i remember now a very interesting letter that lev abramovich koselya received, i read it in a book byn i was 8 years old, my father gave me a book by kanduita shvambrani, it was only translated into english in 1935, how interesting. and there was a phrase that i was so shocked by this book that when my son turned 8 years old, i gave it to him, and he also read it several times, and dear lev abramovich, if people from both sides of the atlantic ocean would live more often in in the country of our own, we understood each other better, there would be fewer problems, for some reason i remember this letter so much, how relevant everything is now and how universal it all is. the books were so needed, they were so in demand that we copied pieces and fragments, knowing that later the book would no longer come to you, it would already be passed on to the next children in the next classes, the next next moment i was already rewriting the samasdat already in the eighties, if you got into trouble, you had to have a book, there was a great confrontation, you will never see it again, no, this book

very often in recent years, because by the will of fate i happened to live in the house where lev abramovich back, written in the very office where i 'm sitting at the computer, now in peredelkino near moscow, in the writers' town, so i, of course, uh, well, feel some kind of special involvement in this poem, simonov was visiting kasil, uh, this poem was written, but very early, immediately after the start of the war, it was published only in january '42. immediately, yes, immediately such a reaction, absolutely, just everything by heart, they knew everything, they rewrote everything, they sent everything to each other, yes, yes, and this is an unexpected story, because even, as far as we know, there were some hesitations, yes , the newspaper is true, the official organ of the central committee of the party, but here it’s not about the front, not about victory, not about communism, but about the personal, yes, here it’s about the fact that you can only survive if you have... love, if you have expectations, simonov's poem will be read to us by ivan semyonov, and then sonya comes here, wait fo

guests today are wonderful people, this is the granddaughter, a classic of children's literature lev abramovich deputy of the russian children's state library and executive director of the association raising a reader, angela eduardovna lebedeva. let's start with history, let's start from afar, let's start with how it all began, how it was all done in young soviet state, as they said then, the october revolution won, well-known reforms took place, in the twenties the system of soviet book publishing began to take shape, how it was all structured, it was a whole industry, publishing house, authors, artists, professions, how it all functioned, how powerful, diverse, strong it was, then in the twenties, thirties, in the forties, they were absolutely right that it was a powerful industry, from its inception a new state, first of all, she paid attention to the younger generation, because the younger generation is the future of the soviet country, and they were considered as the future builders of communism. it was significant that the state, the government , paid attention to children's literature,