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Early Learning Center / Early Learning Center
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We are the newest school within the Marietta City school district, opening in August 2018.
Our mission is simple: We are committed to encouraging student voice and laying a solid foundation for literacy and social emotional learning.
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Registration for the 2022-2023 will open February 1, 2022 and close March 31, 2022. Families will be notified of acceptance the week of April 4, 2022. In order for acceptance to be confirmed ALL required registration documents should be uploaded into Registration Gateway.
See below for required registration documents. Any registrations completed after March 31, 2022 will be placed on a waitlist.
IN PERSON TOURS ARE RESUMING January 18, 2022. Tours will occur on Tuesdays at 10:00AM & 11:00AM. Reservations are required. Please call our front office at 678-919-4590 to secure a spot.
To be eligible for the 2022-2023 school year: Your child must be four (4) years of age on or before September 1, 2022 and live within Marietta City Schools District. Look up Address
If assistance is needed with registration please conact our front office at 678-919-4590.
Required documents at time of registration:
*Proof of residence-Lease or tax bill (all families including employees)
*Utility bill
*Birth Certificate
*Social Security card or waiver
*Form 3231-Immunization (time extension can be granted)
*Form 3300-Hearing, dental, vision, nutrition (time extension can be granted)
*Marietta City School Employees: ELC Employee Agreement
**The Emily Lembeck Early Learning Center has a set number of seats. If more children register than seats available, a lottery will occur. The lottery will be electronic and overseen by Central Office. The following weights will apply to the lottery and are cumulative. For example, if you are a resident and employee you will have two opportunities to qualify for a seat.
1) All Marietta City Residents will have their name in the lottery once.
2) All Marietta City Employees will have their name in the lottery once.
3) All Marietta City Residents who live in a zoned elementary school area whose 3rd grade reading scores are below 50% will have their name in the lottery once.
Location: 377 Henry Drive. Marietta, Georgia 30064
School Day Hours: 7:45a.m.-2:15 p.m. (Before School Care and After School Care will be offered at a cost)
Click here for Before and After School Care information
Transportation: Parents are responsible for transporting to and from the Early Learning Center daily.
Teacher/Student Classroom Ratio: Emily Lembeck Early Learning Center will follow the Georgia Pre-Kindergarten
recommended guidelines for teacher/child ratio.- Pre-Kindergarten (four years of age) 1:11 with a class size of 22 children
The Early Learning Center is a uniform center.
- Non-embroidered polo-style shirt in light or navy blue from any store you choose
- Emily Lembeck Early Learning Center Spiritwear T-Shirts (available to purchase)
- Button down shirt and blouses in light or navy blue
- Comfortable bottoms and shoes that will allow for free movement and play
School Nutrition: Lunch is offered at a cost of $2.45 per meal. Families may complete a free and reduced lunch application or add funds to your child’s lunch account through the Titan Family Portal.
For any School Nutrition related questions or concerns contact the Office of School Nutrition; 770-422-3500
Instructional Focus:
The Emily Lembeck Early Learning Center implements the Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards (GELDS) following a framework gleaned from several scientific research-based frameworks/programs.- Frogstreet Excel PK program
- Read Right from the Start
- Handwriting without Tears
- Social Emotional Learning: Conscious Discipline
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Christine Ramirez
Director of Early Learning
377 Henry Drive
Marietta, GA 30064
Phone: (770) 422-3500 ext. 7633Meredith Crittenden
Early Learning Coordinator
377 Henry Drive
Marietta, GA 30064
Phone: (770) 422-3500 ext. 7639Graciela Herrero
Early Learning Office Manager
377 Henry Drive
Marietta, GA 30064
Phone: (678) 919-4590Karen Kresak
Community Preschool Teacher
377 Henry Drive
Marietta, GA 30064
Phone: (770) 422-3500 ext. 7649
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Sheltering Arms Cobb Center – EHS
Sheltering Arms offers a full-day, full-year schedule, a blended classrooms from diverse socio-economic backgrounds.Childs enrollment is based on availability and qualifications, enrollment is at the beginning of the school year. Sheltering Arms follows a school year calendar
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Meadows Montessori School
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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La Kids Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Storyland Child Care
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Sprayberry Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Kids R Kids 35
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Marietta Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Due West Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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North Cobb Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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The Sunshine House 159
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Kiddie Kollege
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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KinderCare Learning Center 1690
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Princeton Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Rated K For Kids Only-Canton
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Kids R First Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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West Cobb Prep Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Ducktails Learning Center
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Angel Academy Center Inc
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Childcare Network 33
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Primrose School of Sprayberry
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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La Petite Academy – Shallowford
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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The Sunshine House 91
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Young Einsteins Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Creative Montessori School
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Primrose School of Lassiter
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Busy World Learning Center
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Childtime Childcare 1104
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Discovery Point Macland Circle
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have av
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Discovery Point 43
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Kiddie Kollege Kampus
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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La Petite Academy – Williams
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Little Learners Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Montessori International Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Primrose School at Eastlake
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Sheltering Arms – Cobb Center
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Sheltering Arms – Mansour Center
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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The Goddard School of East Cobb
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Zion Baptist Academy
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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KinderCare Learning Center 409
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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KinderCare Learning Center 1297
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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Marietta Head StartPre-K
This Georgia pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) approved school has been funded by the state of Georgia pre-k program. If you are interested in placing your child in to the Pre-K program, please call to see if there are currently available slots. The slots go quick and these programs may or may not have avail
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TOP 10 Preschools in Marietta, GA | Compare Prices
Preschools in Marietta, GA
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1910 Bonaventure Way, Marietta, GA 30068
Starting at $215/day
Description:
I’ve operated a home day care for many years and have been able to provide countless kids with a nurturing and warm environment to best prepare them for their years in school. By watching no more than six kidsat a time, I am able to attend to each child’s needs and focus on teaching while incorporating my Montessori background. As a mother of two kids, an art school graduate, and a previous Montessori teacher, I am confident I would be able to provide a loving environment for your kids….
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We offer a preschool and kindergarten advanced Montessori 24 hour program. Our approach is individualized, celebrating and cultivating the unique talents, interests, and needs of each child. Our programcombines self-guided learning, direct instruction, small-group work, and hands-on presentations in an engaging way that helps young minds flourish. We offer a learning environment perfect for ages infant – six years old.
We also specialize with autistic children. Your child can have their therapy done at the center….
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At Meadows Montessori school, we believe that learning is a journey! Begin that journey with us.
Montessori method, in a nutshell, is a joyful, child led adventure into learning. Movement, exploration andcuriosity are the norm, rather than sitting and memorization. In addition to group sessions,each child is given individual lessons at his/her own pace.
The Primary classroom consists of children between the ages of 2.5 and 6 years old. Mixed age groups allow for older children to mentor younger ones. This creates a sense of community and family.
Our goal is to develop engaged and independent thinkers who embrace community, responsibility and leadership. Our certified teachers strive to inspire a joy of learning, academic success, intellectual excitement, emotional well-being, and creativity in every student. It is with confidence, joy, compassion and leadership that school students venture forth on their unique journeys to make a difference in the world.
The Montessori Method of education, developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children from birth to adulthood. The first Montessori school the Casa dei Bambini, or Children’s House was established in Rome on January 6, 1907. Dr. Montessori’s Method has been time tested, with over 100 years of success in diverse cultures throughout the world.
The classroom is prepared by the teacher to encourage independence, freedom within limits, and a sense of order. The child, through individual choice, makes use of what the environment offers to develop himself, interacting with the teacher when support and/or guidance is needed….
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A 21st century child care center offering day programs from 6:30 a.m to 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday for children 6 weeks to 12 years old. A thorough curriculum, S.T.E.A.M based, and interactive technology areoffered throughout the center. Several cutting edge enrichment programs are offered to children ages three and older. Allow the Steady Sprouts Preschool to have an opportunity to service your infants, toddlers, and preschooler in a nurturing educational environment….
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Providing Exceptional, Exemplary Care for Children and Families
Family Oriented Childcare with a Customer Service Focus
* Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Served
* Before and After School Care
* Open: 6:30a. m.- 7:00 p.m….
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Kids `R` Kids of West Cobb is a preschool and learning academy located at 3422 Ernest Barrett Pkwy, Marietta, GA. They offer lots of extra curricular activities such as after school care and summer camps asidefrom various school programs for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and pre-K to keep your kid from getting bored….
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Experience a child care center where learning awaits your child to reach their fullest potential in a developmentally and individually appropriate center.
With a staff of experienced early childhoodeducators, Little Learners Academy recognizes that the first years of life are an extraordinary, unique time. Our commitment is to provide an educational foundation that provides the senses of home, where imagination exists and your child can play, all while learning! We welcome your child to experience the Little Learners Academy difference!!
