The personal life of a northerner. Igor Severyanin, short biography. A cycle of works about the greatest creators

“Books written in the Silver Age are all Russian intellectual baggage,” said the journalist and teacher.

And one cannot but agree with this statement, because the time that came after the “golden” gave not only the “Slap in the Face of Public Taste”, a manifesto in which Cubo-Futurists call for “throw modernity off the steamer”, but also many literary movements and groups.

Works written in the Silver Age excite the minds of readers to this day, and poems are quoted not only by adults, but also by young people. It is worth noting the popular poet Igor Severyanin, who literally gathered a whole crowd of grateful listeners at his performances. This master of the pen is familiar from the poems “Pineapples in champagne”, “It was by the sea”, “I am a genius”, etc.

Childhood and youth

Igor Vasilievich Lotarev (real name of the poet) was born on May 4 (16), 1887 in the cultural capital of Russia - St. Petersburg. As a child, Igor grew up in the 66th house on Gorokhovaya Street - the central fashionable thoroughfare of the city. The future literary figure was brought up in a prosperous and wealthy family.

His father Vasily Petrovich, a native of the Vladimir philistines, rose to the highest rank and began to command a railway battalion, and his wife Natalya Stepanovna was a distant relative of the poet and was the daughter of a nobleman Stepan Sergeevich Shenshin. But, unfortunately, as often happens, the parents of little Igor Lotarev decided to go different ways and filed for divorce in 1896. What became the stumbling block between Vasily Petrovich and Natalya Stepanovna is not known for certain.

Then the boy lived in the estate of relatives, which was located in the village of Vladimirovka, Cherepovets district. In Cherepovets, the young man managed to finish only four classes of a real school, and then, in 1904, he moved to his father in northeast China. But in the same year, Lotarev Sr. dies, so Igor is taken back to St. Petersburg to his mother.

Literature

We can say that Igor Vasilyevich was born under a lucky star, because his literary talent began to manifest itself from childhood. When Severyanin was seven or eight years old, under the influence of his beloved poet Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, he took up an inkwell and a pen and began to compose poetry. Since 1904, Lotarev began to publish regularly in magazines, hoping to get a response from the editors, but his children's poems did not produce a special effect on readers.

Thus, on the pages of literary publications, the works of the young Igor Lotarev flaunted, which he signed with the non-trivial pseudonym “Count Evgraf d’Axangraf”. But the official start in its creative biography Igor Vasilyevich considered the publication of 1905 in the magazine for soldiers and people "Leisure and business".

In the autumn of 1907, in Gatchina, the writer met Konstantin Mikhailovich Fofanov, whom he considered his forerunner and mentor. According to rumors, this day remained forever in the memory of Lotarev, because Fofanov became the first of the poets who appreciated his literary talent and became a guiding star for Severyanin in the boundless world of literary lines. Around the same time, Lotarev became Igor Severyanin. It is noteworthy that Severyanin is not a surname, but a middle name, which the poet considered a kind of amulet and mythologeme.

Further, Igor Vasilyevich published 35 brochures with his own money, which he later planned to combine into a poetry collection called "Complete Works". One of the manuscripts of Severyanin, thanks to the writer Ivan Fedorovich Nazhivin, fell into the hands of the famous. After reviewing the work "Habanera II", the author of the novel "War and Peace" criticized the work of Severyanin to smithereens.

“What do they do, what do they do ... And this is literature? Around - the gallows, hordes of the unemployed, murders, incredible drunkenness, and they have the elasticity of a cork ... ”, - the Russian classic commented on the poem.

Ivan Fedorovich did not hesitate to send this quote to many publications, therefore, many lovers of poetry and, in fact, Severyanin himself got acquainted with the words spoken by Tolstoy. But such merciless criticism did not break the talented representative of postmodernism, but, on the contrary, went into his hands. After all, as they say, black PR is also PR. The name of Igor Vasilyevich became famous, he was scolded by everyone and sundry. And magazines, thirsty for sensation and profit, willingly printed Severyanin's manuscripts on their pages.

