With nature alone he breathed life. “With nature alone, he breathed life ...”: a literary portrait of M.M.

There are writers whose books become a man's friend from an early age. These include Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin. This is a hard-working writer, a patriot writer, a travel writer.

A meeting was dedicated to the 140th anniversary of M. Prishvin in the environmental agency "Lesovichok and K" of the children's library of the Oktyabrsky microdistrict. The young “foresters” prepared for the anniversary acquaintance in advance: they read all the books of the author, the list of which was given to them in advance, prepared answers to questions and assignments on the work of M. Prishvin.
In the library, at a media lesson, schoolchildren got acquainted with the biography of the writer, learned that Prishvin’s great love for nature was born thanks to his love for man: “I write about nature, I myself think about people.” A scientist, traveler, master of the artistic word - Prishvin described the life of nature at different times of the year, opened the world of amazing phenomena to the reader, taught him to treat the natural wealth of the country with care, in a businesslike manner. Mikhail Mikhailovich knew everything about nature, understood its language. This extraordinary gift came to him from his mother, who taught him to get up early, before sunrise. All his life, the writer kept this child in himself, who looked at the beautiful world with wide open, joyful and amazing eyes. Prishvin's books are the ABC of nature, which teaches people to be frugal.
For Prishvin, the definition of "singer of nature" was firmly entrenched.
Indeed, nature is the writer's creative laboratory, his office. Here he drew poetic inspiration and "recorded" many amazing phenomena directly from nature. And man is part of nature. He will cut down forests, pollute rivers and air, destroy animals and birds - and he will not be able to live on a dead planet. Therefore, Prishvin turned to the children: “My young friends! We are the masters of our nature, and for us it is the pantry of the sun with the great treasures of life...
Fish - water, bird - air, beast - forest, steppe, mountains. And a man needs a home. And to protect nature means to protect the homeland.
Mikhail Mikhailovich loved the forest. He went there for discoveries: “It was necessary to find something in nature that I had not yet seen, and maybe no one else had ever met this in my life,” wrote Prishvin.
May every encounter with nature be a wonderful discovery for the young ecologists of the agency and for all readers of the children's library. And the books of Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin will help to make these discoveries!
At the end of the meeting, the schoolchildren listened with interest to the poem of the sailor-poet D. Tikhonov "In Memory of Prishvin", leafed through the pages of his books at the anniversary book exhibition "Singer of Nature" and received bookmarks for books with the writer's appeal to children as a gift from the library.

On March 1, in the Smolensk Regional Library for Children and Youth, employees of the youth sector held an event “He breathed life with nature alone ...”, dedicated to the 145th anniversary of the birth of M. Prishvin. It was attended by students of junior classes of secondary school No. 2. The presenter told the children about what an amazing person M.M. was. Prishvin, how he knew how to see beauty in the most ordinary things and show it to his reader. They talked about the biography of the writer: about his difficult childhood, youth, about how he became a writer.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin was born on February 4, 1873 in the family estate of Khrushchevo-Levshino, Oryol province.

The father of the future writer Mikhail Dmitrievich Prishvin was engaged in breeding Oryol trotters, was a passionate hunter. He played cards, sold the stud farm and mortgaged the estate. The mother of the future writer, left after the death of her husband with five children in her arms, gave all the children a decent education.

In 1893, Mikhail Prishvin graduated from the Tyumen Alexander Real School, and then continued his education at the Riga Polytechnic. In 1897 he went abroad, where he studied at the agronomy department of the University of Leipzig. Returning to Russia, until 1905 he served as an agronomist.

Prishvin's first story "Sashok" was published in the magazine "Rodnik" in 1906. Leaving his profession as an agronomist, he becomes a correspondent for various newspapers. Passion for ethnography and folklore leads to the decision to travel to the north. M. Prishvin gets acquainted with the life and speech of the northerners, writes down tales, passing them in a peculiar form of travel essays (“In the land of fearless birds”, 1907; “For the magic bun”, 1908).

The book "At the Walls of the Invisible City" appeared as a result of the writer's journey to the Volga region. The essays "Adam and Eve" and "Black Arab" were written after a trip to the Crimea and Kazakhstan. During the First World War, M. Prishvin was a war correspondent, publishing his essays in various newspapers.

After the October Revolution, he taught for some time in the Smolensk region. Passion for hunting and local history was reflected in a series of hunting and children's stories written in the 1920s, which were later included in the book "Calendar of Nature", which glorified him as a narrator about the life of nature, a singer in Central Russia.

In the same years, he wrote the autobiographical novel "Kashcheev's Chain", which he began in 1923, on which he worked until his last days.

In the early 1930s, M. Prishvin visited the Far East, as a result, the book "Dear Animals" appeared, which served as the basis for the story "Ginseng" ("The Root of Life", 1930). He wrote about the journey through the Kostroma and Yaroslavl lands in the story "Undressed Spring". During the Patriotic War, the writer creates "Stories about Leningrad children", "The Tale of Our Time", a fairy tale-tale "The pantry of the sun". In the last years of his life, the writer gave a lot of time and energy to diaries.

With nature alone he breathed life

The brook understood babble,

And I understood the sound of tree leaves,

And I felt the grass vegetation.

