Sergey Tretyakov is a talented futurist poet

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Tretyakov Sergei - futurist poet of the early twentieth century. The direction of futurism (from the word "future") spread among poets at the beginning of the last century.

Current futurism

In 1909, the Italian writer Filippo Marinetti called for the complete destruction of all cultural values and traditions. Instead, one should only talk about the future. At the same time, man was represented as the center of the universe. It was about him, a resident of a large dynamic city, with a huge amount of technology, that poets wrote. Thus, the futurists rejected the classical past, did not accept the rules of syntax, word compatibility. The main task of futurism is to voice its own understanding of the surrounding world in convenient ways, regardless of accepted norms and principles.

Russian Futurism

Sergey Tretyakov was born in 1892. And already in 1910, a futuristic trend came to Russia, attracting a lot of attention. What is so scandalous in this current? A peculiar form of verse, evoking public speeches made during trips to the largest cities in the country.

As in all other endeavors, this one also had strife withingroups and associations. Because of them, poets migrated between groups, sometimes bitterly arguing and conflicting.

Futurism directions

In futurism, some trends differed. Egofuturism is a direction of "solid" egoism. Ex altation of one's own "I". The futurist poet in this direction promoted the concept of only “oneself and no one else.”

Cubofuturists. They have already softened the concept of "I", replacing it with "we". Cubo-futurists united in "Galea" and carefully tried to fence themselves off from Italian like-minded people. They also published the scandalous manifesto "A Slap in the Face of Public Taste". The well-known futurist poet V. Mayakovsky, who belongs precisely to this trend, often shocked the public with his free poems and style of dress (yellow jacket, painted faces of poets). As, however, and other poets.

It was considered normal to print your works on scraps of paper, old wallpaper. And this greatly revolted the classics. But despite the negative public opinion, it was this time that was given the name "Silver Age", and the Futurist poets, who sculpted their works in conditions of freedom that bordered on debauchery, became his "children". And it is to them that a very outstanding contribution to the development of literature belongs. Poems of Mayakovsky alone are worth something.

Tretyakov's biography

Sergey Tretyakov did not have any outstanding details in his early biography. He was born in the family of a teacher in Goldingen, where he studied at school. After graduation, he entered the Moscow University at the Faculty of Law. It was at the university that a significant meeting took place: Sergei Tretyakov and the futurist poets. This meeting determined the entire fate of Tretyakov.

In 1913, another branch of futurism took shape - the Mezzanine of Poetry, in which Sergey Tretyakov occupied his niche. Of course, he could not compete in popularity with the star - Mayakovsky, but during the First World War he was a fairly well-known poet of his time. It was a period of a huge number of exhibitions, reports, poetry evenings. It just didn't last long. Until 1915. After that, all the existing movements of futurism disintegrated.

Sergey Tretyakov, whose biography falls on the heyday of the movement, after its collapse, he left for the Far East, where he worked in different cities: Beijing, Harbin, Chita. He fought in the Civil War.

But even in wartime and under tense conditions, he remained true to the futuristic direction. Having organized a circle together with other like-minded poets, he is becoming more and more known as a revolutionary poet. And in 1922, he published his second collection of poems, Yasnysh.

After that, Tretyakov Sergei Mikhailovich returns to Moscow, where he gets a job at the Novy LEF magazine, editing its issues. He also releases his new poetry collections.

In the twenties of the last century, Sergei Tretyakov also became a famous playwright, writing several plays. After switching to novels and essays.

Tretyakov's revolutionary mood could not go unnoticed and unpunished. Because at that time no freethinking remained free for long. That is why in 1937 he was arrested and shot. True, in 1956 he was posthumously rehabilitated.