A doctor, and they always had many different animals in the house. He was my father's favorite writer. And as A. Barto recalls, her father taught her to read from his books. He also loved to read and knew all the fables by heart. Everyone has a dream in childhood - Agnia dreamed of becoming an organ grinder: walking around the courtyards, turning the handle of the organ grinder, so that people attracted by the music would lean out of all the windows. She began writing poetry in early childhood- in the first grades of the gymnasium. And she wrote, as befits poets, mainly about love: about gentlemen and “pink marquises.” The main critic of the young poetess was, of course, her father.

But Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, the People's Commissar (Minister) of Culture, advised Agnia Lvovovna to take up literature seriously. He came to the graduation concert at the choreographic school where he studied. At the concert, she danced to Chopin's music and read her poem, "Funeral March." And Lunacharsky looked at her performance and smiled. A few days later he invited young ballerina to his People's Commissariat for Education and said that, listening to her poem, he realized that A.L. would definitely write - and write funny poems.

When A. Barto first came with her poems to Gosizdat, she was sent to the children's literature department. This surprised and discouraged her, because she wanted to be a serious adult poet. But meetings and conversations with famous writers V. Mayakovsky and M. Gorky finally convinced her that children's literature is a serious matter and becoming a children's poet is not easy. Agnia Lvovovna began visiting schools and kindergartens, listening to the conversations of children on the streets and in courtyards. Once she heard the words of a little girl who was watching the house being moved near the Stone Bridge: “Mom, can you now drive straight into the forest in this house?” This is how the poem “The House Moved” appeared.

Wonderful children's writer K. Chukovsky highly praised her cycle of poems “Toys”. And he said: “Work, not everyone succeeded right away. Young Antosha Chakhonte did not immediately become Chekhov.” And the poetess worked, talked with the guys, and the results were like this wonderful poems, for example, "Resentment" and "In the theater"

During the Great Patriotic War Agnia Lvovovna lived in Sverdlovsk, published war poems and articles. As a correspondent" Komsomolskaya Pravda"visited the Western Front in 1942. But she always wanted to write about young heroes: especially about teenagers who worked in factories, replacing their fathers who went to the front. On the advice of Pavel Bazhov, the poetess went to the factory as an apprentice and acquired the specialty of a 2nd category turner. This is how the poem “My Student” was written, in which she talks about this with humor.

At the very end of the war, before Victory Day, a great misfortune occurred in the family - her son Garik died. Coming from the institute, he went for a bike ride and was hit by a car. The poems left the house. Agnia Lvovovna began visiting orphanages where orphans lived - victims of the war. There she again became convinced of how much children care about poetry. She read her poems to them and saw how the children began to smile. This is how it appeared A new book poems "Zvenigorod" (1947) - a book about children from orphanages and about the people who care for them. It so happened that in 1954 this book fell into the hands of a woman whose 8-year-old daughter Nina was lost during the war. The mother considered her dead, but after reading the poem, she began to hope that her daughter was alive and that someone had taken care of her all these years. Agnia Lvovovna handed over this letter to a special organization where people worked who selflessly and successfully searched for missing people. After 8 months, Nina was found. A newspaper article was published about this incident. And then Agnia Lvovna began receiving letters from different people: “Help me find my son, daughter, mother!” what was to be done? For an official search, accurate data is needed. And often, a child who is lost as a small child does not know them or does not remember them. Such children were given a different surname, a new name, and the medical commission established an approximate age. And Agnia Lvovovna came up with the following thought: could her childhood memory help in her search? A child is observant, he sees and remembers what he sees for life. The main thing was to select the most unique childhood memories. This idea was tested using the Mayak radio station. Since 1965, on the 13th of every month, A. Barto hosted the program “Find a Person.” Here's an example - the poetess talks about Nelya Neizvestnaya, reads out her memories: “Night, the rumble of airplanes. I remember a woman with a baby in one hand and a heavy bag of things in the other. We are running somewhere, I’m holding on to my skirt, and there are two boys nearby. One of them is called Roman.” Three hours after the transmission, a telegram arrived: “Nelya Neizvestnaya is our daughter, we have been looking for her for 22 years.” I hosted this program for almost 9 years. It was possible to reunite 927 families. In 1969, she wrote the book “Find a Person,” which told the stories of people who had lost and found each other. She dedicated this book and radio work to of blessed memory his son Garik.

