Composer Smolensk biography

Boris Moiseevich Smolensky is the Soviet poet of the pre -war generation of romantics of the “Comintern” internationalism, translator. Born in the year in Novokhopersk, Voronezh region. From the year the poet’s family lived in Moscow. His father, journalist Moses Smolensky, at that time headed the department in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda; Essays on the Komsomol members called him a cap, or a navigator of four winds.

In the beginning of the 10ths, immediately after the construction of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant and the launch of the first domain furnaces, Smolensky travels on a business trip to the Urals during the three -week winter holidays. The impressions of the trip were long remembered by Boris. Here he first saw what the hard work of people, met the harsh nature of Siberia, clearly understood in what unbearable conditions his father often had to work: “He pulled out a notebook and, awkwardly holding a pencil in frozen fingers, wrote down several words on the page.” From the Urals, Boris took away his first poetic lines, which "suddenly went to sculpt like unexpected men from clay." In the middle of x, Boris lives with his father in Tiflis, where he tries to maintain a conversation in the bazaars and in the auls, rummages in “Books with the Old”, often goes to the mountains.

Around the end of the year, they move to Novosibirsk, from there Boris writes to Moscow: "Ob - a river with strong nature, Novosibirsk - a city of strong people, reliable - only the sea is not enough for me." The father was arrested in the year. The poet’s mother is divorced with Moses Smolensky even before his arrest, so he avoids repression, and his son - an orphanage. According to the cousin of the poet Nakhim Borisovich Levita, “not knowing the true scale of repression, Boris believed that some mistake had occurred with his father, especially since he had no information about him and thought that the authorities would figure it out and his father would return home.” Despite the bitter changes in life, the work of Boris Smolensky cosmopolitan and freely.

There are no boundaries in his poems, Levitan and Picasso, Viion and Mayakovsky are adjacent to the pages. For some time, Boris has been living in Moscow, and since the year he studies at the storman of long -distance voyage at the Faculty of Leningrad Institute of Water Transport.

In the story of Kirill Golovanov, the “sailors of the People's Commissariat of People's Commissariat”, whose action unfolds in Leningrad in the prewar years, gives Boris's memoirs about swimming in the polar seas during study. He tells how an old vessel with stumps of masts, which, having served his age, stands on the anchors, becoming the base of coal for steamers, on a raid in the Kola Bay.

It’s so to live so. ” In addition, he very seriously studied the Spanish language - then the Republican Spain was a symbol of an increasing fight with fascism. Smolensky became one of the first translators of the verses of the great Spanish poet, shot by the Nazis, Federico Garcia Lorca. His translations sounded on the radio and were accepted for the publication in the year. He participated in the preparation of the literary composition about K.

Marx and F. Engels for the famous reader Vladimir Yakhontov. Smolensky wrote his own verses from the second half of the 10ths. The chronology of his work is short, like his life: the first of those who have reached us - “My song wanders around the world for only five years. By nature, he possessed a poetic temperament, his character was dynamic and purposeful.

All this allowed him to become the author of many wonderful poems. The stanzas of the poem “Craft”, written by him at the age of 17, became aphoristic about poetry as a profession and is considered his creative manifesto. The main theme of creativity was the sea and brave people of "sea" professions. As the well -known poet and bard Yevgeny Agranovich, who was friends with him in those years, wrote, Boris "raved up by storms and sails, dreamed of ships and oceans." Once Smolensky and Agranovich together wrote the comic song “Odessa-Mam”, which has become a kind of “visiting card” of the city.

Also today, some sources call the Smolensky co -author of the "Brigantine" Pavel Kogan - in the manuscripts of Kogan, the edits made by Smolensky's hand were found. One way or another, in the collection of poets who died in the war published by the “Young Guard” in the year, both poets were called the authors of the “Brigantine” ... Boris Smolensky was called into the army twice in the years, both he soon returned home-everything was decided by the questionnaire, according to which he was “unfortunate”-because of the repressed father.

In those years, military service was not considered an “obligation”, in a really high honor for “worthy young people”. In the spring of the year, the poet leaves for Moscow, explaining his departure by the fact that he "needs to be at the center of events." There, from the bench, the famous Institute of Philosophy, Literature and Arts of Boris Smolensky is taken into the army and sent to the White Sea to build a military airfield.

In one department with Smolensky is the poet Yaroslav Smelyakov. Later, he will describe the young poet in this way: “Boris sometimes seemed to me from the moon, he even pissed out poems on the march.When it was not possible to eat for a long time or to drink for a long time, and we overgrown with thick bristles, he pulled his notebook with hard-widened fingers and sprinkled something and Boris himself told in one of the letters: “Occasionally you will throw a shovel, pull out a notebook from your pocket, scratch two lines-and again for work.

So I wrote the song of our battalion, Boris Smolensky’s poem was not published before the war-and only twenty-four lines, “hot”, from under the pen, were printed at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War. In the middle is a summary of the Swinformburo, on the sides - two large ... cartoons with 24 lines, and signatures are mine. I was, when the “window” came out of the printing machine, I rejoiced like a good.

” At the front, Smolensky prepared the first book of poems for the Petrozavodsk publishing house. Everything wrote in the year: fragments of the poem about Garcia Lorke, the lyrics, the song of the battalion, which fell in love with the fellow soldiers of Smolensk, the poetic text of the first “window” of the Karelian-Finnish TASS and another, also mentioned in the poet’s front-line letters to relatives.

But all this died with him: on November 16, on the day of the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army soldier, the shooter of the 2nd light rifle brigade of the Medvezhyegorsk operational group Karelia Boris Smolensky fell the death of the brave; During the fierce battles of the late autumn of the year, the brigade lost almost the entire personnel, in the middle of December, it was disbanded due to irrevocable losses.

At the beginning of X at the village of Padun, not far from the city of Medvezhyegorsk. In the year, the Moscow publishing house of the Light, with the support of the poet’s relatives, published the book “My Song wanders around the world”, which includes about 40 previously unknown poems by Smolensky, whose drafts were carefully preserved by his mother - Raisa Lvovna Smolenskaya.

Tomorrow I am relying on a day of rest. Just my birthday is exactly 20 years. Sometimes, when I look back, I am surprised: how much I managed to shove in these 20 years - there will be enough for anyone for 30! ..