Nosov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Nikolai Nosov was born in 1908 in Kyiv in the family of a pop artist. As a child, he also dreamed of becoming an artist, then a musician, then a chemist, but in reality he had to start earning a living at the age of 14 with completely different activities - mowing grass, selling newspapers, working in a factory.
However, numerous hobbies and interests nevertheless led Nikolai Nikolaevich to a creative path - he received a higher education at the Institute of Cinematography, began making cartoons, scientific and educational films. During the war, he made educational films about technology - for the military, about operations in the field - for doctors. Later he made cartoons and films based on his own works.
Nikolai Nosov had an only son, Peter, and it was for him that he began to write his first stories. Dunno appeared later, and it all started with short stories for the magazine “Murzilka”, where “Entertainers”, “Living Hat”, “Mishkina Porridge” and other funny stories about children now known to every preschooler were first published. Everyone immediately fell in love with them and soon they began to be published in entire collections; after these books, “The Cheerful Family” appeared, and then the story “Vitya Maleev at School and at Home,” which was a great success (there is a film based on it, “Two Friends”). There was no ideology in these works; they simply described the life of Soviet schoolchildren and were entertaining, not edifying, in nature.
Dunno was not originally a Nosov character - he was created at the end of the 19th century by the Canadian illustrator Palmer Cox and included in his comics; in Russia he appeared thanks to the children's writer and translator Anna Khvolson, who gave the foreign little people the names Murzilka and Dunno, and Nosov has already reworked this image of the well-known short man, about whom he wrote three thick books.
Repressions and any other problems with the authorities happily passed Nosov. But he did not have any special preferences, he did not have a writer’s cottage, his anniversaries were not celebrated on a grand scale, and he lived in the most ordinary forty-meter apartment.
Nikolai Nikolaevich was very happy about the birth of his only grandson Igor, loved him and spent a lot of time with him; he wrote a book about his grandson, “The Tale of My Friend Igor.” Igor Petrovich immediately followed in the footsteps of his father, becoming a professional photographer, and in the footsteps of his famous grandfather, writing several books for children, including the continuation of the adventures of Dunno. Igor Petrovich Nosov is the father of four children, the line of the writer continues!
