I'M BUILDING"Elena E. Khorinskaya-the oldest writer in the Urals, a delegate to the first Congress of Writers of the USSR. The author of four dozen books of poetry for children and adults, two books of prose, including memoirs "Our Bazhov", on the eve of her 90th birthday, met in the living room of Orientir with Colonel A. Kerdan, the magazine's senior permanent correspondent for the Ural Military District, and answered his questions. - Elena Yevgenyevna, you are a person of unusual destiny. Readers of the magazine will be interested to know the main milestones of your biography... - I was born in 1909 in the village of Bichura, which is located in a picturesque corner of Transbaikalia. In Ulan-Ude, she graduated from the unified labor school. I started working at the age of 16. She was a liquidator of illiteracy, a teacher in rural schools. In 1931, the first book of my prose "For hundredweight" was published. At the same time, I published my first poems in the literary almanac. In 1934, she was elected a delegate to the first Congress of writers of Buryatia, and then to the Congress of Writers of the USSR... - What did you remember most about it? - National love and respect for writers. The whole of Moscow literally lived in the congress at that time. It was held in the Pillared Hall of the House of Unions, the entrance of which was littered every morning with flowers brought by ordinary Muscovites. Each delegate had a personal car at their disposal. Tickets to any theater are welcome. The half-month that the congress lasted remained in my memory a real holiday. And, of course, all the speeches of A.M. Gorky are memorable. He performed a lot then. In communication, he was an absolutely accessible person. I remember that they brought him from Irkutsk, from us, the book "Base of Snubnoses" - stories of pioneers of Transbaikalia, which were collected by pioneer leader Galya Kozhevnikova. Alexey Maksimovich took it to heart, even burst into tears and invited our e ... Читать далее