Anatoly Grachev - Soviet writer. He created several novels, essays and novels, was awarded the Komsomol Prize and the Order of Honor.
Biography
Anatoly Matveevich was born in the Merkulovsky farm in the summer of 1912. He is from a peasant family. As a child, Alexander Matveyevich labored for a fist. When he grew up, after the October Revolution he joined the Komsomol, then participated in collectivization.
Alexander Grachev wrote in his diary that those times of his youth were hungry. Then the guys decided to take patronage over the mother of the famous writer Sholokhov. But the woman fed them herself.
Career
When Alexander Grachev graduated from rural youth school, he entered the Cherkasy Cavalry School. But then the young man was injured, falling from his horse, so he was expelled.
But Alexander did not give up, but decided to leave for the Far East and serve there. Since he was the son of a poor man, he had privileges to go to medical school without exams. Alexander Matveyevich decided to study there, but after 3 months he realized that he had chosen the wrong specialty. So he left the institute and did not receive a higher medical education.
When the young man was 20 years old, he left to build the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Here Grachev worked as a laborer, and then taught at school. An interesting case is connected with the latter fact. Grachev A.M. wrote in his memoirs that when a young man came to the Komsomol district committee, he was asked if he was literate? Having received an affirmative answer, the secretary of the Komsomol district committee appointed him a teacher. And then Alexander even became the principal of the school. After all, then in the country there was general illiteracy. Therefore, experts in reading were very much appreciated. They were sent to teach all this to the illiterate population of the country.
Creation
A craving for literature led the young writer to the Amur Drummer newspaper. Here he composes his first stories, three of which were awarded prizes.
In 1948, Alexander Matveevich wrote an adventure story "The Secret of the Red Lake". Here he talked about geologists. The next book, The Fall of Tesima-Retto, has the same genre. It is dedicated to the liberation of the Kuril Islands.
The author also wrote about the heroic builders of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, about Far Eastern travels, and about border guards. The author also has a story about nature, which is called "Forest Rustles."