When Agnia Barto's daughter Tatyana had a son, Volodya, he became Agnia Lvovna's most desired and beloved grandson. It was about him that the poetess created a whole cycle of poems: “Vovka - kind soul". Listen to two poems from this cycle: “How Vovka became an older brother” and “How Vovka became an adult.”

She also wrote scripts for children’s films “The Elephant and the String” and “The Foundling.” Everyone loves to watch these films: both adults and children.

I visited many countries around the world and met children everywhere. Having once visited Bulgaria, in a small town she met a girl, Petrina, who really wanted to correspond with the guys from Moscow. Barto told Moscow children about this and gave Petrina’s address. Within 10 days, the Bulgarian schoolgirl received more than 3,000 letters. On the first day, 24 letters arrived and the girl answered all of them. But the next day another 750 letters arrived. Soon the post office called and said that they were inundated with letters for Petrina and could not work normally. The Bulgarian children organized a cleanup day: they collected letters and distributed them to all the children so that they could answer them. Thus began a friendly correspondence between the Soviet and Bulgarian guys.

A. Barto died on April 1, 1981. One of the small planets that revolves around the Earth is named after her. She left behind one and a half million books in 86 languages, wonderful poems that you remember from childhood, which you will read to your children: “Toys”, “Little Brother”, “Once I Broke Glass”, “Vovka is a Kind Soul”, “We with Tamara", "Everyone is studying", "Zvenigorod", "Getting flowers in winter forest" and others.

She began writing poetry as a child. Professional literary work took up on the advice of the People's Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky, who was present at the final exam of the choreographic school and heard Agnia read her own poems.

In 1925, her first poems, “The Chinese Little Wang Li” and “The Thief Bear,” were published. They were followed by "The First of May" (1926), "Brothers" (1928). Some poems were written together with her husband, poet Pavel Barto - “The Grimy Girl” and “The Roaring Girl” (1930).

In 1937, Agnia Barto was a delegate to the International Congress for the Defense of Culture, which was held in Spain. During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), Barto often spoke on the radio in Moscow and Sverdlovsk, wrote war poems, articles, and essays. In 1942, she was a correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda on Western Front.

In the 1940-1950s, her collections “First-grader”, “Zvenigorod”, “Merry Poems” were published.

In 1950, for the collection “Poems for Children” (1949), she was awarded the USSR State Prize.

In 1958, Barto wrote a large cycle of satirical poems for children “Leshenka, Leshenka”, “Grandfather’s Granddaughter”, etc.

Since 1965, for several years, Barto hosted the program “Find a Person” on Mayak radio, in which she searched for people separated by the war.

With its help, about a thousand families were reunited. Barto wrote the story “Find a Man” about this work, published in 1968.

In 1976, her book “Notes children's poet".

Agnia Barto made her film debut as a screenwriter in 1939 in the film “The Foundling,” which gained great popularity among viewers.

Then she wrote scripts for children's films "The Elephant and the Rope" (1946) and "Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character" (1953), "10,000 Boys" (1961), as well as the short story "Black Kitten" in the film anthology "From Seven to Twelve" ( 1965).

In 1973, based on Barto’s script, the drama “Looking for a Man” was staged. The film, based on the book of the same name and a series of radio broadcasts by the writer, is based on true stories about separations and meetings, about the search for loved ones that continued for many years after the war.

Agnia Barto is a laureate of the USSR State Prize (1950), Lenin Prize (1972). Awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.

For many years, Barto headed the Association of Children's Literature and Art Workers and was a member of the international Andersen jury.

In 1976 she was awarded the International G.H. Andersen.

