Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky is a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright, screenwriter and television presenter. He is better known to a wide audience as the author of children's literary works. After all, it was from under his pen that such characters as the dog Sharik and the cat Matroskin, Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka, the postman Pechkin and Uncle Fedor, the Kolobok brothers and the guarantee little men came out. And, of course, fans are interested in details from the personal life of a talented person, including information about his children.
The popularity of Eduard Uspensky throughout the post-Soviet space cannot be overestimated, because more than one generation of Russian-speaking people around the world has been brought up on the results of his work. He completely dissolved in children, to whom he devoted all his talent as a writer. According to his books, where heroes come to each other's aid in difficult times and live according to the laws of kindness, honesty, courage and disinterested friendship, a large number of animated films have been created that have earned popular love and recognition.
Brief biography of Eduard Uspensky
On December 22, 1937, in Yegoryevsk, near Moscow, the future idol of millions of boys and girls was born into the family of Nikolai Mikhailovich Uspensky (a dog handler in the hunting ground of the Central Committee of the CPSU) and Natalya Alekseevna Uspenskaya (mechanical engineer). Edward has two brothers. Igor and Yuri. The international character of the parents (the father is Jewish, and the mother is Russian) also affected the children, since throughout his life the most contradictory features were manifested in the famous person.
At the age of 10, the boy learned the first serious bitterness of loss, when his father passed away and the children were left to live on Kutuzovsky Prospekt with one mother. Interestingly, it was not very important with the performance in the junior and middle classes of the ozone and hooligan kid. However, after a serious fracture of his leg, when he got on a sick leg and was forced to lead a calm lifestyle, his academic performance improved significantly, and the dreams of becoming a minister or an academician ceased to seem completely fantastic.
After receiving a certificate of secondary education, Uspensky decided to get a "high school" at the capital's aviation university, after successfully completing which he went to work in his specialty. However, all his free time, the creatively minded young man wrote stories and scenarios for children. Moreover, this lesson completely captured him from school and student days, when he came up with humorous poems and songs, took an active part in skits and performances within the framework of KVN.
Naturally, Eduard Uspensky simply physically could not seriously engage in two responsible and polar directions, being both an engineer and a writer. Therefore, he very soon left his technical specialty and completely immersed himself in a creative atmosphere. However, at the dawn of his writing career, children's literature was rarely published, and therefore a greater emphasis at first had to be placed on humorous and satirical literature. The author of the works himself strove with all his heart to become a children's writer.
And only the creators of domestic cartoons were able to align the situation in the right direction when they noticed that visual illustrations of his children's stories and sketches are of genuine interest to them. Thanks to this development of events, the world children's literature received a new impetus in its development.
Personal life
It is noteworthy that it was the family and loved ones who became the prototypes for many characters created by the popular writer. According to Eduard Uspensky, the famous Shapoklyak embodied many of the features of Rimma's former wife. Although he does not deny some of his own qualities that have become characteristics of a harmful old woman. The author of a cycle of stories about Cheburashka even took the name of his hero from an episode of family life. The fact is that this is how he identified at one time the cry of a little daughter.
The romantic aspect of Eduard Uspensky's life is directly related to three marriages. The first marital union, which lasted 18 years, became the reason for the birth of Tatiana's daughter. She is currently married for a long time and is the mother of two children of her own.
For the second time, the famous writer married Elena, who treated his daughter exclusively as a mother. In this marriage, the couple could not give birth to their own children and adopted twins Irina and Svetlana. The girls saw in the face of adoptive parents only kindness, care and endless love.
Last marriage
For the last time in his life, Edward Uspensky made a trip to the registry office with Eleanor Filina. The popular TV presenter on the joint radio program "Ships are entering our harbor" met the children's writer, and then took possession of his heart.
Unfortunately, this union is better known to fans of the famous writer not for its romantic elegance, but precisely for the scandal that unfolded during the divorce proceedings. The public witnessed how a 10-year relationship, considered by everyone to be impeccable, overnight turned into a mass of facts expressed through the impartial statements of an offended woman.
But the ugliness of this story is overshadowed by the fact that, simultaneously with the noisy scandal that unfolded around the personality of Ouspensky, the famous writer himself was dying of cancer while undergoing chemotherapy in Germany. Filina herself was next to her husband only for the first months of serious ordeals, and then returned to Russia in order, according to Eduard Nikolaevich, to solve her personal financial problems at his expense.
The unattractiveness of this story is aggravated by the fact that Eleanor, as it turned out later, went to a young lover who was 30 years younger than her. She even took out a fairly large loan for his needs. The woman herself explained her act of leaving her husband in a mortal state in a foreign land by his intolerable and despotic character.
Death of a writer
In April 2018, fans learned from a published interview with the writer that he was reunited with his second wife Elena, who forgave and accepted him. In recent months, the couple lived together in complete harmony and peace. They sincerely hoped that Eduard Uspensky would be able to overcome his illness, and they were worth plans for the future.
And on August 14, 2018, a popular children's writer passed away in his own home in Moscow. The fight against cancer for several years ended fatally, despite the fact that after treatment in Germany, Eduard Uspensky felt better for a while. Before his death, he lost consciousness and was hospitalized.