Little Learners is not just a child care center, it is a child care learning center. This sets us apart from other child care centers in that we help parents develop their child’s natural talents from early childhood development, through elementary school. The first five years of childhood development are the most important, so we offer day care programs for infants, toddlers, young and older preschool, private pre-k, and the Georgia pre-k lottery funded program. We believe in learning and development through play, and also specialize in new and creative curriculum including baby sign language! We are safe nurturing child care programs in the Gainesville area and Marietta, GA. Parents, come to our child care and learning center and see for yourself!!…
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We pride ourselves on providing our children with a learning environment, rich in hands-on experiences based on our knowledge of each individual student.
Recent Review:
My daughter has attended this school for almost 3 years, and we have had nothing but a great experience.
Reviewed by Brandon F
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Bright & Creative Learning Center is a childcare and learning facility to serve the families living in Marietta, Georgia. It provides a safe, clean and healthy place for children ages six weeks to twelve yearsold. The center also offers summer camp, after-school pick up and program….
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Creative Montessori School offers paid and subsidized Montessori-based early education programs for preschoolers and school-age children. The facility operates every weekday, Mondays through Fridays, and isopen from 6:30 A.M. to 6:30 P.M. Creative Montessori School is state-licensed to handle 98 students….
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We are a family friendly kids country club with all the comforts of home. Offering date nights, occasional childcare, and variety of activities that teach life skills in a fun new way. Each child is encouragedto be creative through art and music. Story time and the puppet theater which allows them to be a part of stories and interact while using instruments. Our purpose is to build better communities, stronger families and new friendships. For children age 5 and up we offer prepare & share cooking socials, game nights, sewing socials and summer camp.
Occasional Care hours Monday- Friday 8 am- 12 pm rate $8.00 per child per hour
Sewing or Cooking social hours Wednesday nights 6-7:30 pm 6 sessions $90.00
( includes dinner and supplies )
Summer Camp hours 7 am- 6 pm rate $150.00 per child per week
Home School Game Night Tuesday 6-7:30 pm rate $15.00 per month
Date Night is offered on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month from 6 pm to 10 pm at the rate of $20.00 per child per night.
Pick up services are now available from West Side Elementary school,First Baptist Church Marietta, First Presbyterian Church Marietta. rate $20.00 per child per day.
Christmas is also a great time at The Playdate Estate, our annual Christmas slumber party gives parents time to shop and spend some time without the kids….
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Our mission is to create an inclusive daycare where we use a play-based curriculum to help your child develop new skills and reach their full potential.
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Located in beautiful SW Marietta, Pivot Point Prep is a Micro School serving Families with Pre-K-3rd grade children. Established as a multi- age Homeschool Co-Op in 2000. Incorporated in 2020.
We follow bestpractices for Covid 19, we also build foundational Social Emotional skills, offer Stem classes, Early literacy and Nature Studies….
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Get set for a thrill-filled summer! Our age-specific, kid-approved camps add up to a season of discovery and fun for preschool to school-age children. This year, our 12 weeks of camps fall into six greatthemes: Mighty Bodies, Bendy Brains; Awesome Art; Gravity Galore and More; The Wondrous World of Food; Wild about Water; and Featured Creatures.
We’re in session when your local public schools are on break and you’ll find our flexible scheduling works for your busy family. See why our summer (and winter and spring) break camps are the place to be when school’s out….
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Get set for a thrill-filled summer! Our age-specific, kid-approved camps add up to a season of discovery and fun for preschool to school-age children. This year, our 12 weeks of camps fall into six greatthemes: Mighty Bodies, Bendy Brains; Awesome Art; Gravity Galore and More; The Wondrous World of Food; Wild about Water; and Featured Creatures.
We’re in session when your local public schools are on break and you’ll find our flexible scheduling works for your busy family. See why our summer (and winter and spring) break camps are the place to be when school’s out….
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Get set for a thrill-filled summer! Our age-specific, kid-approved camps add up to a season of discovery and fun for preschool to school-age children. This year, our 12 weeks of camps fall into six greatthemes: Mighty Bodies, Bendy Brains; Awesome Art; Gravity Galore and More; The Wondrous World of Food; Wild about Water; and Featured Creatures.
We’re in session when your local public schools are on break and you’ll find our flexible scheduling works for your busy family. See why our summer (and winter and spring) break camps are the place to be when school’s out. …
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At Childtime, your child gets what he or she needs to develop their best mind, their love of learning, their personality, their bright future. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach, central to our educationalphilosophy is the belief that secure relationships with responsive and respectful adults provide the basis for all learning. Staff and teachers, and the relationships children develop with them, are vital for learning, for trust, and for independence. Our approach is designed to help them grow as students and people, in school, and in life beyond….
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What matters to us at La Petite Academy is simple: Your child. Here, exceptionally strong, sound social and educational foundations are formed. Here, children learn to respect one another. Learn together. Learnto work together. Learn to have fun constructively. And discover how enjoyable learning can be. It all starts by design. The free-flowing, open concept design of our facilities inspires a nurturing, interactive, and collaborative environment in which your child can thrive. Our schools and classrooms are designed to give children room to grow, room to share and room to be themselves. At La Petite Academy, open spaces and open concepts promote open minds….
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Our foundation is a private Applied Behavior Analysis-based day school program for children with Autism at our therapy center in Marietta. We are one minute away from Marietta Square. We focus on introducingearly intervention programs which are geared at helping children with new diagnoses find the best fit program that accommodates their needs academically, socially and environmentally….
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FAQs for finding preschools in Marietta
In 2022 what types of preschool can I find near me in Marietta, GA?
There are two main types of preschool programs you can send your kids to in Marietta, GA. The first is a full-time preschool program that usually works well for parents working full-time shifts. The second is a part-time preschool program where you can enroll your child for 2-3 days per week and typically choose between a morning or afternoon shift. A part-time preschool can be a great option if you want to ease the transition of this new learning experience for your child. You can also check your options in Marietta, GA for traditional preschool centers, or private home-based preschools.
What should I look for in a good preschool program in Marietta, GA?
When you begin looking for preschools in Marietta, GA ask about the ratio of learning time to supervised play time so you can get a good sense of whether you believe your child’s needs will be met. From there, ask about what a typical day consists of, what the safety protocols are and how discipline will be handled. Also, make sure to check directly with the preschool for information about their local licensing and credentials in Marietta, GA.
How can I find a preschool near me in Marietta, GA?
There are currently 1250 preschools in Marietta, GA on Care.com and you can filter these local results by distance from your zip code. From there, you can compare between preschool programs by traditional facility-based preschools and private, in-home preschools. Be sure to check reviews from other families in Marietta, GA who have previously sent their kids to any of the preschools you are interested in.
Georgia PRE-K – Preschool & Daycare Center Serving Marietta, GA
Prepare Your Shining Student For Kindergarten Now
A Georgia Lottery-Funded Pre-K Experience
That Empowers Your Child To Advance
Prepare Your Shining Student For Kindergarten Now
A Georgia Lottery-Funded Pre-K Experience
That Empowers Your Child To Advance
Quality-Rated Care You
Can Be Confident In
Make sure your child receives the very best. A Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning star rating means you can trust that their instruction and safety are the best, helping you feel good about your choice in their care.
The Highscope© Curriculum
Provides Building Blocks
Your child receives a trusted and tailored curriculum covering subject areas of math, language, literacy, reading, and number and letter recognition. Help your child feel equipped with everything they need for their next steps.
A State Consultant Ensures
Guidelines And Standards
A state consultant is assigned just for Pre-K, overseeing guidelines based on Georgia early learning development standards. Parents love this extra sense of security that supports their child’s success.
Experienced Teachers Will
Build A Partnership With You
Teachers are equipped with Child Development Associates and others with Bachelor’s Degrees, making them the perfect partner for your child’s academic success. Parent conferences happen twice a year to discuss your child’s progress and help prepare them to advance.
Longer Hours Offer You Added Convenience:
Open 6 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Safety And Security While
They Learn And Develop
Restricted access to the center, a private and fenced-in yard, and security monitoring cameras help ensure your child stays safe and secure at all times, giving you peace of mind throughout the day.
Delicious And Nutritious
Meals Provided Daily
Never worry about whether your child is receiving the fuel they need throughout the day with a healthy food program that includes whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and low sugar snack options prepared by an on-site chef. Meals are also CACFP approved!
Fun, Kid-Safe Outside Spaces
For The Ultimate Playtime
Natural play structures, a pavilion that provides shade, and a setup that means each class has a dedicated playground show your child conquers the day when it comes to movement, play, and interaction with their friends.
