Soviet writer, laureate of the Stalin Prize, talented teacher - Valentina Oseeva. Her biography is described in detail in the article.
April 15, 1902 in Kiev in the family of an engineera girl was born who was called Valichka. Her father, Alexander Dmitrievich, was a revolutionary, took an active part in the events of 1905. Gendarmes hunted after him; although he was hiding under a strange name, the tsarist police eventually arrested him. Mother, Ariadna Leonidovna, worked as a proofreader in a local newspaper and also took part in revolutionary activity.
Valentina Oseeva, whose biography is described below, had two older sisters - Galina and Angelica.
The active participation of parents in political lifecountry led to the fact that the family often experienced nightly searches, changed their place of residence. She especially remembered Valya's dacha on Barabashina Glade near Samara. Forever in memory, the girl had a mighty river Volga, its gorgeous steep banks, horns of steamboats and barges, vanity on the pier. While the adults were busy with their own affairs, little Valya ran to the river. She closely communicated with port loaders, fishermen, merchants, was friends with the local barefoot guys.
The girl sharply reacted to the injustice,experienced and sympathized with those with whom she communicated, saw the daily hard work of her friends. About the plight of the people knew not by hearsay of Valentine Oseeva. Biography of her childhood became the basis for the story "Dinka". Almost all the facts stated in the book are taken from the life of Valya herself, the heroes are also real; their prototypes are close girls: Dinka is Valya herself, her middle sister Lika (she was all affectionately called Mouse for weak health and meek temper) was written from her middle sister Angelica, and strict Alina - elder sister Vali Galina.
Primary education Valya received in Kievgymnasium, but then the family once again moved, and the school heroine of our article finished already in Zhitomir. Even in her school years, she was carried away by the theater and very much wanted to become an actress. After receiving the certificate, entered the drama department of the Kiev Institute. Lysenko, but the family moved again - this time first to Moscow, and then to Solnechnogorsk. Therefore, I was forced to quit the acting institute and part with the dream of Valentin Oseev. Her biography has taken a new path.
In 1923, Ariadna Leonidovna, on the instructions of the partywas determined to work in the labor commune to them. Clara Zetkin, who was in Solnechnogorsk. In the commune, homeless girls were brought up, whose parents were killed during the revolution or civil war. Valya, who was 21, once went to her mother's work. Having seen the pupils, having communicated with them, having recollected the half-starved friends of the childhood, the girl has understood, that its calling - to bring up and teach children. So she became a teacher of Valentine Oseeva. The stories, tales and novels she wrote later were intended to teach children good and honesty, to show them the truth of life, to spark in their hearts a spark of justice.
Oseeva worked for sixteen years in a nursery schoolcommune. It was here that her creative talent was revealed. She wrote short stories and fairy tales, plays for children, which they later put on the stage of the school theater with the pupils. The children persuaded her to take the story "Grishka" to the editorial office, which was published in 1937, later, in 1940, they published a collection of Oseeva called "The Red Cat."
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, a novicethe writer along with her family and son was evacuated to Bashkiria, where she got a job in a kindergarten. After learning the Bashkir language, she translated into Russian children's tales. And, of course, Valentina Oseeva continued to write. The stories, fairy tales and stories are read with pleasure not only by children, but also by adults.
Not so much the writer wrote, but all her works, short and multi-page, found a response in the hearts of readers. What did Valentine Oseeva write? Books of the writer:
And other wonderful Istrian writers, which Valentina Oseeva wrote. Tales and stories, poems and plays, stories for the children of this writer were awarded the Stalin Prize in 1952.
V. Oseeva died in 1969, she was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
