Skean biography briefly

Shketan Yakov Pavlovich Mayorov writer, founder of Mari drama, the village of Old Baptized the Yaransky district of the Vyatka province of the Orsha district of RME RME Date of birth: Education: 4th grade of the school, Pirokrika school, the family of the peasant-loser, where the future writer was the middle of the three sons, lived rather poorly. Yakov graduated from a four-year school in his native village Old Baptized and Poly Prikhodsky School.

An attempt to enter the teacher’s seminary failed - the young man did not pass the law of God, which did not like. For a while he remained in his village, helping his father. The future writer with great dedication was engaged in self -education, read a lot, especially Russian classics. In the year he was mobilized into the royal army and sent to the front. But a year later, after the illness, they sent back to the native village.

Majorov devoted several years of his life to work in Soviet institutions, including in the department of nationalities of the Yaransk district executive committee. Writing activities captured him during the Civil War. But the novice playwright brought his first work to the public only in the year only in the year. The first play - “Utyshu” “Extra” - was set many times in local drama circles.

Unfortunately, it existed only in manuscripts and did not reach us. In his first dramas and comedies, the author spoke about the life of the Mari people in the state renewed by the revolution, stigmatized bureaucracy, commitment to religion, which was characteristic of the literature of that time.

The journalistic work began for Mayorov - Skewan with the formation of Mari Autonomy in the year. He moved to Krasnokoshaysk the current Yoshkar-Ola, worked in the regional land department, soon changed his occupation, moving to the Yoshkar Keche regional newspaper. On the pages of different publications, his reports, feuilletons, notes, as well as stories, most interesting from a literary point of view were published.

One of his stories, “Yumin Language” - “God's sin”, was printed in the year in Moscow. The writer worked under various pseudonyms: I. Major, Mayorin, Kuga Shadyrtan, J. Saltan, M. Oshlan, Oshlmari, Pereshlinsky. His most famous pseudonym, with which he went down in history, the Spean comes from the Lugovo -Mary "Shket", which means "lonely". In the twenties, the Schidan collaborates with the Mari Mobile Theater, writes for him and even plays in performances.

The play written in the year “AICHIT - AISIAT” “Eh, parents! The author experienced a creative rise in the years when he returned to his small homeland. The Schkek also translated A. Serafimovich “Iron Stream” to the Mari Roman. During the life of the writer, about 15 books were published. But this did not save her from ideological persecution, which almost the entire Mari national intelligentsia was subjected to the Stalin years.

A serious illness determined the death of the writer, on May 16, the Schidan died in the village of Orshanka. When implementing the project, state support funds allocated as a grant are used in accordance with the order of the President of the Russian Federation from