Who did Vera Chaplina work for in late 1940s?
Vera Chaplina Vera Vasilievna Chaplina ( ; 24 April 1908 – 19 December 1994 ) was a Soviet childrens literature writer and naturalist . Biography . Vera Chaplina was born in Moscow , her grandfather , Vladimir Chaplin , was an engineer , professor and educator of the architect Melnikov . After the Revolution of 1917 , 10-year-old Vera was lost and spent several years in an orphanage in Tashkent . In 1923 she returned to Moscow . Her career at the Moscow Zoo began when she was sixteen years old . Chaplina visited the zoo as often as she could and was particularly attracted , as many children are , by the cubs . She appeared so often and stayed so long that she finally attracted the attention of professor Pyotr Manteifel , the zoos principal naturalist , and he asked her if she would like to become a junior helper . She gladly accepted the offer , and from that time has worked daily in the zoo . In 1924 she entered the Young Biologists Circle at the Moscow Zoo . Vera Chaplinas special interest was the baby animals , and in 1933 she was put in charge of the zoos motherless youngsters . In 1937 she became chief of one of the zoos largest departments , the wild animals section Moscow Zoo . Over the years Vera Chaplina and her family played host at home to a number of animals — wolves , a leopard , a lynx and a lion cub named Kinuli . Kinuli in Russian means “abandoned” , and the cub had been abandoned by her mother . Vera Chaplina saved the cub . She took it home . fed it from a bottle , nursed it through its first days . And so Kinuli came to be raised in a Moscow apartment in the middle 1930s with Chaplina , her husband , young son and brother — and an assortment of neighbors and their children the growing lioness . Kinulis story glows with Mrs . Chaplinas love of animals , and her desire to unstill something of this feeling in her readers . Vera Chaplinas first book about baby animals Cubs from the green enclosure ( Malyshi s zelenoĭ proshchadki ) , was first published in Russian in 1935 . Since then , she wrote many childrens books about animals , including My animal pupils ( 1937 ; Мои воспитанники ) , Four-legged friends ( 1949 ; Четвероногие друзья ) , Pupils of the Zoo ( 1955—1965 ; Питомцы зоопарка ) , Casual encounters ( 1976 ; Случайные встречи ) . “Chaplina`s writing is affectionate , but is not sentimental.” “The writing is straightforward and simple , the author`s attitude toward the creatures she cared for both tender and practical.” Vera Chaplina worked at the Moscow Zoo until 1946 , writing stories when she could find the time . Since then she has devoted more time to literary pursuits and became a full-time writer . Chaplinas stories were translated into English , German , French , Spanish , Portuguese , Japanese Chinese , Hebrew , Polish , Czech , Hungarian , Latvian , Estonian , Romanian , Danish , Swedish , and Serbian . Selected works . - My animal friends ( 1939 ) London ; Gtorge Routledge & Sons Ltd . P . 255 ( translated by Stephen Garry ) - Zoo babies ( 1956 ) Moscow ; Foreign Languages Publishing House . P . 208 ( translated by Ivy Litvinova ) - Scamp and Crybaby ( 1959 ) Moscow ; Foreign Languages Publishing House . P . 24 ( translated by Ivy Litvinova ) - Kinuli ( 1965 ) New York ; Henry Z.Walck , Inc . P . 95 ( translated by Ivy Litvinova ) - True Stories from the Moscow Zoo ( 1970 ) Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey ; Prentice-Hall , Inc . P . 152 ( translated by Lila Pargment , Estel Titiev ) - Forest travelers . A film story ( 1972 ) Moscow ; Union of Soviet film workers . P . 24 ( translated by Faina Glagoleva ) - The birds in our wood ( 1984 ) Moscow ; Malysh Publishers . P . 10 ( translated by V.Korotky ) Script author . - Kinuli — documentary film ( 1935 , Кинули ; Mostehfilm ) - Adventures of a bear cub — comedy film ( 1936 , Похождения медвежонка ; Mezhrabpomfilm ) - Instinct in animal behavior — documentary film ( 1940 , Инстинкт в поведении животных ; Mostehfilm ) - Forest travelers — animated film ( 1951 , Лесные путешественники ; with G . Skrebitskiy ; Soyuzmultfilm ) - In the Heart of the Forest — animated film ( 1954 , В лесной чаще ; with G . Skrebitskiy ; Soyuzmultfilm ) External links . - Forest travelers — IMDb entry - In the Heart of the Forest — IMDb entry - Omsk Vera Chaplina Library ( in Russian ) - Mon amie Kinuoli // Ce Soir , 26.03.1939 / BNF ( in French ) - Antje Leetz . Four-legged friends . A Russian childrens book and its history – Radio SWR2 ( 30.12.2010 ) ( in German ) - Kristina Safonova . ‘Why didn’t you show me the lion?’ The forgotten story of Vera Chaplina — the Moscow zookeeper who raised a lion in her communal apartment – Meduza ( 23.03.2021 )