At that time, writing was a fashionable hobby. Ouspensky's poetic works were published in literary newspapers and sounded from radios. An important role in the development of Uspensky as a writer of children's books was played by the experience of working in camps as a pioneer leader.

Adult Assumption

Having become a student of the Moscow Aviation Institute, Eduard Uspensky continued to engage in literary activities. After graduating from a higher educational institution in 1961, he went to work at a factory in his specialty. Together with G. Gorin, A. Arkanov and F. Kamov, the writer took part in the creation of the book “Four Under One Cover”, which quickly became popular. Thanks to this, Eduard Uspensky and Felix Kamov organized the student theater "TV". The success was enormous.

Later, the writer became the founder of the programs “Good night, kids”, “ABVGDeika”, “Baby monitor”, “Ships entered our harbor”. For his creative work, he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.

Eduard Uspensky was married three times. From his first marriage, he has a daughter, Tatiana, from his second brother, daughters Irina and Svetlana. The third marriage broke up in 2011, the couple had no children.

Creative activity of the writer

1965 was marked by the release of a collection of poems by Eduard Uspensky "Everything is in order", which immediately received recognition from readers. However, Ouspensky's most famous works are books for a children's audience. Crocodile Uncle Fyodor, Matroskin and Sharik, postman Pechkin - there is hardly a child who does not know these characters. It was thanks to Ouspensky that the children's animated series "Fixies" was born, which is so loved by modern young viewers. It is based on Uspensky's story "Guaranteed little men", which was born in 1974.

Children's writer Uspensky

Cheburashka is one of the most famous characters created by this author. Together with his friends - the crocodile Gena, the doll Galya, the loser Dima, the excellent student Marusya - he opened the House of Friendship. This event formed the basis of the story "and his friends." This work was written in prose form, before that Uspensky wrote poetic texts. The writer's heroes were so fond of the audience that several more stories, novellas and plays were published from his pen, in which new exciting adventures awaited friends.

In 2012, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science included the first story about the adventures of the crocodile Gena and Cheburashka in the list of one hundred books that are recommended for middle-aged students to read on their own.

A cycle of stories about Uncle Fyodor

For many years, Ouspensky's works about a boy named Uncle Fyodor and his animal friends: a cat named Matroskin and a dog named Sharik have enjoyed great success among readers. The first story from this cycle was published in 1974. There are seven books in total. Ouspensky's fairy tales were so popular that they became the basis for animated films. In the period from 1975 to 2011, five cartoons hit the TV screens telling about the adventures of the smart boy Uncle Fyodor and his talking animal friends.

The last was the cartoon "Spring in Prostokvashino". Matroskin and Sharik receive a letter from Uncle Fyodor, in which the boy says that he will arrive soon. His parents will follow him. However, the old house is too small to accommodate all the guests. And then Uncle Fyodor turns to a construction company for help, which quickly built a modern cottage.

The audience met the cartoon ambiguously. The audience criticized the art, which is very different from the original. The plot and "Mail.ru" also caused a lot of discontent.

Adventures of Vera and Anfisa

Ouspensky's works about the little girl Vera, her parents and Anfisa also have many fans. The author describes the life of this wonderful family in a fun and exciting way. Readers are happy to follow the adventures of a girl and a monkey in a kindergarten, school and clinic. Using the example of his heroes, Ouspensky explains to young readers what to do if you are lost.

Uspensky Eduard Nikolaevich is a man whom all the inhabitants of our country know. He made a significant contribution to the development of Russian children's literature. Uspensky's tales can be found in every home, they teach children about friendship and caring for animals.

On Tuesday, August 14, the famous writer Eduard Uspensky passed away. He was 80 years old. According to relatives, the author of the legendary children's works had been ill with oncology for a long time. Read about the life and work of Eduard Uspensky in our Q&A section.

Biography

Eduard Uspensky was born on December 22, 1937 in Yegorievsk. The writer's father worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and his mother worked as a mechanical engineer.

In 1955 Uspensky entered the Moscow Aviation Institute. Already in his student time, he began to engage in literary work. His poems and feuilletons were regularly posted in the institute's wall newspaper. And since 1960, the writer published them in pop collections, the Nedelya newspaper and the Crocodile magazine.

After graduating from high school (1961), Uspensky worked for three and a half years at the Second Moscow Instrument-Making Plant.

