M Krivopolenova biography

Places on the literary map: Pinezhsky district of Krivopolenova Maria Dmitrievna Great Russian storyteller, songwriter, storyteller. Born in the family of the state peasant D. Kabalina in the village of Ust-Yuuga Pinezhsky district of the Arkhangelsk province. Mary's grandfather Nikifor Nikitich Kabalin sang epics, told tales, and he managed to convey his entire repertoire to his granddaughter.

Having become twenty -four years old as the wife of a peasant I. Krivopolenova, Maria Dmitrievna moved to the village here and “opened” her in the year the famous Russian folklorist A. Grigoryev, who noted that “Mary and her husband live poorly, very poorly: they live in a low two -story hut without a roof in each floor on its horse to collect alms in the villages, But in her village she does not collect.

” The folklorist and artist O. Ozarovskaya indicates such facts of the difficult family life of Maria Dmitrievna: “The husband from the crown is a young man in the Vologda province to work, and a year later threw it without a penny. It is necessary to get home for a miletone on foot to get with the baby at the chest and the heart went over: the windows were taken out in the house, the chests were hacked - the villain had ripened before, drank everything.

A hole, not a house. " According to F. Abramov, Mahonka was so nicknamed M. Krivopolenov for a small growth asked alms to the villages until the very end of her life, even when she became famous throughout the country. Elderly recorded from M. Krivopolnova, including the unique song “Babylo and buffoons”, A. Grigoryev published a year in the book “Arkhangelsk Epicians and Historical Songs”.

In the year, O. Ozarovskaya brought Maria Dmitrievna to Moscow.

The storyteller’s performances in the Polytechnic Museum were greatly successful, about which the Russian Word newspaper wrote about on September 27: “In a large hall of the Grand Hall of the Polytechnic Museum M. Krivopolev, ancient epics and buffoons who had learned from the hundred -year -old grandfather, and conquered Muscovites.” Maria Dmitrievna entered the stage in painted boots, in a motley scarf, old people performed "eagerly, quick chanting of spiritual verses, energetically, abruptly, with sharp stresses." A triumph was a Pinezhanka in Petrograd, Tver, Ukraine, and the Caucasus.

Ozarovskaya organized more than 60 concerts in scientific societies, schools and universities. She conquered Krivopolnova and the Arkhangelsk audience. In the years, everyone was in hearing the name of Maria Dmitrievna. She was praised by B. Pasternak, the portraits of the storyteller were written by artists E. Goldinger and P. Korin, S. Konenkov captured the image of Krivopolnova in the sculpture “Prophetic Old Woman”.

Glory was all -Russian, popular love. However, having returned to her homeland, M. Krivopolenova was again forced to go with Suma in the villages. In the year, a collection of “epics” was published in Moscow, which entered the old Krivopolnova about Bavil and buffoons, and in January of the year the Russian Council of People's Commissars appointed Maria Dmitrievna a pension and academic rations as the most prominent figure in Russian culture.

And again, an invitation to Moscow - now from the People's Commissar of Education A. Lunacharsky, who added to the numerous “titles” of the Krivopolnova flattering epithet “State Grandmother”. As for the first time, with a full triumph, her concert was held in the hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the folklorists recorded many new songs, fairy tales, noting the improvisational nature of their performance.

Until late at night, “State Grandmother” was visiting by A. Lunacharsky, who was tied as a gift by tricolor Pinezhsky mittens. Despite the persistent proposals to stay in Moscow, M. Krivopolenova returned home to Pinega, where she died on February 2 in the village of Vehora. Buried in the village of Chakola. In the year, the writer F. Abramov, who, according to the memoirs of the artist D.

Klopov, visited the grave of Makhonki, said: “You deserve veneration, conquered people with labor and write about you, while there are still your stories, legends are transferred from the mouths of the mouth.” And for the alleged “Pure Book”, Fedor Abramov made such a record: “Like all people, the flywheel went along earthly roads and forest paths, in meadows but she still walked for the centuries of Grigoryev ...: In 3 tons of epic poetry.

Ozarovskaya, comp. Zhitov, N. Literature: Grigoryev A. Maria Dmitrievna Krivopolenova, storyteller of epics. Before the portrait: memory of M. The storytellers of Pinezhia: M. Krivopolenova, A. Gladkoborodova, A. Sukhoverkhov: Bibliography. Mahonya: The story. New materials for the biography of M. Literary Arkhangelsk: events, names, facts. Konenkov S. Ivanova T.

Concerts of folk storytellers: M. Ivanova; Ros.