Kochin biography

A significant date, news, the Chernogolov city library published about his childhood, he recalled this: “grew, like a nettles at the fence, in terrifying poverty. My childhood passed in hardships, among village children, the most desperate and gifted. This environment has determined my character and attitude for life. ” After graduating from a rural school, Nikolai Kochin continues to study at an elementary school in the district center Dalny Konstantinovo.

Kochin Nikolai Ivanovich in the year enters the philological faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod Pedagogical Institute, where he issues a manuscript magazine. Since the year, N. Kochin has been working as a teacher first in Pavlovo-on-Oka, and then in Tuapse. Here, in the teacher’s dormitory on the windowsill of the common room, Kochin wrote his first novel “Girls”.

The work was published in the year in the October magazine Alexander Fadeev, who paid attention, thanks to an unusual name, to the manuscript of an unknown author. In this novel, Nikolai Ivanovich talks about how a clogged rural girl is gradually straightening up, who feels herself with a full -fledged member of society, how she begins to reach for knowledge and culture. The writer showed a hopeless wild village in which the sprouts of the new break through their way with great difficulty.

After the publication of the novel “Girls”, who brought Kochin real glory, he moves to Nizhny Novgorod to engage in writing. On the essays “Notes of the Selkor”, M. Kochin first formulated his aesthetic credo in them: to write only about what you know is thoroughly. In the years, N. Kochin travels a lot around the country and first leaves enthusiastic evidence about the creation of collective farms in the village.

But then his eyes changed dramatically. In the story of Tarabara and the unrelated “village diary”, the writer shows how collective farmers do not feel satisfaction from joint work. The writer was not afraid to raise the problem that it was dangerous to talk about at that time. The story was criticized in the press. The writer and the topic of industrialization did not bypass.

To reliably write about the life of workers, he works in the brigade of masons on the construction of the Gorky Automobile Plant. In the year, Kochin writes the novel “Guys”, where the main characters, former peasants, become builders of the auto giant. The autobiographical story “Youth” comes out, the basis of the story of which is the story itself: the performances of peasants against the landowner, the fight against kulaks and desertion, the work of the Komsomol organization.

On behalf of M. Gorky Kochin, he writes the documentary story “Kulibin” for the series “Life of wonderful people”. In the story of a well-known Russian self-taught mechanics, a tragedy of genuine talent, a creative, seeking a person who was used only as an inventor in terms of palace fun, is revealed. Books by N. Kochin on September 17, in the life of N. Kochin, the Black Strip comes.

On charges of creating a counter -revolutionary organization, he was arrested by the NKVD bodies and sentenced to Tyu years of camps. He fell a forest, broke a stone in quarries, starved, hurt, but survived and returned. In the year, the writer achieved complete rehabilitation. In X, Nikolai Ivanovich begins to write about the life of the camps - the novels “Balled Toodle”, “Free Helber” in the year in honor of the Lettiya and for the huge achievements in the literature N.

Kochin is awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. In the year, Nikolai Kochin was awarded the State Prize of Russia named after The consequences of the “camp decade” are increasingly reminiscent of Nikolai Kochin about themselves with pain in the legs. At the end of his life, N. Kochin turns to a patriotic topic, writes a novel about the Kiev Prince Svyatoslav. But he does not have time to publish him, on May 31 the writer's heart stopped.

After the death of the writer, his novel “Prince Svyatoslav” is published in the literary and historical journal “Rus” for the Letniy of N. Kochin in Nizhny Novgorod published a collection of miniatures “Ripe ears”, the story “The Way of Savla” is published in the year. Nikolai Kochin’s novels “Encyclopedia of the folk life of the twentieth century”: pre -revolutionary village, its life, revolution, comables, rebellions, hunger, then NEP, the birth of a new intelligentsia, finally, the construction of an auto giant - and all these are living layers of life, characters, such pages are historical narratives.

These are documents, but unlike the archive, with living persons and mental warmth. Kochina, Lesyatnikova; Nizhny Novgorod State Regional Universal Scientific Library. Lenin; Department of Local Lore Literature - 84 p.