The beginning of creative activity

In 1965, Uspensky, together with Felix Kamov, headed the author's group of the student pop-satirical theater of the MAI "TV". And in 1966, the Moscow publishing house "Art" published a collection of humorous stories for the stage "Four under one cover." These four were Eduard Uspensky, Felix Kamov, Arkady Arkanov and Grigory Gorin.

Books for children

Ouspensky began writing for children in the mid-1960s. Five years later (1965), the publishing house "Children's Literature" published his first book - a collection of poems "Funny Elephant".

The famous fairy tale "Crocodile Gena and his friends" was published in 1966. Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka become the favorite characters of children and adults. Not only in the USSR, but also abroad.

In 1969, director-animator Roman Kachanov staged the puppet animated film Crocodile Gena based on the scripts of Eduard Uspensky. In 1971, "Cheburashka" came out. Then came "Shapoklyak" (1974), "Cheburashka goes to school" (1983).

Together with Kachanov, Uspensky wrote the plays Cheburashka and His Friends (1970) and Gena the Crocodile's Vacation (1974). In the 2000s, animated films about Cheburashka were made in Japan.

Uncle Fedor, dog and cat

A fairy tale story about a boy whom everyone called Uncle Fyodor was published in 1974. According to Uspensky's book, director Vladimir Popov in 1978 made the animated films "Three from Prostokvashino". And the popular favorite cat Matroskin was voiced by the famous actor Oleg Tabakov. Two years later, "Vacations in Prostokvashino" came out, and in 1984 "Winter in Prostokvashino". These cartoons, as well as the books they were based on, have become favorites for people of all ages for many years.

Ouspensky also wrote the fairy tales Down the Magic River (1972), Warranty Men (1975), School of Clowns (1983), Kolobok Follows the Trail, and more.

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Ouspensky's writings have been translated into 25 languages. According to his scripts and works, 60 animated films were shot. This is the famous "Antoshka", "Ivashka from the Palace of Pioneers", "Koloboks are investigating" and other equally famous and beloved works.

Performances, films, TV

The repertoire of Russian theaters includes performances based on the works of Uspensky. And based on his books, films were made for children who watch with pleasure even today. For example, "There, on unknown paths ...".

And Ouspensky was one of the jury members of the TV program "Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful", hosted the musical program "Ships Came to Our Harbor" on radio and television.

"The brilliant Eduard Uspensky is gone. Thank you for our childhood impressions, for Gena and Cheburashka, for the cat Matroskin, Uncle Fyodor, the postman Pechkin, Sharik ... Condolences to loved ones. Blessed memory!" Shaposhnikov wrote on Twitter.

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About the boy Yasha

How the boy Yasha climbed everywhere

The boy Yasha always liked to climb everywhere and climb into everything. As soon as some suitcase or box was brought, Yasha immediately found himself in it.

And he climbed into all sorts of bags. And in closets. And under the tables.

Mom often said:

- I'm afraid, I'll come with him to the post office, he will get into some empty parcel, and he will be sent to Kyzyl-Orda.

He got very good for it.

And then Yasha took a new fashion - he began to fall from everywhere. When it was distributed in the house:

- Eh! - everyone understood that Yasha had fallen from somewhere. And the louder the “uh” was, the greater was the height from which Yasha flew. For example, mother hears:

- Eh! - so it's no big deal. This Yasha just fell off the stool.

If you hear:

- Eee! - so it's a very serious matter. It was Yasha who plopped down from the table. I need to go and look at his bumps. And on a visit, Yasha climbed everywhere, and even tried to climb on the shelves in the store.

One day my dad said:

- Yasha, if you climb somewhere else, I don’t know what I will do with you. I'll tie you to the vacuum cleaner with ropes. And you will walk everywhere with a vacuum cleaner. And you will go to the store with your mother with a vacuum cleaner, and in the yard you will play in the sand tied to the vacuum cleaner.

Yasha was so frightened that after these words he did not climb anywhere for half a day.

And then, nevertheless, he climbed onto the table with his dad and crashed together with the phone. Dad took it and actually tied it to a vacuum cleaner.

Yasha walks around the house, and the vacuum cleaner follows him like a dog. And he goes to the store with his mother with a vacuum cleaner, and plays in the yard. Very uncomfortable. Neither you climb the fence, nor ride a bicycle.

But Yasha learned to turn on the vacuum cleaner. Now instead of "uh" constantly began to be heard "uu".

As soon as mom sits down to knit socks for Yasha, when all of a sudden all over the house - "oooooo." Mom is jumping up and down.