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Shaginyan Marietta Sergeevna
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Shaginyan Marietta Sergeevna is a Russian Soviet writer, poetess, historian and journalist.
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She was born on March 21 (April 2 n.s.), 1888. in Moscow in the family of a doctor. She received an excellent home education, then studied at a private boarding school, then at the Rzhevskaya gymnasium, one of the best gymnasiums in Moscow at that time.
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In 1912, Marietta Shahinyan graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Higher Courses for Women. In the same year she visited St. Petersburg. There, Marietta Shaginyan became close to D.S. Merezhkovsky and Z.N. Gippius. She was interested in the philosophy of symbolism. The influence of the Symbolists was reflected in the books of 1912–1914 “On the Bliss of the Possessor. Poetry Z.N. Gippius” and “Two Morals”. Then Marietta Shaginyan left to study in Germany, returning to her homeland during the war. Goethe’s poetry significantly influenced her creative development. At 19In 13, Marietta Shahinyan’s book “Orientalia” was published, which made her famous.
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From 1915 to 1918 Marietta Shaginyan lived in Rostov-on-Don. She worked as a teacher at the conservatory, teaching art history and aesthetics. At this time, she collaborated with the newspapers “Priazovsky Krai”, “Kavkazskoye Slovo” and “Baku”, covering the events of the artistic and literary life of the country there. Work in these newspapers played a big role in the formation of Marietta Shahinyan as a writer.
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In 1916, Marietta Shahinyan wrote the book “Own Destiny”, which is dedicated to criticism of such qualities of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia as lack of will, impersonality, petty individualism, inability to follow one’s word. The writer considered religion, Christian love, as a way to improve society.
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In 1919, Marietta Shaginyan organized the first spinning and weaving school on the Don. She wrote about this in the essay “How I was a weaving instructor”. At 19Between 22 and 1923, Marietta Shaginyan wrote the story “Change”, which was dedicated to the revolutionary events in the Don. In 1923–1925, Marietta Shaginyan published a number of Mess-Mand agitation-adventure stories under the pseudonym Jim Dollar. In 1922, on a business trip for the Pravda newspaper, Shahinyan left for Armenia.
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In 1925, Marietta Shaginyan published the essays Thornton Factory and Neva Thread, dedicated to Leningrad textile factories. In 1928, she published a literary work of a kind of “complex novel” genre called “Kik”. In this novel, various genres were combined, “from a poem to a report.”
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Roman “Hydrocentral”
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In the autumn of 1927 Shahinyan went to build a hydroelectric power station in Armenia; she participated in earthworks, laid sleepers, studied drawings and documentation, acted as a journalist and agitator. The result of this activity was the novel “Hydrocentral” (1930) – one of the first Soviet “industrial” novels. He captured in the smallest details and details a grandiose picture of construction, presenting the production process as an analytical study of the very “essence of life”. Shaginyan’s romanticism manifested itself in an unshakable conviction that the victory of free collective labor is possible, the realization of the dream of the host people of a bright life.
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“Hydrocentral” is a literary monument to the era of socialist enthusiasm, whose people dreamed of “thinking big. Live, live – to see with your own eyes how the entire vast Soviet land will be covered with hundreds, thousands of construction projects tied together. The novel was enthusiastically received by critics. N. Tikhonov argued that Shaginyan destroyed the “domesticity” of literature, brought it to the expanse of modern life, and “it turned out that there were grandiose things around”, illuminated by the “pathos of the original fire”
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In 1931, the book “Soviet Transcaucasia” was published, which included Marietta Shaginyan’s articles on socialist construction. In 1932 she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
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M. Shaginyan with her granddaughter
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During these years, Marietta Shaginyan graduated from the Planning Academy of the State Planning Commission, where she studied energy, mineralogy, and spinning and weaving. She worked as a weaving instructor, lecturer, statistician, and historiographer. The work of Marietta Shahinyan was distinguished by political purposefulness, practical life experience, and knowledge of the processes of socialist construction. She was constantly learning, both in theory and in practice.
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During the Great Patriotic War, Marietta Shaginyan was in the Urals as a correspondent for the Pravda newspaper. Since 1942 she was a member of the CPSU. In 1946, Marietta Shahinyan defended her dissertation and received the degree of Doctor of Philology. In 1950, she was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.
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After the war, Marietta Shaginyan continued to write travel essays about her trips. For the book “Journey through Soviet Armenia”, published at 1950, a year later she was awarded the Stalin Prize.
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For many years she has been writing literary portraits of people who were closely acquainted with her (N. Tikhonov, Khodasevich, Rachmaninov) or whose life and work were dear to her (T. Shevchenko, I. Krylov, Goethe). The long life lived by M. Shaginyan was filled with large and small historical events, about which she always wrote with passion and interest. A special place in the work of Shaginyan is occupied by books on the theme of Lenin: the novels-chronicles “The Ulyanov Family” (1938; revised in 1957), “The First All-Russian” (1965).
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Shaginyan died at the age of 94, in 1982, in Moscow.
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The presentation was prepared by: 11th grade student Valentina Kovalchuk 2014
Leninian Marietta Shahinyan.
How a writer revealed the secret of the Soviet leader – Armenian Museum of Moscow and the culture of nations
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Literature, USSR, PersonalitiesMaxim Erokhin Literature, USSR, personalities, writers
Marietta Shaginyan, the first science fiction writer in the USSR, a journalist, poetess of the Silver Age and, perhaps, the main researcher of the biography of Vladimir Lenin, left a truly rich literary heritage. Her work is bright and controversial, however, like herself, and a huge part of it is dedicated to the “father of the revolution.” How Marietta Shaginyan revealed an unexpected fact about the family of the Soviet leader, because of which she almost ended up in exile, read in our material.
Marietta Shaginyan was born on April 2, 1888 in Moscow into a family of Armenian intellectuals. Mother Pepronia Yakovlevna Shaginyan was a housewife, and father Sergei Davydovich Shaginyan was a well-known practicing doctor, associate professor at Moscow University. The writer received a good education: at first she studied at home, then at the Rzhev gymnasium, and then entered the Faculty of History and Philology of the Higher Women’s Courses. But Shaginyan did not stop there: she was a passionate nature, especially when it came to creativity. And one of these passions was the poetry of Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius. The desire to be closer to them and get to know them live even inspired Shaginyan to move to St. Petersburg. However, the writer did not stay in the northern capital for a long time and soon went to Heidelberg University to study philosophy.
Postcard with a photograph of Marietta Shahinyan, 1920s. Photo: bidspirit.com
Marietta Shahinyan was a famous poetess of the Silver Age. Her poems were so popular that almost all of Russia repeated the lines from her “Virgin is not more fragrant than me.” At one time, the writer was more famous than Marina Tsvetaeva.
But Marietta Sergeevna became famous precisely as a prose writer and historiographer, and not as a poetess. She became the first Soviet science fiction writer, in addition, she was an art critic and journalist. It was published in Pravda and Izvestia. Shahinyan has published over 70 novels and short stories. Being a creative person, sometimes she doubted her talent, for example, she could quit the literary field for a while, but after years she returned, because she could not do otherwise.
The emotional writer had a hot temperament. When she took on a project, she immersed herself in it completely. When working on essays about Armenia, Shahinyan descended into the very depths of the mines of Zangezur, climbed the highest mountain Aragats – 4090 meters above sea level. The poetess, who also had a mountaineering diploma, became the first woman to conquer this mountain.
Stepan Meliksetovich. Portrait of Marietta Shahinyan. From the collection of the National Gallery of Armenia
She loved life and therefore was interested in everything new. When Marietta Shaginyan was inspired by the work of Johann Goethe, she went to Germany to immerse herself in the world of the author of Faust. Then she was carried away by politics, and she accepted the ideas of the revolution. The writer began to read articles by Vladimir Lenin, and later wrote devastating materials about his opponents. One of the sayings of the “father of the revolution” struck her the most: “Study, study and study again.”
In his novel “Change” (1923), which Lenin himself liked, Shaginyan continued the thought of the leader of the people, which sounded as follows: “Live in order to do, in order to learn, in order to fight. To live so that the seeds of humanity’s winged dream of justice will sprout on earth. Live with your own hands, from stone and steel, build what you imagined in your thoughts, written in books.
Having studied Lenin’s biography, the writer was one of the first to write a series of historical and biographical books about him. At the same time, Marietta Shaginyan began a correspondence with Nadezhda Krupskaya, who approved both the idea and the manuscript itself. However, because of this work, the journalist almost ended up in exile. To collect material for novels, she traveled a long way along the Volga and visited many cities where the leader’s relatives lived. For more than two years, Shaginyan lived in Ulyanovsk, where she worked with archives.
