Biography of Ustinovich

Once M. Prishvin wrote about his writing activity: "I write - it means I love." These words are involuntarily recalled when you read the novels, stories, small landscape sketches of the Siberian writer Nikolai Ustinovich. The family was very large - 9 children. As it was started at that time, everyone worked on the household. His father was a master of all hands: he is a carpenter, a carpenter, and a blacksmith, a locksmith, a glass, a shoemaker, knew how to make a brick, cook soap, make marmalade and matches, repaired watches and guns.

The Ustinovichi family loved books. Among other things, from childhood, Nikolai Stanislavovich had a hunting passion. These circumstances have largely determined the life path of the future writer. He began to study immediately in the third grade. He graduated from elementary school in Nizhny Ingash and went to continue his studies at the Ilan Railway Semi -Statka.

Here he mastered the program of the fifth and sixth grades and moved to the seventh. And he had already begun to keep diary notes about the seasons and taiga adventures. These were small ingenuous stories about hunting, fishermen, various cases from the life of villagers. But most of all - about the native nature, which he loved from the youngest. His first story saw the light of August 20.

It was printed in the Moscow "hunting newspaper" and was called the "gun". Soon, the novels and sketches of “Berdan”, “Purga”, “Taiga Calling” were published - in the Moscow journal “Hunter” and in the Novosibirsk “Hunter and Fisherman of Siberia”. The author was only the nineteenth year. In the year, being a romantic in his soul, Nikolai Ustinovich admitted to a large construction site in Khabarovsk, where he worked as a digger, a tableter, an employee of the newspaper-mummy.

It was here that the journalistic career of N. began this is another life factor that determined the writer's fate. And in the year, the local publishing house released a modest circulation of a book called Listopad. The first collection, first success, first recognition of readers! But the happily starting writer's path was not cloudless and even. Even in his youth, he was not bypassed by the terrible fate of the “enemy of the people” - in the year he was arrested for “counter -revolutionary activity”.

The verdict is 10 years of forced labor camps. The reason for the arrest was the story “Listopad”, which recreates a typical situation of dispossession. In the fifth year of the imprisonment, Nikolai Stanislavovich filed a request for a revision of the case, and in November was ahead of schedule. But ... already disabled - without a few fingers and legs. The pencil could be kept with the thumb and ring fingers, but to the front of a thirty -year -old Siberian, a skilled hunter, the path was ordered.

With the help of Ignatius of Rozhdestvensky, he got a job as a Krasnoyarsk Worker newspaper at first by the specialist farm of the agricultural department, then a literary consultant. Nikolai Stanislavovich entered Russian literature as a “singer of Siberian nature”, he was called the Siberian Prishvin. In his works, he not only portrays nature, he lives in it with his heroes and makes the reader empathize with him.

In his short stories - taiga and tundra, taiga adventures and hunting episodes, they tell about simple, courageous Siberian fishing, lumberjacks, gold miners, passionate lovers of native Siberian nature. There is a lot of humor in his stories, which he spied in the life of the forest. You will be made by a “smart” hare who, running away from the bear, managed to drive a clubfoot into a cold river; Or an otter that really liked to slide off a steep cliff.

There are many such examples that cause laughter. This enchants, delights, pleases. Ustinovich was especially reverent to children. Nikolai Stanislavovich himself considered himself, first of all, a children's writer. He worked closely with children's publications: the Pioneer Pravda newspaper, the journal Friendly Guys. Many of them entered school textbooks. The heyday of his work fell on the second half of the forties.

A special success fell to the Forest Life collection. For the first time he went out in Krasnoyarsk in the year, in the year, under the same name, the collection appeared in the capital's “Detgiz” and in Sofia in Bulgarian, and in the year in Chinese. One by one, the collections of “aroma of the earth”, “in the forest wilderness”, “following the trail”, “juices of the earth”, “in the taiga”, “ranging stories” follow.

In the year N. From for a year, he headed the Krasnoyarsk writer's organization. The authority of Nikolai Stanislavovich was indisputable. He paid much attention to young novice writers - he held seminars, creative meetings, helped publish their works in the Almanac "Yenisei" and other publications. The circulation of books by Nikolai Ustinovich stepped over a million.

They went out not only in Siberia, but also in central publishers, as well as in Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, China. The writer lived only 50 years. He died on November 4. Nevertheless, without the slightest exaggeration, we can say that he left his trace on Earth, a trace of a man who loved nature and people.It is no accident that in his homeland, in the Nizhny-Ingash region, several schools have his name, they read and write works about the life and work of the famous countryman, there is a street, a writer’s museum.

His name is the Central Inter -settlement Library, where all works of Nikolai Stanislavovich are collected. Here, every five years, Ustinovichevsky readings have been held. Today, when the conflict of nature and civilization has reached such severity, when the species of animals and plants disappear one after another, when entire reservoirs and forests die, when there are no pure water left on Earth, Ustinovich’s stories, full of love for the crystal temple of nature, urge to love and take care of all this.

They are relevant than ever.