Yakhnin biography

Leonid Yakhnin - biography of the hero of the day Leonid Lvovich Yakhnin was born in Moscow. With the outbreak of war, the family went into evacuation. From there, from a small Ural village, Lenya Yakhnin brought a couple of small skis to Moscow, skates-snags that had to be tied to the boots with ropes, the book “The Tales of Uncle Rimus” and Chess. Among the guys in the yard, he was considered a rich man.

Then there was a post -war Moscow childhood - an unshakable community of courtyard boys, the terrible stories told in the semi -tint of the courtyard sheds, the treasure from the royal heels, stuck in one greenish lump ... The family lived in a communal apartment in a small wooden house near the bird market.

The boy was not allowed to have a dog, and Leonid raised a cat, not responding to the Kis-Chis, but to a real dog order: “To me, Ruslan! L. Yakhnin tried to write since childhood. He entered the Moscow Architectural Institute, graduated from him in the year, then defended his thesis. During the practice in the last year, L. Yakhnin often visited the project institute, which shared the building with the Publishing House "Baby".

The young architect took their poems to the editor, and they, surprisingly, were accepted. This combination of circumstances forever changed his fate. For the first time, L. Yakhnin’s poems for preschoolers and primary schoolchildren appeared in the press in the year. Then the collections of the poems “My City”, “The Horseman”, “Ship Pines” and “Always forward” were the most famous work by the fairy tale “Cardboard Watch Square”, the illustrations for it were made by the famous artist V.

Chizhikov, and, possibly, it was thanks to them that the book withstood more than one edition. The story was translated into German, English, Polish, Swedish and Dutch. The writer more than once returned to the fairy -tale genre: in the year his book of fairy tales “Silver Wheels” came out, in the year - “Tanya and the Sun”, in the year - “Porcelain Bell”. He also turned to realistic prose about life in the Russian outback and to short humorous stories.

The fame and recognition of Leonid Yakhnin was brought by translations and retelling of works written in the languages ​​of different peoples of the world - Serbian, Macedonian, Slovenian, German, English, Georgian and many others. The beginning was laid out in the year by the Publishing House "Children's Literature" by a collection of Serbian folk songs and counting "Golden Apple".

It was followed by retelling of Belarusian, Yugoslav, German, Dolgan and many other songs, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, myths and legends. Retold L. Yakhnin and the Old Russian “Word of Igor’s Regiment” in a huge list of books translated or retold by Yakhnin - works by W. Shakespeare and D. Tolkin, M. Meterlink and E. Razpe, V. Gauf and V. Hugo, S. Perrault and many others.

A special place in the writer's work is retelling the world -famous Lewis Carroll fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland”. In the first three numbers of the Pioneer magazine, the “Adventures of Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice in the Beast” were published for and years. In the year, “Alice in Wonderland” was published in the retelling of L. Yakhnin with the illustrations of A.

Martynov in the publishing house “Christina and Olga”, and a year later this work L. Yakhnin was also awarded the diploma of the American cultural center for fruitful translation activities, including the translations of books by Lloyd Alexander. Leonid Yakhnin addressed the training and developing literature for children: “Polite words”, “Game in grammar”, “Great journey through the alphabet”, “Rainbow”, etc.

He also belongs to poems and songs for the electronic edition “Baba Yaga for Tround Lands”, intended for teaching babies to English, French and German. When asked by the journalist if he has a cherished dream, L. Yakhnin answered this way: “I had such a little fairy tale“ Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow ”. I would like to be not only tomorrow, but also the day after tomorrow.

And there will be a day - there will be books. ”