We decided to make a good deal. Yasha was untied from the vacuum cleaner. And he promised not to climb anywhere else. Papa said:

- This time, Yasha, I will be stricter. I'll tie you to a stool. And I'll nail the stool to the floor with nails. And you will live with a stool, like a dog in a booth.

Yasha was very afraid of such a punishment.

But just then a very wonderful case turned up - they bought a new wardrobe.

First, Yasha climbed into the closet. He sat in the closet for a long time, banging his forehead against the walls. This is an interesting thing. Then he got bored and got out.

He decided to climb into the closet.

Yasha moved the dining table to the closet and climbed on it. But he did not reach the top of the cabinet.

Then he put a light chair on the table. He climbed onto the table, then onto a chair, then onto the back of a chair, and began to climb onto the closet. Already half gone.

And then the chair slipped out from under his foot and fell to the floor. But Yasha remained half on the closet, half in the air.

Somehow he climbed onto the closet and fell silent. Try telling your mom

- Oh, mom, I'm sitting on the closet!

Mom will immediately transfer him to a stool. And he will live like a dog all his life near a stool.

Here he sits and is silent. Five minutes, ten minutes, five more minutes. All in all, almost a month. And Yasha slowly began to cry.

And mom hears: Yasha can’t hear something.

And if Yasha is not heard, then Yasha is doing something wrong. Either he chews matches, or he climbed into the aquarium up to his knees, or he draws Cheburashka on his father's papers.

Mom began to look in different places. And in the closet, and in the nursery, and in my father's office. And everything is in order: dad works, the clock is ticking. And if there is order everywhere, then something difficult must have happened to Yasha. Something extraordinary.

Mom screams:

- Yasha, where are you?

Yasha is silent.

- Yasha, where are you?

Yasha is silent.

Then my mother began to think. He sees a chair on the floor. He sees that the table is not in place. He sees - Yasha is sitting on the closet.

Mom asks:

- Well, Yasha, are you going to sit on the closet all your life or will we get down?

Yasha doesn't want to go down. He is afraid that he will be tied to a stool.

He says:

- I won't get down.

Mom says:

- Okay, let's live on the closet. Now I'll bring you lunch.

She brought Yasha soup in a bowl, a spoon and bread, and a small table and a stool.

Yasha had lunch on the cupboard.

Then his mother brought him a pot on the closet. Yasha was sitting on the potty.

And in order to wipe his ass, my mother had to get up on the table herself.

At this time, two boys came to visit Yasha.

Mom asks:

- Well, should you give Kolya and Vitya a closet?

Yasha says:

- Submit.

And then dad couldn’t stand it from his office:

- Now I myself will come to visit him on the closet. Yes, not one, but with a strap. Remove it from the cabinet immediately.

They took Yasha out of the closet, and he says:

- Mom, I didn’t get off because I’m afraid of stools. My dad promised to tie me to a stool.

“Oh, Yasha,” says mom, “you are still small. You don't understand jokes. Go play with the guys.

And Yasha understood jokes.

But he also understood that dad did not like to joke.

He can easily tie Yasha to a stool. And Yasha did not climb anywhere else.

How the boy Yasha ate badly

Yasha was good to everyone, he just ate badly. All the time with concerts. Either mom sings to him, or dad shows tricks. And he gets along:

- Don't want.

Mom says:

- Yasha, eat porridge.

- Don't want.

Papa says:

- Yasha, drink juice!

- Don't want.

Mom and dad got tired of persuading him every time. And then my mother read in one scientific pedagogical book that children should not be persuaded to eat. It is necessary to put a plate of porridge in front of them and wait for them to get hungry and eat everything.

They put, put plates in front of Yasha, but he does not eat and does not eat anything. He doesn't eat meatballs, soup, or porridge. He became thin and dead, like a straw.

- Yasha, eat porridge!

- Don't want.

- Yasha, eat soup!

- Don't want.

Previously, his pants were hard to fasten, but now he dangled completely freely in them. It was possible to launch another Yasha into these pants.

And then one day a strong wind blew.

And Yasha played on the site. He was very light, and the wind rolled him around the site. Rolled up to the wire mesh fence. And there Yasha got stuck.

So he sat, pressed against the fence by the wind, for an hour.

Mom calls:

- Yasha, where are you? Go home with the soup to suffer.

But he doesn't go. He is not even heard. He not only became dead himself, but his voice became dead. Nothing is heard that he squeaks there.

And he squeaks:

- Mom, take me away from the fence!