In 1909, a circle of poets began to form around the writer, and in 1911 a full-fledged creative association of ego-futurists was formed. This literary movement was characterized by neologisms, refined sensations, a cult of personality and selfishness, which talented people tried to flaunt. But the founder of the new literary movement did not stay in this circle for long, in 1912 Igor Severyanin gained popularity among the Symbolists and set off on a solo voyage.

It is worth saying that the removal of the author of “In August” from the ego-futurists was marked by a scandal: Konstantin Olimpov (son of Fofanov) slandered Igor Vasilyevich in an article, moreover, a disagreement arose between the poets - Olimpov publicly declared that it was he, and not Severyanin, who was the creator of ego-futurism .

“Finding the mission of my Ego-Futurism fulfilled, I wish to be alone, I consider myself only a poet, and I am sunnyly glad about this,” Igor Severyanin expressed in his open letter.

In 1913, the writer, who was remembered by his contemporaries for his literary pamphlets, published his first collection of poems called The Thundering Cup, which brought universal recognition and fame to the talented poet. Such an extravagant name for the cycle was invented by Severyanin thanks to the poem "Spring Thunderstorm".

This book consists of four dissimilar sections, where Igor Severyanin veiledly conveys his philosophical thoughts to poetry lovers. The main themes of Severyanin's poems are the beauty of nature and human feelings.

I met Severyanin's collection warmly and wrote a mini-review for it, where he expressed his infinite joy in connection with the birth of a new poet. In 1912, Igor Vasilyevich spoke to a live audience for the first time, and a year later he took part in the tour of Fyodor Sologub and traveled around the cities of Russia.

In the biography of the Severyanin, there are both ups and crushing falls. But, based on the facts, it can be assumed that Igor Vasilyevich was a man of strong hardening. For example, when he spoke to poetry lovers in Tiflis, the public perceived Severyanin not as a poet, but as a comedian: it was unusual for people to hear poetry read in a singsong voice (Igor Vasilyevich did this with a special manner), so the audience literally choked with laughter.

But already at the subsequent performances of Severyanin, the audience first exploded with loud applause, and then calmed down, listening to every word of Severyanin. Later, at the feet of Igor Vasilyevich, there was an uncountable number of scarlet roses.

In 1915, Severyanin published the Rosiris collection, which included the famous poem Pineapples in Champagne. The poet Vadim Bayan used to say that when Vladimir Mayakovsky was visiting Igor Vasilyevich, he dipped a piece of tropical fruit into a sparkling drink. The northerner followed the example of his comrade, after which the first lines of the poem were born to him.

In 1918, due to the Bolshevik coup, Igor Severyanin, like many literary figures, was forced to leave Russia for Estonia. During the years of emigration, the master of words published several collections of poetry: "Nightingale", "Classic Roses", "Vervain", also wrote novels in verse, for example, "Leander's Piano (Lugne)", and created the utopia "Sunny Savage". Among other things, Igor Vasilyevich not only composed poems, but also translated Estonian works into Russian.

Personal life

Igor Severyanin earned himself the fame of Casanova. And this is not surprising, because in the life of a representative of the poetry of the Silver Age there were an uncountable number of women to whom he sang praises. But Igor Vasilyevich was not a frivolous man who liked to change young ladies like gloves, simply because of his nature he was extremely amorous and plunged into passionate romances with his head.

The first time Cupid's arrow pierced Northerner's heart was when he was 12 years old. The poet fell in love with his cousin, 17-year-old Elizaveta Lotareva, who became his muse and inspired his creative efforts. When Elizabeth was 22 years old, she got married. According to rumors, Severyanin was also present at the wedding ceremony. But this solemn event greatly influenced the young man, they say that he became ill right in the church.

When the genius of literature turned 18, his life path met Evgenia Gutsan. Having presented the golden-haired girl with poems, Igor Severyanin invited Evgenia to live under the same roof. True, their relationship lasted only three weeks. According to unofficial information, Gutsan gave birth to a girl, Tamara, from a Northerner. Despite such a short life together, Igor Vasilyevich always remembered the girl and dedicated collections of poems to her.

