Dragunsky V.Yu. - famous writer and theater figure, author of novels, short stories, songs, sideshows, clownery, skits. The most popular in the list of works for children is his cycle “Deniska’s Stories”, which has become a classic of Soviet literature; they are recommended for students in grades 2-3-4. Dragunsky describes situations typical for each time, brilliantly reveals the psychology of the child, a simple and vivid style ensures the dynamism of the presentation.

Deniska's stories

The series of works “Deniska's Stories” tells about the funny adventures of the boy Denis Korablev. The collective image of the main character intertwines the features of his prototype - the son of Dragunsky, his peers, and the author himself. Denis's life is filled with funny incidents; he actively perceives the world and reacts vividly to what is happening. The boy has a close friend Mishka, with whom he plays pranks, has fun, and overcomes difficulties. The author does not idealize the guys, does not teach or moralize - he denotes strong and weak sides the younger generation.

Englishman Paul

The work tells about Pavlik, who came to visit Deniska. He reports that he has not come for a long time because he has been studying English all summer. Denis and his parents are trying to find out from the boy what new words he knows. It turned out that during this time Pavel learned English language only the name Petya is Pete.

Watermelon Lane

The story tells about Denis, who does not want to eat milk noodles. Mom is upset, but dad comes and tells the boy a story from his childhood. Deniska learns how a hungry child during the war saw a truck filled to the brim with watermelons, which people were unloading. Dad stood and watched them work. Suddenly one of the watermelons broke, and the kind loader gave it to the boy. Dad still remembers how he and his friend ate that day and for a long time every day they went to the “watermelon” alley and waited for a new truck. But he never arrived... After his father’s story, Denis ate noodles.

Would

The work tells the story of Denis’s reasoning if everything were arranged the other way around. The boy imagines how he raises his own parents: he forces his mother to eat, his father to wash his hands and cut his nails, and he scolds his grandmother for being lightly dressed and bringing a dirty stick from the street. After lunch, Denis sits his relatives down to do homework, and he’s going to the cinema.

Where has this been seen, where has this been heard...

The work tells the story of Denisk and Misha, who were invited to sing satirical songs at a concert. Friends are nervous before the performance. During the concert, Misha gets confused and sings the same song several times. Counselor Lucy quietly asks Denis to speak alone. The boy gathers his courage, gets ready and again sings the same lines as Misha.

Goose throat

The work tells about Deniska’s preparations for her best friend’s birthday. The boy prepared him a gift: a washed and peeled goose throat, which Vera Sergeevna gave. Denis plans to dry it, put peas inside and fix the narrow neck in the wide one. However, dad advises them to buy candy and gives Misha his badge. Denis is happy that he will give his friend 3 gifts instead of one.

Twenty years under the bed

The work tells the story of the guys who played hide and seek in Misha’s apartment. Denis slipped into the room where the old woman lived and hid under the bed. He expected that it would be funny when the guys found him, and Efrosinya Petrovna would also be happy. But the grandmother unexpectedly locks the door, turns off the light and goes to bed. The boy becomes terrified and hits the trough lying under the bed with his fist. There is a crash and the old woman gets scared. The situation is saved by the guys and Denis’s dad, who came for him. The boy gets out of hiding, but does not answer questions; it seems to him that he has spent 20 years under the bed.

Girl on the Ball

The story tells about Deniska's trip to the circus with her class. The guys watch performances by jugglers, clowns, and lions. But Denis is impressed by the little girl on the ball. She shows extraordinary acrobatic performances, the boy cannot look away. At the end of the performance, the girl looks at Denis and waves her hand. The boy wants to go to the circus again in a week, but dad has work to do, and they only get to the show in 2 weeks. Denis is really looking forward to the girl’s performance at the ball, but she never appears. It turned out that the gymnast went with her parents to Vladivostok. Sad Denis and his dad leave the circus.

childhood friend

The work tells the story of Denis's desire to become a boxer. But he needs a pear, and dad refuses to buy it. Then the mother takes out an old teddy bear that the boy once played with and offers to train on it. Denis agrees and is about to practice his blows, but suddenly he remembers how he never parted with the bear for a minute, nursed him, took him to dinner, told him fairy tales and loved him with all his soul, was ready to give his life for his childhood friend. Denis tells his mother that he has changed his mind and will never be a boxer.

