Yuri Fedorovich Tretyakov is one of the wonderful children's writers, standing on a par with Dragunsky, Aleksin, Nosov. Unfortunately, it 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 a small, but very beautiful and cozy provincial town of Borisoglebsk in May 1931. Yura grew up as a weak and sickly child. I attended a regular school. He studied very well and was always an excellent student. After leaving school, he enters the medical institute in Moscow. For himself, he long ago 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 study literature.
Creative career
He enters the institute again, but now it is the institute of literature. She is a wonderful student, writes a lot. While studying at the institute, he publishes his first book entitled "The Beetle and Geometry". Several more books follow, which are published in Voronezh. His works were a great success. Many serious metropolitan publishing houses, including such well-known ones as "Children's Literature", "Soviet Russia", have become interested in the talented author.
At that time, children's magazines were very popular (Pioneer, Koster, Rise). They also eagerly printed the works of the author. 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. He described them as they really were in everyday life. In his works, there are no children who would commit heroic deeds, catch and hunt down criminals or spies. He tells about boys and girls who live their usual childhood life: they fight, receive belts from their fathers, cheat and deceive, cry and laugh merrily. The main thing in Tretyakov's books is that they are all kind. 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 to 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 know 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", "Radik and Zhenya's Mistake", "Alyoshin Year", Andreyka and Dummy Romashka "," Munchausen "and a number of others.
Fairy tales of a non-fairy
Yuri Fedorovich Tretyakov was often called a storyteller, but he never wrote fairy tales. Thanks to his enormous talent, the writer showed the child's world and his life in such a way that it seemed fabulous, magical, extraordinary. He always said that childhood is a fairy tale.
Personal life
Very little is known about the personal life of the writer Tretyakov. After he had a very successful beginning of his writing career, having abandoned everything, he left Moscow for Voronezh, where his sick mother lived. All further life is spent there. In Voronezh, he lives and works, publishing his works.
Yuri Fedorovich Tretyakov passed away in February 1985.
