Yudin Georgy Nikolaevich biography. Georgy Nikolaevich Yudin Unexpected joy

Soulful reading

Soulful reading - these words previously denoted the type of literature that served as a bridge between our ordinary, worldly life and our spiritual, church-going life. Now such literature is returning to us, many necessary books are being republished. And this would be enough, but our readers, not through their own fault, but due to our common misfortune, have gone far from the perception of previously written books. Many words are perceived as outdated, many figures of speech – old-fashioned. Accelerated life gives rise to hasty speech. This cannot be ignored. But we must fight in every possible way to ensure that the language of our ancestors is close and understandable to us. After all, we understand worship. Only lazy people who do not love the church can demand the transition of liturgical language to modern language. What is incomprehensible about the Church Slavonic language? Suck ten morning and ten evening services in church with attention and humility - and everything will become clear. We do not drag prayer to ourselves, but rise to it.

Of course, literary language should be immediately understandable to everyone. And therefore, the task of those writing on spiritual topics is very difficult: it is difficult to speak clearly about lofty concepts - this is a special gift. And here is just before you a book that combines the necessary unity of simplicity of speech and its spiritual sound. In addition, there is another joy - the author of the text is also the author of the design and drawings in the book.

Maybe only Georgy Yudin himself knows when and what kind of gift appeared in him: an artistic gift or a writing gift. But, according to the Gospel parable about the talents, our author did not bury either one or the other in the ground. Knowing that every talent is given in order to use it for the glory of God, Georgy Yudin writes and draws all his life on one topic, one love - Orthodox Russia. In his books, holy ascetics of the faith of Christ, martyrs and martyrs, talk to us as if alive, and glimpses of events in Russian history pass through the pages... And this book, “Unexpected Joy,” is special for Georgy Yudin. It contains the destinies of many, many people. Sometimes the action takes us to the distant past, sometimes the heroes are our contemporaries, but they all enter our consciousness as actually living in earthly or eternal life. There are no seasons for the Lord; everyone is alive with Him.

The story of how the girl Masha, Maria, comes to church for the first time (“The Weeping Angel”), how she, at the request of her grandmother, gives money to restore the temple, how she learns that this temple was destroyed by her grandfather, and how she asks the Lord is moving to tears. forgive the servant of God Ivan. “Dear Lord! – Masha said with faith. – Don’t scold my grandfather in heaven. Forgive him. And I will love you very, very much. All life". The girl’s prayer is all the more significant because this day is the day of the Nativity of Christ, and in the church the priest says: “Not only Christ was born today, but another Christian soul.”

There is no need to talk about the book - it is in front of you. Its simplicity is a consequence of the author’s talent. Its moralizing is unobtrusive, but follows quite naturally from the content as a condition for a highly moral life. You read a book - and you don’t see words, lines, paragraphs, you see life in which you become a participant. Of course, when you learn about people’s suffering, life becomes not easier, but harder. But this is the condition of spiritual life; spirituality determines compassion for the pain of others. It is not only suffering that purifies the soul, but also compassion.

Vladimir Krupin

Thirty years and three years

(Ilya Muromets)

SUMMER 6508 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD,

YEAR 1010 AD

“The Grand Duke of Kiev Vladimir, the baptist of Rus', in order to strengthen his power and greatness throughout the Russian land, ordered his twelve sons to sit as princes in twelve great cities. He gave Rostov to Prince Boris, and the city of Murom to Prince Gleb.

And when Gleb came to the city of Murom, the unfaithful and cruel pagans who lived there did not accept him to rule and were not baptized, but resisted him. He, without being angry with them, drove away from the city to the Ishnya River and stayed there.

After the death of Grand Duke Vladimir in the summer of 6523 (year 1015), the accursed Svyatopolk, Vladimir’s stepson, sat down to reign in Kyiv out of rank. On the same day, the devil, the primordial enemy of all that is good, possessed Svyatopolk and inspired him to kill all his brothers, all the heirs of his father.

Svyatopolk opened his foul lips and cried out in an angry voice to his squad: “Go secretly and where you meet my brother Boris, kill him!”

And they promised him and, finding Prince Boris in their camp on the Alta River, they burst into the tent and mercilessly pierced the saint’s body with spears.

The filthy snake, the evil-smelling Satan, began to incite the accursed Svyatopolk to greater atrocity. And Svyatopolk sent his servants, ruthless killers, to the young prince Gleb, and, no matter how much the prince begged not to destroy his innocent life, they were deaf.