In 1921, the poet broke up with his fictitious wife, Maria Vasilievna Volnyanskaya, and proposed to Felissa Kruut. Thus, the daughter of the landlord Felissa became the only legal wife of Igor Severyanin, who endured the constant touring novels of the gifted poet.

“But I am dying of passion ... Can you imagine me capable of burning by one five years old? ... The wife at first did not really sympathize with this, but then she waved her hand, withdrew into herself, now watches with contemptuous irony from above and from afar, ”Igor Severyanin described in a letter feelings for the passion of Evdokia Strandell.

After Igor Vasilyevich began to conduct a love correspondence with a certain Vera Borisovna Korendi, Felissa's patience came to an end, and she kicked the unfortunate spouse out of the house. Vera Borisovna claimed that from Severyanin she had a daughter, Valeria (originally recorded under a different patronymic and surname). The poet also had a son, Bacchus Igorevich.

Death

Thanks to the epistolary heritage, in which Igor Vasilyevich scrupulously described his physical and mental state to his comrades, it became clear that the ego-futurist suffered from a severe form of tuberculosis. In 1940, Severyanin moved with Vera Borisovna to Paide, central Estonia, where Korendi was offered a job as a teacher.

At that time, Igor Vasilyevich's health deteriorated sharply. Further, the master of the pen and his beloved moved to Tallinn, where Severyanin died on December 20, 1941 from heart attack. The funeral was modest, Igor Vasilievich was interred at the Alexander Nevsky cemetery.

Bibliography

• 1913 - "The Thundering Cup"
• 1914 - "Zlatolira"
• 1915 - "Pineapples in champagne"
• 1915– 1918 - "Collection of Poets"
• 1918 - "Behind the stringed fence of the lyre"
• 1920 - "Vervain"
• 1921 - “Minstrel. The latest poetry"
• 1922 - "Mirreliya"
• 1923 - Nightingale
• 1925 - "The Dew of the Orange Hour: A Childhood Poem in 3 h"
• 1922-1930 - "Classic roses"
• 1932 - "Adriatic. Lyrics"
• 1934 - "Medallions"
• 1935 - Leandre's Piano (Lugne)

Biography

SEVERYANIN, IGOR (1887−1941), real name and surname Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev, Russian poet. Born May 4 (16), 1887 in St. Petersburg in the family of an officer. Due to the difficult relationship between his parents, he spent his adolescence in Soyvol near the city of Cherepovets, Novgorod Province, where his uncle's estate was located. He studied at the Cherepovets real school, then went to Far East where his father got a job as a commercial agent. Life in the Far East during the years of the Russo-Japanese War contributed to the fact that among the love lyrics that Severyanin began to write, poems on patriotic themes appeared. The poem The Death of Rurik was published in the journal Slovo i Delo (1905).

By 1913, according to his own personal record, Severyanin had published 35 books of poetry, each of which consisted of two pages. In the early poems, the influence of the poets K. Fofanov and M. Lokhvitskaya is palpable. Unlike many poets of the Silver Age, Severyanin avoided the influence of the Symbolists. In 1911, he organized in St. Petersburg a literary group called the Association of Egofuturists, which included I. Ignatiev, K. Olimpov, V. Gnedov, G. Ivanov, and others. images, epithets, assonances and dissonances, meaningful neologisms, etc. Severyanin himself created many poetic neologisms: dreamless, black-browed, woodsweeper, wind-whistling, liliebatistovaya, etc. Subsequently, V. Mayakovsky admitted that he had learned a lot from him in the field of word creation. Soon Severyanin broke up with the ego-futurists, for some time he joined the cubo-futurists, but this union did not last long either.

