Valentin Berestov


Valentin Dmitrievich Berestov was a Russian poet, lyricist, who wrote for both adults and children, translator, memoirist, Pushkin scholar, researcher.

Biography

Valentin Berestov born April 1, 1928 of Meshchovsk, Kaluga Oblast. Read the future poet learned in four years. In 1942, during World War II, Berestovs family was evacuated to Tashkent. There he was lucky to get acquainted with Nadezhda Mandelstam, who introduced him to Anna Akhmatova. Then there was a meeting with Korney Chukovsky, who played a big role in the fate of Valentin Berestov.
First works published in the Smena Magazine in 1946. The first collection of poetry 'Departure' and the first children's book for the About the car came out of preschool children in 1957. Then the readers acquainted with the collection of poems and tales Happy Summer, Pictures in puddles, Smile and others.
Member of the Union of Soviet Writers. He signed the letter in defense of Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky.
In his later years he wrote and produced children's stories with his wife, artist and writer Tatyana Alexandrova.
Buried at Khovanskoye Cemetery.