Yuri Fedorovich Tretyakov - one of the great children’s writers, standing along with Dragunsky, Aleksin, Nosov. Unfortunately, he is now unjustly forgotten. But his books are still published and read by children.
Biography
Yuri Fedorovich Tretyakov was born in the Voronezh region in the small but very beautiful and cozy provincial town of Borisoglebsk in May 1931. Yura grew up a weak and painful child. He attended a regular school. He studied very well and always went to excellent students. After graduation, he enters the medical institute in Moscow. For himself, he had long decided that he would heal people. But the craving for writing turned out to be higher than the desire to become a doctor. Soon he leaves the university to seriously engage in literature.
Creative career
Again enters the institute, but now it is an institute of literature. He studies great, writes a lot. Studying at the institute, publishes his first book, entitled "Beetle and Geometry." Following are several more books that are published in Voronezh. His works were a great success. Many serious metropolitan publishers became interested in the talented author, including such well-known as Children's Literature and Soviet Russia.
At that time, children's magazines (Pioneer, Bonfire, Rise) were very popular. They also readily printed the author’s works. The talent of the young writer was noticed and appreciated. The Union of Writers of the country accepts him into its ranks.
What he wrote about
Yuri Tretyakov was a children's writer of socialist realism. He wrote stories and stories about simple, ordinary children. Described them as they really were in everyday life. In his works there are no children who would commit heroic deeds, catch and track down criminals or spies. He talks about boys and girls who live their usual children's lives: they fight, they get a belt from their fathers, they trick and cheat, they cry and laugh merrily. The main thing in Tretyakov’s books is that they are all good. Children in his works are friends with adults. The writer tries to show the harmony of an adult and a child. Show and prove that they are not enemies of each other.
Along with this, the author’s books are very ironic. In them, he teaches the little reader how to live, how to grow up, how to learn the world. Tretyakov’s books are read with great interest not only by children, but also by adults. They are informative, instructive and with deep morality.
The author has written more than a dozen children's works: Vitka Vitamin, Vasya the Capitalist, The Error of Radik and Zhenya, Alyoshin Goda, Andreika and the Loafer Romashka, Munchausen and a number of others.
Fairy Tales
Yuri Fedorovich Tretyakov was often called a storyteller, but he never wrote fairy tales. Thanks to his great talent, the writer showed the world of the child and his life so that it seemed fabulous, magical, extraordinary. He always said that childhood is a fairy tale.