Pets' corner

The story tells about the opening of a living corner at Denis’s school. The boy wanted to bring a bison, a hippopotamus or an elk, but the teacher asks him to get small animals in order to look after and care for them. Denis goes shopping for a living corner of white mice, but does not have time, they have already been sold. Then the boy and his mother hurried to get the fish, but when they learned their price, they changed their minds. So Denis didn’t decide which animal to bring to school.

Enchanted letter

The work tells the story of Denisk, Misha and Alenka, who watched a large Christmas tree being unloaded from a car. The guys looked at her and smiled. Alena wanted to tell her friends that there were pine cones hanging on the tree, but she couldn’t pronounce the first letter and she came up with: “Syski.” The guys laugh at the girl and reproach her. Misha shows Alena how to pronounce the word correctly: “Hykhki!” They argue, swear, and both roar. And only Denis is sure that the word “bumps” is simple, and he knows how to say correctly: “Fifki!”

Healthy thought

The story tells how Denis and Misha launched a boat from a matchbox on the way from school. He gets caught in a whirlpool and disappears into a drain. The guys are getting ready to go home, but it turns out that the boys are confusing the entrances, since they are the same. Misha is lucky - he meets a neighbor, and she takes him to his apartment. Denis mistakenly enters someone else's house and ends up with strangers, for whom he is already the sixth lost boy that day. They help Denis find his apartment. The boy invites his parents to hang his mother’s portrait on the house so that he won’t get lost again.

Green leopards

The work tells the story of a dispute between guys about which disease is better. Kostya suffered from measles and told his friends that they gave him decals. Mishka told how he ate a jar of raspberry jam when he was sick with the flu. Denis liked chicken pox because he walked with spots like a leopard. The guys remember the operation on the tonsils, after which they give ice cream. In their opinion, the more severe the illness, the better - then the parents will buy everything they want.

How I visited Uncle Misha

The story tells about Denis's trip to Uncle Misha in Leningrad. The boy meets his cousin Dima, who shows him the city. They look at the legendary Aurora and visit the Hermitage. Denis meets his brother's classmates, he likes Ira Rodina, to whom the boy decides to write a letter upon returning home.

Puss in Boots

The work tells about a school carnival, for which you need to prepare a costume. But Denis’s mother is leaving, and he misses him so much that he forgets about the event. Misha dresses up as a gnome and helps his friend with the costume. They portray Deniska as a cat in boots. The boy receives the main prize for his costume - 2 books, one of which he gives to Misha.

Chicken bouillon

The story tells how Denis and his dad cook chicken broth. They believe that this is a very simple and easy to prepare dish. However, the cooks almost burn the chicken when they want to singe the feathers, then they try to wash the bird of soot with soap, but it slips out of Denis’s hands and ends up under the cabinet. The situation is saved by the mother, who returns home and helps the unfortunate cooks.

My friend the bear

The work tells about Denis's campaign in Sokolniki on christmas tree. A boy is frightened by a huge bear that suddenly attacks him from behind a Christmas tree. Denis remembers that he needs to pretend to be dead and falls to the floor. Opening his eyes slightly, he sees the beast bending over him. Then the boy decides to scare the animal and screams loudly. The bear moves to the side, and Denis throws an ice cube at him. Subsequently, it turns out that under the beast’s costume there is an actor who has decided to play a trick on the boy.

Motorcycle racing on a vertical wall

The story tells about Denis, who was the champion of the yard in cycling. He demonstrates various tricks to the kids like a circus performer. One day a relative came to Misha on a bicycle with a motor. While the guest was drinking tea, the guys decide to try out the transport without asking. Denis rides around the yard for a long time, but then cannot stop because the guys do not know where the brake is. The situation is saved by relative Fedya, who stopped the bicycle in time.

