Biography of Peskov Vasily

Peskov was born on March 14, Father V. Peskov with his parents and younger sister Maria, Voronezh, G. From early childhood Vasily was fascinated by nature, he was distinguished by the ability to see around the details that others did not notice. The love of his native places was instilled in the school teacher Nikolai Vasilievich Larchenko. He went to the forest with students, talked about forest inhabitants, conducted excursions.

Childhood was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. In the city, I had to survive hunger, cold, and eviction from my native village. Subsequently, he recalled: “In those terrible years, I was a boy. The war rolled almost to the threshold of our house, and I remember her breathing. Above the front line, passing twenty kilometers, there was a veil of Gary, and at night the sky was bright raspberry from fires.

In the book “War and People”, he noted: “... the main school of life falls on these years” and called them “Big Life University”. He entered the construction college, which he soon abandoned. He graduated from the school of cinemas. Photo by V. Peskov Education. In the same place, subsequently, he worked as a pioneer leader, led a physical education, performed the work of the driver, organized a photo circle at the school.

The fascination with photography captured him so much that in G. most of all he liked taking pictures of animals, birds, insects, plants. Thanks to V. Krasbrobinov, the pictures of V. Peskov began to appear on the pages of the newspaper "Young Communard". After the publication of the essay “April in the Forest” about spring in the Usman Bor, he became a full -time correspondent for the newspaper for three years, held in the “Young Kommunar”, Vasily Mikhailovich recalled as the time of training, mastering the journalistic profession.

Without a higher education, he admitted that work in the newspaper was a kind of university for him.

An understanding came that this is exactly the field of activity that he was ready to engage in his whole life: “Everything was joyful for me: newspaper turmoil, business partnership, goodwill, involvement in a serious matter, and, most importantly, I felt: this is the case and I have to cherish it” V. Peskov at the Tresvyatskaya station during the years of work in the “young communal” “Disaders”.

Complete set of works. Peskov sent his note to the editorial office of Komsomolskaya Pravda “When the snowstorms raged” with photographs. It was about how a village boy saved the deer in the reserve, feeding them in severe frost. The established circumstances contributed to the fact that V. Peskov became a special correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda on the pages of the newspaper, his famous section “Window to Nature” appeared, which lasted about 20 years.

Within its framework, the author wrote about animals and natural phenomena, about famous scientists and travelers, about people who shoot and draw the world of nature. Also, he raised acute problems - he opposed the cruelty to all the living on Earth, called for more carefully handling chemical fertilizers in agriculture, etc. In general, he developed the theme of a conscious, respect for the world.

In his reports, the journalist reported a lot of relevant, important, interesting, carefully monitored innovations in biological science, maintained connections with scientists, and conducted an extensive file cabinet. Peskov with parents and daughter after the presentation of the Lenin Prize. Moscow, G. Its texts were sincerity, seriousness and were fascinating.

He knew how to bring a touch of humor in seemingly serious topics. In the book “Birds on the Wires”, Peskov noted: “I tell you that I myself watched what was surprised, puzzled, and thus, this is a story about the behavior of different animals, about their amazing relations with the environment, about their relations with each other.” Vasily Mikhailovich led the story in his articles in his articles.

This style of presentation of the material helped him better convey the dynamics of events, the mood of the participants. Among other things, the manifestation of his own personality through the “I” had a strong emotional impact on readers, helped to immediately introduce him into the thick of events, and force him to follow the fate of the heroes with an unhappy interest. A feature of the writer’s work was that he combined a literary text with a photograph, being a universal photojournalist.

He was actually the creator of the photovella genre - when the text takes less space than the picture. Photography replaces words, gives a reason for thought. In the pictures taken by V. Peskov, several generations of photographers and photojournalists grew up. The topics, plots, techniques, and compositions found by him became examples that other photojournalists equal and sought and sought.

In Komsomolskaya Pravda, the journalist worked for 57 years - until the end of his life. The format of newspaper headings for V. Peskov was not enough, there were many materials behind the newspaper line. And already in G. soon, the Young Guard Publishing House published a collection “Steps by dew”, which absorbed all the best that was published by Vasily Mikhailovich in the newspaper.

The collection was a collection of sketches about the life of forests, animals, birds and people who love and protect them.The publication became a literary event, the texts were included in school ackhelm, many critics wrote about it. How to sit alone on the shores of a mountain lake. A clean shore, clear, it seems, to the smallest grain of sandy bottom. Everything is in sight, everything is simple.

But the more closely you peer into transparent waters, the more you open up for yourself ”Pankin B. For the collection“ Steps on the dew ”was awarded the Leninsky Prize in the field of journalism and journalism by its legendary journalist at 33 years old. Only the topic of nature, the interests of the Komsomolskaya specialist did not limit themselves. For a long professional life, he had to meet many interesting and famous contemporaries.

They often became the heroes of his articles in the newspaper, and then books. With whom only his fate did not bring. They met a second time when Mikhail Alexandrovich worked on the last chapters of the “Raised Virgin”. After the death of the writer, V. Peskov visited the A.-Reserve A. Like most contemporaries, Vasily Mikhailovich was interested in the topic of conquest V.

Peskov and Yu. Gagarin, April 14, Moscow, Cosmos. It was to him, together with his colleague Pavel Barashev, that the honor of interviewing the first astronaut Yuri Gagarin after his flight fell. He also maintained friendly relations with other participants in the first detachment of astronauts, wrote about them in Komsomolskaya Pravda. In fact, Peskov was the first to develop this direction in journalism.

This is a number of documentary essays about the cosmonauts V. Bykovsky and V. with the legendary military leader, he met several times. After the death of George Konstantinovich, the writer studied his family archive. Essays on conversations with the marshal were printed in newspapers, and then entered the book “War and People”,, in addition to interviews with the famous commander, the collection includes the memories of people with different “military experience” who survived the war - there are children's experiences of the author himself, and the story about the impudent escape from the German captivity of Soviet pilots, and piercing and dramatic writing fighters.

From the front. The life of ordinary people also often fell into the camera lens and was covered on the pages of his articles and essays. He had a chance to meet with members of the family of hermits-Old Believers Lykov, who lived for more than 40 years in the taiga, far from civilization. He wrote about them a series of articles that enjoyed the unusual popularity, which included in his book “The Tagi Dead Empage”.

A documentary story with a background and a continuation. " Vasily Mikhailovich was a tireless traveler. In - gg. He took a lot of memorable pictures from a bird's height. He finished in Leningrad. The result was the publication of the book "Fatherland" Kizhi, E Gg. There were Kizhi to the other sunk into the soul, which the journalist always visited with joy.

He believed that for several days in kizhi, they give him strength and energy for a whole year. He had photos of these places everywhere - in the office, in the bedroom, in the kitchen.