Agnia Barto was married twice. After a divorce from her first husband, the poet Pavel Barto, she married energy scientist Andrei Shcheglyaev, from whose marriage her daughter Tatyana was born. Her son from her first marriage, Igor, died in 1945.

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Agnia Lvovna Barto 1906-1981

Agnia Barto was born on February 4, 1906 in Moscow into an educated family. Her father, Lev Nikolaevich Volov (1875-1924), was a veterinarian. Mother, Maria Ilyinichna Volova (d. 1959), was a housewife. As a child, Agnia studied at ballet school. At the same time, she began to write poetry.

A. Lunacharsky, after listening to Barto’s poems, advised her to continue writing. She regularly published collections of poems: “Brothers” (1928), “On the contrary boy” (1934), “Toys” (1936), “Bullfinch” (1939).

During World War II, Barto often spoke on the radio in Moscow and Sverdlovsk, wrote war poems, articles, and essays. In 1942 she was a correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda on the Western Front. IN post-war years visited Bulgaria, Iceland, Japan, England and other countries.

Agnia Lvovna's first husband was the poet Pavel Barto. Together with him, she wrote three poems - “Roaring Girl”, “Dirty Girl” and “Counting Table”. In 1927, their son Edgar was born. In the spring of 1945, Garik died tragically (he was hit by a truck while riding a bicycle).

Agnia Lvovna’s second husband was Andrei Vladimirovich Shcheglyaev. From this marriage a daughter was born - Tatyana.

Everything was going well in life: my husband was moving forward career ladder, daughter Tatyana got married and gave birth to a son, Vladimir. It was about him that Barto composed the poem “Vovka is a kind soul.”

The name Agnia Barto was given to one of the minor planets (2279 Barto), located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, as well as one of the craters on Venus.

Agnia Barto passed away on April 1, 1981. But we say thank you for the wonderful poems on which more than one generation of children will be raised.

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Every child in our country knows the poems of Agnia Barto (1906-1981). Her books were printed in millions of copies. This amazing woman devoted her entire life to children.
Agnia Lvovna Barto was born in Moscow into the family of a veterinarian. She started writing poetry back in primary school gymnasium. She dreamed of becoming a ballerina and graduated from a choreographic school.
She became a writer thanks to a curiosity. A. V. Lunacharsky was present at the graduation tests at the school, where Barto read her poem “Funeral March.” A few days later, he invited her to the People's Commissariat for Education and expressed confidence that Barto was born to write funny poetry. In 1925, at the State Publishing House, Barto was sent to the children's editorial office. Agnia Lvovna set to work with enthusiasm. She studied with Mayakovsky, Chukovsky, Marshak.
During the Great Patriotic War, Barto spoke a lot on the radio and went to the front as a newspaper correspondent. In the post-war years, Agnia Lvovna became the organizer of a movement to search for families separated during the war. She suggested searching for lost parents using childhood memories. Through the “Find a Person” program on Mayak radio, it was possible to connect 927 separated families. The writer’s first book of prose is called “Find a Person.”
For my writing and social activities Agnia Barto was repeatedly awarded orders and medals. She traveled abroad a lot and helped children's international friendships. The writer died on April 1, 1981, having lived a long and such people need life.
The style of her poems is very light, they are easy to remember. The author seems to be talking to the child in simple everyday language - but in rhyme. And the conversation is conducted with young readers as if the author were their age.

