In the verses of the Vyatka writer Elena Stanislavovna Naumova, everything is deep and subtle, but at the same time simple, so they do not leave the reader indifferent - they make me wonder, rejoice, become family. Her son Maxim helps her to illustrate books. This creative tandem works together.
From biography
Naumova Elena Stanislavovna - a native of the Kirov region. Born in 1954 in the family of a musician and employee. Grandmother and godmother played a significant role in her upbringing. Although his father was regularly traveling, he, having become acquainted with the verses of his daughter, was the first to note her talent.
Lyric talent was also discovered in it by the writer Yuri Vyazemsky, the host of the telecast "Clever Men and Women." He helped Elena decide on her admission to the institute, and she received a philological education. Returning to Vyatka, she worked as a journalist. She founded a literary and journalistic studio in the Palace of Creativity, which she runs to this day. He teaches journalism at a branch of the Moscow Institute of Humanities and Economics.
Relatives of Ermakova
E. Naumova wrote an artistic and documentary story about the fate of four very dear people: a mother and her three brothers.
Lena, a six-year-old girl, was sent on a winter night for help to a nearby street. She came running and heard people say that her grandmother was dying. Lena did not believe in this, so she said that it was not so, that grandmother was simply ill. Both - the grandmother and mother of Lena Ermakova Maya - had a strong-willed character. During the war, learning about the death of two brothers Maya did not leave a desire to avenge them. She twice tried to volunteer for the front. And only when she corrected the year of birth, then her sixteen-year-old was sent to the front. The military generation was not spoiled. From childhood, it was accustomed to work and felt responsible in everything. Later, she learned not only to clearly aim the searchlight at the target, but also to determine the type of enemy aircraft by the sound. Often one could hear an enthusiastic cry: "So you need it, fascist scum!"
Once, when a fascist plane fell into a cross from two rays, another German
knocked down his comrade. The girls did not understand this, but they were convinced more than once: it was the custom of the Nazis to kill the weak and wounded.
Lyrical memory of mother
And as a memory of the mother, a poem appeared that after the funeral for men in the family girls sought to defend their relatives. And they fought in various specialties, including searchlights, like the mother of Elena Naumova. They managed to outwit the German pilots. Violent explosions surrounded them, and such a life was full of dangers. But they did not leave their post. Spotlights found hated black crosses that looked like spiders. And thanks to the girls, the anti-aircraft gunners successfully shot them down.
Heroes of her poems
The heroes of her poems are people of different ages: a girl who is waiting for dad and in raindrops she does not hear the sound of “cap”, but the word “dad”, wartime soldiers, spotlight girls who dreamed about cropped braids, seventeen-year-olds of the 70s The twentieth century, the old soldier is the grandfather of his grandson, who after his death does not want to be patted, stroking his head. The heroine of her poems is even herself
great love. She is like a living character. This huge feeling did not even fit in a small town. And outside the city he did not have enough space. And in the apartment this love even got sick. Young people were looking for her, but she never responded.
And in the kid’s poems, the main characters are residents of the ponds, Uncle Son, a flying goat, a crow walking in the city, a flask that talks to a cup, a boy Fedya who walked a bear, a cunning girl Masha, an angry Petya, a lazy Andreika, a greedy Alyonka and many others.
the beauty of the world
The poetess sees beauty in everything, even in a small branch that is beating through the winds and blizzards, which beats through the window. Winter trees seem wise and strict to her.
Birds fly away, having finished solo concerts, but others fly in, whose birthday is in winter. This bird is the color of scarlet dawn. And it is not for nothing that their name is bullfinches. It turns out that the icicle has a soul and a body that is silvering in it. And, getting rid of the shackles, she will become an ice floe, and then she will give a blade of grass water.
Often in her poems questions are asked about why a person offends trees, why a person cannot take off the ground and fly with a crane wedge.
Poems by E. Naumova help to love the best that happens in life. It is only necessary to try to pay attention to the outside world and take a closer look. Addressing the child, the writer advises him not to rush anywhere, to follow the flight of snowflakes, because snowfall is one of the wonderful winter phenomena.
Village theme
The poetess did not pass by a painful Russian theme - forgotten villages. She is saddened by what she sees, and she involuntarily looks away from the abandoned houses, as if she feels guilty. But how joyful she was to see village houses among brick and reinforced concrete houses! Garden beds, wells, stoves, painted platbands. In such wonderful houses, the Russian soul remained! She confesses her love to a suburb-province.
She is also interested in the simple days of a fought soldier who cannot sleep at night, goes to feed the birds early in the morning, and then considers old pictures of his front-line friends
Favorite nostalgic years
E. Naumova, recalling her childhood, writes with love about the time when they believed in miracles, fell in love, were not carried away by material incentives, but lived by dreams. She describes the 70s of the 20th century. Far behind the war. Parents are still alive. Sixteen-year-olds feel brave, smart and do not believe in troubles. And only then all the same terrible events will happen.
From personal life
Son Maxim is an artist. Elena believed that her son does not have to buy a gun. And already at the age of 11 he drew illustrations for her book. Illustration has become a family tradition. Their joint activity is successful. They are both interested in giving birth to books and are worried together. Max made illustrations for books such as:
Daughter - Julia. Elena became a caring grandmother for her beloved grandson of Misha. At one of the presentations of her book, she was presented with a whole basket of apples. Her friends joked that apples were rejuvenating. Often the mother and son cast the poem "Conversation with the Son about the Star."