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In 1937, essays and excerpts from the novel “Ticket to History” were published. In this part of the tetralogy, the genealogy of the leader was described. Shaginyan discovered that he had Kalmyk roots, and his grandfather was a baptized Jew. At first, the novel received positive reviews, but since information about the origin of the politician could undermine the reputation of the Soviet authorities and Lenin himself, on August 5, 1938, the XVII Council of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union was convened on the novel “Ticket for History”. As a result, it was decided to remove from the post of editor of Krasnaya Novi, withdraw the book by Shaginyan and generally prohibit the publication of other publications about Lenin without the consent of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
The writer herself was not affected by the sanctions, and the storm that hung over her was over. This was partly due to the personal disposition of Joseph Stalin towards her. Marietta Shaginyan subsequently revised this part of the novel and published it in a second edition in 1957. However, the Politburo ban did not stop her, and she continued to work on Leniniana.
Marietta Shaginyan wanted to present her works as a great epic about the origins of the moral world of Vladimir Lenin, she wanted to show the spiritual atmosphere of the time in which the politician was born and grew up, how he became the leader of the peoples. Since the writer herself was his contemporary, she managed to communicate with the leader’s relatives and people close to him, thereby she was able to convey reliable information firsthand. Even borders did not stop the journalist. She was one of the few who had the right to freely travel abroad. To write the novel Four Lessons from Lenin, Marietta Shaginyan traveled to the cities of Europe, where the ideologist lived for a long time and held his congresses. The writer was incredibly passionate about this topic, she immersed herself in the atmosphere, visited conference rooms, coffee houses and canteens where Lenin worked and visited. She also went to places of rest, where the leader walked with Nadezhda Krupskaya, escaping from the bustle of the city.
Marietta Shaginyan, 1963. Photo: Yakov Berliner / RIA Novosti
But it was the leader’s worldview that interested Shaginyan more. As she described in the book, Lenin was extremely disappointed by the indifference of people to their work, since he himself was a very enthusiastic and passionate person and did not understand those who treated tasks with formalism. He was a good psychologist and could find an approach to anyone, he believed that a person needs to communicate a lot with people in order to begin to understand them, and this knowledge cannot be obtained from psychology textbooks. And in order to know a person and a people as a whole, it is necessary to understand and know his language, traditions, how he lives; and with the help of this knowledge to establish contact with the people. Although Vladimir Ilyich wrote in the questionnaires that he did not know foreign languages well, the witnesses claimed: Lenin was fluent in English, fluent in German and French.
During her life, Marietta Shaginyan did a great job of studying the biography of Vladimir Lenin, his works and his personality. Even in her autobiography Man and Time, she wrote that she often asked herself, “What would Lenin have done?” And she answered herself – he would say: “The truth is concrete.” Lenin became a part of the writer’s life. Shaginyan published many other books, but today many are known for her works about Lenin.
Marietta Shaginyan received the Stalin Prize in Literature in 1951 for her work “Journey through Soviet Armenia”, and in 19In 1972, she won the Lenin Prize in Literature for the tetralogy The Ulyanov Family.
Martiros Saryan and Marietta Shahinyan, 1965. Photo: sarian.am
Unfortunately, now Marietta Shaginyan is not as popular as in Soviet times. However, reading her works can help you immerse yourself in that era, get to know her better. “Jump”, for example, describes the early years of the life of the Soviet state under the NEP. And you can understand the ideology of the USSR by studying the “Four Lessons of Lenin.”
Marietta Sergeyevna Shaginyan died at the age of 93, in 1982. Until the end of her life, the writer did not stop working, remaining passionate and sincere in nature. She has come a long and interesting way, having lived with the slogan: “Live to do, to learn, to fight. ”
Journalist Maxim Erokhin specially for the Armenian Museum of Moscow
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Leninian by Marietta Shaginyan. How the writer revealed the secret of the Soviet leader
Marietta Chudakova sincerely believed that Russia would be free!
“My mother Marietta Chudakova died today in the intensive care unit of Kommunarka,” her daughter Maria wrote on Facebook, adding that the time and place of farewell will be known later.
On November 21, at the age of 84, Marietta Omarovna Chudakova, a Russian literary critic, literary historian, textologist, Doctor of Philology, writer, memoirist, public figure, teacher, educator, art specialist M.A., died of covid. Bulgakov. The widow of the literary critic and writer A.P. Chudakov (1938-2005). This sad news was announced in her blog by her daughter Maria.
The most talented scientist and educator, Marietta Omarovna, was also an extremely courageous and determined person, she took part in almost all protest actions against the Russian political regime and was not afraid to publicly express her point of view. It is sad to realize at the same time that she was still afraid to commit only one insignificant, but extremely important act – this is to be vaccinated. According to her daughter, she explained this by the fact that she still does not go anywhere, but is working on another book. Alas, covid overtook her at home. For about a week, the doctors of Kommunarka fought for her life, and all the numerous admirers and students of Chudakova watched this struggle intently …
Today the Net is full of short and not very obituaries for Marietta Omarovna.
Here is a very small part of them.
Writer Leonid Sokolov : “All my last days started with the same thing – Marietta Chudakova’s health reports posted on Facebook by her daughter Masha. Promising, to be honest, was not. “Kommunarka” does not like to give…
And don’t look at your age. Marietta Omarovna was younger than all of us. She did not live to old age. She worked until her last days. And not done things left for ten . ..
And she read lectures about Zoshchenko, Olesha and, of course, Bulgakov… you won’t guess! – right on the way to the rallies, those very thousands of rallies of 2007-2018. Not enough for her was the Literary Institute. It was not enough for her academic scientific conferences. She didn’t have enough children from the outback of Russia, where she broke off in her car loaded with books to hold quizzes to remind her of the priceless Word.
Ascetic, warrior, culturologist, great philologist, sage. And a fighter. And next to her (even when I was very far away), I always understood that this is how one should live: desperately, passionately, without regard to circumstances.
Thank you, dear Marietta. Whether we can live in truth like you, I don’t know. But we will remember your lesson of such a life…”
Journalist, writer, TV presenter Alexander Arkhangelsky : “Marietta Chudakova, a great scientist, a great citizen, died of covid. Kingdom of Heaven to her. And we are left with memory and gratitude for the meetings…”
Philologist Irina Surat : “A great scientist, educator by conviction and vocation, a man of powerful creative energy, sharp mind and unbending spirit. I was always struck by her faith in humanity, in us…”
Journalist Mikhail Sokolov : “A wonderful philologist, a great educator, a difficult interlocutor. How much she has done for the Russian provinces, for teachers and libraries! It seems that she died, not from covid, but exhausting herself in endless labors … ”
Playwright Marina Ptushkina : “The soul does not accept this terrible message. She left without having time to finish writing, finishing, completing all her plans and deeds.
Marietta loved life and people very much. In everyone in whom she noticed at least a small spark of ability, she tried to kindle a craving for creativity and pull out of everyone everything that a person is capable of.
Conversations with Marietta were always about the main thing, about the essential. She had a great ability to empathize, to participate.
Alexander Chudakov started writing his novel, recognized as the best novel of the decade, when Marietta said: write, you can, you will succeed!
Great doer, great worker, great motivator.
It’s very hard for me to imagine that I won’t hear her always cheerful voice and words:
– Marinka the ballerina, let’s say something nice. Let’s think of something to change what’s happening. We can.
Now I feel only emptiness and suddenly dimmed life.
Marietta Omarovna is the only person I know who sincerely believed that Russia would take a good road. Her historical optimism was both natural and based on personal experience.
Eternal memory and great gratitude for the friendship you bestowed on me, Marietta Omarovna…»
Marietta Omarovna Chudakova (01/02/1937 – 11/21/2021) graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University in 1959. Started publishing at 1958 year. In 1959-1961, she taught Russian language and literature in one of the Moscow schools. In 1964, after graduating from graduate school, she defended her dissertation for the degree of candidate of philological sciences on the topic “Creativity of Effendi Kapiev.”
In 1965-1984 she worked in the Department of Manuscripts of the State Library of the USSR. Lenin. Since 1970 he has been a member of the Writers’ Union of the USSR. In 1980 she defended her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philology on the topic “Printed book and manuscript: interaction in the process of creation and functioning (On the material of fiction and the science of literature 1920-1930s)”.
Since 1985 she began teaching at the Literary Institute. M. Gorky. Since 1988 she has taught as a visiting professor at a number of American and European universities. Since 1991 member of the European Academy.
