Mashkin biography Gennady
Nikolaevich - a white ship floats along the blue sea. A sharp nose crashes into waves, a smoke comes from the pipe. The ship "Orange" is called. This is a ship of happiness. Children who live on it are not afraid of hunger, illness, nor bombs. They run there in the gardens, swim in lakes, drink bells with compote - a picture that a little Russian boy gives a Japanese girl. And the fact that this is not a simple gift.
This is a dream of peace, about happiness. The most expensive that the baby has the first post -war years. This is what the story of our fellow countryman, writer Gennady Nikolayevich Mashkin, "Blue Sea, the White Steamboat" tells us about this. Published in the year in the Yunost magazine, she immediately gained wide popularity: she was translated into several languages and was released in Japan, Germany, England, Poland and the fame of the young author, the undoubted gifted of which was noted by the participants of the Chita seminar of young writers of the year, went far beyond Siberia.
This story bribes the reader with amazing warmth and sincerity, because it is written according to the memories of his own childhood. Gennady Mashkin, who was born in the year in Khabarovsk, moved a ten -year -old boy with his family to South Sakhalin, who had just departed from Japan to the Soviet Union, so the problems that excite the boy Hercu, the protagonist of the book, are well known to the author.
These concerns are not at all children's. Even during the years of the Civil War, by order of the Japanese General Sirodza, they burned in the steamy furnace of Gerkin's grandfather, and recently the father of Lesik died. And the boy goes to Sakhalin with one purpose - to take revenge on the "samurai." But the little Japanese also dream of a new, victorious war in which the emperor will have a good army.
And they also believe that it is impossible to trust all Russians. However, it turns out that Gerka, who rushed into a fight with a Japanese boy, saves his sinking sister. And their father, in turn, treats the boy a damaged hand. Not immediately, not suddenly, but they still made friends - the children of the military pores, in spite of everything, did not become enemies.
Gradually, adults find a common language. After all, all people, regardless of nationality, are neighbors living on the same earth, albeit on different shores of the sea. And then other books of the writer appeared. What did they talk about? About Siberia, its enormous wealth, severe nature - about this the author, the geologist in the specialty, knew firsthand. He walked many kilometers along the taiga before taking up the pen.
He writes about people who have once transformed the once wild, impregnable land, and, with particular warmth, about children, adolescents. For example, about Yegorka, a hereditary Jakut hunter. His life is not easy: from childhood, he gets food in the taiga with his father and uncle. His mother died early, and once the news came to the taiga: a large city will be built on the shore of the Mamakan, the river will be blocked by a dam.
Scary to people - how will it all be? But interesting. And I want to do not just see all this to the boy Yegorka, but to build a dam himself. I would like to become an independent, respected person. And also - like a neighbor's girl Mariyka. Well, what came of all this, you will find out by reading a story that is called - "Egor, the son of a hunter." The tenth grader Anton Kovalev "Flood" has many problems.
Having lost his father, Anton feels in the answer for everyone: for his grandfather, and for his mother, and even for horses. True, others do not always recognize this right to him. But there was a trouble - the spilled water of the IROKOY flooded the dwellings, threatening to destroy people. It was then that Anton's truly manifested the truly character. He managed to organize neighbors, build and bring a rescuing carbon-chip to a reliable place.
But perhaps the most attractive heroine of Gennady Mashkin is Angelina Fedorovna Krotova The story "Parental Day". Later, on its basis, a story was written for a younger age "from small to great." A lot of grief and worries fell to this woman. Even in the First World War, the husband died, in the terrible hungry years three of her older children died. Only the younger Daria survived.
To her and the little grandson of Timke came to her grandmother in the Far Eastern town of Shelekhovsk. And immediately everything became necessary: she fed workers, led the household, raised her grandchildren, but her really wisdom, resilience and endless kindness manifested themselves during the war. The warmth of her soul was enough for everyone: she cares about the lone old man Kasyan, and about the girl-nine living in the alms, and about the neighbors and about her daughter.
Human understanding, kindness and generosity, she treats tormented, crossed out human hearts. But most of all Angelina Fedorovna was baked about little grandchildren. Grandmother knew firmly: to have a strong root, no wormhole should not be allowed. As best she could, she took care of children's souls, so as not to freeze, they did not booze and after many years, gathered on her grave, already adult grandchildren again felt like a childishly unprotected, more and more understand how the roads were those who were still alive: mother and father.
Grandma’s words are “spiritual kindness, she will not pay herself in us, so in our children” turned out to be prophetic.Gennady Nikolaevich Mashkin writes for children and adults. These are stories, novels, essays. More recently, a new book "Love for one season" was published, which included works of different years. But whatever the prose writer wrote about, one thought passes the leitmotif: both good and evil have a chain reaction.
Invisible, complex ways, like a boomerang, they will return back to a person. Therefore, we must be wiser, more honest and more tolerant of each other. Hurry to do good! So far, it’s not too late the Irkutsk Regional Children's Library named after Mark Sergeyev.