There is a long period in the history of world culture when women were not allowed to engage in writing. Of course, these times have long sunk into oblivion. But prejudices still persist in the dark corners of the male consciousness. The Soviet woman, whom the whole civilized world knows as Victoria Tokareva, proved with her creativity that even the insightful representatives of the male part of the population very often live in captivity of their errors and stereotypes.
Girl from Leningrad
A meaningful biography of a famous person begins with twenty years. Up to this age, the biography is reduced to standard phrases and data from documents. Victoria Tokareva was born into a Leningrad family. In the year 1937. The future writer was brought up in a family where her father worked as an engineer, and her mother as an embroiderer. The child, unlike the older sister, grew painful. When the war began, the head of the family, despite poor health, joined the militia. Mother and girls were evacuated to the Urals.
The father did not survive the war - he died in a hospital bed in January 1945. Mother did not marry anymore and “raised” the children as best she could, on her own. Of course, the elder brother of the father helped relatives, but he could not fully replace the girls with the father. In school years, Victoria dreamed of becoming a doctor. However, for some reason, she was not accepted to the medical institute. I had to get an education at a music school. When the girl "turned" twenty years old, she married an engineer named Tokarev. She went out and moved to a permanent place of residence to her husband, in Moscow.
In the capital, she found a job as a teacher at a music school. The time has come to say that Victoria began to "scribble the paper" as a teenager. Mom often read aloud to her tales and stories of Russian writers. A girl with a good memory and imagination absorbed plots, turns of speech, comparisons. By the time we had to teach the children music, Tokareva had already written a lot of things. The school regularly held creative meetings with famous people. Once at such an event, Tokareva met with Sergei Mikhalkov. On the recommendation of the master, she was admitted to the scriptwriting faculty of VGIK.