On January 25, 1832, one of the most popular Russian artists, Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, was born. Ivan Ivanovich was the creator of the Russian epic landscape. Shishkin's legacy is enormous: hundreds of paintings, thousands of sketches and drawings, many engravings and etchings. The titanic work aroused deep respect from his contemporaries.
I. Shishkin was born in the city of Yelabuga on the Kama in a merchant family. Thanks to his father, a passionate lover of nature, he discovered its greatness and beauty as a child. From 1852 to 1856 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and from 1856 to 1860 at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Here he developed his views as a person and an artist. 70-90 years of the XIX century - the time of the highest creative achievements of Shishkin, among which, of course, his famous "Rye" (1878) belongs.

In the painting "Rye" by I.I. Shishkin created a majestic image of the Russian land, vast, spacious, severe and beautiful. For his painting, the artist chose a canvas of a rather large size and horizontal format and built the composition in such a way that the road involuntarily leads our eyes into the endless depths of the golden sea of ​​rye. The pines in this picture were compared with mighty heroes standing in the middle of a wide field.
With paintings by A.K. Savrasov and F.A. Vasiliev wants to be alone, the epic-majestic world of the work of I.I. Shishkin is addressed to many people at once. This is a typical Russian flat landscape. The picture makes a strong impression due to the extraordinary vitality of the motive, the inner integrity of the image and the depth of expression of the artistic idea. It is felt that, while creating it, the artist was filled with great faith in the riches of nature, with which she generously rewards human labor. In the picture I.I. Shishkin's rye is the work of the people, the result of the creative power and scope inherent in the Russian people.
In 1884, I. Shishkin performed another equally famous work - the painting “Forest Dali”. This picture is written freely and widely. A majestic panorama of forests unfolds before our eyes, somewhere in the distance, among dark greenery, a forest lake or a river bend turns blue. In this work, Shishkin solved complex and in many ways new pictorial tasks for himself: the endless green massif is diverse and complex in color, but the light haze of the morning fog enveloping the distance helped the artist combine all the colors in a single calm colorful range. The general cold bluish-green tone of the picture, as it were, carries the breath of the northern summer. The artistic language of Shishkin's painting "Forest Dali" is strict, measured, stately. As in all his best works, the image of nature is based on a combination of deep knowledge of nature and a high degree of epic generalization.

A student of the Academy, Shishkin retained his attraction to monumental dimensions, to the priority of chiaroscuro and drawing over color, he strove to create a general impression of the power, strength, and greatness of Russian nature. Its nature is static, sometimes conveyed dryly in protocol. But he is looking for in her not the changeable, which attracted, for example, the Impressionists, but the eternal. Not a change of season or day, as in Claude Monet, but something unshakable, constant: the flowering of summer, ripe rye, evergreen pines, etc.
I. I. Shishkin is a truly great artist, and this was already well understood by his contemporaries. So, I.N. Kramskoy wrote that "Shishkin is a milestone in the development of the Russian landscape, this is a man-school." The famous art critic V. Stasov wrote: “The only art is great, necessary and sacred, which does not lie and does not fantasize, which does not amuse itself with old toys, but looks with all eyes at what is happening everywhere around us, and, having forgotten the former aristocratic division of plots into high and low, with a flaming chest, is pressed against everything where there is poetry, thought and life ”(“ Our Artistic Affairs ”). Stasov was sometimes inclined to consider the craving for the expression of great ideas that excite society as one of the characteristic national features of Russian art.

Rimsky-Korsakov Kunin Iosif Filippovich

“WITH NATURE ALONE HE BREATHE LIFE…”

In his lifetime, Rimsky-Korsakov several times experienced a surge of some kind of especially enthusiastic admiration for the beauty and wisdom of nature. So it was at the height of the passion for the plot of The Snow Maiden, then while working on the opera Sadko. He was ready to pray to a crooked stump uprooted from the ground, a centuries-old oak, a forest stream, a lake, and even a large head of cabbage, a black ram, a cock's sonorous cry. It seemed to him then that animals, birds, even just trees and flowers, are more knowledgeable than people, that they understand the language of nature more clearly. In those moments of delight, the world seemed closer to him.

He was a great storyteller. Not only because he knew how to retell funny or sad tales with music, create musical epics and legends, build unprecedented palaces. Rimsky-Korsakov was a storyteller, because in a fairy tale he saw a whole world of folk fiction, in an old ritual - a forgotten meaning, in a forgotten belief - beauty. He was a poet and painter in sounds.

And one more striking phenomenon: he perceived musical tonalities visually. One was dark blue, sapphire. The other is pink, the color of the dawn. The third brought to mind the green spring dress of birches. One resembled the clear light of day, the other the crimson glow of a fire. There were tonalities gloomy, gray-lead, there were grayish-green and grayish-violet. Certain representations were associated with a progression of chords. The river, the forest, the city had, as it were, their spokesmen in the world of sounds. "All keys, scales and chords for me personally occur in nature itself," he once said. In the changing colors of the sunset clouds, in the play of the rays and light pillars of the northern lights, he heard double music: sound and color. The language, which was incomprehensible to others, became intelligible to him. As a poet and thinker Goethe, according to Baratynsky,

The star book was clear to him,

And the sea wave spoke to him.

Following Nature Central to the philosophy of Seneca, as in all classical Stoicism, is Nature. Seneca himself speaks of this in the treatise “On a Happy Life”: “However, there is a point on which all the Stoics converge among themselves, and this point is agreement with