Veterinarian Lev Nikolaevich Volov, enrolling his daughter Agnia in the Moscow choreographic school, probably dreamed of her brilliant artistic career. The school was successfully completed, but Agnia never became a ballerina. By that time she was fascinated by literature.
In 1925, as a nineteen-year-old girl, she first crossed the threshold of the State Publishing House. The editor, having briefly skimmed her poems, sent Agnia to the children's literature department. So, one might say, a new children's poet appeared.
Agnia Barto (this is the name of her first husband, Pavel Barto) was immediately noticed. Her books, starting with the very first (Chinese Little Wang Li, 1925), have always found their readers and quite benevolent critics. Once upon a time, some of them (critics) even called on S.Ya. Marshak, already a well-known poet at that time, to study with a young aspiring writer. Time passed and everything was put in its place, and Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak and Agniya Lvovna Barto long years worked together to create Soviet children's literature.
Temperamental, impetuous, bright Agnia Barto was always on time and everywhere. She wrote poetry, plays, and film scripts. She translated. She met with readers in schools, kindergartens, boarding schools, and libraries. She has spoken at a variety of writers' and non-writers' conferences and conventions. She traveled all over Europe (among these trips, the almost legendary one was to the burning Spain of 1937)…
The popularity of Agnia Barto grew rapidly. And not only here. One example of her international fame is particularly impressive. IN Hitler's Germany, when the Nazis staged terrible auto-da-fe, burning books of unwanted authors, on one of these bonfires, along with the volumes of Heine and Schiller, Agnia Barto’s thin book “Brothers” burned.
“Brothers”, like many other poems (to name just a few - “Along the path, along the boulevard”, “Redskins”, “Your holiday”) - shining example "cordial citizenship", for which Agnia Lvovna so advocated in her time. However, it was not only such works that determined her work.
The poet's talent manifested itself most clearly in his funny poems. Barto understood perfectly well that laughter is the shortest path to a person’s heart, especially a little one. And she never missed an opportunity to take advantage of it. The cheerful simplicity and freshness of her poems makes even the most serious and gloomy readers forget their seriousness at least for a while.
And how can one not smile when reading the confession of the great sufferer, who is ready to endure any torment in order to buy a bullfinch:

...Or listening to Lida, about whom this insufferable Vovka is spreading rumors that she is a talker. But when should she chat?
...Or meeting the adamant Lyoshenka, whom no one can persuade to do a favor: finally learn the multiplication table.
It’s funny - and you laugh, often without noticing that you’re laughing at yourself. This is the property of the prickly lines of Agnia Barto, who, even making fun of her heroes, loves and understands them. In the same way, she always loved and understood her readers. And they reciprocated. You will rarely meet a person among us who, from the cradle, does not remember and love such simple and such familiar lines:

Irina Kazyulkina

WORKS OF A.L.BARTO

COLLECTED WORKS: In 3 volumes - M.: Det. lit., 1994. - (B-ka world lit. for children).
This collection of works is addressed to young readers and includes the works of Agnia Barto, which she wrote specifically for them: poems, poems, songs, comedies.

COLLECTED WORKS: In 4 volumes - M.: Khudozh. lit., 1981-1984.
And this collection of essays is more interesting for adults. Here, along with children's poems, the dramaturgy of A. Barto and her prose are presented. The first volume consisted of “Diaries of a Writer” and the book “Find a Person”.

- Poems for the little ones -

GRANDMOTHER HAD FORTY GRANDCHILDREN / Artist. V. Chizhikov. - M.: Bustard, 2002. - 77 p.: ill. - (Drawing by Viktor Chizhikov).

VOVKA IS A KIND SOUL / Artist. V. Chizhikov. - M.: AST: Astrel, 2005. - 41 p.: ill.

ROAR GIRL: Poems / A. Barto, P. Barto; Artist A. Kanevsky. - M.: Det. lit., 1990. - 17 p.: ill.

TOYS: Poems / Art. B. Trzhemetsky. - M.: ONYX: Center universal human values, 2006. - 61 p.: ill. - (B-ka children's classics).
One of the latest publications of “Toys”, which attracted us solely by the name of the publishing house - “Center for Universal Human Values”. Without unnecessary words it gives an idea of true meaning these poetic miniatures.
Tiny poems for tiny readers were published a lot and often in our country. To clarify which editions of “Toys” you should look at Special attention, take a look.

THE IGNORANT BEAR: Poems / Artist. V. Suteev. - M.: Rosman-Liga, 1996. - 8 p.: ill. - (Funny stories in pictures).

I'M GROWING / Artist. V. Galdyaev. - M.: House, 1998. - 104 p.: ill.