In 1913, Severyanin published his first large book of poems, The Thundering Cup, with a foreword by F. Sologub, in the Moscow publishing house Grif. The stanza of the poem by F. Tyutchev gave the name to the collection. In the first part of the collection, The Lilac of My Spring, childish purity and immediacy of feelings were combined with mannered aestheticism. The second part, Lilac Ice Cream, was devoted to the topic of civilization's intervention in the world of natural human relations. The characters of the poems of this part of the collection were "grezerks", "excesses", "extasers" and other inhabitants of the turned inside out modern world. In the third part, Behind the stringed hedge of the lyre, the poet found an ideal in art and nature ennobled by man. This is evidenced by the names of the poems - Vrubel, On the death of Fofanov, Koktebel, etc. The Severyanin asserted in his verses the idea that the world would be saved thanks to beauty and poetry. The fourth part of the collection is a poetic manifesto of ego-futurism. "I am the king of a country that does not exist," the Northman said in this part of the Thundering Cup. In his poetry, the beautiful non-existent country was called Mirrelia (in honor of Mirra Lokhvitskaya). The release of the Thundering Cup made Severyanin the idol of the reading public. Within two years, the book went through seven editions. Severyanin consciously cultivated his image of an exquisite idol poet. He appeared at poetry evenings with an orichedea in his buttonhole, called his poems "poets", read in a melodious rhythm that corresponded to their pronounced musicality. "The poet and his glory" - this theme has taken an important place in the work of Severyanin. He owns the famous lines: “I, the genius Igor Severyanin, / I am intoxicated with my victory: / I am screened all over the screen! / I am heartily approved!” However lyrical hero Severyanin's poetry differed significantly from the poet himself. His close friend G. Shengeli recalled: “Igor had the most demonic mind that I had ever met ... Igor saw through everyone, with an incomprehensible instinct, Tolstoy's grip penetrated into the soul, and always felt smarter than his interlocutor ... ". Severyanin asserted the poet's right to be apolitical and write in his own way, regardless of social events. At the height of the First World War, he published the collection Pineapples in Champagne (1915), the figurative structure of which corresponded to the title. After the October Revolution, Severyanin settled in Estonia. He lived in seclusion in the fishing village of Toila. He managed to publish several books of poetry, including Falling rapids. A novel in verse (1922), Nightingale (1923), etc. In the poem Classical Roses (1925), Severyanin prophetically wrote: “How good, how fresh the roses will be, / Thrown into my grave by my country!” Despite the fact that Severyanin was considered "bourgeois", in 1918 at an evening at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow he was named the "king of poets", defeating Mayakovsky. Many of his poems were set to music and performed by A. Vertinsky. Severyanin died in Tallinn on December 20, 1941.

Igor Severyanin was born on May 4 according to the old or May 16 according to the new calendar in 1887 in the family of an officer, St. Petersburg. Igor's real name was Lotarev Igor Vasilyevich. His parents had a difficult relationship, because of which the guy leaves for his uncle in the Novgorod province, not far from the city of Cherepovtsy. He was educated at the Cherepovets School. father receives new job, and Igor moves to him, to the Far East, where he begins to write poetry. In 1911 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he became the founder of his own literary group. In 1913, the first collection of Severyanin's poems was published in 4 parts: "The Thundering Cup", "Lilac Ice Cream", "Behind the Stringed Fence of the Lyre" and "I am the king of a country that does not exist", which makes Igor Severyanin the idol of readers. F. Tyutchev was involved in the first part, because the collection was named on his initiative. In the second part, the author discovers the fact of civilization's intervention in human relations. In the third part, the poet revealed the nature of man, tried to prove that the world would be saved thanks to beauty and poetry. Igor talks about the poetic manifesto of egofuturism in the fourth part of his collection.

In 1915, when the First World War just beginning to gain its tragic momentum, Severyanin publishes his collection Pineapples in Champagne. survived October revolution, Lotarev (Severyanin) to move to one of the fishing villages in Estonia - Toila. In a quiet village, the author took up creativity. The world saw a couple of his publications, namely in 1922 - “Falling rapids. A novel in verse" and in 1923 - "The Nightingale".

