Video: "Kissed, bewitched": to whom the poet confessed his love, to whom the lyrics were alien
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The history of the creation of the poem "Kissed, bewitched …", which has become a popular romance, is very curious. After reading it, it may seem that it was written by a young man in love with an ardent gaze. But in fact it was written by a serious 54-year-old serious pedant with the manners and appearance of an accountant. In addition, until 1957, it was in that year that Zabolotsky created his "Last Love" cycle, intimate lyrics were completely alien to him. And suddenly, at the end of life, this marvelous lyric cycle.
Nikolai Zabolotsky (just like that, he became Zabolotsky with an emphasis on the penultimate syllable only in 1925) was born on April 24, 1903 in Urzhum, Vyatka province. In his youth, he became a student at the Herzen Institute in St. Petersburg, and as a student he became a member of the OBERIU group. The Oberiuts had a purely consumer attitude towards women, and Zabolotsky himself was among those who "scolded women violently." Schwartz recalled that Zabolotsky and Akhmatova simply could not stand each other. "A chicken is not a bird, a woman is not a poet," Zabolotsky liked to repeat. Zabolotsky carried his disdainful attitude towards the opposite sex through almost his entire life and was not noticed in love lyrics.
But despite such life approaches, the marriage of Nikolai Alekseevich was successful and was very strong. He married a classmate - slender, dark-eyed, laconic, who became a wonderful wife, mother and mistress.
Zabolotsky gradually left the Oberiuts, his experiments with words and images expanded significantly, and by the mid-1930s he became a famous poet. But the denunciation of the poet, which happened in 1938, divided his life and work into two parts. It is known that Zabolotsky was tortured during the investigation, but he never signed anything. Maybe that's why he was given a minimum of five years. Many writers were ground by the GULAG - Babel, Kharms, Mandelstam. Zabolotsky survived - according to biographers, thanks to his family and wife, who was his guardian angel.
He was exiled to Karaganda and his wife and children followed him. The poet was released only in 1946 thanks to the efforts of famous colleagues, in particular, Fadeev. After his release, Zabolotsky was allowed to live with his family in Moscow. He was reinstated in the Writers' Union, and the writer Ilyenkov gave him his dacha in Peredelkino. He worked hard on translations. Gradually, everything worked out: publications, fame, prosperity, an apartment in Moscow and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
But in 1956 something happened that Zabolotsky had never expected - his wife left him. 48-year-old Ekaterina Vasilievna, who lived for many years for her husband, who did not see any care or affection from him, went to the writer and famous heartthrob Vasily Grossman. "If she swallowed the bus," writes the son of Korney Chukovsky, Nikolai, "Zabolotsky would be less surprised!"
Surprise was replaced by horror. Zabolotsky was helpless, crushed and pitiful. His grief led him to Natalya Roskina, a 28-year-old single and intelligent woman. Confused by what had happened, he simply called a certain lady who loved his poetry. That's all he knew about her. He let the one who knew all his styles from a young age, they met and became lovers.
There were no happy ones in this triangle. And Zabolotsky himself, and his wife, and Natalya Roskina suffered in their own way. But it was the poet's personal tragedy that prompted him to create a cycle of lyric poems "The Last Love", which became one of the most talented and nagging in Russian poetry. But among all the poems included in the collection, "Confession" stands apart - a true masterpiece, a whole storm of feelings and emotions. In this poem, the two women of the poet merged into one image.
Ekaterina Vasilievna returned to her husband in 1958. Another famous poem by N. Zabolotsky “Don't let your soul be lazy” dates back to this year. It was already written by a terminally ill person. 1, 5 months after the return of his wife, Nikolai Zabolotsky died from a second heart attack.
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