In 1994-2000, she worked as a member of the Presidential Council (an advisory body under the President of the Russian Federation), and was also a member of the Pardon Commission under the President of the Russian Federation. In 2007, she entered the top three candidates of the SPS party in the elections to the State Duma.
Author of more than 200 scientific papers and articles in the field of the history of literature of the 20th century, the history of philology and literary criticism. She was the chairman of the All-Russian Bulgakov Fund, as well as the executive editor of the Tynyanov collections. Among her books are Effendi Kapiev (1970), Yuri Olesha’s Mastery (1972), Conversations about Archives (1975), Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Poetics (1979), Manuscript and Book. repositories of writers’ manuscripts” (1986), “Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov” (1988), “Selected Works. Vol. 1. Literature of the Soviet Past” (2001), “Bad Stairs” (2009), etc.
Marietta Chudakova is known for her active social position and strong democratic convictions.
Already in the years of perestroika, she actively criticized the Soviet system. In August 1993, among a group of 36 writers, she signed an appeal demanding early elections to the Supreme Council. On September 15, Boris N. Yeltsin invited the authors of the letter to his dacha. After the meeting, Chudakova wrote: “We need a breakthrough!.. Force does not contradict democracy—only violence contradicts it…”
In October 1993, regarding the dissolution of the Supreme Council, Chudakova signed the Letter of the 42nd.
In 1994-2000, she worked as a member of the Presidential Council (advisory body under the President of the Russian Federation), and was also a member of the Pardon Commission under the President of the Russian Federation. In 2006, she organized the public organization “VINT”, which brings together veterans of “hot spots” and intellectuals. At the same time, she made several trips around Russia for cultural, educational and public purposes – she gave lectures, delivered fresh books to the libraries of some cities, etc.
In 2007, she entered the top three candidates of the SPS party in the elections to the State Duma. The Union of Right Forces did not overcome the 5% barrier, receiving less than 1% of the vote.
According to Chudakova, she was involved in politics that year because too few people take an active political position:
Moskovskiye Novosti : If the country’s citizens are so inert, why did you decide to go into politics?
Chudakova : That’s exactly why. If they were active, with a calm soul I could study the history of literature, as at the end of 1980s – early 1990s. Therefore, she agreed that she saw all over the country – in libraries, museums, schools – a lot of sane, noble, intelligent people with whom we would now be happy to spend the whole evening and we would have something to talk about. But these people no longer believe in elections. They are overwhelmed by the feeling of the omnipotence of the ruling stratum.
In April 2010, she signed the appeal of the Russian opposition “Putin must go.”
Signed all open letters written in Russia in support of Ukraine. In particular, in March 2014 she signed the letter “We are with you!” Film Union in support of Ukraine.
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Marietta Shaginyan, Soviet writer, poetess and prose writer
Socialist realism is an artistic method in art and literature, which is an aesthetic expression of the socialist concept of the world and man, due to the struggle for the formation of a socialist society. The development of the direction of socialist realism is associated with the spread of socialist ideas in different countries and the development of the revolutionary workers’ movement.
Biography of Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan
The famous Soviet writer, prose writer and poet, journalist, historiographer, art critic, Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan was born in Moscow in March 1888 in an Armenian family. Marietta Shaginyan’s father, Sergei Davydovich Shaginyan, was a Privatdozent at Moscow State University. The mother of the writer, Pepronia Yakovlevna Shaginyan, was a housewife.
Marietta Shahinyan received a good education at home, then continued her education in a private boarding school. After she entered the Rzhevskaya gymnasium. From 1902 to 1903 Shaginyan studied in Nakhichevan-on-Don at the Catherine’s Women’s Gymnasium.
Since 1906 Shaginyan began to work in the Moscow press. In 1912, the writer graduated from the Higher Women’s Courses of V.I. Guerrier, where she studied at the Faculty of History and Philosophy. Then Marietta Sergeevna went to St. Petersburg, where she met D.S. Merezhkovsky and Z.N. Gippius, with whom she maintained close contact.
In 1912, Shaginyan entered the University of Heidelberg, where until 19Studied philosophy for 14 years. Then, in the period from 1915 to 1919, she worked as a correspondent in the newspapers Black Sea Coast, Azov Region, Craft Voice, Labor Speech, Baku, Caucasian Word.
In 1915-1928 Marietta Sergeevna lived in Rostov-on-Don, where she worked at the local conservatory as a teacher of aesthetics and art history.
Marietta Shaginyan accepted the Great October Revolution with great enthusiasm, perceiving it as an event of a Christian-mystical nature.
Since 1919, Shahinyan worked as the director of the First Spinning and Weaving School and as an instructor at Donnarbraz. Here she worked until 1920, then moved to Petrograd, where until 1923 she was a correspondent for the newspaper Izvestia of the Petrograd Soviet. At the same time, she lectured at the Institute of Art History.
From 1922 to 1948, Marietta Shaginyan was a special correspondent for the Izvestiya newspaper.
In 1927 the writer moved to Armenia, where she spent about five years, then moved to Moscow.
In 1930, Marietta Shaginyan graduated from the Planning Academy of the State Planning Commission named after. V.M. Molotov, where she studied energy, mineralogy, spinning and weaving. Then she worked as an instructor in weaving, gave lectures, worked as a historiographer, statistician at the factories of Leningrad. During the Great Patriotic War, Marietta Sergeevna worked as a correspondent for the Pravda newspaper in the Urals.
In 1934, the First Congress of Soviet Writers took place, at which Marietta Shaginyan was elected a member of the Board of the Writers’ Union of the USSR.
For several years the writer was a member of the Moscow City Council.
In March 1982, the writer died. Marietta Shaginyan was buried at the Armenian cemetery.
Creative activity of Marietta Shaginyan
Literary activity of Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan began to be engaged since 1903. The writer began her creative activity with symbolist poems. The writer has published more than seventy books of short stories, novels, essays, stories and poems. She owns about three hundred printed sheets of reports, articles, reviews. At 1913-1915 several books by Shahinyan were published, including:
Note 1
At that time, Marietta Shaginyan’s popularity with the public was extremely high, she was ranked higher than Marina Tsvetaeva.
In the same period, the writer was seriously carried away by the work of Goethe and in 194 went to Weimar for ten days.
Then Shahinyan wrote in her diary: “This journey ten days before August 1, 1914 was the last stage of cultural idolatry; Politics suddenly burst into him.
On the way back, while passing through Zurich, Marietta Shahinyan wrote a book of essays, Journey to Weimar.
In 1922-1923 the writer created and published a story called “Change”.
Maxim Gorky in his letter to Veniamin Kaverin wrote that for the story “Change” she should have eaten a sandwich with safety pins.
In the work “The Adventure of a Lady from Society”, Marietta Shaginyan reflects the change that occurred under the influence of the October Revolution in the minds of the domestic intelligentsia. In the period from 1923 to 1925, Shaginyan published a whole series of stories of an agitational and adventure nature called “Mess-Mend”. These stories, signed with the pseudonym “Jim Dollar”, were a huge success.
Three years later, the writer released a kind of literary work. “K and K”, the so-called “novel-complex”, combines different genres – from a report to a poem.
Note 2
“KiK” stands for “sorceress and communist”.
As a result of several years spent by the writer on the construction of Dzorages, the novel “Hydrocentral” appeared, which was published in 1931.
Marietta Shaginyan’s book “The Ulyanov Family” was withdrawn from libraries for more than twenty years. the writer discovered Kalmyk origin in the family of father Vladimir Lenin, which was used by the Nazis in 1937. According to the writer, because of this, she herself suffered in order.
During the war, Marietta Shaginyan published the book “The Urals on Defense”, which included publicistic articles. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, the writer’s book “On the Roads of the Five-Year Plan” was published.
At the end of her life, the writer worked on her memoirs Man and Time.
Bibliography of Marietta Shahinyan:
- “On the Bliss of the Possessor. Poetry Z. N. Gippius»
- The Adventures of a Society Lady
- Orientalia
- K&K
- “Change”
- “Two Morals”
- History Ticket
- “Mess Mend, or the Yankees in Petrograd”
- “Own destiny”
- “Hydrocentral”
- “Leniniana”
- Writer’s Diary
- Journey to Weimar
- “Etudes on Nizami”
- Resurrection from the Dead
- “I. A. Krylov
- “Man and Time”
- “T. Shevchenko” and others.
history of relations with Zinaida Gippius – Armenian Museum of Moscow and the culture of nations
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Zinaida Gippius and Marietta Shaginyan met in December 1908. Gippius by this time was a well-known poetess, one of the ideologists of Russian symbolism. Shaginyan was 19 years old – almost half her age – but she, an “enthusiastic and romantic” girl, was already published with her poetic and journalistic works, at the same time her first collection of poems was published. Shaginyan and Gippius began to correspond, but admiration and declarations of love to their “mentor” after a while gave way to disappointment. “An arrogant old decadent,” is how the poetess spoke of Dmitry Merezhkovsky’s wife at the end of this relationship. And she, in turn, considered Shaginyan unhappy, heavy and frivolous.
