Bragin Vladimir Biography

Born: G. Biography - Vladimir Bragin Vladimir Grigoryevich Bragin - children's writer and playwright, author of opera libretto, scripts, stories and stories for children. Born in the Belarusian town of Krasnopolie. He arrived in Moscow in the year and soon entered literary courses. Then his first publications appeared in the magazines. In the end of the x, Bragin became the editor in the magazine "Buckwood".

Being a deeply passionate theater, in years he gave a lot of effort to write opera libretto, the most famous of which the libretto to the opera D. Kabalevsky “Kola Brunion” “Master from Klamsi”, which he wrote based on the novel of the same name, in the process of working on the libretto, supported active correspondence with the French writer.

He also wrote a libretto to the opera of the same D. Kabalevsky “Burned House” in the writer’s archive, the libretto was preserved for the unrealized opera D. Shostakovich “Silence”, as well as to the opera “Extraordinary Commissioner” and others. In collaboration with the cousin A. Blok and his close friend Maria Kachalova, he wrote a play based on Roman Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, as well as a number of scanning counters, including the script of the animated film “Tapers Rostislav Sysoev”, written together with one of the initiators of the Soviet animation of Nikolai Khodataev, who shot one of the first Soviet animated science fiction films “Interplanetary Revolution”, the love of the theater Vladimir Grigorievich has saved for life, was a regular in all theatrical “parties”, took care of and protected to beginners, together with G.

Tovstonogov wrote a theatrical staging based on the book of Yu. Fuchik “The Word before the execution during the Great Patriotic War participated in the organization of the supply of writers' children, was awarded the medal“ For Labor Valor ”. In the same period, he wrote the dramatic ballad “Returned City”, dedicated to him S. According to some reports, the book “Country of Drememile Grasses” was written by Bragin “To order”.

After the war, the country began to experience an acute shortage of children's literature of a scientific and cognitive nature. One of these books could be a very popular fantastic story by Jan Larry “The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali”, however, in the year Larry was accused of anti-Soviet activities and exiled for 15 years in camps. Therefore, the Publishing House of Detgiz was forced to turn to Bragin with a proposal to write a similar book.

The writer did not bother to invent a new way of minitizing his heroes, using the same “diminutive” powder invented by Larry. However, the plot of the novel differs radically from its prototype. There are no longer the funny adventures of schoolchildren in the world of insects, but there is a tragedy of the old scientist Sergei Dumchev, who spent about forty years in the country of herbs and insects alone.

Being in a state of constant danger, he masters the country of herbs, continues his scientific research, makes discoveries, which are the key to solving various technical problems of the world that he left. The scientist does not know that during his Robinsonada in the country there was a revolution, a war and a lot of other events, that science advanced far ahead and solved all the tasks that he solved with such fervor and obsession in the country of dense herbs, which he wrote thousands of pages of treatises made from aspen nests.

Having returned to people, Dumchev is horrified to be convinced that his ideas, on the one hand, are naive, and on the other - belatedly, the world of people is not waiting for him and the return of the hero to the “normal” world of Soviet reality resembles the situation of the “guest from the past”. In fact, this is a tragic story about a dreamer-custar, which has been opening for a long time open for decades.

At the same time, the author convincingly and vividly showed in the novel that the hero nevertheless managed to master the country of herbs, was able to defeat the instincts of the inhabitants of this country with his mind. The book contains a lot of serious and interesting information about the ecology and behavior of animals - insects, mollusks, fish, reptiles and other creatures, affects a number of general biological issues and immediately reports interesting information from the history of technology without any tension.

Judging by the descriptions in the works of animal life and attracting venerable scientists as reviewers, Bragin most likely had a natural-scientific education or independently interested in both biological literature and observations of nature and, above all, entomology. The theme of inexhaustibility of “patents” of wildlife is especially distinguished in the book - generously proposed solutions of technical problems that give rich material for research in the field of bionics.

It is written about this mysteriously, excitingly, philosophically, truly artistically, simple and short sentences. Therefore, it is no accident that the novel, as well as a number of Bragin’s later stories, have been used in pedagogical practice for teaching children to the Russian language for many years. The book was published in the year with the preface of academician A. Oparin, and the doctor of biological sciences N.

acted as a scientific editorMelivaters are one of the largest domestic crucifixes. But precisely because the novel stood out greatly from the total mass of the then fantasy of the “neighbor's sight” with its unusualness and originality, it has undergone severe criticism. According to G. Prashkevich, the essay “Hell Flame”, critics scolded Bragin for separation from life, from living history, from living human affairs, brutally reported that he, the author, allegedly dreamed that our wonderful Soviet man would become very talked so that he was only busy with the insects and.

This helpless person roams lonely among insects, studies, however, their habits, but they will rejected from life and put in full depending on the forces of nature, ”the writer reproached one of the apologists of the fiction of the“ neighbor's sight ”V. Zakharchenko The unjust, frenzied criticism of the novel forever repulsed Bragin’s desire to engage in science fiction and he did not return to her anymore.

Bragin, after the harsh and fair criticism of his novel in the press, as far as we know, did not make new works. This should be considered the most significant writer's mistake, ”the other“ critic ”S., the new fantastic novel“ The Seeker of the Lost Millennia, ”regretted in the year, remained incomplete. After the death of the writer, he was finalized and prepared for the press as the story of the same Kachalova M.

however, the author’s attempt to repeat the plot scheme already tested in the novel with the addition of immortality, turned out to be unsuccessful and some researchers regard the story as the writer's author’s failure. The work on the novel did not pass without a trace. Until the end of his life, Bragin composed for children stories and fairy tales about nature, beasts and birds, all other living creatures, which make up the content of his books “Orange Lace”,, “One evening in the forest”, “Adventures of the pine cones”, “Amazing pantries”, “Happy good morning, my pine tree!

In the last years of his life, Vladimir Bragin, on the instructions of the Writers' Union, paid considerable attention to working with young writers. The writer died in the year. After his death, the manuscripts of numerous opera librettos, stories, stories, film scores, as well as the novel “Seeker”, remained. Detailed biography.