- For older guys -

FOR CHILDREN: Poems / Art. Yu. Molokanov. - M.: Planet of Childhood: Malysh, 1998. - 240 pp.: ill.

SELECTED POEMS / Preface. S. Mikhalkova; Artist Yu. Molokanov. - M.: Planet of Childhood: Premiere, 1999. - 558 pp.: ill. - (World Children's Library).

POEMS FOR CHILDREN / Intro. Art. V. Smirnova; Comment. E. Taratuty; Artist M. Miturich. - M.: Det. lit., 1997. - 560 pp.: ill. - (B-ka world lit. for children).
These three collections are structured in the same way. In them, Agnia Barto’s poems are arranged in cycles: “Vovka is a kind soul,” “Everyone is learning,” “Zvenigorod,” “I am growing,” etc.

LIFE WITH A BOUQUET: Poems / Fig. A. Kanevsky. - M.: Det. lit., 1984. - 95 p.: ill.
Funny poems about schoolchildren.

TRANSLATIONS FROM CHILDREN / Fig. children. - M.: Det. lit., 1985. - 95 p.: ill. - (School library).
From Bulgaria, Iceland, Japan, Greece, in a word, from everywhere A. Barto visited, she brought children's poems. This is how this book was born. Of course, Barto did not know all the languages ​​in which they created "little poets"(that’s what she called the little authors), but she understood them perfectly mutual language - "language of childhood". And that’s why she became their translator.

YOUR POEMS / Fig. V. Goryaeva. - M.: Det. lit., 1983. - 383 pp.: ill.
“Let “Your poems” accompany you both little and school years, and on the threshold of adolescence. Let them grow with you..."- this is what Agnia Barto wrote when opening this book, which will truly be of interest to anyone, regardless of age. Although the collection was published more than twenty years ago, it was “made” so well and with such love by the artist V. Goryaev that it would be a shame not to mention it.

- Prose -

NOTES OF A CHILDREN'S POET. - M.: Omega, 2006. - 400 p.
Life rare person can be as rich and varied as A. Barto’s. Therefore, “Notes of a Children's Poet” goes far beyond the scope of children's poetry. The diaries of 1974 served as their outline. And the main content was Agnia Lvovna’s memories of meetings with the most different people(by writers, public figures, casual acquaintances), travel notes (she traveled half the world, including as a member of “IBBY” - the International Council on Children's Books), reflections on abstract moral and very specific professional topics.

FIND A PERSON. - M.: Heroes of the Fatherland, 2005. - 298 p.: ill.
In 1964, the call sign of the “Find a Person” program was broadcast for the first time on the Mayak radio station. Its presenter, Agnia Barto, helped relatives separated by the war find each other. Those who wrote letters to Agnia Lvovna for delivery (and up to two hundred such letters arrived daily) could not make official requests either to the police or to the Red Cross, because most often they did not know either their real names or places of birth. All they had were fragments of childhood memories. It would seem, how could they help in the search? However, it was precisely by these insignificant signs of childhood that relatives began to find each other. Over the nine years of its existence on the radio, the program helped reunite 927 families. She called the book that Barto wrote based on the materials of these nine-year searches - “Find a Person.”

Irina Kazyulkina

LITERATURE ABOUT THE LIFE AND WORK OF A.L. BARTO

Barto A. A little about myself // Barto A. Collection. Op.: In 4 vols. - M.: Khudozh. lit, 1984. - T. 4. - P. 396-410.
This short autobiography of Agnia Lvovna Barto can be found in other publications. For example:
Listen out loud to yourself. - M.: Det. lit., 1975. - pp. 22-33.
Laureates of Russia. - M.: Sovremennik, 1976. - P. 28-42.
Soviet writers: Autobiographies: T. 4. - M.: Khudozh. lit., 1972. - pp. 37-45.

Baruzdin S. About Agnia Barto // Baruzdin S. Notes on children's literature. - M.: Det. lit., 1975. - pp. 128-135.