In 1918, Severyanin, at an evening in the Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, received the title of "king of poets" even despite his bourgeois style of writing. In this he surpassed Mayakovsky himself. The poems of the poet Igor Severyanin were often set to music and performed, one of which was A. Vertinsky.

Igor Severyanin, real name Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev, (1887-1941) - Russian poet, whose work belongs to Silver Age.

Childhood and youth

Igor was born in the city of St. Petersburg on May 16, 1887. The family lived on Gorokhovaya Street at number 66. His father, Lotarev Vasily Petrovich, was the captain of the railway regiment. Mom - Lotareva Natalya Stepanovna - daughter of the noble leader from the Kursk province Shenshin Stepan Sergeevich. Mother was already married once, her first husband Lieutenant General Domontovich died. On the maternal side, Igor had family ties with the historian Karamzin and the poet Fet.

The early childhood years of the future poet passed in St. Petersburg. His family was cultured, his mother and father loved literature and music, especially opera.

In 1896, the parents broke up, by that time his father had retired, and Igor left with him for Cherepovets. There he is more was on the estates of Aunt Elizaveta Petrovna or Uncle Mikhail Petrovich (these are his father's brother and sister), because Vasily Petrovich Lotarev himself went to the Far East, he was offered a job there as a commercial agent.

In Cherepovets, Igor studied 4th grade at a real school. And at the age of 16 he went to Manchuria, where his father lived in the city of Dalniy. The North left a deep mark on the soul of the young man, he was captivated by his beauty and severity, inspired to work, and even then took his pseudonym - Severyanin. Before the Russo-Japanese War began, his father died suddenly, and Igor returned to his mother in St. Petersburg.

Creation

Igor wrote his first poems when he was 8 years old. In his youth, he was inspired by poetic works Zhenechka Gutsan, he was madly in love with her, and the poetry of this period is mostly lyrical. During the Russo-Japanese War, military-patriotic notes appeared in his poems.

Returning to St. Petersburg in 1904, Igor began to regularly send his works to periodicals, but all the time they were returned to him.

Until in 1905, one poem “The Death of Rurik” was still printed. Then, little by little, other of his poems began to be published. At first, he signed all the time with different pseudonyms:

• Count Evgraf d'Axangraf;
• Needle;
• Mimosa.

And only then he settled on the pseudonym Severyanin.

In 1907 he received his first recognition from the poet Fofanov, in 1911 the appearance of Igor Severyanin in the world of Russian poetry was welcomed by Bryusov.

From 1905 to 1912, 35 collections of poetry by Igor were published, the publications were mostly provincial.

In 1913, his collection The Thundering Cup was published, which brought fame to the poet. Igor began to travel around the country with poetry evenings, which enjoyed incredible success, because, in addition to talent, he also had an unsurpassed performing gift. Boris Pasternak recalled that in those days on the stage in the recitation of poetry, only two poets could compete with each other - Mayakovsky and Severyanin.

Igor traveled half of Russia - Minsk and Kutais, Vilna and Tiflis, Kharkov and Baku, Yekaterinoslav and Rostov-on-Don, Odessa, Yekaterinodar and Simferopol. He took part in 48 combined poetry concerts, and gave 87 more in person.

"King of Poets"

In 1912, Igor first visited the Estonian village of Toila, he really liked it there, then he spent almost every summer there. In 1918, the poet's mother fell seriously ill, and he moved her to Toila. His civil wife Maria Volnyanskaya (Dombrovskaya) left with the poet.

But a month later, Igor was forced to go to Moscow for the election of the "king of poets." Many people gathered in the huge auditorium of the Polytechnic Institute. Mayakovsky and Severyanin read their poems themselves, and even a small brawl ensued between their fans. Some of the poets did not appear, their works were performed by artists. Severyanin was elected the "King of Poets", he beat Mayakovsky's closest rival by 30-40 votes.

Emigration

The winner among all Russian poets, he returned to Estonia to his wife and mother. But soon the Brest peace was concluded, and the small Baltic village of Toila was occupied by the Germans, Severyanin was cut off from Russia.