You must have a sense of humor

The work tells how Misha and Denis did their homework. While copying the text, they talked, which is why they made many mistakes and had to redo the task. Then Denis gives Misha a fun problem that he cannot solve. In response, the father gives his son a task, which he takes offense at. Father tells Denis that he must have a sense of humor.

Independent hump

The story tells how a famous writer came to Denis's class. The guys spent a long time preparing for the guest’s visit, and he was touched by this. It turned out that the writer stuttered, but the children politely did not draw attention to this. At the end of the meeting, Denis’s classmate asks for an autograph from the celebrity. But the fact is that Gorbushkin also stutters, and the writer is offended, thinking that he is being teased. Denis had to intervene and resolve the awkward situation.

One drop kills a horse

The work tells about Denis's dad, whom the doctor advises to quit smoking. The boy is worried about his father; he doesn’t want a drop of poison to kill him. On the weekend, guests come, Aunt Tamara gives dad a cigarette case, for which Denis is angry with her. The father asks his son to cut the cigarettes so that they fit into the box. The boy deliberately spoils cigarettes by cutting off tobacco.

It's alive and glowing

The story tells about Denis, who is waiting for his mother in the yard. At this time Mishka arrives. He likes Denis's new dump truck and offers to exchange the car for a firefly. The bug fascinates the boy, he agrees and admires the acquisition for a long time. Mom comes and wonders why her son exchanged a new toy for a small insect. To which Denis replies that the beetle is better, because it is alive and glows.

Spyglass

The work tells about Denis, who tears and ruins his clothes. Mom doesn’t know what to do with the tomboy, and dad advises her to make a spyglass. Denis's parents inform him that he is now under constant control, and they can see their son whenever they wish. Difficult days are coming for the boy, all his previous activities become forbidden. One day Denis comes into the hands of his mother’s spyglass, and he sees that it is empty. The boy realizes that his parents deceived him, but he is happy and returns to his old life.

A fire in an outbuilding, or a feat in the ice

The story tells about Denis and Misha, who were playing hockey and were late for school. To avoid being scolded, the friends decided to come up with a good reason and argued for a long time about what exactly to choose. When the boys arrived at school, the cloakroom attendant sent Denis to class, and Misha helped sew back the torn buttons. Korablev had to tell the teacher alone that they had saved a girl from the fire. However, Misha soon returned and told the class how they pulled out the boy who had fallen through the ice.

The wheels sing - tra-ta-ta

The story tells about Denisk, who went with his dad to Yasnogorsk by train. Early in the morning the boy could not sleep, and he went to the vestibule. Denis saw a man running after the train and helped him get on. He treated the boy to raspberries and told about his son Seryozha, who was far away in the city with his mother. In the village of Krasnoye, the man jumped off the train, and Denis drove on.

Adventure

The work tells about Denisk, who was visiting his uncle in Leningrad and flew home alone. However, the airport in Moscow was closed due to unfavorable weather conditions, and the plane returned. Denis called his mother and reported the delay. He spent the night on the floor at the airport, and in the morning the departure of the plane was announced 2 hours earlier. The boy woke up the military so that they would not be late. Since the plane arrived in Moscow earlier, dad did not meet Denis, but the officers helped him and took him home.

Workers crushing stone

The story tells about friends who go swimming at a water station. One day Kostya asks Denis if he can jump into the water from the highest tower. The boy replies that it’s easy. Friends do not believe Denis, believing that he is weak. The boy climbs onto the tower, but he becomes scared, Misha and Kostya laugh. Then Denis tries again, but again descends from the tower. The guys are making fun of their friend. Then Denis decides to climb the tower for the 3rd time and still jumps.

Exactly 25 kilos

The work tells about the campaign of Mishka and Denis to children's party. They participate in a competition in which the prize will be given to the one who weighs exactly 25 kilograms. Denis is 500 grams short of victory. Friends come up with an idea to drink 0.5 liters of water. Denis wins the competition.