The Armenian Museum of Moscow publishes the history of the relationship between Gippius and Shaginyan, as well as some letters from Zinaida Nikolaevna addressed to the young poetess.
Marietta Shahinyan, 1920s. Photo: Moses Nappelbaum
The first meeting of Marietta Shaginyan and Zinaida Gippius was brief: an enthusiastic admirer ran away from the Moscow National, where the writer and her husband were staying, unable to withstand the nervous tension. Shortly before that, in November, she sent Zinaida Nikolaevna her first letter, containing a declaration of love for the work of the poetess and for herself. Unfortunately, its text has not been found, but the content can be reconstructed from Gippius’ reply letter.
Shahinyan’s aesthetic views and her poetic style were formed under the influence of poetry and the philosophy of symbolism. Gippius’s poems and her extraordinary personality seemed to her an ideal. Enthusiastic love for the extraordinary woman-poet poured out on the pages of letters, causing the surprised, but benevolent attention of the addressee.
It may seem strange that the 39-year-old Gippius, accustomed to attention, a trendsetter in literary fashion and a strict critic, answered the first letter of the young “lady”, and subsequently answered her regularly. And the point is not that she was pleased with enthusiastic love and worship – on the contrary, it was this side of their correspondence that very soon began to irritate Zinaida Nikolaevna, she increasingly persistently turned the conversation to other topics, demanded simplicity and equality in their epistolary conversations.
However, it is worth recognizing that Shaginyan’s undoubted intelligence and literary talent made Gippius distinguish her from a number of beginners who come to the Merezhkovskys’ house for a “blessing”. In 1909, the poetess introduced her “ward” to the circle of writers close to her – to the salon of Vyacheslav Ivanov, to the magazine Poliksena Solovieva (Allegro) “Path”, introduced her to Andrei Bely, who at that time was not only a regular guest of the Merezhkovskys’ house, but and dedicated his book The Blizzard Cup to Zinaida Gippius. She encouraged Shaginyan’s friendship with her sisters, tried to “instruct” her in her spiritual quest, in matters of faith and churchliness.
Shaginyan, at first accepting all the advice and wishes of the senior “mentor”, after a while began to resist the mighty influence of others. In 1909, on the advice of Gippius, she moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg – after parting with her sister and a secure existence, she was forced to rent a room in a cheap apartment and endure material hardships. All this was redeemed by the joy of personal communication with Zinaida Nikolaevna, and poetry, fairy tales and stories of those years can be considered the result of their creative and personal communication.
But when Gippius tried to “intervene” in her choice of her future life path, mockingly reacted to the idea of “traveling” around the country to learn about the life of the people, Shaginyan rebuffed. Her novels about the intelligentsia and spiritual searches, Her Own Destiny and The Adventures of a Lady from Society, were largely inspired by reflections on the Merezhkovsky circle. On one of Gippius’ letters to Shaginyan there are two curious inscriptions made by Marietta Sergeevna at different times: “I love Zina for life, I swear it by my blood that I write” and “What a fool I was that I did not understand this old conceited decadent posing as “simplicity itself”.
The name Shaginyan is often mentioned in the diaries of Gippius, where it is said that the young poetess made the life of her “mentor” a burden by her desire to be constantly by her side, her adoration. On March 14, 1911, recalling the events of 1909-1910 in St. Petersburg, Gippius wrote: “Marietta is a smart, religious and … frivolous girl attached to me.” And further: “Here, next, the ardent and insane Marietta, without us, got in touch with the “Calvary” (Bishop Michael) – and began to write us the most careless letters about the revolution, workers, spies, etc.” At 1912th: “The unfortunate frivolous Marietta again appeared from Moscow. She also had a lot of trouble.” At the same time, it is surprising that Gippius, usually closed to interlocutors, avoiding “confessionalism” in lyrics and in her diaries, is perhaps more open in her letters to Shaginyan than in communication with anyone else.
Zinaida Gippius, 1910s. Photo: wikimedia.org
In total, according to Shaginyan, she received 85 letters from Gippius in a little over three years, not counting short business notes. She published some of them in the book Man and Time. Included in the text of the memoirs, the letters were accompanied by a late commentary, emphasizing long-standing grievances, disappointment in his ideal, irritation from Gippius’s desire to teach and at the same time use the girl for various assignments.
After 1917 they parted ways. Marietta Shaginyan in the first post-revolutionary years found herself in the circle of writers of the “House of Writers” on the Moika, talked with Vladislav Khodasevich, Nina Berberova, Nikolai Gumilyov and many others. Gippius and Merezhkovsky left Russia, this time for good.
Letters from Zinaida Gippius to Marietta Shaginyan (1908-1910)
Dear Marietta, your letter made me very happy. It is so good, your letter; so smart and sober. You know, it’s very important to be sober. So it’s rare now. It seemed to me when I read your letter that you understood everything that I … did not write, but thought and felt when I wrote. After all, you don’t dare to write otherwise, and you can’t, but you want it to be guessed. You have eavesdropped on my soul. And how true it is that you write about the simple, the “ordinary”…
Before, I did say more, but now I feel that I must be even more secretive, I must be able to reveal the secret… almost in silence.
I think – I feel with my consciousness – that “God” is close to you, who is close to me and to whom I want to get closer and closer. I accept all the words and thoughts of your letter, I say “yes” to them with the greatest joy. Yes, you have a good prayer, yes, it’s not a fetish, but you need to “through” earthly phenomena … And you understand the “symbol” not as everything else, but wider, more real; as I understand it, and some others that are close to me.
I haven’t lived in St. Petersburg for three years – in Paris. Three years was not in Moscow, exactly. Now I’ll be there one of these days. If you want to see me existing – write (to the editorial office of “Russian Thought”, then I will give my address, day and hour). But maybe it’s too early, maybe for the moment the implementation in letters is enough. Think about it and decide for yourself. I want you to write to me about everything, and about your whole life (yes, this is very important), and maybe it’s better for you to write to me for a long time first, and only then see you?
Do you have all my books? My book of poems is old, since then I have written a lot of them, printed them in Libra, but I don’t like to print poems … I know why, but I have to fight this, because if only I kept them “for myself “, I wouldn’t have you. True, there would not have been that my “famousness” that I hate so much, but for you I forgive fate and her.
I have five books of stories and one of articles. You seem to know her.
I would write to you a lot more, my purely external, bodily fatigue interferes, I have been working very hard lately and now it is simply difficult for me to hold a pen in my hand. Forgive me this, then it will not be so, and write to me yourself about many, many things. I will always answer.
Kisses if I may… And thank you again.
Your Zin. Nick. Gippius.
November 24, 1908
Collection of poems by Zinaida Gippius and Marietta Shaginyan’s book, inspired by communication with the poetess
Exhibition “Marietta Shaginyan and the Silver Age” at the Museum of the Silver Age. Photo: Armenian Museum of Moscow
I’m leaving today, dear Marietta. I thought that I would write to you from St. Petersburg, where, in any case, I would have a rather free minute. Of course, I’m not angry with you and I don’t think your attitude towards me is funny… I just think it’s dangerous for you. You have written so well about fetishism, and now all of a sudden I have the feeling that you can make me a fetish. I tell you this sharply, because it seems to me that you are worthy of my frankness. Love my is greater than me, love my so that it is for you, or becomes your – this is the truth, and I will always answer this with joy. Loving the same thing – only this is real rapprochement. I do not like to be “loved”, the specter of human power immediately rises, and I know it too well not to learn to hate it. I want equality, I never refuse to help, but I want people to want to help me if it happens. I want equality. And I’m afraid for others where there is no longer any temptation for me.
Write to me everything as promised. Do not be angry with me for my directness, but understand it. Do you really write poetry? And at the age of 20, and now, are you already publishing a book? Maybe you write very well, but still, maybe in a hurry. What different people! I was in print for 15 years before I was persuaded to publish my only book of poetry. And as now, and at the age of 17, I wrote 2-3 poems a year – no more. In my time there was not even that sea of poets in which your book would sink, no matter how good it was. However, people are different.
I will be waiting for your letter in St. Petersburg. (Foundry 24). I will answer you sometimes long, sometimes short, as best I can. But always directly, not because I couldn’t do it differently, but because I don’t want to be with you otherwise.
