EC0253

Illustrated children's book in Russian.

Elena Blaginina (1903-1989), a native of Orel village, did not realize that she was born a poet. She was the daughter of the baggage of the cashier at the station of the Kursk-I, the granddaughter of the priest. The girl was going to become a teacher. Every day, in any weather, in a makeshift shoes rope-soled shoes she walked seven kilometers from home in the Kursk pedagogical Institute. But the desire to write was stronger, and at the same time, in years, students in the almanac of Kursk poets appeared first lyric poems by Elena Alexandrovna.
Then she enrolled in the Higher literary Institute in Moscow, which was led by the poet Valery Bryusov.
In children's literature Elena came in the early 30-ies. It was then that the magazine "Murzilka", which published such poets as Marshak, Barto, Mikhalkov, has a new name - that is, Blaginina. "The guys loved her and her poems beautiful poems about the fact that it is near and dear to the children about the wind, the rain, the rainbow, about birch trees, apples, about gardening and, of course, about the children themselves, about their joys and sorrows," critic E. Taratuta, who was then working in the library, where the authors "Murzilki" spoke to young readers.
For journal publications followed the book. In 1936, almost simultaneously came the poem "Sadko" and the collection "Autumn". There were so many books: Elena has lived a long life and worked constantly. She wrote poetry, humorous, "teasers", "rhymes, tongue twisters, songs, fairy tales. But most of all her poems lyrical. She worked and on translations, introduced children to the poetry of Taras Shevchenko, Maria Konopnicka, Julian Tuwim, Lev Kvitko. Best of all created by Elena Begining included in the compilations "crane" (1973, 1983, 1988), "Fly-flew" (1983), "Gori-Gori clear!" (1990). The last came when Elena Alexandrovna was not alive: she died in 1989