Knights

The story tells about Denis, who decided to become a knight and give his mother a box of chocolates on March 8th. But the boy has no money, so he and Mishka came up with the idea of ​​pouring the wine from the cupboard into a jar and handing over the bottles. Denis gives his mother candy, and his father discovers that the collection wine has been diluted with beer.

From top to bottom, diagonally!

The work tells about the guys who decided to help the painters with painting when they went to lunch. Denis and Misha are painting the wall, the laundry that is drying in the yard, their friend Alena, the door, the house manager. The kids had a blast, and the painters invited them to work for them when the children grew up.

My sister Ksenia

The story tells about Denis's mother, who introduces her son to his newborn sister. In the evening, the parents want to bathe the baby, but the boy sees that the girl is afraid and has an unhappy face. Then the brother extends his hand to his sister, and she firmly grabs his finger, as if she trusts him alone with her life. Denis understood how difficult and scary it was for Ksenia and loved her with all his soul.

Glory to Ivan Kozlovsky

The work tells the story of Denis, who received a C in a singing lesson. He laughed at Mishka, who sang very quietly, but they gave him an A. When the teacher calls Denis, he sings the song as loud as he can. However, the teacher rated his performance only 3. The boy believes that the fact is that he did not sing loudly enough.

Elephant and radio

The story tells about Denis's trip to the zoo. The boy took a radio with him, and the elephant became interested in the object. He snatched it from Denis’s hands and put it in his mouth. Now a program about physical exercises was coming from the animal, and the children surrounding the cage happily began to perform the exercises. The zookeeper distracted the elephant, and he gave up the radio.

Battle of the Clean River

The work tells about a trip to the cinema in Denis Korablev’s class. The guys watched a film about the attack of white officers on the Red Army. To help their own, the boys in the cinema shoot pistols at the enemies and use scarecrows. The children are reprimanded by the school principal for violating public order, and the children's weapons are taken away. But Denis and Misha believe that they helped the army hold out until the arrival of the red cavalrymen.

The secret becomes clear

The story tells about Denis, to whom his mother promised to go to the Kremlin if he ate semolina porridge. The boy put salt and sugar in the dish, added boiling water and horseradish, but could not swallow even a spoon and threw the breakfast out the window. Mom was glad that her son ate everything, and they began to get ready for a walk. However, a policeman unexpectedly comes and brings the victim, whose hat and clothes are stained with porridge. Denis understands the meaning of the phrase that the secret always becomes clear.

Third place in butterfly style

The work talks about good mood Denis, who is in a hurry to tell his dad that he took 3rd place in swimming. The father is proud and wonders who owns the first two and who follows his son. As it turned out, no one took 4th place, since 3rd place was distributed to all athletes. Dad turns his attention to the newspaper, and Denis loses his good mood.

Tricky way

The story tells about Denis's mother, who is tired of washing dishes and asks to invent some way to make life easier, otherwise she refuses to feed Denis and his dad. The boy comes up with a clever way - he offers to eat from one device in turn. However, dad has a better option - he advises his son to help his mother and wash the dishes themselves.

Chicky kick

The work tells the story of Denis’s family, which is about to go out into nature. The boy takes Misha with him. The guys lean out of the train window and Denis’s dad shows various tricks to distract them. The father makes fun of Misha and rips his hat off his head. The boy is upset, thinking that it was blown off by the wind, but the great magician returns the item of clothing.

What I like and what I don't like

The story tells about what Deniska likes and doesn’t like. He loves to win at checkers, chess and dominoes, on a day off in the morning to climb into dad's bed, breathe through his nose into his mother's ear, watch TV, make phone calls, plan, saw and much more. Denis doesn’t like it when his parents go to the theater, get their teeth treated, lose, put on a new suit, eat soft-boiled eggs, and so on.