Mom began to worry - where did Yasha go? Where to look for it? Yasha is not seen and not heard.

Dad said this:

- I think our Yasha was rolled away somewhere by the wind. Come on, mom, we'll take the pot of soup out onto the porch. The wind will blow and the smell of soup will bring to Yasha. On this delicious smell, he will crawl.

So they did. They carried the pot of soup out onto the porch. The wind carried the smell to Yasha.

Yasha, as soon as he smelled the smell of delicious soup, immediately crawled to the smell. Because he was cold, he lost a lot of strength.

He crawled, crawled, crawled for half an hour. But he reached his goal. He came to the kitchen to his mother and how he immediately eats a whole pot of soup! How to eat three cutlets at once! How to drink three glasses of compote!

Mom was amazed. She didn't even know whether to be happy or upset. She says:

- Yasha, if you eat like this every day, I won’t have enough food.

Yasha reassured her:

– No, Mom, I don’t eat so much every day. I correct past mistakes. I bubu, like all children, eat well. I'm a completely different boy.

I wanted to say "I will", but he got "boob". Do you know why? Because his mouth was full of apples. He couldn't stop.

Since then, Yasha has been eating well.

Cook boy Yasha stuffed everything into his mouth

The boy Yasha had such a strange habit: whatever he sees, he immediately drags it into his mouth. He sees a button - in his mouth. He sees dirty money - in his mouth. He sees a nut lying on the ground - he also tries to stuff it into his mouth.

- Yasha, this is very harmful! Well, spit out this piece of iron.

Yasha argues, does not want to spit it out. He has to force it all out of his mouth. Houses began to hide everything from Yasha.

And buttons, and thimbles, and small toys, and even lighters. There is simply nothing to put in a person's mouth.

And what about on the street? You can't clean everything on the street ...

And when Yasha comes, dad takes tweezers and takes everything out of Yasha's mouth:

- A button from a coat - one.

- Beer cork - two.

Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky was born in 1937. He began his career as a comedian, he, together with A. Arkanov, published several humorous books. By his own admission, he got into children's literature by accident.

His children's poems began to be published as humorous ones in the "Literary Gazette", they sounded in the radio program "Good morning!". Eduard Uspensky acted as the author of cartoon scripts, many of which are loved by more than one generation of viewers. The novel "Gena the Crocodile and His Friends", first published in 1966, brought great fame to the children's writer.

Her characters, Crocolil Gena and Cheburashka, have been living in several cartoons for several decades now. No less success fell to the lot of adventures of friends from Prostokvashino - Uncle Fyodor, Sharik, cat Matroskin. And they also found their on-screen incarnation. In addition, Eduard Uspensky wrote for the popular children's program "Baby Monitor", for the TV program "ABVGDeyka", now he is broadcasting "Ships have entered our harbor."

The writer's works have been translated into more than 25 languages, his books have been published in Finland, Holland, France, Japan, and the USA. Recently, Eduard Uspensky announced that he had completed many years of work on a cycle of historical novels telling about the period of False Dmitry and the Time of Troubles.

Once, a lecturer came to the third grade, where Masha studied. He was elderly, over thirty, like this, wow, in a gray suit, and immediately said:

Hello, my name is Professor Barinov. Now we will all take pens and write an essay: “What would I do if I were the chairman of the City Council.” It's clear?

INTRODUCTION

Dear fellow students! (In this case, these are children from six to nine years old.)

Put aside hockey sticks, pedal cars, kittens, chickens, puppies, and other distractions and sit next to your dad, mom, grandpa, or grandma on the couch.

Let's start the first session.

This book is a guide for aspiring millionaires.

The girl Vera now has a girlfriend,

She's not a kitten, she's not a toy

She is a foreigner, she is a foreign tourist,

She is a monkey named Anfiska.

Once, a package arrived for Uncle Fyodor in Prostokvashino, and in it was a letter:

“Dear Uncle Fedor! Your beloved aunt Tamara, a former colonel in the Red Army, is writing to you. It's time for you to take up agriculture - both for education and for the harvest.

Carrots should be planted at attention. Cabbage - in a row through one.

Pumpkin - on command "at ease". Preferably near an old dump. The pumpkin will “suck out” the entire garbage dump and become huge. The sunflower grows well away from the fence so that the neighbors do not eat it. Tomatoes should be planted leaning against sticks. Cucumbers and garlic require constant fertilization.

Chapter One THE MAGIC PATH

In one village, a city boy lived with a grandmother. His name was Mitya. He spent holidays in the village.

