In the verses of the Vyatka writer Elena Stanislavovna Naumova, everything is deep and subtle, but at the same time and simple, so they do not leave the reader indifferent - they make them wonder, rejoice, become family. Her son Maxim helps her illustrate books. This creative tandem works together.
From biography
Elena Stanislavovna Naumova is a native of the Kirov region. She was born in 1954 in the family of a musician and an employee. Her grandmother and godmother played a significant role in her upbringing. Although the father was systematically traveling, he, having become acquainted with the poems of his daughter, was the first to note her giftedness.
The writer Yuri Vyazemsky, the host of the TV show "Clever and Clever", also discovered lyrical talent in her. He helped Elena decide on 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 still leads. Teaches journalistic disciplines at the branch of the Moscow Institute of Humanities and Economics.
Relatives of the Ermakovs
E. Naumova wrote a documentary story about the destinies of four dearest people: my mother and her three brothers.
Lena, a six-year-old girl, was sent on a winter night to a nearby street for help. 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 the grandmother was simply bad. Both - the grandmother and mother of Lena Ermakova Maya - had a strong-willed character. During the war, having learned about the death of two brothers, Maya did not leave the 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 war generation was not spoiled. From childhood it was accustomed to work and felt responsibility in everything. Later, she learned not only to clearly direct the searchlight to the target, but also to determine the type of enemy aircraft by sound. One could often hear an enthusiastic cry: "Serves you right, fascist bastard!"
Once, when a fascist plane hit the crosspiece from two beams, another German … shot down his comrade. The girls did not understand this, but they were convinced more than once: it is customary for the Nazis to kill the weak, the 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 tried to stand up to protect their relatives. And they fought in different specialties, including projectors, like the mother of Elena Naumova. They contrived to outwit the German pilots. They were surrounded by violent explosions, and such a life was full of dangers. But they did not leave their post. The searchlights found the 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 her dad and in the raindrops she does not hear the sound of "cap", but the word "dad", wartime fighters, searchlight girls who dreamed of trimmed braids, seventeen-year-olds of the 70s XX century, an old soldier - the grandfather of his grandson, who after his death does not want to be pityed on the head. The heroine of her poems is even … great love itself. She is like a living character. This tremendous feeling could not even be contained 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 baby poems, the main characters are the inhabitants of the ponds, Uncle Sleep, a flying goat, a crow walking through the city, a flask that talks with a cup, a boy Fedya who went to see a bear, a cunning girl Masha, an angry Petya, a lazy Andreyka, a greedy Alenka and many others.
the beauty of the world
The poetess sees beauty in everything, even in a small twig whipped by winds and blizzards, which beats through the window. Winter trees seem wise and strict to her.
Birds fly away, having finished recitals, but others arrive, who have a birthday in winter. This is a bird in the color of a scarlet dawn. And it's not for nothing that they are called bullfinches. It turns out that the icicle has a soul and a body, which is silvery in it. And, having got rid of the shackles, she will become a piece of ice, and then give a drink to a blade of grass.
Often in her poems, questions are asked about why a person offends trees, why a person cannot get off the ground and fly with a crane wedge.
Poems by E. Naumova help to love the best that happens in life. You just need to try to draw attention to the world around and look closely. Addressing the child, the writer advises him not to rush anywhere, to follow the flight of a snowflake, because snowfall is one of the wonderful winter phenomena.
Rustic theme
The poetess did not ignore the painful Russian theme - forgotten villages. She is sad from what she sees, and she involuntarily looks away from the abandoned houses, as if she feels guilty. And how glad she is to see the village houses among the brick and reinforced concrete houses! Beds, wells, stoves, painted platbands. The Russian soul remained in such wonderful houses! She confesses her love to the suburb-province.
She is also interested in the simple days of a soldier who fought, who cannot sleep at night, goes to feed the birds early in the morning, and then looks at old photographs of his front-line friends …
Favorite nostalgic years
E. Naumova, recalling her childhood, writes with love about the time when they believed in a miracle, fell in love, were not carried away by material incentives, but lived in dreams. She describes the 70s of the 20th century. The war is far behind. The parents are still alive. Sixteen-year-olds feel brave, smart, and don't believe in trouble. And only then terrible events will happen.
From personal life
Son Maxim is an artist. Elena believed that her son did not need to buy a pistol. And now, at the age of 11, he drew illustrations for her book. Illustrating has become a family tradition. Their joint activity is successful. They are both interested in the birth of books and are worried together. Max made illustrations for books such as:
Daughter-in-law - Julia. Elena became a caring grandmother for Misha's beloved grandson. 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 mother and son read the poem "A Conversation with Son about a Star" by roles.
The soul is still creating
The famous creative principle "not a day without a line" is always important for her. Everything that touches her soul is embodied in poetic form. Elena Naumova deeply feels life. Her books kindly change people, make them look at the world more humanely.