Other stories from the series “Deniska’s Stories”

• White finches
• Main rivers
• Dymka and Anton
• Uncle Pavel the stoker
• The smell of heaven and shag
• And we!
• Red ball in the blue sky
• There is a lot of traffic on Sadovaya
• No bang, no bang!
• No worse than you circus people
• Nothing can be changed
• Dog Thief
• Professor of sour cabbage soup
• Tell me about Singapore
• Blue Dagger
• Death of the spy Gadyukin
• The Ancient Mariner
• Quiet Ukrainian night
• Amazing day
• Fantômas
• Man with blue face
• What does Mishka like?
• Grandmaster hat

He fell on the grass

The story “He Fell on the Grass” tells about a nineteen-year-old young man Mitya Korolev, who, due to a childhood leg injury, was not drafted into the army, but joined the militia. He digs anti-tank ditches near Moscow together with his comrades: Leshka, Stepan Mikhalych, Seryozha Lyubomirov, Kazakh Baiseitov and others. At the end of the work, when the militias are waiting for the arrival Soviet army, unexpectedly they are attacked German tanks. The survivors Mitya and Baiseitov reach their troops. The young man returns to Moscow and enlists in a partisan detachment.

Today and daily

The story “Today and Everyday” tells the story of the clown Nikolai Vetrov, who is able to make even the weakest circus program great. But in real life It’s not easy and uncomfortable for an artist. His beloved woman is dating another man, and the clown realizes that a breakup is ahead. Having gathered with friends in a restaurant, the circus performer expresses the idea of ​​his own destiny - to bring joy and laughter to children despite life's failures. He meets the aerial acrobat Irina, who is performing complex numbers. However, while performing the trick, the girl crashes and dies. Nikolai goes to the circus in Vladivostok.

Here are all of Dragunsky’s books - a list of his titles best works. But first, let’s learn a little about the author himself. Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky was born in 1913 and became known in the USSR as a famous writer and recognizable actor.

His most famous series of books is Deniska's Stories, which has been reprinted many times since its first publication half a century ago.

Dragunsky devoted his entire youth to working in the theater and circus, and this work did not always bear fruit. The little-known actor could not get serious roles and tried to find a calling in related fields.

The author's first stories were published in 1959, and they became the basis for the future series. The name for the series was not chosen by chance - the writer initially wrote stories for his nine-year-old son Denis. The boy became the main character in his father's stories.

Beginning in the 1960s, the stories became so popular that the publishing house could not even cope with the volume. And the popularity of the main character Denis Korablev was transferred to films.

So, here is a list with descriptions of those very cult stories of Dragunsky.

• The magical power of art (Collection)

Deniska's stories: how everything really happened

For three generations now they have been admiring Dragunsky’s stories about the boy Deniska Korablev. During the character’s childhood, life was completely different: the streets and cars, shops and apartments looked different. In this collection you can read not only the stories themselves, but also the explanations of the famous author’s son, Denis Dragunsky. He openly shares what really happened to him and what was his father’s invention. Further

Deniska's stories (collection)

Deniska lives her Soviet life - she loves, forgives, makes friends, overcomes insults and deceptions. His life is incredible and filled with adventure. He has his closest friend, Mishka, with whom Denis went to the masquerade; They play pranks together in class, go to the circus and encounter unusual events.

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"HE IS ALIVE AND GLOWING..."

