Poet Smelakov Biography

Here I grew up. Under this filament grave, I stumbling, I started to walk, I heard here - for the first time in my life! He was only 1 year and 7 months old, when the Russian-German front approached Lutsk and the Smelyakov family left for Voronezh, to her mother’s homeland. He spent his childhood in the village. In Voronezh, Yaroslav went to the 1st Soviet labor school.

Acquaintance with the masterpieces of Russian poetry, especially with Lermontov’s poems “Mtsyri” and “Song about the merchant Kalashnikov”, shocked the imagination of Yaroslav. A very great impression on the young poet was a book of poems by Sergei Yesenin. From the age of 10, he began to write poetry. The mother of eleven -year -old Yaroslav sent to older children to Moscow to continue their studies at a seven -year school, and soon moved to the capital herself.

They lived in the house on Bolshaya Molchanovka, 31 now at this place the October cinema. In the year he graduated from the printing factory school. He worked in the printing house. At the insistence of a friend, a journalist of Vsevolod Jordan, he brought his poems to the editorial office of the youth magazine “Rost”, but mixed up the doors and got into the October magazine, where he was adopted by his idol, poet Mikhail Svetlov, who gave the young poet Green Street.

Ironically, on one of the first working days in the printing house, he was entrusted with recruiting his own verses - the collection “Work and Love” while still studying in the FZU “Fabzets”, published poems in the workshop wall newspaper. I also wrote reviews for the campaign. Debuted in the press in the year. Smelyakov sang new life, shock labor. He was engaged in literary circles at the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and the magazine "Spark".

Together with him, the Litobobes were then visited by beginners, and later eminent poets Sergey Mikhalkov, Margarita Aliger and others. He was repressed in years. During the years of terror, two close friends of Y. Smelyakov - poets Pavel Vasiliev and Boris Kornilov - were shot. Later, in the poem “Three Knights”, Smelyakov wrote about this friendship: we lived together, as if artificial, but it seems, perhaps, not so - poems wrote differently and separately, and the fee was carried into one tavern.

Since the year, the responsible secretary of the Dzerzhinets newspaper Labor Complex named after Dzerzhinsky Lyubertsy. Member of the Great Patriotic War. From June to November, he was an ordinary on the North and Karelian fronts. He was surrounded, was in Finnish captivity for up to a year. Returned from captivity. In the year, Smelyakov was again repressed and fell under Stalinogorsk, now special filtration camps were created by the GKO decision in the last days of the year in order to check the Red Army, who were captured, surrounded or the territory occupied by the enemy.

The mine was located between the modern cities of the Donskoy and North-Zadonsk since the year the microdistrict of G. at the mine worked as a banner, then the accountant. By the efforts of journalists, P. Poddubny and S. Pozdnyakov, the poet was released and worked as the responsible secretary of the newspaper Stalinogorskaya Pravda, led the literary association with it. Together with him in the camp was the brother of Alexander Twardowski, Ivan.

After the camp, to Smelyakov, the entrance to Moscow was prohibited. I went to Moscow furtively, in no case did not spend the night. Thanks to Konstantin Simonov, who had a word for Smelyakov, he managed to return to writing again. In the year the book "Kremlin spruce" was published. In the denunciation of the two poets, he was again arrested and sent to Zapolyarny Into.

He spent Smelyakov up to a year, returning home on an amnesty, not yet rehabilitated. Rehabilitated in the year. Yaroslav Smelyakov in his youth in verses used conversational rhythms and intonations, resorted to a kind of combination of lyrics and humor. In the post -war collections, “Kremlin spruce”,; “Selected poems”, and the poem “Strict Love” dedicated to the youth of the 10ths, finds a tendency to the simplicity and clarity of the verse, the monumentality of the image and the socio-historical understanding of life.

The poem, partially written in the camp, was widely recognized. In the works of the late period, these trends received the most complete development. One of the main topics was the topic of the continuity of generations, Komsomol traditions: collections “Talk about the main”, “Day of Russia”; “Comrade Komsomol”, “December”, a poem about the Komsomol “Young People” and others.

The “My Generation” and the “Time Service” among the most famous works were posthumously published - “If I get the song“ If I Sick ”, Yuri Vizbor, Vladimir Vysotsky, Arkady Severny and other fragments of this song are also performed by the main characters of Innocent Smoktunovsky and Oleg Efremov in the film“ Beware of the car ”. The quality of Smelyakov’s poems is very different both in relation to their depth and the form of expression; There is a genuine talent that is confirmed by experts such as E.

Vinokurov, N. Korzhavin, Z. Paperny, as well as the weakness of the general position of this poet, who was hit by fate and fell into alcoholism. Smelyakov’s good poems are distinguished by the strength and convex imagery of the tongue, the bad ones are cheap rhyming recitation. In total, he wrote works.Author of journalistic and critical articles; He was engaged in translations from Ukrainian, Belarusian and other languages.

In the last 15 years of life, Smelyakov is a recognized, venerable poet, beloved by readers. He performs on the radio, in television programs, he travels much more than other Soviet writers around the country, happens on foreign business trips, meets with young poets of Russia and other republics. Many then, who began their creative path with gratitude, recalled his strict, but always friendly and fair criticism.

He helps young writers to publish, fatherly takes care of them. Yaroslav Vasilievich was respected for the stoic character, principles, kindness, humor. Yaroslav Smelyakov died on November 27. The Novomoskovsk Historical and Art Museum has an exposition dedicated to the poet. A large photographic and documentary material is presented, including drafts of verses, from the Stalinogorsk period of Smelyakov’s life, personal items transferred by the poet’s widow, as well as the books of students and friends of the poet with gift inscriptions.

In Lutsk there is Smelyakova Street. Yaroslav Smelyakov. If I get the personal life of Yaroslav Smelyakov: in the beginning of the x, he was connected by tender feelings with the poetess Margarita Aliger. Young people were in love, met, walked around Moscow, read poetry to each other. However, the idyll was short -lived, they began to quarrel more and more often and soon parted, maintaining friendly relations.

During one of the last dates, Yaroslav gave Margarita a massive silver ring with Masonic symbols: a skull and two crossed bones. At the same time, he half-noisily said: “While you will wear a ring, everything will be fine with me.” In the spring of the year, Margarita Aliger found out that Yaroslav Smelyakov in prison and began to feverishly look for the ring he donated, which she removed from her finger and removed somewhere when she married composer Konstantin Makarov-Rakitin.

However, the searches were in vain. Two years later, she accidentally discovered the ring in the drawer of the desk among the papers and immediately put it on. In old age, she told a mysterious story with this Masonic ring, which disappeared when Yaroslav was in trouble, and suddenly it was when his affairs were going uphill. Before the last arrest of Smelyakov in the year, the ring broke and then for 20 years lay unconscious in the table among the papers, but on the day of the poet’s funeral, Margarita found him whole, although she did not give it up for repairs.

Yaroslav Smelyakov and Margarita Aliger was married twice. The first time he married immediately after the war, when he lived in Stalinogorsk. His wife was a simple woman - Evdokia Vasilievna Kurbatova, who was called Dusya in his close environment. With her, he deployed in absentia after the arrest, so as not to endanger her repressions, she had a second time to marry the famous Zhokey of the Moscow Hippodrome Alexander Bondarevsky.

It is his first wife that his famous poem “Monument” is devoted to: like late light from a dark window, I look at you from cast iron. No wonder after all, solemn metal repeated my face and hands. No wonder the sculptor put everything that I meant and why I lived in the statue. And I will come down from a brilliant height to the ground the one where you live. I’ll get closer to my happiness, I will quietly hug the cast -iron with my hand.