Then, bending his knees, Gleb looked at the murderers with tears and meekly said: “Since you have already begun, having started, do what you were sent to do.”

And, on the orders of the damned Goryaser, the cook Glebov, named Torchin, pulled out a knife and slaughtered the blessed one like a blameless and innocent lamb.

It was on the 5th day of the month of September.”

The evil serpent, who has been doing evil to people since Adam and Eve, sensed with his vile guts that near the ancient city of Murom, in the village of Karacharovo, a miracle boy, the future mighty hero Ilya Muromets, was born to ordinary parents.

The snake trembled, shook, and spun in fear on its coiled tail. After all, with the power given to him by Satan himself, he could see ahead, after many years, that this little boy was born to his destruction.

- I'll get it! I'll burn it with fire! I’ll squeeze the ashes in my paw and scatter them over the abyss of the sea! - the filthy snake howled in horror and anger as it whistled across the sky towards Murom.

The Murom people, living in paganism, fearfully glanced sideways at the gloomy sky and muttered in fear:

- What a cloud, unprecedented, terrible, gray and huge, our city is crushing under itself. Shield us, Stribog, from Perun’s fiery arrows! - And they hopped around the huts, stamping their bast shoes, like hares.

Few Christians prayed to God for mercy, and the Lord heard their prayer. It rumbled from the heavens and brought down such terrible, heavy thunder on the earth that the fishing boats from the Oka were thrown ashore. And immediately blue lightning flashed brightly and fluttered in the gloomy womb of the cloud. Then God's Angels looked at the devil with anger.

Out of fright, the Murom people slammed the windows and doors tightly, blocked the gates with oak bolts, turned empty buckets, tubs and pots upside down so that the devils from God’s wrath would not sneak into them.

But baby Ilyusha’s hut remained unlocked. The father was at the mowing, and the mother was rinsing the diapers in the Eye and saw how hot, sparkling lightning tore the ominous cloud into thousands of pieces and one clot of darkness fell down and quickly flew into the open hut like a black raven.

Euphrosyne gasped, dropped the rinse into the river and, not feeling her feet under her, ran to the house, and from the upper room, almost knocking her to the ground, the evil-smelling snake flew out with a noise.

With hands trembling with fear, Efrosinya grabbed the ripple and saw that Ilyusha was not in it, but he was lying on the floor in an embroidered shirt, alive, but motionless and white as chalk...

Georgy Yudin was born on September 27, 1943 in Turkmenistan (Kaakhka). The artist talks about an event in his childhood that left an imprint on his entire future life:

“In 1948, the terrible Ashgabat earthquake occurred in Turkmenistan, when 130 thousand people died, including my father and sister. And only thanks to my mother, who covered me, a five-year-old boy, with herself, it was as if I was born a second time.”

Probably, what happened helped Georgy Nikolaevich especially clearly understand the exceptional value of family and children.

After graduating from the railway technical school and serving in the army, where, in fact, he began to draw, the future artist studied at the Printing Institute. Then he worked in cinema on the well-known films “Red Diplomatic Couriers” and “Captain Nemo”.

“I was just a children’s artist when my two daughters, Anya and Dasha, were born, and the torment began called: “Dad, read a fairy tale!”

I thought with longing about the unfinished illustrations for my favorite fairy tale “The Black Hen” by A. Pogorelsky.

It was then, 25 years ago, that I wrote my first book, “Little Book,” from which children can learn to read themselves.

As my children grew up, so did the themes of the books I wrote and drew. Now I wanted to write not only fairy tales and poems, such as “The Green Pig” or “Mustachioed Surprise”, but books that would fill the child’s soul with the spiritual light of faith, would tell him about the mysterious, invisible God who created the whole world, about the Guardian Angel who protects people from misfortunes, about the miracles of the great saints: St. George the Victorious, Ilya of Muromets, Sergius of Radonezh and many others, about their help to people.”

The versatile activities of Georgy Yudin are marked by many honorary titles and awards. He is an Honored Artist of Russia, a member of the Writers' Union of Russia, vice-president of the Council for Children's Books of Russia, holder of the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, laureate of the international children's book competition in Bratislava (BIB-83) “Golden Apple” for illustrations to the book by A. Nekrasov “ The Adventures of Captain Vrungel”, winner of the Silver medal at the international book exhibition in Leipzig (1987) “The most beautiful book of the year” (for the book “Little Book”). And in 1998, for the book “The Murom Miracle”, the name of Georgy Yudin was included in the Hans Christian Andersen Honor List.

