Oreshin, Peter Vasilievich

Born in the city of Atkarsk, Saratov province . Father, Vasily Egorovich, who was taken out of the village on the 13th year of his life, was given to the manufactory. All his life he worked as a clerk. Mother, Agafya Petrovna, sewed calico shirts for sale, sat days and nights at a sewing machine.

In the 9th year, Peter was sent to elementary school, graduated from it with the “first award”, and the 12-year-old ended up in the city 4-grade school. But he did not graduate from this school, for lack of funds, and left three years later, although he passed the exams for the third grade. In the 16th year I got to the accounting school, but felt out of place. Drew. He worked in an office.

The first creative successes came in 1911 , when he began to be published in the Saratov Listka and the Saratov Gazette .

In 1913, Oreshin moved to St. Petersburg , served in the office, published in the journals "Herald of Europe", "Testament".

In 1914, Oreshin was drafted into the army. As an ordinary marching company, he participated in the battles of the First World War , was marked for bravery by two St. George crosses .

Wife - writer Lyudmila Grigorieva (d. 1917).

In 1918, Oreshin publishes two books of poetry. The first was called "Glow." S. Yesenin responded to it with a review. He clearly and figuratively defined the circle of themes of Oreshin’s poetry, comparing the “Glow” with the lake, “where the month, the church, and the huts are reflected.” It reflects the same as in the verses of Yesenin, Klychkov, Klyuev. But the world of Oreshinskaya poetry is not like the poetic paintings of his brothers in the "peasant merchant". If their social motives are almost indistinguishable, then Oreshin painfully writes about far from the poetic aspects of the life of the peasant.

In the 1920s, the poet actively collaborates with metropolitan and Saratov publishing houses. He conducts active propaganda work, writes a lot. It is published in newspapers and magazines, one after another, books of his poems are published. On the initiative of Oreshin, a section of peasant writers was created at the Moscow Proletcult . In 1924, the collection "Creativity of the Peoples of the USSR" was published in Moscow. Oreshin was not only the compiler of this book, but also the author of many translations of folklore works of various peoples of the country.

On October 28, 1937, Pyotr Oreshin was arrested, sentenced to death on March 15, 1938, and executed on the same day. Rehabilitated in 1956 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR ^[1] .

Leading critics branded Oreshin, but he had a significant influence on the development of the peasant theme in Soviet literature ( A. Twardovsky , M. Isakovsky ). ^[2]

• 1917-1918 - 7th Christmas Street, 40.

• 1930s - Bolshoi Mogiltsevsky Lane, Building 6, Apt. 4

• Glow, P., 1918
• Red Russia. M., ed. All-Russian Central Executive Committee, 1918
• Duleyka, Saratov, "Center Printing", 1920
• Birch, Saratov, 1920
• Nabat, Saratov, 1921
• We, Saratov, 1921
• Famine, M., 1921
• Clumsy, M., Guise. 1922
• Scarlet Temple, M., Guise, 1922
• Mikula, M., KN, 1922
• On a hungry land, M. 1922
• Rainbow, M., Guise, 1922
• A man on an ice floe, M. 1923
• Collected works in 4 volumes :
  • Rye sun, 1923
  • Straw Block, 1924
  • Rodnik, 1927
  • Explicit Lyre, 1928
• There was nothing. The Tale, 1926
• Evil life. Tale, 1931
• Second grass. M., ICC, 1933
• Under a happy sky, 1937

Posthumous Editions

• Poems and poems, 1958
• Tales and Stories, 1960
• Poems, 1964
• Favorites, 1968

• Zemskov V.F. Oreshin // Brief Literary Encyclopedia. T. 5: Murari - Chorus. - M .: Owls. Encycl., 1968. - St. 458-459.
• Zankovskaya L.V. Oreshin Pyotr Vasilievich // Russian children's writers of the 20th century: Bibliographic dictionary. - M .: Flint ; Nauka , 1997 .-- pp . 318-319 . - ISBN 5-02-011304-2 .