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Първият чекист
Епизоди от един героичен живот.
177 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1985
About the author
Yuri Dmitriyev
11 booksYuri Dmitrievich Dmitriev (Russian: Юрий Дмитриевич Дмитриев) Soviet writer-naturalist, teacher.
When the war ended, Dmitriyev got a job on a newspaper and simultaneously attended Moscow University. Upon graduation, he began teaching at school. He was a fine teacher, well liked by his pupils and respected by his colleagues. He wrote an excellent master's thesis so his future seemed to be clear-cut. Yes, he loved his work, but more than anything else he loved animals. In childhood he kept gold-fish and dogs, and there were always various small animals and birds, living in his home - and not confined to cages either. As a rule, Yuri picked them up in the street, wounded, half-frozen, starved, and nursed them back to health, after which they could return to freedom if they chose. So Dmitriyev started writing about animals. His first story, which was published in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets and was entitled The Green Patrol, was about nature and animals, and already in this first book Dmitriyev did his best to infect boys and girls with his own love for nature and his dedication to its protection.
In the mid-1950s, Dmitriev prepared his Ph.D. thesis on the topic: "Scientific and fiction literature for children (the work of animal writers)", in which he analyzed the successive ties in the work of Vitaly Bianki, Maxim Zverev, Nikolai Plavilshchikov, Vera Chaplina, Yevgeny Charushin. In the process of working on his dissertation, Dmitriev publishes articles in the Elementary School magazine devoted to the works of Bianchi, Charushin and Chaplina.
However, in the creative biography of Yuri Dmitriev, pedagogy and literary criticism soon give way to their own writing. In 1957, his first book, The Green Patrol, was published, dedicated to the protection of nature. Dmitriev remained faithful to this theme throughout his life, although at the same time he worked on the creation of a number of historical and revolutionary books - from biographies of Grigory Kotovsky , sailor Zheleznyak , Mikhail Frunze , Felix Dzerzhinsky , to documentary essays about V.I. Lenin.
Yuri Dmitriev's books about nature acquaint young readers with life, miracles and mysteries of the animal and plant world. Reading any of his books is a conversation with an intelligent teacher who knows how to show a reader of any age how important it is to protect a world where everything is interconnected. “I want,” says the writer, “to help people understand what an amazing and wonderful world is in front of us, where every tree, every butterfly, every bird is a miracle”.
Konstantin Paustovsky said about the then young writer Dmitriev that he had "Levitan's vision, the accuracy of a scientist and the imagery of a poet".
He died in 1989. He was buried at the Vvedenskoye cemetery (21 st.).
When the war ended, Dmitriyev got a job on a newspaper and simultaneously attended Moscow University. Upon graduation, he began teaching at school. He was a fine teacher, well liked by his pupils and respected by his colleagues. He wrote an excellent master's thesis so his future seemed to be clear-cut. Yes, he loved his work, but more than anything else he loved animals. In childhood he kept gold-fish and dogs, and there were always various small animals and birds, living in his home - and not confined to cages either. As a rule, Yuri picked them up in the street, wounded, half-frozen, starved, and nursed them back to health, after which they could return to freedom if they chose. So Dmitriyev started writing about animals. His first story, which was published in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets and was entitled The Green Patrol, was about nature and animals, and already in this first book Dmitriyev did his best to infect boys and girls with his own love for nature and his dedication to its protection.
In the mid-1950s, Dmitriev prepared his Ph.D. thesis on the topic: "Scientific and fiction literature for children (the work of animal writers)", in which he analyzed the successive ties in the work of Vitaly Bianki, Maxim Zverev, Nikolai Plavilshchikov, Vera Chaplina, Yevgeny Charushin. In the process of working on his dissertation, Dmitriev publishes articles in the Elementary School magazine devoted to the works of Bianchi, Charushin and Chaplina.
However, in the creative biography of Yuri Dmitriev, pedagogy and literary criticism soon give way to their own writing. In 1957, his first book, The Green Patrol, was published, dedicated to the protection of nature. Dmitriev remained faithful to this theme throughout his life, although at the same time he worked on the creation of a number of historical and revolutionary books - from biographies of Grigory Kotovsky , sailor Zheleznyak , Mikhail Frunze , Felix Dzerzhinsky , to documentary essays about V.I. Lenin.
Yuri Dmitriev's books about nature acquaint young readers with life, miracles and mysteries of the animal and plant world. Reading any of his books is a conversation with an intelligent teacher who knows how to show a reader of any age how important it is to protect a world where everything is interconnected. “I want,” says the writer, “to help people understand what an amazing and wonderful world is in front of us, where every tree, every butterfly, every bird is a miracle”.
Konstantin Paustovsky said about the then young writer Dmitriev that he had "Levitan's vision, the accuracy of a scientist and the imagery of a poet".
He died in 1989. He was buried at the Vvedenskoye cemetery (21 st.).
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