"I highly was born, and then already went down"

The childhood and family education When Gamzatov Rasul was small, he together with a family was engaged in arable works. They lived in Tsad's mountain village. "The eight-year-old boy quite often shirked boring occupations, got on a haycock, stirred feet and something sang to itself under a nose" — transfers memoirs of the wife Gamzatov Rasul the national poetess Zalma Dagestan, the chairman of the Union of writers of the region Kolyubakina Marina (Akhmedov). "At this age he also started writing. When he saw before itself(himself) a picturesque Hunzakhsky plateau, the magnificent panorama on the Saddle mountain from where opened, the first poetic were born in his heart...