He built ships

On September 1, a man who knew and felt the world of teenagers passed away - Vladislav Krapivin, like no other

A lot is said about Vladislav Krapivin as a writer who creates a special romance of childhood of the 60s, 70s and even the 80s. A lot is said about him as a teacher - a teacher of pedagogy of the case, the pedagogy of the conscience, which created the famous Caulla club. Unlike his predecessors, such as Alexander Green, Vladislav Krapivin wrote about the man -made sailboats of dreams and imagination. The imagination of Krapivin was not born of fantastic utopias. His imagination, like his pedagogy of business, was literally born from real affairs:

In his club with teenagers, he really built ships for many years.

In my opinion, Vladislav Krapivin was a unique psychologist who decided on the most difficult thing - on such dialogs with adolescents in which adolescents literally grew up, in which they felt, for what and how to live, for what and how to act.

Adolescence is the most difficult not only for parents, but also for children, and for teachers themselves, and for those writers who dare to write about adolescents and for adolescents. Was Vladislav Krapivin the “Soviet” writer? I think that I will be mistaken if I name Vladislav Krapivin by the Soviet writer, focusing only on the fact that his works were published in the magazines Pioneer, the Ural Rastype. Kapivin, like the heroes of his books, managed to make the impossible: he created a parallel universe in which his heroes lived and acted.

By and large, he created the universe of that time of a great culture in which the heroes come and do not leave.

Kapivin as a psychologist was strikingly accurately felt that the main deficiency of our time indifferent to childhood was a shortage of attention, empathy, empathy in relation to our children and, above all, in relation to adolescents. Psychologists are no coincidence that the adolescence of the age of the storm and onslaught. Where will the energy of this storm collapse? What will this onslaught aim at? I’m not afraid to say, it is thanks to Krapivin for many teenagers who fell in love with his worlds and this storm, and this onslaught were aimed at romantic life in a pragmatic country.

Krapivin wrote about the riddles of the psychology of adolescents. Only a person who himself is a mystery can write about riddles and who does not cease to surprise with his works, statements, thoughts of all of us in our time that does not love romance.

I am not inclined to mysticism, but that Vladislav Krapivin passed away on September 1, on the day of knowledge, there is something strange and even supernatural. The writer, from the harbor of which the fate of many people came out, left us on the day when the children go to school. He left us, but his mystery, his romance, his love of heroes such as Yanush Korczak, allows me to say that we are saying goodbye to our time today - we say goodbye to Vladislav Krapivin.