The writer turned out to be a man with a fantasy.
Eduard Uspensky gave the children many bright and unforgettable heroes: Cheburashka, three from Prostokvashino, famous koloboks and others. Few people know that sometimes real people with whom the children’s writer communicated became the prototypes of the characters.
For example, the old woman Shapoklyak Uspensky wrote off his first wife. Conflicts in the family haunted the man and so he took revenge on his wife, whom he divorced.
“This is my wife. I copied Shapoklyak from her. She’s just as bad. She didn’t always like everything: what I write, how I work. She only wanted money from me, nothing else. My first wife is Shapoklyak. Do you want to live with the old Shapoklyak So I did not, “remembered the words of the writer, his colleague Valentin Postnikov in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Picture source: frame from the cartoon “Cheburashka” (1971)
Author: Sergey Vodyanitsky
Source: Popcorn News
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