Poet Cross Anatoly Grigorievich: biography, family, creativity

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In the Nikolaev region in November 1934, the popular poet Anatoly Poperechny was born, a Soviet and Russian songwriter, the author of texts that people immediately sang and sing to this day.

Childhood and youth

The first four years the poet spent on the picturesque coast of the Southern Bug in the regional center of the Nikolaev region called New Odessa, and in 1938 the family moved to Nikolaev. During the war, they had to be evacuated, and the future poet Anatoly Poperechny, with all sorts of worries and dangers, traveled all the way to the Urals, where he lived until the liberation of his native places. They returned to the land devastated by the war in 1944, where they had to restore and equip everything anew. In the same place, in Nikolaev, Anatoly Poperechny finished ten years and got a job at the Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant.

However, he did not leave his studies. Despite production difficulties (he worked in a hot shop), beautiful verses were written, and the poet was willingly accepted to the Nikolaev Pedagogical Institute for philology. True, I had to study in absentia and with many interruptions. At the shipyard for many decades there was a literary association"Slipway", which Anatoly Poperechny visited with great pleasure: there he was understood and appreciated his work.

First publications

"Stakhanovite's tribune" was the name of the large-circulation newspaper of the shipyard, where Anatoly's first publications appeared. Factory everyday life surprisingly tuned in to activity, the poet managed to do a lot: he wrote poetry, prepared tests for the institute, gradually learned to write small notes and extensive essays about his comrades in the hot shop. And he did it so well that an offer of cooperation was received from the editorial authorities.

Almost immediately, poems by Anatoly Poperechny began to appear in the newspaper, which were read with pleasure not only by the workers of the native enterprise, but also by complete strangers. The regional newspaper Yuzhnaya Pravda drew attention to this fact and also published Anatoly's poems from time to time. After a short time, even the central newspapers honored the work of the young poet several times with the publication.

Books

It was not possible to graduate from the university in Nikolaev in time, and only in 1954 Anatoly Poperechny received a diploma from the Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. In 1957, he finally decided to share his poems with the people and sent the manuscript to a publishing house, immediately to Moscow, to the Soviet Writer. The famous poet Alexander Petrovich Mezhirov read the poems of Poperechny and made a positive review about them. And then the Leningrad publishing house"Soviet Writer" in 1959 published a collection of poems and poems "Full Moon", where the author was Anatoly Grigoryevich Poperechny.

The debut was successful. Literally a year later, the collection "Red Leaves" was released. And after the publication of the second book, writers and poets could already enter into a high professional union, and Anatoly Grigoryevich Poperechny was given the necessary recommendations. In 1960, he was not only admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR, but also invited to work in the magazine "October" as the head of the poetry department. Thus, the whole family had to move to Moscow, where he found his real nationwide fame.

Milestones

The rest of his life was spent in the capital, although the work of Anatoly Poperechny trumpeted completely different realities and forced him to spend most of his time traveling and outdoors. From childhood he loved to read, the authors of his desktop books were Shevchenko and Gogol, and in the seventies, Vasily Makarovich Shukshin forced almost all the authors to make room on his writer's desk, whose books became not just desktop. Anatoly Poperechny knew the work of his beloved writer better than his own texts. His biography was built on the unshakable principles of goodness and truth.

Could such a future be dreamed of by the son of the wife of Transverse - a simple agronomist Grigory Demyanovich and paramedic Alexandra Mikhailovna? What kind of nightingale did their Anatoly grow up to be, if one after another his poems are set to music, and then immediately begin to sound from every window, at every feast? The family of Anatoly Poperechny knewby heart every poem, every poem from all twenty-two collections of his. All his life his wife supported the work of the poet, his muse - Svetlana Ivanovna. And his son Sergei, who was born in 1958, helped to pass the whole difficult path to fame, when there was no fame yet and nothing, it would seem, foreshadowed it.

