Daughter of the writer Eduard Uspensky Tatiana told the publication Wonderzine about life with her father, whom she has publicly accused of domestic violence.
According to Tatiana, the problems in the family began when Eduard Uspensky became interested in the ideas of Viktor Stolbun in his commune had a lot of violence, including where children were beaten for their misdemeanours. At the time she was 11 years old.
“In the cult hit the kids. We worked in the fields all the time used to go camping a hundred children in passing cars. When stopped, all gathered in interviews, they could last for two to three hours. Started to dismantle someone when all someone gets. It now seems wild, but it was,” said Tatiana.
According to her, after that open relationship with the father she never had. He began to suppress it mentally and physically. The assumption was made the submission, using different methods: yelled, insulted, was also beaten.
“It’s frustrating, embarrassing, when you are beaten. No one would have believed me and to tell me anyone could not”, – said Tatiana.
According to the assumption, the writer was treated like and other people hated the son of his third wife Eleonora Filina, insulted the mother of Tatiana, calling the old woman Shapoklyak and Baba Yaga, kicked him caring for a relative Filina with things on the street, taking all the money from the artist Leonid Shvartsman who drew Cheburashka.
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Tatiana noted that while the father was alive, she was in a “lot of stress”. According to her, in a letter she wanted to Express their opinion about what literary awards should not be named after a bad person.
“Today, after publication, I sent a reply that the authors of the award looking only for creative achievement, is their right. I did not expect even to such a reaction. For me, that I can talk to about this and I was no yelling, no curses, it’s not me, it’s not bad,” she said.
Earlier, the “Rambler” wrote that the daughter of Eduard Uspensky Tatiana in an open letter urged the leadership of the Russian state children’s library to remove the name of the writer from the title of the new award in the field of children’s literature “Great fairy tale”. She stated that her father was “very cruel” man and throughout his life engaged in domestic violence.
