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Zharov Alexander is a Russian, Soviet poet whose poems are widely known to this day. His works were written during the Soviet era, but they are still relevant today.
Poet biography
Zharov Alexander Alekseevich was born on March 31, 1904 in the Moscow region. The poet's father was a simple innkeeper. Zharov Alexander graduated from the Borodino rural school, after which he entered the Mozhaisk school. In 1917, Alexander Alekseevich became one of the organizers of the educational and cultural circle.
In 1918, Alexander Zharov began work as secretary of the Komsomol cell. Until 1925, Alexander held a leading position in the Komsomol bodies, first not far from his native land - in Mozhaisk, and then he was transferred to Moscow, to the Central Committee of the Komsomol.
Important dates in the life of a poet
In 1920, Alexander Alekseevich joined the ranks of the Communist Party of the USSR.
In 1921, Zharov began his studies at Moscow State University at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
In 1922, Alexander joined the ranks of the founders of the Young Guard writers' association.
In 1941 Alexander AlekseevichZharov became the chief correspondent of the Krasnoflotets magazine.
The poet's work: career dawn
Already at an early school age, Zharov began to get involved in poetry. His first poems of school years were published in the journal "Creativity".
"Alexander Zharov is a poet" - this is how they began to talk about Zharov already in 1920. His poetry enjoyed immense popularity in the 1920s and 1940s. Among the lovers of the work of the young poet, for the most part, there were representatives of the youth of that time.
The central element of his work was the glorification of the Soviet youth. In addition, Alexander Alekseevich considered party membership to be the main commandment for the entire USSR. These life attitudes and principles created the poetic image that is characteristic of Alexander Zharov.
However, being young and famous, Zharov also had detractors. One of them was Vladimir Mayakovsky. His prejudiced opinion is vividly expressed in a statement that he dedicated to Alexander Zharov: "… often writers write in such a way that it is either incomprehensible to the masses, or, if it is understandable, it turns out to be stupidity." Such a negative attitude towards the work of Zharov on the part of Mayakovsky is still unknown.
There is an opinion that in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita" there is a clear allusion to the song "Fly up the bonfires". Based on this opinion, critics concluded that Alexander Zharov became the prototype of the hero of the novel, the poet Ryukhin.
In the 1920s, the county newspaper "Voice of the Laborer" was very popular. Often poemsAlexander Alekseevich were printed in this newspaper. These poems were very different from Zharov's late work in their ineptitude, but all the lines were imbued with revolutionary heroism, pathos and youthful sharp maximalism.
The poet's work during the Great Patriotic War
During the war, the poet served in the navy. Wherever the poet had to go, whatever he had to see, being a creative person, Zharov always wrote about his fellow sailors as brave and strong warriors capable of doing any feat.
Songwriters and Zharov's place among them
Despite the fact that Mayakovsky's opinion greatly influenced public opinion about the work of Alexander Alekseevich, the poet found himself in songwriting. His contribution to the Soviet mass song turned out to be great. Alexander Alekseevich, like other songwriters of this genre, wrote his best musical works from 1930 to 1950. The most famous songs were "Fly up the bonfires, blue nights", "Song of past campaigns" and "Sad willows".
The song “Accordion” deserved special love from the public, about which Mikhail Svetlov wrote, as if his “Grenada” and Zharovskaya “Accordion” are two sisters who are connected with each other.
The post-war years of the life and work of Alexander Zharov
Already in the post-war years, when the Russian people needed to take a breath from the just ended war, Zharov wrote the song "We are for peace", which became a kindanthem of the post-war years.
As well as in poetry, in songs, Alexander Alekseevich wrote about his homeland, about the nature of his native land. It should be noted that even after Zharov received a large portion of public approval and recognition, he did not forget his native land. He often came to his native land, read and sang his works to ordinary workers, people from the collective farm and the younger generation.
One of the brightest events in the life of Alexander Zharov was a meeting with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, about which he recalled and talked a lot.
Just like for the entire Soviet people, the poet's memories of the war evoked the most emotions. He told his young listeners about war times, about the exploits that courageous warriors went to in order to save their lives and the lives of their people.
September 7, 1984, the poet died at the age of 80. Alexander Zharov was buried at the Kuntsevo cemetery in Moscow.
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