Creativity

Is there a person in the country who would not hum the song "Stork on the Roof" at least occasionally? And the song "Grass by the House" has been sung by all generations since 1985, and will be sung in all future times. Such songs, which have become popular, can be listed and listed, there are dozens of them that instantly became popular and did not lose this hypostasis with all the changes in the country that affected both the way of life and moral principles, and even with the change in the social and political system.

The collections of Anatoly Poperechny can be re-read at all times, they will never lose their relevance, since the external manifestations of life concern them little. This is deep, painfully familiar to everyone. This is "Black Bread" and "Invisible Fight" from the sixties, this is the earth and space - "Orbit", "Grass near the House", this is the eternal "Raspberry Ringing", which does not subside in the soul of every Russian, and not just Soviet people. Songs on poems by Anatoly Poperechny will always sound.

May 2014

Not everyone remembers the names of songwriters. But the songs that were once performed by Lev Leshchenko, the group "Earthlings", Alexander Malinin, Nadezhda Babkina, MikhailShufutinsky, Philip Kirkorov, Sofia Rotaru, Iosif Kobzon, Lyudmila Zykina and many other stars of previous years, were picked up by new performers. That is why the voice of the robin will sound, and the next astronauts will dream of the grass near the house, and they will sing about Olesya from Polissya at a family holiday in the twenty-second century, and the song "Stork on the Roof" will not be forgotten. These are truly timeless hits.

And in May 2014 Anatoly Poperechny passed away. The cause of death is a common cause of death today - heart failure. This is a real grief for all people who are in love with the song. The poet was ill for a long time, he had a heart attack, which is also not uncommon at the age of eighty. Life in the end did not spoil him at all, despite the huge number of constantly sounding hits. And he wrote poetry literally until his last minute. It turned out that there was no money even to adequately bury the poet in the Moscow cemetery. Svetlana Ivanovna had to sell the apartment.

Memories

Anatoly Poperechny was a good person, judging by the words of people who worked with him a lot. The only objection that was heard from him was that Anatoly did not consider himself a cohort of songwriters. He claimed that the title of "just a poet" was enough for him. And indeed, you need to be a truly brave poet to use the phrase "glorious bird" (everyone's favorite song "Nightingale Grove"). Almost Mayakovsky.

His wife Svetlana Ivanovna, who was the only muse whomShe managed to "tame" ten long years after the first meeting, she says that her husband never wrote poems about love. Apparently, that is why the whole nation has been singing songs to the words of Anatoly Poperechny for many decades. This topic is close to everyone, but not everyone will be able to reveal it so clearly and so laconicly.

A poet about his life

The poet rarely gave extensive interviews throughout his life. And now they are few and therefore invaluable testimonies. The path of life is exactly what leads the poet to an understanding of poetry, to figurative thinking, to the essence of poetic creativity.

The father's refrain speaks most of all about the family: "You are an agronomist, an agronomist, black earth under your nails …" My father was simple in understanding life, pure in thoughts. He did not encourage his son's passion for poetry, he saw him only with a real craft in his hands. The theme of fathers and children, associated with the war, was raised many times by the poet: "The Swan Flock", "Full Moon", "Vineyard", "Black Bread" - poems remarkable for their depth.

Flush

If it weren't for the exceptional popularity of song lyrics, Anatoly Poperechny would still stand on a par with prominent Russian poets - Kazakova, Tsybin, Rubtsov, Gordeychev, Peredreev. Let them not sing about what difficult, sometimes tragic fates of the working people are displayed in the poems "Hot Shop", "Tsar Turner", "Three Masters", where labor is the highest meaning of human life. These are realpoems.

Mother was a nurse during the war and accompanied an ambulance train from Ukraine to the Urals. Naturally, the little son saw and felt all the hardships that the people inherited during the war. When crossing the Dnieper, they had to endure a raid by fascist "Messers" on the columns of the wounded and refugees. Then, many years later, it was from these experiences that the poems "Ferry of 41 Years", "Tovarnyak", "Orphan", "Night Crossings" were born.

