Igor Selvinsky biography

After the war, the bread will earn a loader - the surviving newspapers were not up to poems. But there was not enough for bread - I had to work out as a fighter in the circus, an actor in the theater, a model in the studio and even a judicial reporter. The young poet, who tried a dozen professions, will accept writers, artists, artists in his semi -digital circle, but soon he became crowded - not only in this local narrow circle, but also in the city itself.

In the Crmian "Byron" will go to conquer the capital. Together with the poet Alexei Chicherin and critic, Cornelius Zelinsky organizes the "Literary Center of Constructivists." Glory will come in the year when the poem Ulyalyaevschina will be released in the publishing house. From the first to the last line - experimental. Not by the plot how many communists fought with the bandits in the literature of those years, but in poetics - the skillful combination of grotesque and realism, the language of the master's use of folklore and splash into the poetic series of Ukrainism and Turkisms, rhythm, and sound painting.

In it, Selvinsky formulated his understanding of poetry: poetry is words, but those where the time is smoking so let me burst into the verses of the elements all the aesthetes contrary to the elements.

Criticism approved the poem, although she indicated to the author that the hero - the bandit Ulyalyaev - turned out to be more expressive than the communist Gai. But the success was such that after the first publication in a row, three more were released - in, years. In the same years, the leader of the constructivists began to “lift up” Boris Slutsky, a participant in the Selvinsky seminar at the Literary Institute, recalled that the teacher was a polemicist and brawl of the leader of the futurists of Mayakovsky - both considered himself the first poets of the era.

The polemic was harsh and uncompromising. Everyone believed that it was his literary trend that best expresses its rhythm and pulse. The insult of the Chukchi after the Ulyalyaevschina he continued his experiments - he wrote a play in the poems “Umka - White Bear”. The Theater of Revolution set the play. What caused the genuine indignation of the Chukchi group who visited the play.

The Chukchi were upset from what they saw, indignant and entrusted the deputy chairman of the Kamchatka Oblast Executive Committee Tevlyanto, artist Vukvool, collective farmer Gia to write to the Pravda. They wrote: “... the performance gives a wrong concept of the life and morals of the population of the Soviet Chukotka Umka, orders his wife to go to bed with the guest, and the guest - Party -worker Kavaleridze - accepts this treat.

Then, when Umka comes to visit a party worker, he, in turn, demands that Kavaleridze’s wife sleep with him, listening to the opinion of the offended Chukchi, recognized the play “Anti -Art and Harmful” and, with its decision, made the performance of the Repertoire of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU B “On the play of I. Selvinsky” Bear ”dated April 21, two years later, he suffered again - now for the verses“ how a hunter catches silver ...

”,“ if I die, if I disappear ... ”,“ a monologue of criticism is a saboteur X ”published in the October magazine: poems were recognized as“ anti -artistic and harmful ”resolution of the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the magazine“ October ”and poems I. Selvinsky ”of August 4, he was patted, but left alone. But participation in the persecution of his teacher Pasternak became an irreparable mistake for Ilya Lvovich.

Chistopol, Tatarstan. August G. Photo from the site www. The constructivists, speaking in today's language, needed PR: in order for the group to notice among all kinds of other literary groups, it was necessary to loudly declare themselves. They said: "Constructivism is the highest skill, deep, exhaustive knowledge of all the possibilities of the material and the abdomen to thicken in it." On behalf of the literary center of the constructivists, the “Declaration” was signed by Alexei Chicherin and Ellius Karl Selvinsky with this pseudonym, he signed in the X - Ellium, because his grandfather called Eli; Karl - because, carried away by Marx, attached to his name the name of the author of "Capital".

Seven years later, he summed up the results: “The organization of the plot with the constructivists passed all the stages,” first of all they found “a plot primitive, which gave the most acute form - a joke ...”, then took a further step in this direction - to the short story. Which "represents the permission of the joke, which, of course, does not oblige it to be humorous." The constructivists “desired” and “counted” and therefore did not meet any obstacles from the FOP.

Even in a terrible dream, neither the author nor the chief editor of the "Banner" Vsevolod Vishnevsky could be seen by the consequences of this publication. Incidentally, which has passed through a sieve not only intra -agitation censorship, but also censorship of Glavlit. Before the typographic paint on the pages of the magazine still had time to dry, the Selvinsky was called to Moscow from the Southern Front.