Main works:

A.Nekrasov. The Adventures of Captain Vrungel

A. Pogorelsky. Black chicken, or Underground inhabitants

G. Yudin. Little book

G. Yudin. Bukvaryonkina school

G. Yudin. Fun

G. Yudin. Activities for kids

G. Yudin. Green pig

G. Yudin. Murom miracle

G. Yudin. Unquenchable Candle: St. Sergius of Radonezh

G. Yudin. The Humble Warrior: The Historical Tale of St. George the Victorious

Nowadays the name Yudin has become widely known. “We don’t have many names of cultural figures in Krasnoyarsk who are world famous: V. Surikov, G. Yudin, and today V. Astafiev, D. Hvorostovsky, perhaps that’s all,” wrote the newspaper “Evening Krasnoyarsk”.

The assessment, to be sure, is not indisputable, although, in general, it is not particularly jarring, especially since it was expressed during the days of the first Yudin readings, when even the highest words addressed to Yudin did not seem exaggerated.

But it was not always so. In the thirties, just because of their family connection with Yudin, his descendants could come under suspicion with all the consequences of a repressive nature. Subsequently, Yudin's sale of his library to America was presented as a crime. And then another serious accusation was brought against the Krasnoyarsk merchant - he allegedly sold the people to drink, since he owned a distillery.

And only one bright spot was discovered by Marxist historians in the biography of Gennady Vasilyevich Yudin - during his Siberian exile, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov studied in his library! And perhaps thanks to this very circumstance, Yudin’s dacha, home to a huge library, has survived to this day in decent condition.

The time for an unbiased attitude towards Yudin coincided with the approach of the 150th anniversary of his birth, and in a broader sense, with the return from oblivion of the names of many undeservedly forgotten writers, scientists, military leaders, and merchants.

The external outline of Gennady Vasilyevich’s life is known quite well. Born on February 28, 1840 into a merchant family in the Siberian city of Tara, the roots of which he himself traced back to the beginning of the 17th century. In 1852, the Yudins moved to Minusinsk, where the head of the family, Vasily Sergeevich, was appointed to serve in the drinking establishment of the Minusinsk district.

Young Gennady received a good education at home and studied foreign languages. He began his working life early - he followed in his father’s footsteps, entering the service in 1858 in the drinking collection office of the Minusinsk district. And in 1862 he opened his own wine trade in Balakhta.

The passion for books and collecting his own library has long overcome him. The range of his book interests is extremely wide; he ordered a wide variety of publications - from “Woe from Wit” by Griboyedov to “Guide to General and Forest Botany” by a certain Dutour. This broad interest of Yudin in literature of various directions not only did not fade over the years, but multiplied many times over, being financially secure.

They say, touch the ins and outs of any significant capital and a crime will be revealed. The basis of Yudin's wealth was a happy accident, incredible luck. In the early 1870s, on a 100-ruble domestic winning loan bond, he won a huge amount - 200 thousand rubles!

Yudin is building a distillery in the vicinity of Balakhta and is seriously engaged in gold mining. By this time he was already married to the daughter of a local priest, Evgenia Nigritskaya. Children are born: boys, girls. In 1878, Yudin and his family moved to Krasnoyarsk and purchased real estate in the city. He is already truly rich and can afford to buy any of the rarest and most expensive publications for the library.

However, Yudin did not like to waste money; when buying books, he haggles mercilessly and brings down the price. He was not seen in any particular charity. It seemed like he could have donated something from his book Mont Blanc to the city libraries. But no, not a single book donated by him can be found in public libraries in Krasnoyarsk! True, at his own expense he published a dozen books - his own genealogy, historical works of a number of authors. The most expensive - costing 25 thousand rubles - was the publication of Vengerov's Russian Books catalog (it remained unfinished, only the first three volumes were published).

Outside the city, on Afontovaya Mountain, Yudin acquires a plot of land and builds a two-story building on it for a library. They write that the reason for this was the catastrophic fire of 1881, from which half of Krasnoyarsk burned out, but probably not only the fire.

Yudin generally lived somewhat independently in Krasnoyarsk. He did not take any noticeable part in the public affairs of the city, shunned Krasnoyarsk society, and was also considered a Peterhof merchant. In Krasnoyarsk during the time of Yudin, there were, by the way, quite significant private libraries - the journalist Skornyakov, the bookseller Komarov. But there is no information about any kind of bookish communication between Yudin and them; most likely this communication never happened. They were very different book lovers: the notary Itsin, for example, compiled a working legal library. Yudin was occupied with a different idea - to fit, it seemed, the entire Universe on his bookshelves!

