Biography
Agniya Lvovna Barto (Russian: А́гния Льво́вна Барто́, IPA: [ˈaɡnʲɪjə ˈlʲvovnə bɐrˈto] ; 17 February [O.S. 4 February] 1901 – 1 April 1981) was a Russian Soviet poet and children's writer of Belarusian Jewish origin. Agniya was born Gitel Leybovna Volova in Moscow to a Belarusian Jewish family. Her father, Lev Nikolayevich Volov, was a veterinarian, and her mother, Maria (née Blokh), was from Kovno, Lithuania. Agniya studied at a ballet school. She liked poetry and soon started to write her own, trying to imitate Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Mayakovsky. She read her poetry at the graduation ceremony from the ballet school. Among the guests was the Minister of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky who remarked that instead of becoming a ballerina she should be a professional poet. According to legend, despite the fact that all of Barto's poetry at that time was about love and revolution, Lunacharsky predicted that she would become a famous children's poet.
Agniya married ornithologist and poet Pavel Barto, grandson of an English-born merchant Richard Barto. Some of her children's poems were published under two names: Agniya Barto and Pavel Barto. In 1925 she published her first books: Chinese boy Wang-Li (Китайчонок Ван-Ли) and Mishka the Petty Thief (Мишка-Воришка). Subsequently, she published The First of May (Первое мая), 1926 and Brothers (Братишки), 1928 which received a positive review from Korney Chukovsky. After publishing a book of poetic miniatures for toddlers entitled Toys (Игрушки) in 1936, she suddenly became one of the most popular children's authors, with millions of published copies.
During World War II, she wrote patriotic anti-Nazi poetry, often directly addressed to the leader of the Soviet people, Joseph Stalin. She also worked as a Western Front correspondent for the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. In 1949, she was awarded the Stalin Prize for her book Poetry for Children.
During the 1960s, Barto worked in an orphanage that inspired her to write the poem Zvenigorod (Звенигород, written in 1947, first published in 1966). For nine years, Barto was the anchor of the radio program Find a Person (Найти человека), which helped people find family members lost during World War II. During that time she helped to reunite no fewer than a thousand families. She wrote a book about it in 1966. In 1977, she published Translations from the Children's Language (Переводы с детского) composed of her translations of poetry written by children of different countries. She died in Moscow in 1981.
Filmography
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Movies 8
Writer 7
self 1
TV Shows 1
This Is Edik (2020)
The Bullfinch (1983)
Yeralash (1974)
Looking for a Man (1973)
От семи до двенадцати (1965)
10,000 boys (1962)
Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character (1953)
An Elephant and a Rope (1945)
The Foundling (1939)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1901-02-17
Deathday1981-04-01 (80 years old)
Birth NameАгнесса Львовна Волова
Birth PlaceKaunas, Lithuania
RelationshipsPavel Nikolaevič Barto (1926-01-01 - 1933-01-01)
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Also Known AsАгния Барто, Agniya Barto, Агния Львовна Волова, Агния Львовна Барто, Агния Волова
AwardsMedal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of the October Revolution, State Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, Miner's Glory 1st class, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Order of Lenin, Order of the Smile, Lenin Prize
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