Pavel Petrovich Bazhov is a Russian writer-storyteller, revolutionary, publicist, journalist. Known for collections of stories "Malachite Box", "Ural were". He lived in the 19th - 20th century. Participated in the Civil War and the October Revolution.
Pavel Petrovich Bazhov is a Russian writer, publicist, journalist. Collections of his stories and fairy tales, such as "The Malachite Box" and "The Ural Were", are still popular.
Biography
Pavel Bazhov was born in the Urals, in the Perm province, in January 1879. He grew up in a poor family, studied at school in Sysert with excellent marks. Thanks to his school teacher of literature and his friend, Bazhov was educated at a theological school and entered the Perm theological seminary. But Paul was not a religious person, and dreamed of studying at the university.
After the death of his father, there was no money at all for education, so Pavel, never fulfilling his dream, began to teach Russian and literature in theological schools, where he enjoyed the respect and trust of his students.
In one of these schools, at the age of 30, Bazhov met his love. Valentina Ivanitskaya Was his student, and at that time she was barely 19 years old. They married in 1911 and lived their entire lives in a happy marriage, raising four children (three more newborns died in infancy).
Pavel Bazhov died in 1950.
Political and social activities
Until 1917, Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. During the civil war, he fought for the Reds and was even taken prisoner. Pavel Bazhov was the editor of the military newspaper Okopnaya Pravda. And later he wrote several works about the revolution and the civil war in Russia.
Pavel Petrovich organized schools, called for the fight against illiteracy. And after the revolution he became a member of the Communist Party of the USSR.
Creation
Pavel Petrovich began to engage in writing very late. The first independently published work of Bazhov was a collection of essays "The Urals were". It combines Russian epics, the heroes of which are people from Russia and the Urals, ordinary workers. The collection was published in 1924 and quickly gained popularity.
It was followed by the works "Girl Azovka", the autobiographical story "The Green Filly" and the collection of tales "The Malachite Box", which was later replenished. It includes "Tales of the Germans", "Key-stone", "Tales of the gunsmiths" and some other works. And the most popular of the tales were "Malachite Box", "Copper Mountain Hostess" and "Fireworm Jump". Films and cartoons have been filmed for many of the works from this collection, as well as performances have been staged.
In the work of Bazhov there were also controversial works, such as "Formation on the Move". This book reveals the events of the October Revolution and the Civil War. It was for her that he was expelled from the members of the CPSU (b).
Also, Pavel Petrovich wrote several works commissioned by the Soviet government: "For Soviet Truth", "Soldiers of the first draft", "To the calculation."
And at the beginning of World War II, Pavel Bazhov published almanacs to raise the spirit of the Soviet people. Soon, the writer's eyesight deteriorated greatly, which prevented him from continuing his career. Then Pavel Bazhov began to lecture and became the head of the Sverdlovsk Writers' Organization.