Begak B. From smile to sarcasm // Begak B. Complex simplicity. - M.: Det. lit., 1980. - pp. 133-142.

The life and work of Agnia Barto: Sat. - M.: Det. lit., 1989. - 336 pp.: ill.

Mikhalkov S. Good calling // Mikhalkov S. My profession. - M.: Sov. Russia, 1974. - pp. 208-211.

Motyashov I. A. L. Barto // Det. encyclopedia: In 12 volumes: T. 11. - M.: Pedagogy, 1976. - P. 279-280.

Motyashov I. Those who came from the year two thousand // Motyashov I. Favorites. - M.: Det. lit., 1988. - pp. 187-216.

Razumnevich V. Smile for happiness: About the books of Agnia Barto // Razumnevich V. All children are the same age. - M.: Det. lit., 1980. - pp. 85-117.

Sivokon S. Heartfelt citizenship // Sivokon S. Lessons of children's classics. - M.: Det. lit., 1990. - pp. 240-257.

Smirnova V. Agnia Barto and her poems for children // Smirnova V. About children and for children. - M.: Det. lit., 1967. - pp. 376-397.

Smirnova V. About the work of Agnia Barto // Barto A. Poems for children. - M.: Det. lit., 1981. - pp. 6-14.

Solovyov B., Motyashov I. Agnia Barto: Essay on creativity. - M.: Det. lit., 1979. - 318 pp.: ill.

Taratuta E. Friend of my harsh days // Taratuta E. Precious autographs. - M.: Sov. writer, 1986. - pp. 136-165.

Shklovsky V. About the game, dreams and poetry // Shklovsky V. Old and new. - M.: Det. lit., 1966. - pp. 90-95.

I.K.

SCREEN ADAPTATIONS OF A.L.BARTO’S WORKS

- ART FILMS -

Alyosha Ptitsyn develops character: Film comedy. Scene A.Barto. Dir. A.Granik. Comp. O. Karavaychuk. USSR, 1953. Cast: Vitya Kargopoltsev, O. Pyzhova, V. Sperantova, Natasha Polinkovskaya and others.

10,000 boys. Scene A.Barto. Dir. B. Buneev, I. Okada. USSR, 1961.

I'm looking for a person. Scene A.Barto. Dir. M. Bogin. Comp. E. Krylatov. USSR, 1973. Cast: O. Zhakov, N. Gundareva, L. Akhedzhakova and others.

Foundling: Film Comedy. Scene A. Barto, R. Zelenoy. Dir. T. Lukashevich. Comp. N. Kryukov. USSR, 1940. Cast: Veronika Lebedeva, F. Ranevskaya, P. Repnin, O. Zhizneva, R. Zelenaya, R. Plyatt and others.

Elephant and rope. Scene A.Barto. Dir. I. Fraz. Comp. L. Schwartz. USSR, 1945. Cast: Natasha Zashchipina, F. Ranevskaya, R. Plyatt and others.

Black kitten (from the film almanac “From Seven to Twelve”). Scene A.Barto. Dir. Kh. Bakaev, E. Stashevskaya, Y. Fridman. Comp. G. Firtich. USSR, 1965. Starring: Z. Fedorova, O. Dahl and others.

- CARTOONS -

Magic shovel. Dir. N. Lerner. USSR, 1984.

Two illustrations. Dir. E. Tuganov. USSR, 1962.
One of the two plots of this cartoon is “The Roaring Girl”.

Tamara and I. Dir. D. Vdovichenko, V. Ozhegin. Russia, 2003.

Bullfinch. Dir. I. Kovalevskaya. USSR, 1983.

I.K.

Barto A.L. Toys

The very first children's toys are rattles. The collection of Agnia Lvovna Barto is a rattle, only in poetry. If ordinary toys teach children to distinguish the shape and color of objects, then the “tiny” poems of A. Barto allow them to take their first steps in the world of feelings, images and words.
Lyrical Miniatures for Children, first published in 1936, has sold millions of picture books over the years and decades. The nostalgia of grandparents will be “fed” by the drawings of K. Kuznetsov. Moms and dads will probably remember their beloved V. Chizhikov. And the children?.. What will they prefer?