Your Z. Gippius.
December 7, 1908
Dear Marietta! Well, what am I to do – yes, I continue to listen to you with the greatest interest and attention, to find that you are intelligent (with surprise, because I rarely see intelligence in a woman) and … nothing else yet. Do you think that this is not enough? And it seems to me that a lot. Clever letters from the “young lady”! And who does not send her poems for publication! And she doesn’t ask what she “translates”! And to which I answer – not on the card and not out of politeness! And with whom I may not be hopelessly “kind” and I’m in no hurry to say goodbye with the hope of never meeting again! As you wish, it’s not enough.
Of course, your “philosophy” of dualism, your Manichaeism—all these things have been known for a long time, but the point, after all, is not that: the point is your own (though also known) way of overcoming, in the fact of your own, personal understanding, inner . It is necessary; You can know everything and understand nothing. This understanding I call “subcutaneous”; in fact, that’s the only thing that matters. I seem to have always known, as everyone knows, about monism, and about dualism, and about triadism. However, the process of subcutaneous understanding of one-trinity had to take place in its own way, and only after it could the well-known unshakable concept of the world in all its phenomena be established.
But of course I won’t write you “philosophical” letters.
The pure philosophy of “One, Two and Three” (1, 2, 3) is too well known, and in order to be able to reveal it in a new way, something more is needed beyond the word. Signs (like my rhyme “Electricity”) are also useful only for those who know, i.e. having this own, already subcutaneous, knowledge.
Send me your book. I believe you that you are not passionate about it. Who are you friends with now? With sister? Who do you know from Muscovites? With the former Grif-Sokolov? Hm. .. Do you know my close friend – Bugaev? What do you think to think and do next?
Your Zin. Gippius.
January 13, 1909
Tatyana Gippius. Portrait of Marietta Shaginyan, 1910. Photo: nasledie-rus.ru
<…> I’ll be leaving soon, Marietta. That’s right, I’ll leave Russia. But I’ll be back. However, earlier I must be in Moscow. I would like to talk to you in my room, by my fireplace, and not in the cold National; but I think that now you will not run away from me? Or are you afraid of being “disappointed”? Do not be afraid. I want to be “I” for you, and not at all an abstract poetess with doubtfully gray eyes, not so much gray as green. I’m smiling now, and really, I love you a little, Marietta. The fact that you are deaf, it also somehow brings me closer to you.
…The clock is indistinctly ticking…
I wrote this when I was completely deaf for a whole month. Since then, I’ve been hearing a little worse in my right ear. This is tolerable for a phone, but not for a whispering neighbor on the right side.
Well, goodbye, don’t forget me. And don’t be afraid of me. That is how it should be. Yes, I still hope that you will help me in many ways, and I will help you.
Your Z. Gippius.
February 27, 1909
Marietta, yes, I quite deliberately – although quite naturally – did not touch on this issue in my letters: your love for me. It by no means follows from this that I do not believe her, or that I am “angry” with her, or even that I do not fully, not quite, not understand her in all her depth. I understand this very well, I find that you “tell” it very well, i.e. precise, subtle and true. The very contradictions and “nonsense” of the story are true. If love did not want “nonsense”, “answers” that cannot be, if it did not ask what is not, then it would not be love. Love always wants “what is not in the world” – this is its main sign. And I’ll tell you this – not jokingly and not “angry”, but quite simply: love can be happy and unhappy, and its happiness or unhappiness does not depend at all on “circumstances”, but on the spiritual quality of the lover. If he, loving, to these words “I want what is not in the world” – can (know how) to add – at least quietly, to himself – one small word – his happy love. If he is such that he does not add this word, then his love is certainly unhappy. Definitely and always! And the word is “still”. Just “I want something that (still) is not in the world.” It seems to me that you are exactly like this, with “still”, you could not be without “still”, even if you wanted to, and therefore your love (real) is certainly love happy, no matter what “circumstances” it is was not accompanied. We will get closer – or we will never see each other, whether it will be or another, and whatever it is – but still your love is happy. And I don’t speak in the “educational” sense at all, but I take it broadly, in other perspectives. Here, in this little word, interspersed in the human soul ( “ is not yet in the world” … but it will be! It must be) – here is the justification of love as a kind of “nonsense”. Because, after all, it really is hopeless nonsense otherwise, absurdity, not standing on its feet. Just think: if I tried to answer your letter without going inside, but from outside, like everyone else, what kind of answer would that be? You can easily imagine it yourself. After all, to begin with, I hardly saw you, and if you take into account my extreme short-sightedness, then one can say that I did not see you at all. And you me – barely. Yes, and you can not start with this, but from whatever end you like – everything will be the same “nonsense” – if from the outside, if you do not go inside, into the essence of love, which is why love is that it requires an unprecedented, super-meaningful (It is, for outsiders, meaningless).
Zinaida Gippius, 1897. Photo: wikimedia.org
It’s not simple, Marietta, but our real simplicity starts from to complexity, not to of it. There’s nothing you can do about it. A pre-complicated woman, of course, experiences a loveless thrill when she reads a love letter. But I don’t want to lie to you, I don’t feel that excitement. I remember not having experienced this before. I wrote to you once at the very beginning that I love to love incomparably more than to be loved, and I always used to feel envy towards the one who loves. He has (or she, I always didn’t care), but I don’t! Now… I don’t know, less envy. After all, everything depends on your soul. And I also have such a soul that will certainly substitute “more”. It never happens yet … but it must be!
Only one thing in your letter seems to me … well, dangerous, or something. I’ll tell you straight. There is one wrong path – and God forbid that you never take it. And it is terribly easy to enter it, so easy that almost c.u. you can’t save yourself. And it is almost impossible to warn against it, because it is done unconsciously. Path to Truth – through love for a person, this is the wrong way. So that, as it were, love for a person sanctifies love for truth, even reveals, indicates this truth. But it should be the other way around. It is necessary that that, the First, sanctifies love for a person, reveals a person to us …
But I tell you, I know how difficult it is to protect oneself from this. After all, I also had to write “The Twilight of the Spirit” first (and experience it!) in order to understand this. But I can’t forget what I once understood.
Marietta, don’t you understand that if I “forbade” you to love me, or “allowed” you to love (your expressions), or… I don’t know what, it wouldn’t be me? Who would you love then?
And I can only say that your soul is for “happy” love. And certainly your love is happy, because it knows: not in the world … but it should be in the world.
If you don’t understand me, tell me. But it seems to me that they understood. I didn’t say everything, but it’s not always necessary to say everything in words. And there is no need for despondency, loneliness, nothing dark, sick. Be healthy and cheerful.
Vasha Zina G.
April 1, 1909
You see what a worthless and venomous girl you are in essence: although, they say, I “cheer up,” this cheerfulness is fictitious, and I mainly think about of death. Well, this is the easiest and most pleasant thing: to dream about death. It is much more difficult to think about life. And, frankly, I’m sorry and annoyed that you succumb to the temptation of the lung. I would like you to always choose the hardest. I think they could do it. And here’s what else I want to say. Now I see a bias in you … no, only danger slope dangerous, inflection into the beauty of romantic nebulae and … how can I say more rudely? overproduction of some goods of the soul to the detriment of others. You know what? So you all tell me that you would give me your life, that you are ready for all the most extreme … Good. Let’s assume it is. Well, if I told you that I don’t need your life at all (if they did begin to give it away, then, then, it means not for me, but for myself), I’m not at all a hunter for mind-blowing sacrifices, – I know that they are light and seductive for the one who brings them and hard for the one who receives them – but if you love mine and me so much – wouldn’t it be easier for you in the fall, instead of studying in Moscow, to go to St. Petersburg? I can believe that this is difficult, more difficult than “to give one’s life”, but, really, if this is “impossible”, then you yourself will have to agree to some sober adjustment in your readiness, regarding me and me. <…>
April 25, 1909
Marietta Shaginyan, 1934. Photo: goslitmuz.ru
Dear Marietta,
If you have come not only for “tomfoolery”, but for more worthy and independent purposes – I would like to believe – then you will, of course, understand what I am about to say.
I would like you to “get acquainted” with me and us, start “getting acquainted” quite simply, is completely normal and calm.
At the moment I don’t even want to know about the exclusivity of your personal relationship with me; I see a person in you, and I myself want to be a person, and not an “object”.
You can disregard my desires here; but then you don’t even need to see me.
Because I’m tired of aimless complexities, of “ecstasies”, I want simplicity, clarity and freedom.
I tell you very simply: if you want to “get acquainted” on these grounds, please. Come today or tomorrow at 4 o’clock; I rarely go out during the day.
