Vera Chaplin Biography

Photo All Vera Chaplin-Biography Vera Chaplin-a Soviet writer-naturalist who has devoted many years to work in the Moscow Zoo. The author of scripts for several feature and animated films. The work of the famous children's writer Vera Chaplin is devoted to the animal world, with whom not only her books, but also the whole life path are associated. For many years, the writer worked in the Moscow zoo, so she knows about habits, the features of the behavior of each of the brothers of our smaller ones.

The author’s bibliography has more than a dozen fascinating books, beloved by several generations of children and their parents. Childhood and youth were born in the year in Moscow. Before the birth of the girl, parents already raised the son of Vasily, and a year later, another daughter appeared in the family, who was called Valentina. The grandfather of the future writer was a hereditary nobleman, was known as a large vehicle engineer and philanthropist.

From him the family got a house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, where the early biography of Chaplin passed. Vera’s father, Vasily Mikhailovich, was engaged in advocacy, and mother, Lidia Vladimirovna, was engaged in painting and playing the piano. The revolution forced the mother with three children to leave Moscow and move to Uzbekistan. At that time, the parents were divorced, and in a new place Lidia Vladimirovna agreed with another man - wounded in battles by a Cossack.

The stepfather turned out to be a very cruel person who allowed himself to raise his hand to his civilian wife and non -native children. Without enduring such an atmosphere, Vera escaped from the house and eventually got into the boarding school, where she lived until the death of the Cossack. Vera Chaplin in his youth all this time the girl practically did not study.

In M, Lidia Vladimirovna with the children was finally able to return to her homeland, but what she saw there shocked her - their family house was looted and turned into a communal apartment. In M, Vera was born younger brother Vladik, whom she perceived due to a big difference in age as a son. Chaplin from a young age loved to visit the zoo. In Moscow, the girl met Peter Alexandrovich Manteifel, who later brought her to a circle of young biologists.

Here, the guys looked after animals, their independently harvested foods, studied their habits. Uncle Petya became a man who predetermined the further fate of the future writer. Since the year, the girl conducted excursions in the Moscow Zoo. This task was entrusted to her by the then leader of Kubza. In the same year, Vera acquired her own pet-a Doberman-Pincher named Radi. Communication with the best friends of a person fascinated Chaplin so that she entered the central section of the club of service dog breeding.

At the end of X, a lover of four -legged, while in position, performed various tricks for films. At one of the filming, the artist was seriously injured. With Go Chaplin, she prepared animals to work in cinema. The most famous of her wards was the young lion cub named the kid. A year later, the trainer was forced to quit the zoo due to her son's illness. In the year, the woman was able to return to her beloved work and continued to conduct excursions.

A year later, Vera Vasilievna initiated the creation of a site for young animals on the basis of the Moscow zoo. Animals of different species and breeds lived and studied here. At the same time, the woman began to publish her first stories on the pages of the magazine “Young Naturalist”. In the year, Chaplin studied at paramilitary courses of official dog breeding.

In M, I saw the light of the debut collection "Babies from the Green Site." At the end of the same year, an article in the famous foreign newspaper “The Christian Science Monitor” came out about faith and its wards. Soon the second collection of the author was published, called “My Pupils”, which included the famous story “Throw”. At that time, Chaplin headed a section of predatory animals.

At the beginning of World War II, the Moscow Zoo was evacuated to the Urals. Shortly before that, Vera graduated from the seven -year old school and was marked by gratitude for the shock labor. In the year, an animal young lover was appointed deputy director of the Ural zoo. A year later, Chaplin returned to the capital, already as the director of production issues of the Moscow Zoo.

Since the year, she was engaged exclusively in literary work, stopping working with pets. In the year, the next collection of the author, called “four -legged friends”, was published. Two years later, a book of essays “In the Belovezhskaya Pushcha” was published, where the writer-naturalist Georgy Krebitsky became co-author of Chaplin. In the year, the animated film “Forest Travelers” was released on the screens, on the script to which Vera Chaplin and Georgy Krebitsky worked.

In the middle of x Vera Vasilievna wrote a script for the animated film "In Forest more often." In the same period, the Orlik book appeared on the shelves of stores, telling about animal warfares. Soon, the author pleased the readers with the new collection "Petisians of the Zoo", over the additions to which she worked for several more years.At the beginning of X from the pen of Chaplin, the book “Friend of the Chaban” was published.

Two years later, the collection "Unbearable Peteracus" was published in print. In the year, Vera Vasilievna published the book “Winged ankle”. The writer entered the circle of trainers at the capital's club of service dog breeding. At that time, a dog named Rada lived in Chaplin’s house. The writer Vera Chaplin in the middle of x light saw the book “Random meetings”, telling stories from the author’s country life.

The artist E. Vera Vasilievna published two books - “Our Cat” and “Our Friend is a Dog” worked on illustrations for the publication. Vera Chaplin died on December 19, her grave is in the capital's Vagankovsky cemetery. They may be familiar.