Thus began forced emigration for him, he was never able to visit his homeland again. The poet lived in Toila without a break and continued to write.

He liked this small village, quiet and comfortable, he was very fond of fishing. Igor himself never considered himself an emigrant, he said about himself: “I have been a summer resident since 1918”. He really was sure that Estonia and his residence in it were all temporary: revolutions and wars would end, he could safely return to St. Petersburg.

Over time, he resigned himself to his fate, began translating Estonian poetry into Russian and began to actively tour Europe.

Personal life

Igor's first crazy love was his cousin Liza Lotareva, she was 5 years older than the boy. Every summer they spent together at the estate in Cherepovets, were happy, played, talked, argued. At the age of 17, Elizabeth got married, and Igor was so traumatized by this event that he even became ill in the church at the wedding ceremony.

A real, already adult feeling came to him at the age of 18, when Igor met Gutsan Zhenechka. A beautiful, slender girl with golden curls drove the poet crazy. He came up with a new name for her - Zlata ─ and gave her poems every day. They were not destined to get married, but from this relationship Zhenechka gave birth to a daughter, Tamara, whom the poet himself saw for the first time only 16 years later.

Severyanin had too many fleeting novels, as well as common-law wives. With one of them, Maria Volnyanskaya, the relationship was long, she went with him to Estonia, and at first the family even existed there on her fees (Maria performed gypsy romances). In 1921, their civil family broke up, Igor officially married Felissa Krutt, who changed her faith from Lutheran to Orthodox for his sake. In marriage, they had a son.

However, even an official marriage did not become a reason for the Severyanin to stop having mistresses. His wife knew perfectly well that each of his tours ended with another stormy romance. Felissa endured until 1935 and eventually kicked Igor out of the house.

The last woman with whom the poet lived was the school teacher Vera Borisovna Korendi. Every year Igor got sicker and stronger, he had tuberculosis. The poet died on December 20, 1941, his grave is in Tallinn.

Russian poet (real name and surname Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev). Aestheticization of salon-urban motifs, a game of romantic individualism in the collections The Thundering Cup (1913), Pineapples in Champagne (1915). From 1918 he lived in Estonia. The autobiographical novel in verse "The Bells of the Cathedral of Feelings" (1925) and the collection of sonnets "Medallions" (1934) are imbued with love for the motherland, a nostalgic experience of being torn away from it.

Biography

Born on May 4 (16 n.s.) in St. Petersburg in the family of a retired staff captain, a cultured family that loved literature and music, especially opera (“I heard one Sobinov at least forty times”). From the age of nine, the boy wrote poetry.

He spent his youthful years in the estate "Soivole" near Cherepovets, Novgorod province, where he graduated from four classes of a real school. Then he went with his father to the Far Port. The North awakened inspiration in the soul of the future poet (hence his pseudonym Severyanin).

Returning in 1904 to his mother, he lived with her in Gatchina. The young poet sent out his poetic experiences to various editions, which regularly returned back. However, in 1905 the poem "The Death of Rurik" was published, followed by a number of separate poems.

The first poet to welcome the appearance of Severyanin in poetry was Fofanov (1907), the second was Bryusov (1911). From 1905 to 1912, Severyanin published 35 poetry collections (mostly in provincial editions). Real fame came to him after the publication of the collection "Loud-boiling Cup" (1913). In the same year he began to give his own poetic concerts, made his first tour of Russia together with Sologub.

This was followed by other collections of poems by Severyanin "Zlatolira" (1914), "Pineapples in Champagne" (1915) and others, which were reprinted many times. The evenings of the poet were held with huge success, which was facilitated by his performing gift. B. Pasternak recalled: "... on the stage before the revolution, Mayakovsky's rival was Igor Severyanin ..."

The Lotarev family had long-standing ties with the Estonian region: the poet's father and his brothers studied here. For the first time, Severyanin visited these places (the village of Toila) in 1912, then he often rested there in the summer months.

