Today we will tell about who Vasily Peskov was. The biography of this incredibly tantalum man is given below. It's about the Soviet and Russian writer, journalist, photo correspondent, TV host of the program "In the world of animals" (from 1975 to 1990), a traveler. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1964, as well as the RF Government Media Award of 2013 (posthumously).
Biography
Vasily Peskov was born in 1930, on March 14, in the village of Orlovo, now it belongs to the Novousmansky district of the Voronezh region. His parents were a machinist and a peasant woman. Finished school. The next step was to get a professional education. I entered Voronezh school of projectionists. Now this educational institution has the status of an industrial-humanitarian college. He worked as a chauffeur, a pioneer leader, a projectionist. I took a great interest in photography with nature. Since 1953 he worked in the newspaper Voronezh under the title "Young Communard". First became a photographer. After the incredibly successful publication of his first essay entitled "April in the Woods" became a regular correspondent. In 1956, he sent several of his own articles to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. As a result, he is invited to Moscow. Since 1956, Vasily Peskov is a columnist for the Komsomolskaya Pravda. The permanent author of the rubric entitled "Window to Nature". The debut book of the essays of the author was published in 1960. In 1975-1990 led the program "In the world of animals", together with Nikolai Drozdov. The children of Vasily Peskov were loved no less than adults, since from 1992 he started working in the journal "The Ant hill". There his column was called "Uncle Vasya tells."
About myself
The writer notes that he received his first lessons in life in the family. He was the eldest child. Mother and father of children loved, but did not spoil. According to the author, only with the advent of years can you appreciate the wisdom of such education. Love for the surrounding nature in a young man was brought up by his school teacher named Vasily Nikolaevich. He went with the children to the forest, showed different birds, talked about nature. At home he lived quail. During the lesson, he opened the window every time, and then crumbs crumbled onto the window sill, feeding the birds. Teacher really wanted the children to love the village. He often recalled that it was in the village that poets grew up. According to the writer, he traveled many countries, he could see the beauty of nature of different places, but he always felt a thirst for knowledge of the unknown.
Leaving a life
Vasily Peskov died in 2013, on August 12, in Moscow. He was 83 years old. According to the will, Vasili Mikhailovich's body was cremated, his ashes were scattered over the field of the village of Orlovo, which is in the Voronezh Region. It happened on September 20, when 40 days passed since the death of the writer. The described field is at the edge of the forest, near the stone. He was brought from Mordovia by Vasily Mikhailovich himself. The stone is adorned with the words of the writer.
Awards
Vasily Peskov in 1964 received the Lenin Prize for a book entitled "Steps on Dew." In 2003 he became the owner of the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" of the fourth degree - for his contribution to the domestic journalism. In 2013 he was posthumously awarded the RF Government prize in the field of mass media. Thus, his contribution to the life of the media was noted.
Bibliography
Vasily Peskov in 1960 published a book "Notes of the Photoreporter." In 1963 appeared the work "Steps on the dew." He also wrote the work "Visiting Sholokhov." In 1963, the book "Wait for us, the stars". In 1965 there were "White dreams". In 1966, the author wrote the book "He was a scout". In 1967, the "Edge of the World" appeared. In 1969 the work "Journey with a Young Month" is published. In 1971, the book "Rye Song" appeared. In 1972 he published the work "Fatherland". In co-authorship with B. Strelnikov, the writer creates the book "The Earth after the Ocean" in 1975. The work "The River of My Childhood" is published in 1978. The book "Birds on the wires" appears in 1982. It is dedicated to ecology. It has a chapter on people who are inseparably connected with nature (Boris Veprintsev, Dmitri Pavlovich Zuev, Ernest Seton-Thompson, Alfred Brem, Joy Adamson). A documentary novel dedicated to the family of the unusual hermits Lykovy goes out in 1983. It is called "Taiga cul-de-sac". In 1985, the book "Away and Home" appeared. In 1986, the work "All this was". In 1987, "House with a Cock" is published. In 1988, the book "Prosselki" was published. She entered the series "Fatherland". The work "Sister Alaska" is published in 1991. It is dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the opening of the peninsula by Russian seafarers. Then, from the pen of the writer comes "Fee for the shot." In 1994, the book "Alaska More Than You Think." In 1994, the work "The Russian Footprint" was created, co-authored with M. Zhilin. It is dedicated to the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, the Commander Islands, Kamchatka, and the Sea of Okhotsk. The book "Wanderings" appears in 1991. In two parts in 2001, the Window to Nature comes out. In 2010, the book "War and People" appears. In 2011 comes the work "Love - photography: what, where, why and how I shot". Now you know everything about the writer and journalist named Vasily Peskov. Photos of this great man are attached to the material.