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Few today remember the name of the poet Stepan Petrovich Shchipachev. However, for the generation of Soviet citizens of the 40s and 50s, he was as well known as A. Tvardovsky or K. Simonov. His poems were read, learned by heart, copied into notebooks. This story will be about the life and work of the almost forgotten poet.
Biography
Stepan Shchipachev was born in 1899 in the family of a poor peasant from the village of Shchipachi, Yekaterinburg province. He was the youngest child in the family. When his father died, Stepan was barely four years old. Together with his grandmother, he went to the neighboring yards to collect alms. When he got older, he went to work: he was hired as a farm laborer for seasonal work, served in the mines and in a hardware store.
In 1917 Shchipachev joined the Red Army. In 1921 he graduated from a military school, after which he taught social science to the military for some time. In parallel, he became interested in literary work, served as the editor of the Krasnoarmeyets magazine, wrote poetry, to which he had a great inclination from a young age.
In the early 1930s, Stepan Shchipachev received a literary education. And withsince then, he has been exclusively engaged in literary activities.
The Path to Literature
Stepan Shchipachev, whose biography was atypical for poets and writers of the early 20th century, later admitted that he fell in love with poetry in his childhood, when he attended a parochial school. He told how once a teacher read a poem by M. Yu. Lermontov "Borodino" in a lesson. This work so excited the soul of the child that he was under the impression for several days. Then Stepan decided that he would write poetry.
In subsequent years, he worked hard on versification, honed his style, looking for his own rhymes. In 1923, Stepan Shchipachev published his debut collection of poems, which was called "On the mounds of centuries." A small book of only 15 pages with early, still inept poems was the author's first step on the path to great literature.
Books
During his life, Shchipachev published more than 20 collections of authors, published a lot in newspapers and magazines.
After graduating from the institute, Stepan Shchipachev began to gravitate toward lyrical themes in his work. During this period, the books "Lyrics" and "Under the sky of my Motherland" were written.
During the Second World War, Shchipachev again put on a military uniform. He took part in the operation to liberate the western regions of Ukraine, and later was involved in the creation of front-line newspapers and leaflets. During this period, his poems acquired bright patriotic intonations and at the same time intimate and lyrical. The two main collections of this time are "Frontline Poems" (1942) and "Lines of Love" (1945).
The 60s were the most fruitful for the author. During this period, he wrote the autobiographical story "Birch sap", the poem "The Heir", the collection "Song of Moscow" and many other works.
Lines of Love
Stepan Shchipachev, whose poems are usually classified as civil poetry, was nevertheless a master in the field of love lyrics. His collection, modestly titled Lines of Love, went on sale in May 1945. 45 poems about feeling, understandable and familiar to everyone, instantly glorified the author. Boys and girls of the 50s confessed their love with his lines, they were so simple and sincere.
Schipachev Stepan Petrovich continued to work on this collection all his life, as a result of which the book increased almost four times. In the latest edition, the collection already included 175 poems.
In Soviet literature, a special type of hero was cultivated, industrious, skillful, patriotic. Thanks to Shchipachev's poems, this hero became more alive and human. It became clear that a Soviet citizen can feel, can fall in love, be happy and sad, hope and seek his happiness.
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