He spent the whole day swimming in the river and sunbathing. In the evenings, he climbed onto the stove, watched his grandmother spin her yarn, and listened to her fairy tales.

And here in Moscow everyone is knitting now, - the boy said to his grandmother.

Nothing, - she answered, - soon they will start spinning.

And she told him about Vasilisa the Wise, about Ivan Tsarevich and about the terrible Koshchei the Immortal.

Chapter 1

In the Opalikha district near Moscow, there is the village of Dorohovo, and nearby the summer cottage village Pilot. Every year, at the same time, one family moves from Moscow to the dacha - a mother and a daughter. Dad rarely comes, because it’s not for nothing that the village is called “Pilot”.

Mother's name is Sveta, daughter Tanya. Each time, before moving, they transport the necessary things to the dacha.

And this year, as always, the same truck arrived at the same dacha, at about the same time. She brought a refrigerator, receiver, vacuum cleaner and a lot of household appliances. Nice blue-uniform loaders put everything in its place and left.

And there were no summer residents themselves yet.

At first there was silence in the large room, then quiet metallic sounds were heard. These were not just repair sounds, they were signals: “I'm here. I came. And who are you?

Chapter One

On a clear sunny day, a refrigerator was brought to the apartment. Businesslike and angry porters carried him into the kitchen and immediately left with the hostess. And it was quiet and quiet all around. Suddenly, a little man of a somewhat strange appearance climbed out of the refrigerator through a crack in the facing grate onto the floor. He had a gas canister on his back, like scuba divers, and large rubber suction cups were put on his arms and legs.

CHAPTER ONE A LETTER FROM HOLLAND

It started in early warm yellow autumn at the very beginning of the school year. At a big break, class teacher Lyudmila Mikhailovna entered the class in which Roma Rogov studied. She said:

Guys! We have had great joy. Our headmaster has returned from Holland. He wants to talk to you.

The principal of the school Petr Sergeevich Okounkov entered the class.

Guys! - he said. - I was in Holland for three days and learned a lot. They are very interested in our country. I have brought you letters from Dutch boys and girls. You will correspond with them. Letters will be received by those students who study better.

He took a cool magazine from the table.

CHAPTER ONE THE BEGINNING

Dear boy! Dear girl! Dear children!

Each of you listened, and maybe even read fairy tales about Baba Yaga, about Koshchei the Immortal, about the Nightingale the Robber and about Emelya on the stove.

But few of you know that Baba Yaga has a daughter, a little Babeshka-Yageshka. Koshchei the Immortal has a son, Koshcheyok, and Emelya on the stove, although he lay all the time on the stove, also managed to acquire a son, Emelyan.

This Yemelyan Yemelyanovich will soon be sixteen, but he can neither write nor read. He only drives around on his father's stove all the time by proxy and all the time looks apple-and-a-platter without getting off this very stove.

Fairy tales, short stories and stories by Eduard Uspensky

Many unexpected components soak up the tales of Uspensky. In addition to the engineering sense generously poured into them, popular burning issues of today find a place here. In other words, there is "genuine" journalism in the form in which it can be delivered to the children's consciousness.

Cleverly, funny and childishly created is the figure of the boss from the famous story of Uspensky, who is in charge of issuing cement for construction to his friends Gena and Cheburashka. The boss has a rule: everything must be done halfway. Ask why? “If I,” he says, “always and will do everything to the very end and constantly allow everything to everyone, then they can definitely say about me that I am unusually kind and everyone regularly does what they want. Well, if I don’t do anything at all If I don’t commit and never allow anyone to do anything, then they will definitely say about me that I constantly beat the thumbs and interfere with everyone. But no one will ever say anything terrible about me. " And in almost complete accordance with his own paradigm, our hero always allows his friends to give out half of what he needs to carry - that is, half of the car. And remembering that half of the truck will not go, he quickly gives the truck only half way ...

No, Uspensky's stories do not encourage children to look at the world around them through pink glasses. They always encourage them to transfer everything available to them in the direction of love and kindness. Speaking about one of his stories, the writer remarked: “Absolutely everything in the new book is kind. If you regularly talk to children about the bad sides of life, it will certainly seem to them that the world is generally terrible and bad. And I always want to give them the concept of a cheerful and good world! "

Every Russian will tell you that all novels, short stories and fairy tales by Eduard Uspensky, which you can read on our website, a wonderful children's writer with a technical education and a funny storyteller with a good soul, is a warm and kind gift for the guys.