Children's illustrator Beatrix Potter (221 works)

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Beatrix Potter (Helen Bitrix Potter, English Beatrix Potter; July 28, 1866, Kensington, London - December 22, 1943, Neer Soray, Cumbria) - English children's writer and artist.

Beatrix Potter was sixteen years old when she first saw the Lake District. Then, more than a hundred years ago, she fell in love with the beauty of its nature and decided to settle there someday. As an adult, she fulfilled her youthful dream and moved from London to Hill Top Farm. Beatrice drew detailed illustrations for her fairy tales, in which it is easy to recognize her house and garden.

The writer’s neighbors showed great interest in her work and were happy when they recognized their own houses in the pictures. They often saw Beatrice with a sketchbook, outdoors, in the countryside and in the nearby market town of Hawkshead. Local scenes formed the basis of fairy tales about little animals, and were performed so wonderfully that people still come from all over the world to see the places depicted in her books.

Beatrice loved animals very much and studied them all her life. When she was little, frogs, mice, a hedgehog, Isaac Newton's newt and even a bat lived in her nursery. Beatrice watched them and drew. And her drawings got better and better. By the time she began to depict her heroes dressed in dresses, frock coats and caftans, the animals in the pictures seemed to come to life. Beatrice had two pet rabbits, to whom she devoted many illustrations. She led one of them, Peter Rabbit, on a leash and took it with her everywhere, even on the train. She dressed him in a blue jacket and wrote her first fairy tale about him with her own illustrations - the most famous in the whole world.

Beatrix Potter's journey as a writer and artist began in 1902, when publisher Frederick Warne published The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Previously, several publishers refused the small book. Until 1910, Beatrice wrote, drew and published an average of two books a year. The fees gave her some independence, although she still lived with her parents. In 1905, Beatrice's publisher Norman Warne proposed to her. Beatrice agreed to marry, but Warne died of blood cancer a few weeks later. That same year she purchased Hill Top Farm in the village of Soray. After Norman's death, she tried to spend as much time there as possible. Views of the farm and surrounding nature began to appear in the form of illustrations for her books. In 1913, at the age of forty-seven, Beatrice married the notary William Heelis and began to live permanently in the village of Sorey.

Beatrix Potter was one of the first to take up conservation in England. She gradually bought up the farms of her bankrupt neighbors, allowing them to continue farming. Beatrice bequeathed 4,000 acres of land and 15 farms to the National Park.

The first fairy tale translated into Russian was “Ukhti-Tukhti” - it was published in 1961 and then reprinted many times.

In January 1995, the ORT TV channel showed a series of English cartoons “Peter Push and His Friends” translated by Mikhail Grebnev (Poems translated by Samuil Marshak and Dina Krupskaya)

In 2006, a feature film about her, “Miss Potter,” was released, where Renee Zellweger played the main role.

In 2009, for the first time, nine fairy tales in three books were published with original illustrations and translated into Russian.

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