Alexey Cherkasov - biography and creativity

Today we will tell you who Aleksei Cherkasov is. The books of this author, as well as the biography will be examined below. It's about the Soviet writer-prose writer. He created a trilogy "Legends about the people of the taiga", which included the novels "The Red Horse", "The Black Poplar", "Hops".

Biography

Alexey Cherkasov was born in 1915, in the village of Yenisei province, in a peasant family. Adolescence, as well as youth was forced to spend in the walls of orphanages Kuragino and Minusinsk. Aleksei Cherkasov began to write from an early age. First he wrote poems, and later (in 1934) he produced the play "For Life". It was staged on the stage of the Minusinsk Drama Theater.

As part of the representatives of the Kuragin commune A. Cherkasov was sent to study at the Krasnoyarsk Agropedagogical Institute. Not graduating from high school, after 2 years of study, he went to Balakhta district to collectivize according to the Komsomol call. He worked as an agronomist in the collective farms of Northern Kazakhstan and the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Alexey Cherkasov: "Hops" and other works of the trilogy "Legends about the people of the taiga"

In 1941, the writer received a letter sent from the village of Podsinee, which is located near Minusinsk. The letter, according to the recipient, had in the lines the letter "yat," was stated in a fossilized, straight hand and resembled a message from the world of the dead. The text was completed with the signature "Efimiya". The author reported that she is the daughter of Avvakum and lives with Alevtina Krushinina in the village of Podsinee. Alexey Cherkasov at the same time decided to visit the envoy and found a Log cabin, which was half ingrown into the ground. Our hero found Efimia. Its history and formed the basis of the works of interest to us. The letter's letter was 136 years old. She had a Soviet passport, which she was given in 1934. The document contained the year of birth - 1805. The Old Believer told the writer that in 1812, during the first Patriotic War, as a child, she saw Napoleon with her own eyes. In the revolution, in 1917, she was 112 years old. And she lived to see the Great Patriotic War.

The great-grandfather of our hero, who was a legendary Decembrist exiled to Siberia, became the prototype of a convict Loparev - beloved Efimia. The story of the writer's grandfather, Cherkasov Zinoviy Andreevich, was also the basis of the story.

The narrative describes the time after the Decembrist uprising. In 1830, Yefimiya turned 25 years old. By the time the heroine appears in the main locale of the novel - Belaya Elani - she is already 55 years old. The entire trilogy is created from sections that are divided into chapters. The period of action of the plot is 1830-1955. The narrative of the work "Khmel" is completed after the October Revolution of 1917. The novel "The Red Horse" highlights events in the Yenisei Siberia during the Civil War. The work "Black Poplar" covers a significant period of history from the defeat of Kolchak's life until the Great Patriotic War, as well as the first peaceful years. Actions take place on the territory of the Yenisei province, in Minusinsk and Krasnoyarsk. In 1950, when the novel "Hops" was created, the author actively used materials from the Martyanov Museum. In 1963 the first edition of this work was published in Krasnoyarsk. During the writer's lifetime, five editions with a total circulation of over 3 million copies were published.

Works

In 1933-1934, Alexei Cherkasov wrote another novel, The Ice Sheet. Also his pen belongs to the following works: "The world as it is", "In the Siberian side", "The Day begins in the East", "Face", "Swallow".

Memory

Alexei Cherkasov lived briefly in the capital of the Crimea, in a five-story building located on Samokish Street, 14. Only from 1969 to 1973 (until April 13 - the day of death). However, this man's ashes rest in the city cemetery of Simferopol.