Northerner is an interesting biography

Ekaterina Buslaeva is a graduate of Moscow Pedagogical State University, a school teacher in Moscow, the finalist of the Teacher of the Year contest. According to his mother, the northerner was a hereditary nobleman - he came from the noble noble family of the Shenshins and was a distant relative of the 19th century poet Athanasius Fet. His parents divorced when little Igor was only nine years old.

There he manages to finish only four classes of the local real school, and then moves to the northeast of China: it is there that his father, a military engineer, serves at that time. However, in the year after the death of his father, the future poet returns to his native St. Petersburg. According to one version, he decides to compose poems, inspired by the work of one of his beloved poets at that time - Alexei Tolstoy.

Already at eight years, the young northerner writes the first poem "Star and Virgo". The first attempts to publish his poems make immediately upon arrival in St. Petersburg.

However, they end in failure: publishers are not interested in his youthful creations. This is the anticipated modernism and symbolism of Konstantin Fofanov in his work. Do not confuse with his son, Konstantin Fofanov, who wrote a lot under the pseudonym Olympov. Fofanov Jr. in the future will enter the circle of eg-futurists, created according to the northerner himself. This becomes the first step towards the popularity of the northerner as a poet: now any magazine is eager to publish the manuscript of the young poet, to whom the aging classic of Russian literature turned his attention to.

However, the northerner quickly cools to team work and, becoming more popular among the symbolists, goes into solo voyage. Then he first performs in public with reading his poems. After that, he goes on a tour of Russian cities with another writer, Fedor Sologob. One of the most famous poems of the northerner “Pineappers in Champagne” entered there. Around the same time, he meets Vladimir Mayakovsky, who will subsequently play an important role in the creative biography of Severyanin.

Together with his civilian wife, Maria Volnyanskaya settles in the small coastal village of Tola. Severovyan is destined to return to Russia only once - to the elections of the “King of Poets”. Poems were read by many artists and poets, among whom Vladimir Mayakovsky and Igor Severyanin stood out. In the battle, the northerner wins and, called by the king, he goes back to Estonia.

The poet will not return to Russia anymore.