Meshchora side

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (1892-1968) found in the Forest Meshchorsky Territory "The largest, simple and ingenuous happiness." Probably, only a very naive and unprepared reader will take the stories and novels of Paustovsky about his beloved side to "notes of the naturalist" - everything is in inextricable unity. And the charm of the "quiet and noise of the earth under a dim heaven." And surprisingly talented villages ("" In Solotche there is almost no hut where there would be no paintings. You ask: who wrote? They answer: grandfather, or father, or brother ") And deep thoughts about the essence of human destiny on Earth. An interesting circumstance: Vladimir Tendryakov, Grigory Baklanov, Yuri Bondarev, Yuri Trifonov, Boris Balter, came out of the Paustovsky seminar at the Literary Institute - it seems that more "city writers are difficult to choose. Of course, nature endowed them with a creative gift, but probably the teacher put something into the souls and explained something. Well, for example, like this: "Inspiration enters us, like a radiant summer morning, just dropping fogs of a quiet night, sprayed with dew, with thickets of wet foliage. It carefully breathes in our face with its healing coolness. " This inspiration is from Mashchora.

The accompanying article by Pavel Kryuchkova

Pavel Mikhailovich Kryuchkov (born in 1966) - editor, journalist, museum worker, sound archivist. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. He worked in the editorial offices of many newspapers and magazines, on radio and television. Leading researcher of the State Museum of History of Russian Literature named after V.I. Dahl (department of the House Museum of Korney Chukovsky), deputy editor-in-chief of the New World magazine, author of programs on Radio Vera and the host of the section "Stanzha" in the magazine Thomas". Laureate of literary and art prizes, including the Media Government Prize. Lives in Peredelkino