Brief biography of Zhigulin

In domestic poetry, his figure is very serious and significant. From G. his father Vladimir Fedorovich was a native of a wealthy peasant family, worked as a postal employee. The mother of Evgenia Mitrofanovna, the great -grandson of the Patriotic War of the city of Raevsky, was engaged in raising children. The literary fate of Anatoly Zhigulin, like his whole life, was not easy.

In September, a first-year student of the Voronezh Forestry Institute A. I had to work on the construction of the Taishet-Bratsk railway and on the uranium mines of Kolyma. A year after the death of Stalin, Zhigulin was released on an amnesty, in the city of staying in prison during a preliminary investigation, life in the camps are described in detail in his many verses and the well -known novel “Black Stones”, which the poet considered the main thing in his life.

The poet E. Yevtushenko belongs to the words: “There were many people in the camps who fell there by accident, Zhigulin after Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Evgenia Ginzburg, Dombrovsky became one of the ambassadors of the ghosts of this terrible history of history. His poems “Kostostrogi”, “Burunduk” became camp classics, and the book “Black Stones” is an invaluable evidence in the court of history.

If I were a sculptor, then it was from him that I would blind the unknown camp. ” This autobiographical novel caused a stormy discussion in the media. Interesting readers can turn to the Voronezh newspapers on this occasion at the end of the X - early XG. A. Zhigulin returned to the camp topic all the further creative life, considering it his duty to tell about what he saw and experienced.

Returning to Voronezh in the city, he worked in different editions: Voronezh “ascent”, Moscow “Literary Newspaper” and “Friendship of Peoples”.

In - gg. The first publication was published in Zhigulin, the author of more than 30 collections of poems, including: “Solovetskaya Gull” M. At the beginning of X A. Zhigulin created a cycle of 12 poems “Anxious Time of Russia” a literary newspaper. The book of poems and prose “The distant bell” Voronezh, which included letters from readers and other materials, has published posthumously.

Already at the end of the year. Zhigulina has developed a stable view as a large poet, a bright expressiveman of the “difficult topic”. In the future, no serious article about Soviet poetry of the second half of the 20th century was complete without his mention on a par with A. Voznesensky, E. Yevtushenko, R. Rozhmadulina and other “literary stars” of the first magnitude.

His work was always in demand, regardless of political cataclysms. We can say that all the poetry, all the work of A. Zhigulin asserts faith in the final triumph of spiritual and moral values, the highest of which are human life, his right to freedom to think, act. The poetic system of Zhigulinsky poems lies well with music. Therefore, many authors and professional composers used his works in their work.

Among them: Yu. Falik choral works, V. Porotsky “Kalina”, S. The memory of the poet is alive not only in the hearts of his admirers. On the house where the poet lived before leaving for Moscow st. Student 32, May 14, the name of the poet is associated with a number of addresses of Voronezh. Nikitinskaya in E Gg. Batuev, in whose apartment members of an underground organization gathered, including A.

The notorious house on the street. Volodarsky, 39, where the Department of the Ministry of State Security in the Voronezh Region is currently located, in –e. Voronezh residents honor the name of their famous fellow countryman. The Office of the Culture of the Administration of the city of Voronezh declared the year A. held various events dedicated to the life and work of our fellow countryman.

Nikitin took place the opening of a mobile exhibition dedicated to the summer of the poet and writer. The exposition called “And the brief moment of my disturbing fate” is based on the writer's archival materials, transferred to the Museum of the literary critic O. Nikitin, a significant part of the poet’s family library was transferred. Anatoly Zhigulin died in Moscow on August 6, Solovetskaya Gull: Prince.

Zhigulin; artist. Voronezh, Homeland, Love: Prince. Zhigulin; [artist. Black Stones: Autobiogr. Zhigulin; aut. Bolkhovitinova, Zhigulin; Entering. Anatoly Zhigulin: “The lessons of anger and love Russia, in the hope of the eternal series: humanities. Zhigulin in Voronezh culture. People's Poet: January 1, Lasunsky; artist.