In 1918 he moved his sick mother there. After a short visit to Moscow, where at the evening at the Polytechnic Museum he was elected the "King of Poets", he returned to Toila. The German occupation of Estonia (March 1918) and the formation of an independent republic (1920) cut it off from Russia. He lived almost without a break in the countryside with his wife, the poetess and translator Felissa Kruut.

While in exile, he continued to write. He published collections of poems "Vervena" (1920), "Minstrel" (1921), a novel in verse "Falling rapids" and others. He published an anthology of Estonian classical poetry. The Estonian government helped Severyanin by assigning a subsidy. Last years he lived a hard, lonely life.

The accession of Estonia to the Soviet Union in 1940 awakened in him hopes for the publication of his poems, the possibility of traveling around the country. Illness prevented the implementation of not only these plans, but even the departure from Estonia when the war began.

Igor Severyanin, whose poems are known today by many fans of poetry, is a famous Russian poet of the early twentieth century. He has repeatedly declared his genius. This fact was confirmed by many critics. And one of them is Valery Bryusov, the most talented creator, without whose assessment not a single literary fate could take place.

Creativity, to which Igor Severyanin devoted his whole life, the biography of the author and his recognition in literary circles begin long before the appearance of the scandalous poem "I am a genius." But despite the fact that this work was written in 1912, it became the hallmark of the author.

Childhood of Igor Vasilyevich

In fact, Severyanin is a literary pseudonym. In 1887, Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev was born in St. Petersburg. He spent his childhood in this delightful city. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the theme of St. Petersburg will take such a huge place in the poet's work.

Igor's mother came from a noble family, and his father was, as they said then, from the middle class. But there was nothing derogatory about it. Because the boy's dad has achieved great fame. He became a staff captain. But unfortunately, the parents separated. And all subsequent years, Igor Vasilyevich lived in the Novgorod province in the Cherepovets district. The future poet lived on the estate of his father's sister.

Famous relatives of Severyanin-Lotarev

It has not yet been fully studied on a documentary basis, what was the little Severyanin, the biography of his early childhood contains a lot of gaps. But for the poet it was very important that on the maternal side he was connected with the family of the famous Fet and was a distant relative of the famous historian, author of the History of the Russian State, Nikolai Karamzin.

In the Novgorod province, Igor graduated from four classes of the school. And the reader should not be embarrassed by this, since at that time there was a completely different education system. And besides, he, like many children of that historical period, received a wonderful family upbringing at home.

And of course, Igor Vasilyevich Severyanin, whose biography begins with the name Lotarev, was a very educated person. He knew the Russian world culture very well and it was no coincidence that he often relied on his predecessors.

Traveling around the native country and the beginning of creativity

Then Igor Severyanin ( short biography of that period is little studied, therefore only a few facts are known) travels with his father throughout Russia and goes to the Far East, where he remains for several years. And in the year nineteen hundred and four he returns to his mother. It is there that he will meet many future famous poets, writers, cultural figures.

And then a book will appear that will "sound" very loudly. Severyanin himself will call his early editions pamphlets. The writing of the first was facilitated by the events of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904. And almost no one noticed the debut of the poet, because this is a kind of pre-creative period. Igor Vasilyevich was often in a hurry with the release of his poems and books.

The appearance of a pseudonym or big name

But it is worth paying attention - it was a year about which Bryusov once wrote that it was a turning point for the fate of Russian symbolism. It's either victory or defeat. A new era began in Russian literature and poetry.

Lotarev, or the future Igor Severyanin, whose biography was such that he appeared as a poet at the same time, will become truly famous much later. But it was at this time that his literary pseudonym appeared. At first it was Igor-Severyanin, that is, through a hyphen, and a little later this sign will disappear and a big name will remain.

Biography of the Northerner. Interesting facts about the poet's work

The most famous book will be The Thundering Cup, but fame came to the poet before this publication. Many Russian symbolists at that time already knew what methods there were in order to achieve fame. And often it was a literary scandal. The same thing happened with Igor Vasilyevich.

