Full biography of Abramov

To live a thought and pain of the people and to be the people in honor in it was matured by the intercessor thought for his brothers and sisters; He walked in the footsteps of Avvakum - he burned brightly like a fire. He burned, despising the hardships, he knew that the seedlings from the grains sown by him would rise. Lazarev V. Verkola, as some say, this is the upper stake, which seemed to put the Novgorodians floating along Pinega.

Free children of the Novgorod Republic conquered the dark "Chud", left on the banks of the rivers of settlement. So the Verkols originated. The upper stake was driven, and the village went from it. Large - three hundred houses. Fedor Abramov was born on February 29. The leap year was standing. The ice on the river cracked. The sun turned for the summer, but the frosts did not weaken.

The family was poor and big. Here is what the writer’s sister Maria Aleksandrovna writes about the Abramov family: "My parents are peasants. All their lives were engaged in peasant labor: they plowed the land, sowed bread, prepared livestock feed. Father Alexander Stepanovich died early." The neighbors said that he was a "humble man." But Stepanida Pavlovna Zavarzina, his wife, whom he took from the lower end of the Verkola, was, on the contrary, a strict woman.

Five children left, the youngest, Fed, only a year came out in her arms after the death of her husband. The walls are raw. We slept with Fedya and Mom on the stove or on the floors.

It didn’t live, but were always full. The mother took care of this. To save on the hay of oil and cottage cheese, in the great post ... Mother forbade to eat milk. Well, Fedya was a varnish. He loved that more tastier. And in the absence of mom, he liked to eat something: take sugar with his own hand, lick sour cream, remove the foam from melted milk when only from the furnace was removed.

Mother recognizes and interrogates us both. We do not confess. Then she takes us for a trick. He will put both on the bench and say: "Look at the icons. The one who is to blame will not raise the eye to the icons. For if he lifts, then God will immediately knock and kill." And then immediately everything will become clear who was dirty. I will bully my eyes on the icons, and Fedenka will shoot and lowering his head.

Funny, but then it was not funny. We believed that God could kill. "Stepanida Pavlovna raised all his five children and brought them to people. None of them disappeared, did not die. They grew up, got to their feet, learned. From the age of seven, Fedor went to a four -year -old Verkolsky school. The conditions for classes were difficult: there were not enough textbooks, books, notebooks.

We will go out for a break, play pebbles. He was wonderful. Something will start. He loved to prove theorems. "He graduated from the elementary school with the first student, and then continued his studies at the Karpogorsk school. There he wrote his first poems, and in the 9th grade - the whole poem" Spaniard ". It was then that his beloved teacher and greatest authority, Alexei Fedorovich Kalintsev, advised me to write only about what he experienced, he survived, because the present was only affected ...

It became one of the main rules in the work of the writer and, as the best student, received a free ticket for the cities of the Soviet Union He felt the tiny of his knowledge and went into books with his head, almost all evenings disappeared in the reading rooms. From the memoirs of the classmate of Abramov I. Vasilieva: “The academic year. We are the first -year students of the Russian Department of the Faculty of Philology.

But many, especially Leningraders, looked almost children and difficult, real ... did not know. And Fedor Abramov, we immediately noted this, looked among us adults ... in the warehouse of his speech and in pronouncing many words, a resident of northern Russia was felt. Poems. The native Pinegs arose in his orally unreasonable stories and conversations, and the speech was, of course, we did not guess that in front of us - in the future, we saw a hard -widow, which is always an unusually carefully preparing for seminars and exams, and not in order to pass.

He always spoke to us lectures with deep respect, tried to ... read books, works, to penetrate ... into the creative laboratory. In the battles near Leningrad, he received his first injury and lay in the hospital for several months. In winter, he is again in the ranks of the defenders of the city. Again a wound, after which he miraculously survived. There were three miracles in Fyodor Alexandrovich’s life.

The first happened in childhood. He was a year old when his father died. When the coffin with his father’s body stood in a hut, ”M. Abramova recalled,“ the women asked everyone to take a small God, that is, Fedya. Mother said: "He was not born, live." Then the women said that Stepanida, apparently, was obsessed with grief. "The power of faith and love to his mother, the family helped him survive.The second miracle happened at the front.

Here is what Abramov’s friend, teacher of Leningrad University A. Redin, tells about this: “The Leningrad Front. The shock battalion was ordered to make the climbs in a wire fence. Moroz was constrained by a swamp. Open terrain. Clamps - corpses of the dead comrades. How many enemy bullets were fought here! Fedor to fence. Another grenade suddenly notices a German in front of him.

He throws a grenade at him, but the German managed to shoot. Spread bullets sew their legs, hips to the soldier. He loses consciousness. Having buried his face in the ground, bleeding. Dispute sweeps him. At night, a special funeral team selected the dead. Having considered Fyodor Abramov to the dead, they dragged him on a raincoat in the mass grave. Tired, exhausted soldiers hardly move their legs.

One of them stumbles, falls and spills water from the pot to the dead on the face. The dead groaned. So miraculously remained Fyodor Abramov. "