Char biography briefly

The author of more than three hundred works for children and youth. The most popular writer was brought by the books “Notes of Institutes”, “Siberochka”, “Princess Javaha”. Once the name of Lydia Char was known to every reader. Her books - with children's stories, fairy tales, youth stories and novels for a more adult reader, disappeared from the shelves of bookstores in the blink of an eye.

At the beginning of the age there was no more popular writer than she, and then they forgot her. In order to recall almost a century later, in the e, her books became popular again, they were printed in a variety of publishers, they again fell in love with the reader, now. Charian books are as difficult to buy in a store as a hundred years ago. The heroes of her works are ordinary boys and girls, boys and girls who dream of once getting out of gray everyday life and end up in a fairy tale.

Childhood and youth The real name of the writer - Voronova. She was born on January 19 in St. Petersburg. Father is a lieutenant of the Life Guards of the Jaeger Regiment Alexei Voronov. Mom is Antonina Kraskhotkina, daughter of the St. Petersburg merchant Dmitry Kraskhotkina. Parents of the baby got married exactly a year before her birth - January 18 of the year.

Initially, Alexei Voronov served as a military engineer, in M ​​received the title of Lieutenant General. Lydia will then describe his childhood in an autobiography entitled “For what? She said that her mother died during childbirth, and that her mother’s sister raised her. In February, when Lida was ten years old, his father turned to his daughter to be accepted to the Pavlovsk Institute of Noble Maidens.

The petition was satisfied, a year later the girl became one of the students of this educational institution. Lydia Charskaya in childhood in November, ten years after his wife’s death, Alexei Voronov was able to arrange his personal life. His wife was a cousin - Anna Voronova, who gave birth to the wife of four children - Pavel, Alexander, Anna and Natalia. Lydia was never able to find a common language with the stepmother, so admission to the Institute of noble girls was the best way out of the situation.

Everyone perfectly understood that the girl would not be easy in a new place, but everything turned out to be not so sad. At first, of course, she was sad around the house, but soon she was used to the institute in which she spent seven years. It was within the walls of this educational institution that its creative biography began. Voronov wrote the first poetic works at the age of ten, the first prose after five years.

The beginning of everything was laid by the diary, which Lida began to keep at the age of 15. She trusted him with all her secrets and events from life - her and her friends at the institute. Later, these records will become the basis of a story called "Notes of Institutes." In August, Voronova began training in dramatic courses at the Imperial St. Petersburg Theater School.

Being a third -year student, she first took herself a chart pseudonym, probably from the word “charm” or “spell”. Under this pseudonym, the girl went on the stage of the Mikhailovsky Theater, where examinations were going on. In September, she was approved to the position of non -Class artist of imperial theaters. After the end of the courses, Charskaya fell into the troupe of the Alexandrinsky Theater, where she served up to a year.

Lidia literary work was used mainly in secondary roles, but she was not used to complaining. She just always worried that there was little money, and understood that she needed to look for any part -time job. One day, the girl was next to a large publishing house, and thought, maybe there would be a cocker's work for her. Lydia was not afraid to go and ask the owner.

The man agreed, but asked to bring any notes to see her handwriting. Charskaya brought her diary. After the publisher read several pages, he became interested not so much by handwriting as the plots described in the diary. As a result, a fragment of records made during the years of study at the institute appeared on the pages of the children's magazine "Sincere." Under this work, Lydia also set the pseudonym - Charskaya.

She did not think that recognition would come so quickly. And readers waited for the next issue of the magazine to find out how the events develop in the story of a young writer. Inspired by success, Lydia began to write books. Her heroines were gymnasium students, however, like the main readers. Lydia Char in the creative process, the girls came to classes with the books of Charskaya, hid them under the desk, and at the breaks they read with binge, or discussed the next plot.

Each of the readers mentally tried to be in the place of the main character of the next story. In the 10ths, they conducted a hundred -public, and it turned out that Char became one of the three most read and favorite authors. Her name was assigned by scholarships for gymnasium students. Most of them were translated and published in foreign languages. However, this circumstance did not make Lidia the rich, she completely had no commercial vein.

The publisher heated his hands well on the works of a talented writer.She received a fee only for the first edition of her book, and those funds that came from reprints safely settled in the pocket of an enterprising businessman. For seventeen years, he made a decent profit, engaged in the re -release of Charskaya’s books. And then October struck the year. The Soviet government did not particularly complain of cultural figures; many of them were guiltered by bourgeois-meager views.

In addition, Lidia Char was was of noble origin, and this predetermined her further biography. The books of the writers were called Boulevard literature, and banned from publishing. In M, her last story came out.

The magazine "Sincere Word" was also closed. Charskaya managed to please the fans with two more stories that she did not even sign with their own name, but they did not bring her much success. The dizzying success and the love of readers were in the past. Lydia Charskaya writes works literally yesterday her works “read to the holes”, fans screeching with delight, life was relatively comfortable.

And here is a new reality with which Char one had to somehow put up, but how, if you realize that neither you nor your books are needed anymore. Lydia was exhausted under the weight of the “demonstrative ships”, which she and her works were subjected to. Now they said about the books of Charskaya that they were "vulgar, mediocre, stupid-stage." And all the heroes of her narratives are completely soulless stereotypes.

Naturally, readers continued to love her books, her heroines, worried about their fate, but did not dare to show their feelings aloud. Fans of Charkaya’s work could only support her beloved writer as much as her ability, and she really needed help. The works of Lydia Char to M Lydia were forced to quit the theater, despite the fact that she served him faithfully for almost a quarter of a century.

They did not explain anything except that she did not suit them because of her age, although at that time she was not even fifty. After some time, they remembered the merits of the actress and offered the work of the statist. Charskaya did not refuse, even these pennies that paid her, saved from hunger. The writer was in distress, she received a meager pension and often sat without work.

She tried to exhaust some manual, but she was refused. Until the death of Lydia, Charskaya lived in a small apartment along the street of the Traveler in Leningrad. It was possible to get into the apartment only through the back door. Many shrugged the disgraced writer, she turned into a pale, thin old woman, on which a long coat was dressed at any time of the year, and not her size.

She looked like a city crazy one. Charskaya caused sympathy only among neighboring girls who helped her with food and cleaning in the apartment. Grateful Lidia Alekseevna paid than she could - manuscripts that the girls read with enthusiasm and reverence. Unfortunately, her works, both old and new, were not interested in anyone. They may be familiar.