Literature for children is a special genre. During the existence of Soviet power, an effective system of introducing children to knowledge has been formed. In school programs, there was a certain time for acquaintance with children's writers. Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder is one of those who paid great attention to poems and prose works for a children's audience.
The first samples of the pen
Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder hails from Moldova. According to the entry in the birth certificate, he was born on September 9, 1918 in the family of a lawyer. The child's father was famous in the district as a specialist with rich practice. Mother knew almost all European languages and for the most part worked as a translator. After some time, the family moved to Odessa, and after a couple of years it finally became entrenched in the capital. Boris had a keen eye and quick reaction. He easily and willingly studied foreign languages. He was engaged in general physical training and loved boyish companies on the street.
After school, Zakhoder decided to get an education at the biological department of Moscow State University. However, after two semesters, in 1938 he transferred to the Literary Institute. In the poet’s creative biography it is noted that it was here, at the seminar of Pavel Antakolsky, that his first verses appeared. When the war with Finland began, Boris went to the front with a group of students. He knew from experience how soldiers live in harsh combat conditions. Zakhoder kept a diary and carefully recorded all the main events that he observed.
After the end of the winter company, the students returned to the audience of the Literary Institute. However, the Great Patriotic War began, and young people again had to take up arms. Boris had to fight in familiar places on the Karelian front. Then he was transferred to the first Ukrainian front, where already an experienced writer was engaged in the release of the famous newspaper “Fire on the Enemy”. His poems regularly appeared on the pages of various periodicals.
