Christopher Robin - who is he?

Christopher Robin is a non-industrial character of the famous fairy tale of the English writer, classic of the twentieth-century literature of Alan Alexander Milne.

The prototype of the hero was the son of Alan - Christopher Robin Milne.

Lonely child in the family

Christopher Robin Milne was born on October 21, 1920 in the family of Alan and Dorothy Milnov. The couple longed for Rosemary's daughter (as they wanted to call her), and even prepared for birth a whole wardrobe of lace dresses.

The birth of the son disappointed the couple, in some ways they even tried to educate him as a girl, and dressed up in dresses.

Perhaps the biggest sign of attention from his mother the boy received in the form of a gift for his first birthday. It was a teddy bear, very fond of a child, later embodied in the image of Winnie the Pooh in the story of Christopher's father.

Father spent little time with the boy, he was too busy with his writing activities, mainly work on the book "Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all." And my mother did not even bring up my son's nanny.

Christopher Robin grew up as a shy child, at school the children laughed at him, and teachers singled it out among others. "Starry" childhood was not to the boy's liking.

Exposing myths about his childhood

Throughout his life, as in his childhood, Christopher was haunted by the echoes of the book: at the university and at the front, he was treated like a child, trying to talk about his childhood and comparing him to a character from Winnie the Pooh.

This irritated and humiliated Christopher Robin.

Deciding to refute the myths about his happy childhood and father, in the 70's Christopher Robin released memoirs in three volumes. In them he told with all rigidity and sadness about who Christopher Robin is, how his father built a career, having broken his childhood.

Memoirs aroused a wide resonance in society: numerous critics began to delve deeper into the fate of Christopher, comparing him not only with the boy from the book, but also with the cowardly Piglet.

Christopher Robin Milne died in 1996 in a dream. Subsequently, his widow, Claire Milne, organized a charity fund to help children, patients with cerebral palsy, to which part of the proceeds from using the image of the bear cub of Winnie the Pooh.