The idea, needless to say, is grandiose and exquisite: in the middle of the Siberian wilderness, thousands of miles from the capitals, above the great river and far from the bustle of the world (the city below), to build a wonderful house - the center of all the knowledge of mankind! Here, over books, Yudin spent the happiest hours of his life. The library grew, absorbed whole cartloads of books, subscribed through Moscow and St. Petersburg antiquarians, and was replenished with pounds of archival materials and manuscripts.

But like a bolt from the blue: 1898, Yudin advertises the sale of his library. A special condition of sale is entirely and in one hand. The money he is asking for is much less than its true value. But there are no buyers. A year passes, two years pass, years pass... There are still no buyers for the library in Russia. Nicholas II, to whom Yudin turned, also refused to buy it, “due to lack of funds.” And then the Americans appear on the stage in the person of the representative of the Washington Library of Congress A. Babin.

After several years of negotiations, in 1907 the Yudin library was sold to the Library of Congress of the United States for 100,000 rubles.

That, in fact, is all - this is the external side of selling a library. The motives that prompted Yudin to part with his brainchild remain a mystery.
Those who wrote about this included the death of his two sons, possible fires and unrest in the city, shortage of funds, approaching old age... And all this, of course, could contribute to the decision.

In 1898, when it was adopted, Yudin turned 58 years old. Probably by this time he had thought more than once about the purpose of his collecting. Its huge library is universal: hundreds and thousands of books comprise sections on all branches of knowledge - from philosophy and history to medicine and agriculture. They write that Yudin knew every book in his library. But this does not mean at all that he read the entire library or even had such an intention. Besides, reading all these volumes would not take even a few lifetimes. Among his sons and daughters (as well as distant descendants) there were no passionate book lovers, bookworms, and even less book collectors. For whom then did Yudin create the library? Not counting, in fact, on rare visiting historians, like Semevsky, or educated exiles like Ulyanov, who received access to it.

His library contained many rare publications. But its peculiarity still lay in its versatility.

Yudin carefully selected and subscribed to contemporary publications - works on various branches of knowledge, current periodicals - from “Midwife” (!) and “Railway Business” to “Questions of Philosophy” and “Historical Bulletin”. And most of all, the Yudin library resembles a university library. Yes, it has a rare books department, but it is not the main one, the main thing in it is books for self-education, books from which you can study science and write works.
Having decided to sell the library abroad, Yudin knew that what he had was also in other major libraries in the country. But he did not sell the truly unique things - manuscripts, archives - to America (with the exception of materials related to the activities of the Russian-American Company).

Of course, for Krasnoyarsk the Yudin library would be a real treasury. But, alas, Krasnoyarsk for Yudin still did not become the city to which he would like to give a library. He was probably not convinced that Krasnoyarsk would be able to maintain it in proper form. Perhaps some instinct told him that his library would not survive in the city. This is already in the realm of conjecture and assumptions, but if we assume that heavy thoughts of this kind visited Yudin, then they cannot be called anything other than visionary!

It is enough to remember what happened to his second library - the one that he collected after the sale of the first and which remained after his death in Krasnoyarsk.

Civil war - a Red Army unit was stationed at the Yudin dacha. Soldiers roll cigarettes from sheets of manuscripts. The twenties - the library was nationalized and moved to the basement of one of the city's churches. Books pass through hands and disappear. Then they were divided between several libraries in the city. And even the most valuable things that did not make it overseas - manuscripts and archives - were lost for Krasnoyarsk, and partly for Russia, as it turned out, too. In the early 1950s, the manuscripts were taken to Moscow, then found their way to other cities of the country, incl. and those who are now near and far abroad...

But what about Yudin’s second library? Did those who called Yudin’s sale of his library to America a crime know about how the Bolsheviks sold off the country’s book treasures in the 1920s and 1930s?

The nationalized libraries of Russian tsars and nobles were sold - incunabula, Peter's editions, tray copies, manuscripts and first editions, original decrees signed by sovereigns, unique photograph albums, engravings... Here, for example, is what was put up at the auction held in New York in 1934: “Collection of rare Russian books in Marroquin bindings from the time of publication. Illustrated books, books with autographs from the libraries of Maria Feodorovna, Catherine II, Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas I, Nicholas II, Grand Duchesses...”