One evening I sat in the yard, near the sand, and waited for my mother. She probably stayed late at the institute, or at the store, or maybe stood at the bus stop for a long time. Don't know. Only all the parents in our yard had already arrived, and all the kids went home with them and were probably already drinking tea with bagels and cheese, but my mother was still not there...
And now the lights began to light up in the windows, and the radio started playing music, and dark clouds moved in the sky - they looked like bearded old men...
And I wanted to eat, but my mother was still not there, and I thought that if I knew that my mother was hungry and was waiting for me somewhere at the end of the world, I would immediately run to her, and would not be late and not made her sit on the sand and get bored.
And at that time Mishka came out into the yard. He said:
- Great!
And I said:
- Great!
Mishka sat down with me and picked up the dump truck.
- Wow! - said Mishka. - Where did you get it? Does he pick up sand himself? Not yourself? Does he leave on his own? Yes? What about the pen? What is it for? Can it be rotated? Yes? A? Wow! Will you give it to me at home?
I said:
- No I will not give. Present. Dad gave it to me before he left.
The bear pouted and moved away from me. It became even darker outside.
I looked at the gate so as not to miss when my mother came. But she still didn’t come. Apparently, I met Aunt Rosa, and they stand and talk and don’t even think about me. I lay down on the sand.
Here Mishka says:
- Can you give me a dump truck?
- Get off it, Mishka.
Then Mishka says:
- I can give you one Guatemala and two Barbados for it!
I speak:
- Compared Barbados to a dump truck...
And Mishka:
- Well, do you want me to give you a swimming ring?
I speak:
- It's broken.
And Mishka:
- You will seal it!
I even got angry:
- Where to swim? In the bathroom? On Tuesdays?
And Mishka pouted again. And then he says:
- Well, it was not! Know my kindness! On the!
And he handed me a box of matches. I took it in my hands.
“You open it,” said Mishka, “then you will see!”
I opened the box and at first I didn’t see anything, and then I saw a small light green light, as if somewhere far, far away from me a tiny star was burning, and at the same time I myself was holding it in my hands.
“What is this, Mishka,” I said in a whisper, “what is this?”
“This is a firefly,” said Mishka. - What, good? He's alive, don't think about it.
“Bear,” I said, “take my dump truck, would you like it?” Take it forever, forever! Give me this star, I’ll take it home...
And Mishka grabbed my dump truck and ran home. And I stayed with my firefly, looked at it, looked and couldn’t get enough of it: how green it was, as if in a fairy tale, and how close it was, in the palm of my hand, but shining as if from afar... And I couldn’t breathe evenly , and I heard my heart beating, and there was a slight tingling in my nose, as if I wanted to cry.
And I sat like that for a long time, a very long time. And there was no one around. And I forgot about everyone in this world.
But then my mother came, and I was very happy, and we went home. And when they started drinking tea with bagels and feta cheese, my mother asked:
- Well, how's your dump truck?
And I said:
- I, mom, exchanged it.
Mom said:
- Interesting! And for what?
I answered:
- To the firefly! Here he is, living in a box. Turn out the light!
And mom turned off the light, and the room became dark, and the two of us began to look at the pale green star.
Then mom turned on the light.
“Yes,” she said, “it’s magic!” But still, how did you decide to give such a valuable thing as a dump truck for this worm?
“I’ve been waiting for you for so long,” I said, “and I was so bored, but this firefly, it turned out to be better than any dump truck in the world.”
Mom looked at me intently and asked:
- And why, why exactly is it better?
I said:
- How come you don’t understand?! After all, he is alive! And it glows!..

