{"id":1013814,"date":"2024-05-31T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1013814"},"modified":"2024-05-31T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:09:54","slug":"bsamla-congratulates-you-on-childrens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1013814","title":{"rendered":"BSAMLA congratulates you on Children’s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 1 is International Children’s Day<\/strong>. It began to be celebrated in 1950, but there has always been attention to children in society, including from creative people and especially writers. Many works of fiction are written for children and about children. Meanwhile, it is important to remember that in history there were cases when there were not even enough works for children and it was necessary to remind about this, to encourage creators to be interested in children’s themes.<\/p>\n

In the 30s of the twentieth century, Mikhail Lynkov also became known as a children’s writer. He repeatedly expressed concern that little was being written about and for children at the time. He was one of the initiators of the All-Belarusian competition for the best book for children, which was held in 1932. Speaking at a children’s book evening, M. Lynkov even made an appeal: \u00abIn 1931, every writer must present at least one work of fiction written specifically for children\u00bb (\u00abZvyazda\u00bb, 1931, March 25). And he himself set an example. Soon the writer appeared in print with works addressed to the younger generation. In 1935, a great story for children, \u00abYanka the Paratrooper,\u00bb was published. In the same year, the newspaper \u00abLiterature and Mastatstva\u00bb introduced readers to excerpts from M. Lynkov\u2019s new stories \u00abThe Great Courage of Mishka and the Slain Tractors\u00bb and \u00abMikolka the Steam Locomotive.\u00bb The first of them was fully published in the same year in the magazine \u00abPolymya Revaluations\u00bb, the second – in 1936, and in 1937 these works were published in a separate edition and immediately received a positive response in the press.<\/p>\n

Particularly popular was the story \u00abMikolka the Paravoz\u00bb, in which the writer told about the life of the boy Mikolka, the son of a railway worker, during the 1917 revolution and the Civil War. Lynkov\u2019s father also worked on the railway, the writer knew well what he was writing about, but the story is far from autobiographical. Mikolka is an inquisitive, smart and brave boy. He helps the partisans, even saves them in difficult situations. Based on the story, performances were staged, a radio production was made, and in 1957 the film \u00abMikolka the Paravoz\u00bb was released, based on the script by M. Lynkov and M. Sadkovich (directed by L. Golub).<\/p>\n

After the publication of the story \u00abMikolka the Steam Locomotive,\u00bb the universal love of children always surrounded the name of M. Lynkov. In the last decades of the writer\u2019s life, numerous excursions of schoolchildren came to his dacha in Naroch every summer, Michal Tikhonovich repeatedly performed at schools.<\/p>\n

Mikhas Lynkov continued to be a supporter of the theme of childhood in his work. In his pre-war stories \u00abThe Great Cotton Yaska\u00bb, \u00abThe Poison Oak\u00bb, \u00abGive me a Star\u00bb this theme was continued. He was one of the first in Belarusian literature to begin writing about children who found themselves in the occupied territory during the Great Patriotic War, who experienced the horrors of fascism, who showed heroism in the fight against the enemy (stories \u00abVasilka\u00bb, \u00abDzitsyachy Shoe\u00bb, \u00abIryna\u00bb, \u00abInept Songs\u00bb \u00ab). After the war, while abroad as part of the Belarusian delegation to the UN, Mikhas Lynkov drew attention to how children live in the United States. He wrote about this in the stories \u00abThe Black Spot\u00bb, \u00abGiovanni\u00bb, \u00abThe Price of Blood\u00bb.<\/p>\n

During meetings with children in schools and pioneer camps, Mikhas Lynkov repeatedly heard proposals to continue the history of Mikolka-Parovoz during the Great Patriotic War. He both jokingly and seriously argued that Mikolka was no longer a teenager by the time of the war and promised to write a new work for children. But work on the epic \u00abDays of Ages\u00bb took a lot of time and he failed to fulfill his promise.<\/p>\n

Today in Belarusian literature there are many authors writing for children and about children. Among them is our charming employee, leading archivist of the department of information retrieval systems and automated archival technologies of the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art, prose writer and playwright, member of the Union of Writers of Belarus and Russia Natalya Georgievna Pustilnik-Marchuk. Her book of fairy tales based on Belarusian legends, \u00abNight Tales of Polesie,\u00bb has been very popular for a number of years. Her plays are performed with constant success in theaters in Belarus and Russia. The most famous of them is \u00abAuntie Cold and New Year\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Dear children, dear adults! The staff of the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art congratulates you on the holiday! Be happy in life, may your summer and summer holidays be filled with joy!<\/p>\n

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Photo 1. Mikhail Tikhonovich Lynkov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Photo 2. Cover of Mikhas Lynkov\u2019s book \u00abMikolka the Steam Locomotive\u00bb<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Photo 3. Natalya Georgievna Pustilnik-Marchuk and her books<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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