Anatoly Grachev is a Soviet writer. He created several stories, essays and novels, was awarded the Komsomol Prize and the Order of the Badge of Honor.
Biography
Anatoly Matveyevich was born in the Merkulovsky farm in the summer of 1912. He is from a peasant family. As a child, Alexander Matveyevich worked on a fist. When he grew up, after the October Revolution he joined the Komsomol, then took part in collectivization.
Alexander Grachev wrote in his diary that those days of his youth were hungry. Then the guys decided to take patronage over the mother of the famous writer Sholokhov. But the woman herself fed them.
Career
When Alexander Grachev graduated from the school for rural youth, he entered the Cherkasy cavalry school. But then the young man was injured by falling from a 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 enter 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 handyman, and then taught at school. An interesting case is connected with the last fact. Grachev A. M. wrote in his memoirs that when the young man came to the district committee of the Komsomol, he was asked if he was literate? Having received an affirmative answer, the secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol appointed him a teacher. And then Alexander became the director of the school. After all, then there was a general illiteracy in the country. Therefore, specialists who could read were highly valued. They were sent to teach all this to the illiterate population of the country.
Creation
Craving for literature led the young writer to the newspaper "Amur Drummer". Here he composes his first stories, three of which were awarded prizes.
In 1948, Alexander Matveyevich wrote the adventure story "The Secret of the Red Lake". Here he spoke about geologists. The next book, The Fall of Teshima-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 the Far Eastern travels, about the border guards. The author also has a story about nature called "Forest Rustles".
Personal life
The writer had a large family. Daughter Anna recalled that her father did not like their homes, they often moved with him. And at that time there were already four children in the family, the father's wife and their mother - Efrosinya Ivanovna, also the mother of Alexander Matveyevich. According to the writer's daughter, they called her Baba Lida. In total, Alexander Grachev had four children - three sons and a daughter. But one of the boys died in 1957, and his daughter died in 2019.
Alexander Matveyevich himself passed away in the spring of 1973. He still had many unrealized ideas, and an unfinished book about the travels of his youth was then published in 1974.
