Krapiwa Kondrat - the first national writer of Belarus

Kondrat Krapiva is a Belarusian writer, public figure, translator, playwright, satirist, poet, Hero of Socialist. Labor. The author of fables, feuilletons, stories and works on Belarusian linguogeography. Three times was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. In this article you will be presented with a brief biography of Kondrat Krapiva. So, let's get started.

Childhood

Nettles Kondrat was born in the village of Nizok in 1896. The boy's parents were peasants. Initially, he received education in the parish school, and then changed several schools. In 1913 he became a people's teacher, passing exams externally. A year later he began teaching at the school in the village of Mishany. In 1915 he was drafted into the army.

Service in the army and work

In military service Kondrat Krapiva graduated from the school of ensigns and went to the front (it was the 1 st world war). Participated in battles in the Romanian fleet until 1918. Then he was demobilized as a teacher. After that, Nettrapov got a job as a teacher in the village of Kamenka, but later the future writer was again drafted into the army, where he served until 1923.

After the return of Nettles, he again takes a job as a teacher. This time to the village of Ostrovok. But here he will not be long. In 1926, Kondrat decides to raise the level of education and enters the pedagogical department of the Belarusian State University. After four years he successfully completes it. From 1932 to 1936 he worked as an editor in the journal Flame of the Revolution.

Repeated call-up

Soon he was again mobilized as a former military man. Nettari Kondrat as part of the Red Army went on a campaign to Western Belarus. In the 1939-1940's took part in the Soviet-Finnish war. After that, the writer took off his uniform for good. But then he worked as a front-line journalist for the newspaper "For Soviet Belarus".

New posts

In 1945-1947 he worked as an editor of the Vozhyk edition. In 1946 he was sent to the General Assembly of the United Nations as a delegate from the BSSR.

From 1947 to 1952, Krapiva headed the linguistics sector at the Institute of Literature and Language at the Academy of Sciences. In 1952 he was appointed director of the University of Linguistics.

From 1956 to 1982, Krapiva was vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. And from 1982 to 1989 - a leading research associate in the department of lexicology at the Institute Yakub Kolos.

Throughout his life, Krapiva was elected to the Supreme Council of the BSSR many times. The writer died in 1991 in Minsk.

Creation

Kondrat Krapiva, whose biography is described in this article, began to write at once in two languages - Belarusian and Russian. His first work in Russian "Lived-were" (feuilleton in verse) was published in 1922 in "Krasnoarmeiskaya Pravda". In the same year in the newspaper "Soviet Belarus" came a satirical poem "Matchmakers" in the Belarusian language. In the mid-1920s, the first collections of Kondrat - "Nettle" and "Osti" appeared.

Now Krapivu is known as a satirical writer, but in fact he tried to write serious stories. Editors praised him, but published only satire. And readers can observe this duality in the whole work of Nettles.

Until 1926, Kondrat was a member of the literary association "Maladnyak", and then moved to "Uzvyshsha."

At the beginning of his career, Krapiva tried to master the prose genre, creating feuilletons. But then abandoned this activity.

In all the magazines where Kondrat worked as an editor, he defended the Belarusian language. Any of his criticism was mocked. On this subject, the writer even has a fable called "Goat".

Nettles made many translations. He translated Shevchenko, Tvardovsky, Mayakovsky, Chekhov, Ostrovsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Krylov, Fonvizin, Shakespeare and many others into the Belarusian language.

Kondrat wrote for the rest of his life. He postponed the typewriter only when his vision deteriorated. His last melodramatic work "At the height of" the writer finished at the age of 86 years.

Interesting Facts

• A remarkable story is how Krapriva Kondrat was doing writing. One day he was walking around the village and saw a newspaper attached to the wall called "Soviet Belarus". Stopping, the future writer decided to read a couple of articles. They liked Kondrat, and he decided to try his hand at the literary arena.
• The life motto of Nettles is "Not a single day without a line". But at the same time the author never told anyone what he is working on. For example, Kondrat wrote about his "Gate of Immortality" about 6 years. And this was learned only after the publication of the work.
• Nettles Kondrat had a phenomenal memory. He did not keep a calendar and never wrote down phone numbers and addresses. Everything important was stored in his head. When someone from the circle of the writer had to find the phone number of a certain person, everyone immediately turned to Krapiv. If Kondrat knew him, he immediately gave out the numbers. In his old age, the writer's vision fell dramatically, which prevented him from engaging in editorial work. Again, it was saved by a phenomenal memory, which made it possible to edit dictionaries without resorting to specialized literature. In the memory of Nettles, all dialect variants and meanings of terms were stored.
• But the writer often took notes. In his whole life, he has accumulated a lot of notebooks. Most often these were travel notes or quotations. Kondrat had a beautiful, even hand. He never made notes on the margin and did not draw.
• In addition to literature, Kondrat Krapiva (photo above) had another passion - chess. He could sit at the board for hours and hours. Also, the writer had a special chess set, the figures of which were carved from a rare tree.