Barto A.L. Toys: Poems / Art. B. Trzhemetsky. - M.: ONIX, 2007. - 47 p.: ill. - (Baby’s book).

Barto A.L. Toys / Fig. E. Bulatova and O. Vasiliev. - M.: Planet of Childhood: Malysh, 1999. - 8 p.: ill.

Barto A.L. Toys / Art. G. Makaveeva. - M.: Eurasian region, 1996. - 8 p.: ill. - (My favorite book).

Barto A.L. Toys / Art. E. Monin. - M.: Det. lit., 1996. - 14 p.: ill. - (For little ones).

Barto A.L. Toys: Book-toy / Art. Yu. Molokanov. - M.: Malysh, 1992. - 16 p.: ill.

Barto A.L. Toys / Fig. K. Kuznetsova. - M.: Det. lit., 1980. -16 p.: ill.

Barto A.L. A bull walks and sways: Panorama book / Ill. E. Vasilyeva. - M.: ROSMEN, 2000. - 11 p.: ill.

Barto A.L. A bull walks and sways / Fig. V. Chizhikova. - M.: Samovar: Polygraphresources, 1996. - 79 p.: ill. - (Visiting Viktor Chizhikov).

Barto A.L. Poems for the little ones / Fig. V. Chizhikova. - M.: Astrel: AST, 2007. - 80 p.: ill. - (Planet of Childhood).

Barto A.L. I'm growing: Poems / Fig. A. Eliseeva. - M.: Bustard-plus, 2006. - 64 p.: ill.

Irina Kazyulkina

AGNIYA BARTO: “FINDING A PERSON”

