Vera Chaplina Explained

Birth Name:Vera Vasilievna Chaplina
Birth Date:24 April 1908
Birth Place:Moscow, Russian Empire
Death Place:Moscow, Russian Federation
Resting Place:Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow

Vera Vasilievna Chaplina (Russian: link=no|Вера Васильевна Чаплина; 24 April 1908 – 19 December 1994) was a Soviet children's literature writer and naturalist.

Biography

Vera Chaplina was born in Moscow, her grandfather, Vladimir Chaplin, was an engineer, professor and educator of the architect Melnikov. After the Revolution of 1917, 10-year-old Vera was lost and spent several years in an orphanage in Tashkent. In 1923 she returned to Moscow. Her career at the Moscow Zoo began when she was sixteen years old. Chaplina visited the zoo as often as she could and was particularly attracted, as many children are, by the cubs. She appeared so often and stayed so long that she finally attracted the attention of professor Pyotr Manteifel, the zoo's principal naturalist, and he asked her if she would like to become a junior helper. She gladly accepted the offer, and from that time has worked daily in the zoo.[1] [2] In 1924 she entered the Young Biologists' Circle at the Moscow Zoo.

Vera Chaplina's special interest was the baby animals, and in 1933 she was put in charge of the zoo's motherless youngsters.[3] In 1937 she became chief of one of the zoo's largest departments, the wild animals section Moscow Zoo.

Over the years Vera Chaplina and her family played host at home to a number of animals — wolves, a leopard, a lynx and a lion cub named Kinuli. Kinuli in Russian means “was abandoned”, as the cub had been abandoned by her mother. Vera Chaplina saved the cub. She took it home. fed it from a bottle, nursed it through its first days. And so Kinuli came to be raised in a Moscow apartment in the middle 1930s with Chaplina, her husband, young son and brother — and an assortment of neighbors and their children the growing lioness. Kinuli's story glows with Mrs. Chaplina's love of animals, and her desire to unstill something of this feeling in her readers.[4]

Vera Chaplina's first book about baby animals Cubs from the green enclosure (Malyshi s zelenoĭ proshchadki[5]), was first published in Russian in 1935. Since then, she wrote many children's books about animals, including My animal pupils (1937; Мои воспитанники[6]), Four-legged friends (1949; Четвероногие друзья), Pupils of the Zoo (1955—1965; Питомцы зоопарка), Casual encounters (1976; Случайные встречи). “Chaplina`s writing is affectionate, but is not sentimental.”[7] “The writing is straightforward and simple, the author`s attitude toward the creatures she cared for both tender and practical.”[8]

Vera Chaplina worked at the Moscow Zoo until 1946, writing stories when she could find the time. Since then she has devoted more time to literary pursuits and became a full-time writer. Chaplina's stories were translated into English, German,[9] French,[10] Spanish,[11] Portuguese,[12] Japanese[13] Chinese,[14] Hebrew,[15] Polish,[16] Czech,[17] Hungarian,[18] Latvian,[19] Estonian,[20] Romanian,[21] Danish,[22] Swedish,[23] and Serbian.[24]

Selected works

Script author

References

Sources

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/94596/159651311.6b/0_17d472_b67d6646_orig Bess Demaree. Lions and Lambs in Moscow // The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, 18.12.1935.
  2. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/259455582/ Pets' Corner in Moscow // The Manchester Guardian, 08.06.1938, p.8.
  3. Chaplina, Vera. Zoo babies. Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1956. pp. 11, 13.
  4. Chaplina, Vera. Kinuli. New York; Henry Z.Walck, Inc., 1965. p. 6, and annotation.
  5. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/5508779 Catalog of the Cornell University Library.
  6. https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/171919/159651311.44/0_16dab4_747f5f00_orig Cover: Мои воспитанники.
  7. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4163534;view=1up;seq=179 Bulletin of the Center for Children`s books. June 1965, Vol. XVIII, No 10. The University of Chicago, Graduate Library School. p. 144.
  8. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036936410;view=1up;seq=155 Bulletin of the Center for Children`s books. April 1971, Vol. 24, No 8. The University of Chicago, Graduate Library School. p. 119.
  9. https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D127004629 Catalog of the German National Library.
  10. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/rechercher.do?motRecherche=Tchaplina%2C+Vera&critereRecherche=0&depart=0&facetteModifiee=ok Catalog of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  11. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55343050 OCLC WorldCat.
  12. http://catalogolx.cm-lisboa.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=LM35742006N74.59770&profile=rbml&uindex=BAW&term=Tchaplina,%20Vera&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&source=~!rbml Catalog of the Library of Lisbon.
  13. https://ndlonline.ndl.go.jp/#!/search?lang=en&keyword=Chaplina,%20Vera&searchCode=SIMPLE Catalog of the National Diet Library.
  14. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456343190 OCLC WorldCat.
  15. https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/1_9_6_3/14604510/398804/398804_original.jpg Cover: My friends-animal`s cubs. Tel Aviv, 1961.
  16. http://katalogi.bn.org.pl/iii/encore/search/C__S%C4%8Caplina,%20Vera%20Vasil'evna%20__Orightresult__U?lang=pol&suite=cobalt Catalog of the National Library of Poland.
  17. https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000715703&local_base=NKC Catalog of the National Library of Czech Republic.
  18. http://nektar.oszk.hu/peldinfo_spring/peldinfo.htm?id=1423837&language=en&view=1 Catalog of the National Széchényi Library.
  19. https://kopkatalogs.lv/F/MKTMDBTFBAU2H9QA8LDQKLSIXF52B3XEYX8Y8VEFJYS4EIU4BY-01266?func=full-set-set&set_number=000471&set_entry=000012&format=999 Catalog of the National Library of Latvia.
  20. https://www.ester.ee/record=b1155292*est Catalog of the National Library of Estonia.
  21. https://search.rsl.ru/ru/record/01005744148 Catalog of the Russian State Library.
  22. https://www.ester.ee/record=b1317828*est Catalog of the National Library of Estonia.
  23. http://libris.kb.se/bib/8357414 Catalog of the National Library of Sweden.
  24. https://koha.ffzg.hr/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=34365 Catalog of the National and University Library in Zagreb.
  25. https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5307/159651311.2d/0_e06eb_1813f07c_orig Cover: My animal friends.
  26. https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/1_9_6_3/14604510/400114/400114_original.jpg Cover: Zoo babies.
  27. https://fotki.yandex.ru/next/users/maximtaviev/album/216459/fullscreen/919318 Cover: Kinuli.
  28. https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5307/159651311.2e/0_e0719_3a3f7bb6_orig Cover: True Stories from the Moscow Zoo.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Vera Chaplina".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.