And if only all this could be sold for at least a lot of money! But no! As the historian testifies, “many books from the imperial libraries were bought for next to nothing - sometimes for 2 or 5 dollars”!.. This is when a crime was truly committed!

Vladimir Chagin

The vowels gathered and began to distribute responsibilities among themselves. The letter O received a wide, open sound, the letter I - a thin, short sound, the letter U - a trumpet, drawn-out sound. The rest of the vowels were also given the same sound. One “And short” did not choose anything for itself. “Why do I need sounds,” it thought, listening to the vowels conferring. - It’s better to live quietly, silently. It's always calmer." The vowels realized that “And the short one” did not get any sound. But it also has some kind of voice. What to do? “You know what,” they tell him. - Go to the consonants. They have
There are more sounds, maybe there will be enough for your share. I thought “And short,” yawned. Then she yawned some more and thought some more. “But to me,” he says, “these sounds don’t seem to be of any use to me.” I have enough of my own loads. How will you live without sound? - the vowels were perplexed. Isn't it possible? Maybe it’s possible, but it’s somehow inconvenient. It’s better that you go to those who agree, maybe you’ll get something. “And the short one” hesitated, hesitated, and then realized that those who agreed would have less work to do, and that they wouldn’t need much of a voice, and said: “I agree!” - What sound do you like? - those who agree ask him. Stands “And short”, thinks: take a ringing one - your head will hurt from the ringing, take a hissing one - you will hiss, you will make enemies; no, it’s better not to take anything. So “And the Brief” decided and said: All these sounds are of no use to me. Goodbye, say those who agree, look for a job you like.
You can't live without work in the alphabet. “And the short one” walks around, looking for somewhere to settle down. And who will take it! He is not a vocal person, and he does not want to be agreeable. He doesn't have a specific profession. It’s hard to get by “And briefly” at auxiliary jobs. It will help the vowel A to turn into Z, then it will complete the word, but for the rest to be something on its own - this is not the case. It’s hard for “And the short one”, even if you scream it. Maybe he is screaming, but will you hear him? He has a very weak voice.(A. Shibaev)

Georgy Nikolaevich Yudin- writer and artist. Honored Artist of Russia, member of the Writers' Union of Russia, vice-president of the Council for Children's Books of Russia.

Born in Turkmenistan (Kaakhka). The artist talks about an event in his childhood that left an imprint on his entire future life:

Probably, what happened helped Georgy Nikolaevich especially clearly understand the exceptional value of family and children.

“I was just a children’s artist when my two daughters, Anya and Dasha, were born, and the torment began called: “Dad, read a fairy tale!”

I thought with longing about the unfinished illustrations for my favorite fairy tale “The Black Hen” by A. Pogorelsky.

It was then, 25 years ago, that I wrote my first book, “Little Book,” from which children can learn to read themselves.

As my children grew up, so did the themes of the books I wrote and drew. Now I wanted to write not only fairy tales and poems, such as “The Green Pig” or “The Mustachioed Surprise”, Cover of G. Yudin’s book “Little Little Book”Cover of G. Yudin’s book “Green Pig”, but books that would fill the child’s soul with spirituality with the light of faith, they would tell him about the mysterious, invisible God who created the whole world, about the Guardian Angel who protects people from misfortunes, about the miracles of the great saints: St. George the Victorious, Ilya of Murom, Sergius of Radonezh and many others, about their help to people.”

The versatile activities of Georgy Yudin have been awarded many awards. He is a holder of the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, a laureate of the international children's book competition in Bratislava (BIB-83) “Golden Apple” for illustrations for the book by A. Nekrasov “The Adventures of Captain Vrungel”, winner of the Silver medal of the international book exhibition in Leipzig (1987) “ The most beautiful book of the year" (for the book "Little Book"). And in 1998, for the book “The Murom Miracle”, the name of Georgy Yudin was included in the Hans Christian Andersen Honor List.

Main works:

A. Nekrasov. The Adventures of Captain Vrungel

A. Pogorelsky. Black chicken, or Underground inhabitants

G. Yudin. Little book

G. Yudin. Bukvaryonkina school

G. Yudin. Fun

G. Yudin. Activities for kids

G. Yudin. Green pig

G. Yudin. Murom miracle

G. Yudin. Unquenchable Candle: St. Sergius of Radonezh

G. Yudin. The Humble Warrior: The Historical Tale of St. George the Victorious

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