In 1947, Agnia Barto wrote the poem “Zvenigorod” - cheerful poems about the post-war orphanage, which collected "thirty brothers and sisters", "thirty young citizens". One of the adult readers complained that the lines about three-year-old Lelka, who cannot remember, are unfair. He was also three years old. He remembers being lost on railway station during the bombing. Then a letter came from a woman: she expressed hope that her daughter, lost in the war, grew up among good people, like the children from Zvenigorod. Agnia Lvovna went on the wanted list, and - fortunately - the woman's daughter, already eighteen years old, was found. Press reports appeared: poetry united the family! "Poetry plus police", - said Agnia Lvovna.
One after another, she began to receive letters from those who were difficult, almost impossible to help. And it was impossible to refuse help. Many people who ended up in orphanages very young, confused and frightened, did not know their real name, age, place of birth, and parents did not know what name and surname their children lived with, if they were alive. The official search was powerless here.
This is how the most correct idea arose - to make a radio program. After all, radio was then the most folk remedy mass media. Who, if not parents, brothers and sisters, could recognize their adult sons and daughters, sisters and brothers from their childhood memories?
We remembered the war and completely short life before her.
“We had a large carpet hanging over our bed with scary faces woven on it, and I was very afraid of them.”.
“My mother and I went into the forest through the raspberries and met a bear, and when I ran away, I lost my new shoe.”.
“My father worked as a mason. When he kissed me, he pricked me with his mustache. She lived in our house guinea pig. One night her father caught her with a net.".
“Father came to say goodbye, I hid under the table, but they took me out of there. My father was dressed in a blue tunic with airplanes... he brought me a huge bag of apples (red, large)... We were driving a truck, I was tightly holding a toy, a cow, in my hands.”.
For nine years, from 1965 to 1974, Agnia Barto hosted the program “Find a Person” on Mayak. The broadcast took place monthly. In twenty-five minutes, Agnia Lvovna talked about thirteen to fifteen destinies. In addition, a Bulletin for tracing relatives was published based on incomplete accurate data. Every day the Radio Committee received one and a half hundred letters. Agnia Lvovna and her assistants, employees and volunteers, read them and put them in folders and large envelopes: "Next in line", "Very few memories", "No data"…
We will not know which stories and for what reasons were not aired. But we can read those selected for the book “Find a Person,” written based on the materials of the program and first published in 1968 in the magazine “Znamya.”
From a letter from Vita Polishchuk: "…I lost own father, mother, younger sister and brother. According to my passport, I am listed as born in 1939, this is what the doctors at the orphanage determined. But I still don’t know exactly how old I am and where I was born and lived. But I know well that my real name is Bela..."
Nelly Unknown: “...Night, the rumble of planes... I remember a woman with infant, into another heavy bag with things... We are running somewhere, making our way through the crowd, I am holding on to her skirt, and two boys are running next to me, one of them, it seems, is called Roman.”.
Leonid Ivanov: “...I remember how I found myself in an orphanage in Pskov, how an air raid alert started, and some building exploded next to the orphanage, and we were taken to a bomb shelter... Afterwards we were brought to the village of Dolmatovo, where I was raised and studied. Here they gave me the last name Leonid Aleksandrovich Ivanov. I kindly ask you to establish my last name and that of my parents...”
This man never learned anything about his family. And Nellie the Unknown turned out to be Mary Fershter from Feodosia; the parents confidently recognized their daughter based on her memories and a miraculously preserved childhood photograph. Vita (Bela) Polishchuk found sister Hello.
Sometimes the search lasted for years. Sometimes relatives were only a few days away. There were mistakes and doubts. Some people received hope and soon lost it. Others met relatives, but found it difficult to get along with them. Still others (in the book, of course, there are more of them) found a family, a name, small homeland- for this it was worth working, delving into someone else’s grief and pushing poetry aside.
Tamara: “It turned out that I have a lot of relatives, I even have great-grandparents. I have already visited two of my sisters, but I have not yet visited my uncle and my aunt...”
Taisiya Afanasyevna: “Everything suggests that Oktyabrina and Galina Tsarkov are my daughters, whom I have been looking for for so many years.”.
Even this happened. Pyotr Pavlovich Rodionov: “Thanks to your thoughts, after so many years I was able to find my father, three brothers, two sisters and other people close to me - about 50 people.”.
“Find a Person” is a book by a Soviet writer who is indicative and, probably, sincerely advocating "new morality", outraged by the thirst for profit in bourgeois society and the policies of capitalist countries. This book is hardly interesting from a literary point of view: strictly speaking, there is no thoughtful organization of the material, no authorial freedom, no verbal art here. And it is not necessary. During the existence of the radio program, 927 families separated during the Great Patriotic War were united. The book is evidence of many years of searches and experiences, a collection of authentic (selected, abridged, but genuine) letters about children lost in the war, about the post-war ordeals of children and parents.
In 1974, Agnia Barto noted: “I never imagined that the program would live for so long, because it began twenty years after the Victory. I thought: a year or two - and the memories will subside. They began to fade, but not after a year or two, but only in the ninth year of searching.”.
Sixty-five years have passed since the Victory. People still tell their stories, similar to those described in the book “Find a Man,” to each other in our country and in other countries that participated in that war. Even if they no longer remember which hand their sister or brother had a mole on, or whether there was a scar on their knee, they still hope, at least a little, to finally find out something about their blood relatives.

Barto A. L. Find a person. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1969. - 296 p.
Barto A. L. Find a person // Barto A. L. Collected works: in 4 volumes - Moscow: Fiction, 1981-1984. - T. 1. - P. 23-242.
Barto A. L. Find a person. - Moscow: Heroes of the Fatherland, 2005. - 298 p.

In 1973, director Mikhail Bogin, based on the script by Agnia Barto, filmed Feature Film"I'm looking for a person."

In A. Barto’s book “Notes of a Children’s Poet” (1979), the chapter “Afterword to nine years of life” is devoted to the program and the book “Find a Person.” Here Agniya Lvovna, in particular, says that she had to delay the layout of the first edition, because one of the searches, described as unsuccessful, unexpectedly ended with the joy of a meeting.