Deniskin's stories by Dragunsky. Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky was born on December 1, 1913 in New York, into a Jewish family of emigrants from Russia. Soon after this, the parents returned to their homeland and settled in Gomel. During the war, Victor's father died of typhus. His stepfather was I. Voitsekhovich, a red commissar who died in 1920. In 1922, another stepfather appeared - Jewish theater actor Mikhail Rubin, with whom the family traveled all over the country. In 1925 they moved to Moscow. But one day Mikhail Rubin went on tour and did not return home. What happened remains unknown.
Victor started working early. In 1930, already working, he began to attend the “Literary and Theater Workshops” of A. Diky. In 1935, he began performing as an actor at the Transport Theater (now the N.V. Gogol Theater). At the same time, Dragunsky was engaged in literary work: he wrote feuilletons and humoresques, came up with sideshows, skits, pop monologues, and circus clowneries. He became close to circus performers and even worked in the circus for some time. Gradually the roles came. He played several roles in films (the film “The Russian Question”, directed by Mikhail Romm) and was accepted into the Film Actor’s Theater. But in the theater with its huge troupe, which included famous movie stars, young and not very famous actors could not count on constant employment in performances. Then Dragunsky had the idea of ​​​​creating a small amateur troupe inside the theater. True, such a troupe could be called conditionally an amateur performance - the participants were professional artists. Many actors responded with pleasure to the idea of ​​​​creating a parody “theater within a theater.” Dragunsky became the organizer and leader of the literary and theatrical parody ensemble “Blue Bird,” which existed from 1948 to 1958. Actors from other Moscow theaters also began to come there. Gradually, the small troupe gained significance and repeatedly performed at the House of Actors (then: All-Russian Theater Society), where at that time Alexander Moiseevich Eskin was director. The funny parody performances were such a resounding success that Dragunsky was invited to create a similar group with the same name in Mosestrad. For productions in “Blue Bird”, together with Lyudmila Davidovich, he composed lyrics for several songs, which later became popular and acquired a second life on the stage: “Three Waltzes”, “Wonder Song”, “Motor Ship”, “Star of My Fields”, “ Berezonka."
During the Great Patriotic War Dragunsky was in the militia.
Since 1940, he has published feuilletons and humorous stories, later collected in the collection “Iron Character” (1960); writes songs, sideshows, clowning, skits for the stage and circus.
Since 1959, Dragunsky has been writing funny stories about the fictional boy Denis Korablev and his friend Mishka Slonov under the general title “Deniska’s Stories”, based on which the films “Funny Stories” (1962), “Girl on the Ball” (1966), “Deniska’s Stories” (1970) were released g.), “In secret to the whole world” (1976), “ Amazing Adventures Denis Korablev" (1979), short films "Where is it seen, where is it heard", "Captain", "Fire in the outbuilding" and "Spyglass" (1973). These stories brought their author enormous popularity, and it was with them that his name became associated. The name Deniska was not chosen by chance - that was the name of his son.
In addition, Dragunsky was the screenwriter of the film " Magic power art (1970)", in which Deniska Korablev is also featured as a hero.
However, Viktor Dragunsky also wrote prose works for adults. In 1961, the story “He Fell on the Grass” about the very first days of the war was published. Its hero, a young artist, like the author of the book himself, despite the fact that he was not drafted into the army due to disability, enlisted in the militia. The story “Today and Everyday” (1964) is dedicated to the life of circus workers, main character which is a clown; This is a book about a person who exists in spite of time, who lives in his own way.
But the children's “Deniska's stories” are most famous and popular.
In the 1960s, books from this series were published in large numbers:
"Girl on the Ball",
"Enchanted Letter"
"Childhood Friend"
"Dog Thief"
"Twenty years under the bed"
“The magical power of art”, etc.
In the 1970s:
"Red ball in the blue sky"
"Colorful Stories"
"Adventure" etc.
The writer died in Moscow on May 6, 1972.
The widow of V. Dragunsky Alla Dragunskaya (Semichastnaya) published a book of memoirs: “About Victor Dragunsky. Life, creativity, memories of friends”, LLP “Chemistry and Life”, Moscow, 1999.

Dragunsky Victor Yuzefovich(1913 - 1972) - Soviet children's writer, gained popularity and fame thanks to the series of works “Deniska’s Stories”, which became a classic of Soviet children’s literature.

Childhood is the most important part of every person's life. The skills and experience acquired at this time help the child to form his own character. New knowledge can be passed on to a child through the works of Viktor Dragunsky, who wonderfully described the events happening to the boy Deniska. Short stories The Soviet author will immerse readers in the world of extraordinary incidents and adventures that befell an inquisitive fidget.

Together with the young hero, children will discover the laws of behavior in society, develop correct moral principles, and understand the importance of relationships with loved ones and friends. Having the opportunity to read online fascinating stories, boys and girls will get to know a child who grew up in the era of the birth of human space flight. They can compare the worries of today with the worries of schoolchildren in the 20th century.

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With the help of the work “Deniska’s Stories,” Dragunsky showed that childhood does not mean a simplified perception of the world by the child’s mind. Even at this youth he may develop a sensitive nature that allows him to subtly sense the world. The writer's light style helps readers to completely immerse themselves in his fascinating works. Together with the main character, they will experience many funny episodes that make up the daily existence of an active child.