You have enough intelligence and understanding not to be “angry” with me. But you may not agree to my “terms”. This is your business; it will be my business to regret it.
Z. Gippius.
October 16, 1909
Dear Marietta, I see that your southern temperament will give you a lot of trouble and grief. I cannot sympathize with them, because I really do not understand their sharpness, but I sympathize. I don’t even know how to console you, because I have the impression (as very often) that all these experiences have nothing to do with me. I will try to read this “fatal” book, maybe. understand more. Dmitriy Vladimirovich brought it to me the other day from my sister, together with Stendhal and Rogny. I remember that I read it abroad 10-12 years ago, I have a vague memory of stylization, an interesting attempt to restore the psychology of a woman of the famous historical era of France. Abel Hermant is a very talented person, his novels are very curious for those interested in the spirit of French history. It’s almost a classic. And here “the world is like a bed” – I absolutely and hopelessly do not understand. You and I obviously have different views on books. I love novels to the extent of the talent of the authors, I judge from the point of view of art and to the extent that they give me pleasure, but what are you looking for? Teachings? Hardly, because you enjoy Nat Pinkerton, lubok and vulgarity, which I will not take into my hands. I followed with interest Willy, so characteristic of modern France, and you would probably hang yourself with grief after reading his Claudine en ménage. I even re-read some old Beyl novels: for example, “Rouge et noir”, and I don’t even know if you have read it at least once, perhaps it would seem “godless” to you, like the whole Beyle, which I put very high and good.
That’s all I can tell you, Marietta. I don’t understand all your postscripts at all, and I don’t want to go into it, I will consider that this is your personal matter, not related to me, and there you can imagine as you wish.
Your Z.G.
PS. I expected that you would write something to me about the section, and you would write me some kind of womanish-childish game.
January 1910
Marietta Shaginyan’s note:
“In January 1910. After my reading of Hermant-a.
I love Zina for life. I swear this by my blood, with which I write.
February 9, 1910
Late postscript:
“What a fool I was that I didn’t understand this old arrogant decadent, posing as “simplicity itself”!”
Zinaida Gippius, 1910s. Photo: turgenevmus.ru
Prepared from: Koroleva N. Letters from Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius to Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan 1908-1910; Gippius Z. Collected Works. T. 8. Diaries: 1893-1919
Revision
Marietta Shaginyan’s love and disappointment: the history of relations with Zinaida Gippius
“I have no material means. Something in this world is also made from other feelings”
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Marietta Omarovna Chudakova – literary critic, critic, public figure, author of more than 200 scientific articles and works on literature of the early twentieth century. The most famous of them are the biography of Bulgakov, books about the work of Olesha, Zoshchenko.
Marietta Chudakova was passing by with us. She was traveling from Gornoaltaisk to Belovo. But still she was able to devote two hours to Novokuznetsk at the request of Vladimir Ugryumov, who recently defended his Ph. D. thesis at the Literary Institute, where she works. For several years, Marietta Omarovna has been traveling all over the country by car. He travels around large and small cities, villages and brings tons of books with him. Today she spoke little about her literary activities. More about Russia, history. Whatever the word is true, whatever the phrase is winged. When you talk about Chudakova, you need to quote her.
In the library named after N.V. Gogol’s revival. Men unload a car full of books. And inside Gogolevka the hall is already full. Readers and admirers of literature gathered – librarians, teachers, poets, writers and other intellectuals. In the red corner are all the books by Chudakova that were found in the library. A light whisper is heard: “I have arrived.” Marietta Omarovna swiftly enters the hall and, not for a moment sitting down on the prepared chair, begins to speak.
About what he is doing now
We are returning the beautiful Russian word “enlightenment”, instead of which in Soviet times there was the word “agitator”. .. When we brought books, the philologists sobbed with large tears, holding Mandelstam and Akhmatova in their hands! And I realized that 200 thousand are those who can really be helped by one person. You can’t help millions. And so I help. I was told terrible facts: deputies are allocated money for books, but they buy up and donate waste paper that you do not need! We have a lot of vile corrupt officials, but a lot of completely noble people! So my publishers showed me the price list of books that have been published for the last two years, and they said: “Choose what you like, and we will buy these books for you.”
About books
I carry 300-400 kilograms of books to cities. Kirov, Ivanovo regions, Ukhta, Samara, Togliatti, Yekaterinburg. 2.5 tons brought to Chelyabinsk and Biysk, and half – here. Mostly history books. Essays on recent history 1995 – 1999, Yegor Gaidar’s book “Perestroika. The collapse of the USSR. Now in bookstores they sell historical literature. Beautiful books, with gold lettering. But there Stalin is called a “successful manager.” A repression 1930s “forced”! The country is plunging into a delusional opinion about its own past. The motherland is big, so there are a lot of fools. And I want to bridge the gap that lies between real history books and people. I don’t have financial means. Something in this world is also made from other feelings.
For whom are the books?
These are not textbooks – they are called “books for teachers”. In Belovo, they wanted to distribute them to teachers, but I am against it. Because they will all take. Since Maria Ivanovna took it, then Nina Vasilyevna did too. And half will use them! And the rest will be put on the windowsill and will continue to teach according to their plans and notes. Give the books to the librarian. This is the object of his professional activity. He will present the book and talk about it.
History
The future of Russia now belongs to the history teacher. We have such a problem: we want everything to be beautiful in the past! Ever since we wanted to build an ideal state in the USSR. In 1961, the party program was adopted. We read there: “All collective farms and state farms will turn (as in a fairy tale) into profitable enterprises. By 1980, the family will finally be freed from material calculations and will be built solely on relationships of love and friendship.” The utopia my father believed in. He said: “I won’t live, but my daughter will live already under communism!” We continue to live in this utopia. You can not build a society in which everything will be fine! You can build more or less good! And we are trying to remake our own history. In Germany, the school curriculum includes a visit to the death camp. The country said: “Yes, it was, but we will never repeat it.” And Astafiev correctly said about us: “Hitler is a rabbit compared to Stalin! He didn’t kill so many of his own!”
About his work and “Vasily Terkin”
Now I am writing the history of Soviet literature. Not Sholokhov, Prishvin separately, but how the literary process went in a totalitarian society. The totalitarian society enters into the person. In ancient Rome it was like: you support the state – please. And some Catullus calmly wrote abusive lyrics. This is a dictatorship. And totalitarianism is when they are forced to write such lyrics as the state needs.
Everyone associates Tvardovsky with Soviet power. Yes, nothing like that! This is a great poet! His “Vasily Terkin” came out from 1942 to 1945 in Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda. And there is not a single mention of Stalin! Only “Platoon! For the Motherland forward!” Although all the others wrote: “For the Motherland, for Stalin!” I asked my father, a devoted communist: “Dad, did you shout “For Stalin!”? He answered honestly: “Mat – heard. Wow – heard. “For Stalin!” – did not hear. That is why soldiers sobbed over “Vasily Terkin” because Tvardovsky could not lie about the war!
About rich and poor
The country was divided. Like at 1920s: you are poor, so you are good. In 2005, Tatiana Tolstaya asked me at the “School of Scandal”: “How do you feel about the rich?” For me, people are not divided into rich and poor. As if the rich are one indivisible bunch of impudent, jaded. And among them there are those who transfer huge sums to the funds of sick children! This is anonymous, not for PR! If a person gives money to someone else’s sick child for treatment, it matters. I do not scold Abramovich. Because he sent every Chukchi child to the sea! Twice a year. Let him shower his wife with diamonds after that – this is the second thing. As long as we hate each other because you are rich and you are poor, nothing good will happen.
About the generation that should read
As a philologist, I am convinced that literature does not affect adults! A person can admire Dostoevsky, and then go to kill him. The book affects a person up to 17 years of age. I will never forget how, at the age of 8, I ran home to read “The Mysterious Island”. Now they say: “Children do not read!” I’ll tell you a boring phrase: “Where they work with teenagers, they read!” I deduced the law: “There are no books that are too early to read!” My parents turned on me. Then I clarified: “There are no books that are too early to read, there are those that you should never read!” I, having discarded my literary activity, wrote a book “Not for adults. Time to read!”. There we are talking about the golden shelf of world literature, what you need to read before the age of 16. I come to the bookstore, and the sellers stuffed them into the shelf with literary criticism! Well, it says: “Not for adults!” The librarians thank me, and parents should thank me that I free up time for them to do other things.
On the state of the company
The vast majority are now passive. There are many wonderful people. But they get up, shrug their hands like Nekrasov and say the catchphrase: “Nothing depends on us!” And those who are active are aggressive.