Ryazan Madonnas

The poem "The Soldier" turned out to be so penetrating, imbued with such genuine, real, high pathos that they were read to them even before the song that the whole world fell in love with appeared. The name of the song is different - "Ryazan Madonnas", according to the line inside the poem. The wonderful composer Alexander Dolukhanyan insisted on this change, writing music really in tune with poetic lines.

The song instantly became a hit, it was recorded in Japan and France, and Lyudmila Zykina's voice sounded all over the world. This song is for all time, as it is recognized as a pop classic, like many other songs based on verses by Anatoly Poperechny. Light, joy, tenderness, kindness, anxiety, experiences do not dry out in them, which give people inspiration and innermost feelings, memories and hope, inspire hearts.

Co-creation

Such exacting to texts composers as Bogoslovsky, Dolukhanyan, Tukhmanov worked a lot with Anatoly Poperechny. Among musicianssuch recognized professionals as "Pesnyary", "Flame", "Earthlings", "Verasy" and many, many other excellent masters performed songs based on the verses of this poet. Dolina and Leontiev, Shavrina and Gnatyuk, Piekha and Allegrova - it is even impossible to list all those who helped raise these songs to the top of popularity.

Dobrynin and Shainsky, Migulya and Krutoy, Morozov and Ivanov were inspired by Anatoly Poperechny's poems. And all because, despite the simplicity of verbal images, the texts turned out to be very deep, leaving a long "aftertaste" in the form of memories. Songs one after another became legends: "The Soul Hurts", "The Stork on the Roof", "Forces of Heaven", "White Lilac"… It's just that the author loved life very much and never tired of being surprised and rejoicing at all its good manifestations.

About the poetic world

Even by hits known throughout the country, we can conclude that Anatoly Poperechny's poetic world is wide and diverse. Everything is already here: the search for the meaning of life, and the Motherland, and love for it, and the desire from its historical roots to achieve the real purpose of the poet through his own, suffered word. Reality is reflected in the works of Poperechny always artistically, brightly lyrical, vividly figurative and aphoristic.

More than twenty poems and poems the poet gave to the memory of the Great Patriotic War. It is amazing how a seven-year-old child managed to keep all these small, intimate, precious details that fill his poems with a terrifying reality until the very incarnation. However, even therethere is no desperation. There is a flavor of the native land, painfully suffering, but always a winner, this poet lets you know with every letter.

My word

But this "own word" had to be sought in the same way as every poet does - relentlessly and painfully. Anatoly Poperechny spent his whole life looking for these, traveled almost the entire country, where he talked with completely different people. He fished in the Caspian Sea (where the most penetrating poem "Red Stones" was brought from), was in Siberia, often visited Ukraine for a long time - after all, his homeland was in Belarus, and he even settled in Transbaikalia, since it was there that the book was supposed to be born and was born " Core".

All the joy and all the pain of the past century are reflected in the poetry of Anatoly Poperechny. Reading it is not boring: the language is colorful, with its characteristic Little Russian flavor, the intonation is wide, entailing. The heroes of his poems quite often have a tragic fate, but evil is always overcome, because the theme of love never ceases to sound - for people, for the Motherland, for the world that is about to arise. There is harmony in Poperechny's poems, in them nature and man are one.

Melody

The song is not in vain called the fate of a generation of people. Some songs survive their generation. The transverse melody of the verse is such that one can count several dozens of "long-lived" songs. Some critics talk about the approach of these texts to folk art, where there is a kind of catholicity - uniting, gathering, reconciling a variety of people.

Others talk about deep psychologism, helping to penetrate into the innermost corners of the soul, about associativity. After all, what is "crimson ringing" for a Russian person? First of all, it is a symbol. Therefore, all the work of the poet is a bow to his native nature, this is the giving of his own loy alty and understanding to any plowman, shipbuilder, blacksmith, this is love for life in all its manifestations.