Leningrad tales for children and adults. Go forward and not be afraid

MOSCOW. The publishing house "Scooter" published a book by Yulia Yakovleva "Children of the Crow." Events of 1938 through the eyes of children.

"Whoever does not remember his past is doomed to relive it again." Julia Yakovleva could rightfully put George Santayana’s statement in the epigraph to her “Children of the Raven”. Their unexpected relevance after several decades of painful revelations, the anathema of the Stalin era is an eloquent confirmation of this.

The first part of “Leningrad Tales”, written for children, will remind adults of the past, confused by the present. Terrible events that are not interfaced with the life of a modern child, which are completely unimaginable to him, are said sincerely and carefully. Children should learn the truth without being hardened. That in their adult life a return to the past would be impossible. So that the mysterious Black Raven never appears on the street, and the parents do not disappear in an unknown direction, as happened with the first-grader Shurka and his nine-year-old sister Tanya.

In a fairy tale, children are subject to what the bravest adults could not dare in real life: not to coward, not to give up, not to betray. Without lulling yourself into vain illusions, you can save time and energy in the fight against evil. The seven-year-old Shurka had to understand this in the execution of 1938, which turned them with Tanya into the children of the enemies of the people, like millions of other children. The book will help these children and their parents correctly and honestly touch on those moral categories, without which the formation of a worthy personality is simply impossible. The book about the adventures of a brother and sister was written without lisp and flirting with a children’s audience, incredibly exciting, requiring an indispensable continuation. There are four more amazing stories ahead.

The era of repression did not bypass the family of the author of the book, as evidenced by the dedication to his grandfather and his sisters. Broken lives, fear that did not leave until the end of life and did not allow many years after the death of Stalin to frankly talk about what was happening then. Julia Yakovleva - a talented playwright, writer, journalist - decided to do it for her family. In order not to forget and not relive the past again.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru