Kazakov Alexey Biography

Kozakov and A. Kazakov A. Kazakov in the middle of the X. It was then that throughout Russia and abroad, the three -volume collection of the chosen works of the poet “My Way” released in Chelyabinsk in Chelyabinsk. Low -format, gracefully designed and aesthetically impeccable, it became classic in authenticity of the lifetime texts of the author, often cited by domestic and foreign researchers, surprising readers with an abundance of restored texts and the depth of analytical articles preceding each of the lyrics, epic, prose.

The compiler, the author of comments and detailed notes is the Chelyabinets Alexei Leonidovich Kazakov, who devoted more than 50 years of his life to the work of his beloved poet - in the three -volume he brought not only the rarest judgments of the poet’s contemporaries, with whom he personally had a sign of this after almost half a century after the death of the poet, but also revealed to us by Yesenin’s creative path as his education, incorruptible moral feeling, scale of the scale.

historical clairvoyance. Here are some fragments from the thoughts of Kazakov: “Yesenin is a poet, a martyr from“ Radunitsa ”to“ Black Man ”, a distinctive path of unknown spiritual secrets unknown to us in the verse and in life of an unknown city of Inonia and sparkling New York, he belongs to such a philosophical measurement that it was out of oblivion in the provincial Chelyabinsk, in two Thousands of kilometers from the generic places of the great poet, to delve into the secret of his path, to explore the rare originals of his manuscripts, to first restore fragments of his famous epic poems, acute folk chistulas, accurate historical parallels?

Alexey Kazakov was born in Chelyabinsk. His father - Leonid Maksimovich - is from Vyatka. In the war, a teenager worked at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant ChTZ; He was a master-instrumental, handed his son a dexterity in many areas of mechanics, locksmiths and electrical engineering Alexei in his searches always armed photos, film and sound equipment to fix what he saw and found.

Alexei's mother - Claudia Andreevna - originally from Ukraine, from Kirovograd, an orphanage orphan, met the future wife after evacuation to the Urals at the famous factory. By the way, parents got married after the war, in G. this once again speaks of the dignity of the ChTZ brand - the best mechanics of the plant personally saw the leaders of the state, starting with Stalin. Alexey studied in several schools in the city - first in th, then in th, here was the teacher Nina Nikolaevna Maksimova, and graduated from a ten -year -old at the school, where Henrietta Serafimovna Chilichkova worked, a well -deserved teacher, writer and head of the school theater circle, which many humanitarians - graduates of the X gg.

In the city, noting the versatility of Alexei’s talents, Gorsky repeatedly sent a young man to the capital to the central station of the young technicians TsSUT, where he soon began to work himself. It was there, at the Butyrsky Val, Alexei stopped, more and more carried away by literary and historical research. On the first vacation, in the summer-autumn of G. still at school, when he was 94 in Konenkov-the author of the bust of Yesenin, which he sculpted from the poet in the X.

He devoted more than four hours to Kazakov, who was the feat of the artist -patriarch on a trip to the poet’s homeland - in the village of Konstantinovo in October G. Alexei met with the sisters of the poet Katya and Shura, journalist Nikolai Konstantinovich Verzhbitsky, an employee of the newspaper Zarya East, which was published in the 10th. Chagina, where Yesenin was printed when he was in the Caucasus.

In the same, G. Friendship with a unique theater will continue for many decades. Having entered the Literary Institute in the city of in - gg. Then the difficulties began in a tortured, peculiar literary critic-driver: the hero of his thesis-Yu. Lyubimov-was abroad as a dissident; There was a restructuring and revision of all past values ​​in the country; Archives were opened by the new, tragic pages of our history as the fate of Yesenin and Gorky.

It must be added that before studying in the graduate school of the Cossacks, living in Chelyabinsk, in fact was a “free artist”. In the latter, having published a number of essays and articles, he became twice, the laureate of the literary prize along with D. Likhachev, V. Rasputin, E. Yevtushenko, A. Evtushenko, by A. Evtushenko, he was already a researcher and a thinking critic, essayist, publicist, who did not want to work and write “according to the poisoning from above”.

It was not its crowning by the “scientific laurels” but already in the city in the preface by A. Kazakov wrote: “Anthology covers the period in 72 years - gg. More than two thousand units of names of works about the poet, including foreign publications, were viewed. ” Near the authors of memoirs, poems, essays are presented in anthology as contemporaries of the poet M.

Gorky, A. Mariengof, I. Babel, A. Akhmatova, B. Pasternak, S. Yurok, M. Zoshchenko, V. Kachalov, so the subsequent authors of Yesenin’s son - Konstantin, N. Rubtsov, V. Shukshin, V.Vysotsky, which created the reader in the growing interested understanding of the poet’s place in the time and history of Russia. Subsequently, in the anniversary three -volume of G. Trotsky, V. Khodasevich, P.

Luknitsky, A. Solzhenitsyn, who were unthinkable to quote under the Soviet regime. Therefore, we begin to understand Yesenin “as a phenomenal person, the explanation of which is not exhausted by the concept of“ romantic of straw Russia ”. The Yesenin formula of aphorism “face to face is not to see. Big is seen at a distance, ”is most applicable to its author. These “Mozartic beginning, Mozart element” by B.

Pasternak more deeply and expressively shows Alexei Kazakov, a genuine opener of the treasures of the gold literary heritage of the Furchability. In e gg. He thinks along with D. Likhachev the expansion of the publishing activity of the Soviet International Culture Fund and helps our patriarch Academics in the opening of the M. Tsvetaeva House-Museum in Moscow. In Chelyabinsk, edited by A.

Kazakov, the anthology of the “eternal life of honey” M. Kuzmin, M. Voloshin, V. Khodasevich, I. Seversyan, were published, were published: the book and drawings of our countryman-Chelyabinsk, Ilya Bannikov “Ballad of the ash”, poetry and composer Lera Averbach “The Sormolonia”, N. Gumilev, A. Akhmatova, O. Mandelstam, M. Tsvetaeva, prose by V. Shalamov in 2 books.

So in the turning point, contrasting years A. This is the work of the pioneer-search engine, labor is the antipodis of pseudo-scientific compilations of the Homeleons dissertations, which run from the black labor of studying the primary sources and use the “new trends” templates. Alexei Kazakov, on the advice of D. Likhachev, began, to the gigantic work of creating the complete works of the poet, a friend of Yesenin - the great martyr of the Russian word of Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuyev - - the “Olonets sorcerer”, whose tragic path has been occupied by Kazakova for more than twenty years - Kazakov says: “In the city of my biggest desire - to finish the release of the literary heritage of Nikolai Klyuyev in two volumes in the city.

There is a “small”, for the “big” work is in full swing. ” The contrast to them-a solid colorful folios-is a crafty-virtuoso cheerful book “In my soul, Taglian rings in it shows ditties of the“ small homeland ”S. Yesenin-the village of Konstantinov and his environs. She went out in Chelyabinsk, where a self-forgotten and meticulous literary critic, chairman of the editorial and public council of the State Museum-Reserve S., lives since childhood.

Yesenin, a frantic ascetic of the word, the critic-publicist A. And even earlier his works went on the Yesenin theme: “The gift inscriptions of S. Yesenin”, “The image in me did not fade Kazakov by the obsession and comments. A special topic in the creative research of A. Kazakov is the story of the Romanov House - well, over the years and with it, the community does not come often.