Biography Shatrov Nikolai
(1929 – 1977)
Shatrov Nikolay (1929 – 1977). Son of Arbat homeopath Mihin, who died in 1942 in Tbilisi. Father replaced his stepfather – the artist. Mother is an artist. One time he lived in Semipalatinsk, where he studied at the local pedagogical institute. In Semipalatinsk, he brought the first verses to the newspaper “Priirtyshskaya Pravda”, but instead of publishing them the newspaper placed a devastating article accusing the young poet of lack of ideology. Later he studied for a while at the journalism department of the Kazakh University. From Kazakhstan, the poet then moved to the Urals. Boris Pasternak helped to move to Moscow. In the capital, Shatrov tried to complete his education at the journalism department of Moscow State University, but something did not work out. Then he (also not for long) studied at the Literary Institute. And all this time he was cared for by Pasternak. As Val recalls. Khromov, Pasternak somehow after one of the
Khromov. – They “bought” his poems, that is, they simply gave money-they left them in a wardrobe in the pocket of a coat that he read in the Shatrov’s room, depending on the amount written, Pasternak followed the proportionality of the “fee” strictly. “But at the same time Pasternak did not like Shatrov, believing that “the Pasternak space is limited to his dacha.” In 1954, shortly attended an informal poetic group, led by Leonid Chertkov (while remaining a “wandering star.”) But Chertkov’s circle did not really fit in. Publishers and critics, according to Raphael Okolovskoye whole life imputed to him that in his poetry there is no social optimism, but there is only decadence Andrey Smirnov, to communicate with him in the mid-1950s, said that the fate of the persecuted poet.
I will never sin:
The soul is silent.
I only breathe the Lord
From the mouth of the verse…
But the literary functionaries of the poet did not hear. In the early 1980s V. Aleinikov long, but unsuccessfully, tried to publish poetry poetry at least abroad, passed Shatrov’s poems to the “Continent,” but all was in vain. How did Aleinikov mourn, the Shatrov manuscripts that were found in the West, “sheltered our human rights defenders, did not spill on these pages the tearful tears of the old emigrants, did not read the Shatrov manuscripts of the children of the Moscow and St. Petersburg intellectuals who had abandoned their homeland earlier, greedy before reading the Moscow and St. Petersburg intellectuals fronts and debaters. ” Posthumously in 1995, the first book of the poet “Poems” was published in New York.
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