Usachev Andrey Alekseevich
Andrey Usachev was born in 1958 into an ordinary Moscow family. His father was a turner, his mother was a teacher. The writer recalls that his father spent more time with him, because, after becoming the school director, his mother disappeared all day at work.
The father was a jack of all trades and a great lover of technology, he tried to introduce his son to his hobbies, took him with him to the garage, but Andrey never turned out to be a techie. After studying for several years at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, Andrei Alekseevich realized that this was not his path, he left the institute, served in the army and entered the philological faculty of Tver State University. It was closer, here he defended his thesis on the topic of children's poetry by Daniil Kharms, and it was thanks to Kharms that he realized that you can write poetry and rejoice, and not suffer, as is customary for poets.
In his youth, Usachev was fond of music, was a drummer in a school ensemble, and it was then that he wrote his first poems and music for them. Nowadays, at meetings with readers, you can also hear Usachev performing his own works, accompanying himself on the guitar.
Usachev owes his entry into the world of great children's literature largely to Eduard Uspensky, who, having once read an impressive pile of Usachev's amateur poems, said that it was high time for him to be published. Since then, their friendship and collaboration began.
Andrei Usachev is married and has two adult children (a son and a daughter), but says that he never wrote specifically for them - he always wrote for the child in himself, that is, works that he himself would have liked as a child.
Usachev writes not only works of art, but also textbooks, educational books on history, geography, and linguistics. He hosts radio broadcasts, writes scripts for cartoons, and has been developing scripts for New Year trees in Moscow for many years in a row.
Among his favorite children's books he names the series “The Wizard of the Emerald City”, books by Nosov, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, “Two Captains” by Kaverin.
