Sergey Ostrova: biography, creativity
Ostrovoy Sergey Grigorievich - the famousthe Russian poet of the 20th century, the author of many songs, among which the "Song remains with the man", "Winter", "In the way-the distant path", "Wait for the soldier", "At the village of Kryukovo", "Drozdy" and others.
The creative path of Sergei Ostrovy
For several dozen creative activitiesthe writer published about fifty books, the total circulation of which is rather difficult to calculate. The most significant of them are "I thought about you today," "I walk on the ground," "Poems," "I was born in Russia." Autobiographical is the poem "The Gypsies", to the writing of which was in his childhood in the gypsy camp went all his life.
People's poet Sergei Ostrova was friends and worked withsuch composers as Aram Khachaturian, Vano Muradeli, Boris Mokrousov, Isaak Dunaevsky, Vasily Soloviev-Sedoy, Matvei Blanter, received letters from unknown composers who put on their own music the rhymed lines of the author.
The most famous songs on the poems of Ostrovy
A song on verses "Winter", sounded in the performanceEduard Gil in 1960 on "New Year's Eve", put on music without the knowledge of the author Eduard Khanok and was not mistaken. The composition in Leonid Gaidai's film "Ivan Vasilievich changes his profession" was repeated and closely entered the masses. "The ceiling is icy, the door is creaking ..." - almost everyone sang.
The Soviet hit was the famous "The song remainswith a man ", first performed by Joseph Kobzon. Later it was taken as the final composition of the prestigious music festival "Song of the Year". "At the village of Kryukovo" composer Mark Fradkin gave the group "Samotsvety" and also guessed with the choice of the performer.
One of the best songs of military lyrics is"Wait for a soldier", telling about the feelings of an ordinary soldier dreaming of returning home, and a popular patriotic creation was a deep and penetrating composition "Drozdy", created in co-authorship with Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky.
Sergei Grigorievich was a multiple winner of song festivals and competitions as a songwriter, for the collection "Years" was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR them. M. Gorky.
Sergei Ostrovoy: biography of the poet
The Russian songwriter-poet was born 6September 1911 in the town of Novonikolaevsk (the Siberian region), in the family of a housewife and felder, who later became the owner of a small shop. The parents of the future writer were semi-literate and very critical of Sergey's hobby for reading. There was not even a single book in the house. This rejection from the relatives forced the young man to read at night with a candle, which irreparably affected his vision.
Sergei Ostrovoy survived the Civil War, onthe moment of which he was 7 years old. He remembered the change of white on reds and reds to whites well, as well as the epidemic of typhus, when countless dead bodies were carried away on the columns of the sled, like firewood. These terrible memories left a deep mark on the receptive memory of children.
In my school years I easily found a common language withclassmates, published the first notes in the city newspaper. At the end of 9 classes at the age of 16, having quarreled with his father, he left home and got a job as a newspaper reporter in Tomsk.
Gradually gaining some experience andknowledge, in 1931 he moved to the capital of Russian cities - Moscow, and in 1934 he was already a traveling correspondent for the all-Union newspaper Gudok. In this capacity, the author traveled almost half of the country, wrote a lot about people of different professions, with whom he happened to meet.
Poplars were poured
On an ongoing basis Sergei Ostrovoy, biographywhich inspires good human deeds, began to be published in newspapers of all-Union scale, beginning in 1934. In 1935, the light saw the debut collection "On Guard of Borders".
His poem "Poplars were poured" at the contestMilitary-Komsomol songs were awarded two prizes; composers Vladimir Fere and Nikolai Myaskovsky put words to music, and Sergei himself received a high monetary reward.
Suddenly the success that has fallen so inspireda young man, that he decided to connect his life only with creativity. The lines that came out from the pen of the author were characterized by humanity; penetrating into the very depths of the soul, they warmed people. More than 10 000 letters of response came to the poem "Mother", published in the newspaper "Pravda".
I fought with a word and a grenade
In the summer of 1941, Ostrovoy as a volunteergot to the front and all the war passed in the rank of private. He fought not only books, poems and newspaper notes, but also the soldier's usual weapon: an anti-tank bottle, a grenade and a rifle. With the advanced units was included in the liberated villages and cities of the Kalinin region, which often visited in the postwar period. In the summer of 1942, he was wounded and treated in a hospital, in 1944 he published a book of military lyrics. Practically until the end of his days he published poetry in various publications.
About the village of Kryukovo
The song "Near the village of Kryukovo" has its own interestinghistory. The author wanted to write a folk composition, music to which, as if guessed his thoughts, composed M. Fradkin. When the finished work broke out into the vastness of the country, it turned out that there were a lot of villages with such a name in the country, and each experienced military battles.
All the books were dedicated only to her
Sergei Ostrova was married to Nadezhda NikolaevnaTolstoy - a famous harpist, a deserved artiste of Russia, younger than him for 12 years. It was Sergei Grigorievich's second marriage, which turned out to be very happy: the couple lived together for half a century, and the wife for Sergey Grigorievich became a kind guardian angel. To her and only her poet devoted his books.
Until the last days Sergei Ostrovoy, biography,photo of which are a vivid example of humanity and strength of mind, led a healthy lifestyle, practiced sports and observed the daily routine. In the 1970s he was at the head of the Russian tennis federation, holding the post of its president. And the interest in tennis came late enough - at 50 years old, and since then, for almost 40 years, he visited the court three times a week. Also the poet was very fond of skiing, he could spend about five hours on the ski track.
Serhiy Grigorevich Ostrovy died on December 222005. Creativity of the author, whose songs are heard every day in radio air and from television screens, remains modern and relevant today - in times of great shocks and even greater hopes.
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