One of the poems, which begins like this: "Put the corkscrew into the elasticity of the cork ...", was read in Tolstoy's house in Yasnaya Polyana. It was an ordinary noble life - reading books aloud. The entire pamphlet of Severyanin caused an unusual revival, but this work made a splash. Everyone laughed at the unusual moves of the author's new poetry.

But unexpectedly, Lev Nikolaevich got angry and said: "There are gallows around, murders, funerals, and they have a corkscrew in a traffic jam." Soon these words were replicated in many newspapers. So Igor Vasilyevich Severyanin gained fame. His biography and work became popular the very next morning.

The true popularity of the creator and the most famous book

But the real glory came after the publication of the book "The Thundering Cup". Severyanin's name was associated with a new trend in Russian poetry. Shortly before this, Futurism appeared in Europe, which was associated with Marinetti, an Italian poet and theorist.

And Igor Vasilyevich was the first in Russia to call himself a futurist. In 1912, a direction of ego-futurism developed, and Severyanin was at the head of it. Then he will move away from his brothers.

The search for the creative circle

While Igor Vasilievich was young, he was looking for literary allies, like any aspiring poet. Either he recruits very young boys into a group of futurists, then he goes under the wing of the venerable Fyodor Sologub, and even tries to establish contacts with Gumilyov. But the easiest way was with the Cubo-Futurists. They invited Igor Severyanin to tour with them, and despite the fact that their paths later diverged, the cooperation was very fruitful.

There was a lot of traditional in the poetry of Igor Vasilyevich. No matter how the futurists dreamed of creating their own poetry, nevertheless, in literature, real creativity always intersects with the past. The names of many classical poets have become an important component in the author's work. It is no coincidence that Igor Severyanin, whose biography is such that in his childhood he met many famous people, devoted so many poems to Pushkin, Fet, Tyutchev.

A cycle of works about the greatest creators

In the twenties, Igor Vasilyevich wrote a whole cycle of works under significant titles. "Lermontov", "Tolstoy", "Tyutchev" and so on. Severyanin uses quotations from Russian classical poetry in his works in order to bring the Russian reader back to them. Revive the traditions of Russian poetry.

But at the same time, Igor Vasilyevich's poems contained a lot of new things. After all, it is no coincidence that he declared himself as a poet who changed the course of Russian literature and poetry. He was an innovator in the field poetic language, was engaged in word creation, introduced many new words into Russian literature.

The Severyanin was so versatile. The biography is short and not yet fully studied, but undoubtedly this person made a huge contribution to the history of Russian creativity, and his works have become another invaluable source for readers.

Winning the competition or "I am the king"

A fairly large place in the poetry of Severyanin was occupied by the theme of the city. And the search for new poetic forms of Igor Vasilyevich was closely connected with urban realities. He was ahead of his time, strove for unusualness, for something exotic.

Throughout his life, Severyanin released a huge number of books that came out in large numbers, which in the first place meant the recognition of the author. He created his own unusual poetics. It is no coincidence that in one of the poems called "Dream Kingdom" he recreated his poetic world in this way: "I am the king of a country that does not exist ...".

In 1918, Igor Vasilyevich took part in the competition and was even elected the king of poets, beating Mayakovsky and Balmont by the number of votes. Severyanin travels all over Russia and collects huge halls, many readers come to his performances, because the poetry of Igor Severyanin met the needs of his contemporaries.

Quite a few of the author's works were very serious, and Severyanin himself, whose biography is also about the many trials that fell to his lot, together with the people experienced the greatest events and upheavals of the era. And so his fate will turn out that he will not emigrate, but after the conclusion he will be abroad.

Even before the revolution, he settled in a summer cottage in Estonia, which became a new state. And there, cut off from Russia, Igor Vasilievich Severyanin will continue to create and create a kind of epic lyrics that will reflect a person's life, suffering and ideas of happiness. And in Russian poetry, he remained as an author unlike anyone else, and his work became dear to many readers.