Steel ring

The book presents the story of Konstantin Paustovsky "Steel Ring".
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (1892-1968) was born in Moscow. His father, an official, railway statistics, had an inanimate character and often changed their place of work. After several crossings, the family settled in Kyiv, and Kostya entered the Kyiv classical gymnasium. But six years later, his father left his family, and the boy, in order to earn a living and study, was forced to deal with tutoring. In 1912, Paustovsky wrote and published his first story "on the water".
Having graduated from the gymnasium, he entered the University of Kyiv, and then transferred to Moscow University, but the First World War began, and Konstantin interrupted his studies. He worked as a tram carriage, then on a sanitary train.
Two elder brother Paustovsky died at the front, and after the war he returned to his mother in Moscow.
Konstantin met the revolution with joy, but, faced with violence, devastation, the decline of the previous culture, was disappointed. He worked as a reporter, teacher, corrector, traveled a lot around the country. In 1925, his first book "Sea sketches" was published, and in 1929 - the novel "Brilling Clouds". Paustovsky becomes a professional writer, and after the release of the story "Kara-Bugaz" (about the struggle for the revival of barren, drained land) fame comes to him. He visited many corners of Russia, but he especially fell in love with the Meshchersky Territory, about which he wrote many stories and stories.
During the Great Patriotic War, Paustovsky worked as a military correspondent. In this heavy period for all, he wrote such lyrical stories as "Snow" (1943) and "Rainy Dawn" (1945).
In the 50-60s, world fame came to Paustovsky. He got the opportunity to travel around Europe and wrote many stories and essays ("Italian meetings", "fleeting Paris", "La-Channel lights", etc) But his main works during this period were the autobiographical "Tale of Life" and the story "Golden Rose" - about the "excellent essence of writing".
Paustovsky died in Moscow, but he bequeathed to bury himself in the city cemetery of Tarusa, on a high hill surrounded by trees with a clearance of Taruska River.
For secondary school age