And at the Black Emke, right from the station was delivered not somewhere, but straight to the Kremlin to the secretariat of the Central Committee. Who from the Office of Propaganda and Agitation drew attention to these lines is unknown.But about the “freak”, overcoming fear, the leader was the face of the ripples, the left hand did not extend, the right one worked poorly, reported to the secretariat, the secretariat gathered at an extraordinary meeting - in a room, finished with oak panels, at a huge table, there were not similar to their portraits of Malenks, Zhdanov, Beria Lieutenant Lieutenant Lt.

To praise that such cases of calling even the middle level of commanders in the Kremlin were fighting well, but he was accused of slander in the Russian people from the threshold. You can imagine the state of an ordinary communist, when, having become bustling with his woman’s face, a member of the State Committee on Defense Malenkov shouts at you, a member of the Politburo Zhdanov, the General Commissioner of the State Security, Beria, sparkling with glasses of pince -nez, pokes a fist in the face: enemy!

The earth, that is, the floor, began to leave the feet of a military lieutenant colonel, after many years, Selvinsky recalled that he entered the Kremlin with a young man-he went out of a decrepit old man, but here it happened that in the ancient theater it was called Deus Exmhina “God from the Machine”-Lat. Suddenly, Stalin materialized in the hall.

He listened to the opinion of the “gods” smaller, smoked a pipe, stroked his hard mustache and unexpectedly said to everyone: Comrade Selvinsky fought well, but made a mistake, let him write further and did not make more mistakes ... The secretariat freed the poet from the work of a military correspondent - “until the Commercial City Cliwinsky“ who Bayuka Rossiy ”dated February 10,“ very soon, “T.

Selvinsky ”proved with his work that“ the life and struggle of the Soviet people ”understands correctly. He began to write about the leader - a lot, passionately and ardently. In m he was finally forgiven - restored in rank and satisfied the request to send to the front. He was lucky - he walked in his pet with a leader in military diaries, he gives Stalin’s statement: “Selvinsky is talented.

Almost brilliant. But passes by the soul of the people. ” Love for the poet "The faithful student of Lenin" outweighed the neglect of the "soul of the people." The story of Pasternak each of us makes mistakes. Sometimes irreparable. Selvinsky made such a mistake in history with the awarding of the Nobel Prize Boris Pasternak. Having learned on October 23, the decision of the Nobel Committee, he sent a welcome telegram to the laureate.

The communist Selvinsky was sincere in his desire to instruct the non -partisan Pasternak on the path of true in politics in poetry who he is and who Pasternak - realizing that he was better understanding him than Boris Leonidovich. In the year in the “Red Star” in the poem “Russia”, Selvinsky wrote about his love for the “great Russian verse” and teachers “From Pushkin to Pasternak”.

Nobody forced Selvinsky to condemn Pasternak, with whom he “dangled” 30 years ago in the camp bag of Bagritsky. But the Soviet I emphasize - the Soviet poet Ilya Selvinsky could not do otherwise. His daughter, the artist Tatyana Selvinskaya,, no matter how hard it was to talk about, said that "this is one of the worst acts ... of the father" and that "he had other acts, directly opposite." The Selvinsky Society did not forgive the mistakes, as it was not forgiven and to others - those who “raised his hand” Galich.

But the most important thing is that he did not forgive her for himself - “... He was tormented by this whole story with verses addressed to Pasternak” in the same place. And he did not change his eyes, even when he was “beaten” three times in the Stalin years - he took everything for granted. Disappointed in Khrushchev years. No, not in communist ideas - in the management system.

In the year, he wrote in the diary: “Invalids are ruled by Russia, and this is a long time, like the Tatar yoke. The dominant class has grown in our country: a class of large bureaucracy. United in the list of nomenclature workers, this class owns all the means of production - industry and land, that is, what the aristocrats and bourgeois owned. The power of this bureaucracy, while it is still young, is legally inherited, but is actually inherited.

If the son of Stalin, the boy, was a general and commanded the aircraft of Moscow, if Khrushchev’s son -in -law Adjubey is already the Izvestia editor ETC, ETC, ETC, then these are such connections that are not far from the law of inheritance. And this class builds communism? Why is he to him? It builds because it is necessary to do something, because the system itself is building this communism, but the bureaucracy and in communism will not abandon power over people.

And just as the socialism of the Stalinist monarchy turned out to be possible, bureaucratic communism will become possible. I do not desecrate. It turned out how it happened. From the memoirs of Boris Slutsky, Boris Slutsky recalled that at the first seminar at the Literary Institute “Big, Wide -Fleal, Wide -Loaded” Selvinsky, sorting out the rosary, interviewed newcomers who loves what poets.

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