Koltsov biography

Biography - Alexei Koltsov family Alexei Vasilievich Koltsov was born in Voronezh in the family of Vasily Petrovich Koltsov - - a buyer and a cattle merchant, who was in the whole district with an honest partner and a strict household. A man of a cool temper, passionate and fond of, the father of the poet, not limited to prasolism, rented land for sowing bread, bought forests under a log house, traded firewood, and was engaged in cattle breeding.

In general, the father was a man of an extremely economic mother Alexei a kind, but not educated woman, did not even own a letter. He did not have peers in the family: the sister was much older, and his brother and other sisters are much younger. The parents of A. Koltsova, the father of A. Koltsova - Praskovya Ivanovna Koltsova, neutrally Pereslavtseva education from 9 years old Koltsov comprehended the letter at home, showing such abilities that in the year he was able to enter the two -year district school, bypassing the parish.

Vissarion Belinsky wrote the following about his level of education: we don’t know how he was transferred to the second grade, and in general he learned at this school, because no matter how briefly we knew Koltsov, but did not notice any signs of elementary education in him. After a year and four months, the second grade at the school, Alexei was taken away by his father. Vasily Petrovich believed that this education was enough for his son to become his assistant.

The work of Alexei was in the stage and the sale of livestock. Aleksey fell in love with the school, the first books he had read were fairy tales, for example, about Bova, about nonsense Lazarevich. He bought these books for money and toys from his parents money. Later, Alexei began to read various novels that he took from his comrade - Vargin, who was also the son of the merchant.

Especially the future poet liked the works “Thousand and One Night” and “Kadm and Harmony” by Heraskov. After death in the year of Vargin, Alexei Koltsov received his library - about 70 volumes. In the year he was carried away by the poems of I. Dmitriev, especially the "Ermak." Creativity of the year, at the age of 16, he wrote his first poem - “Three visions”, which he later destroyed.

The poem was written in the imitation of the beloved poet Koltsov, Ivan Dmitriev. The first mentor of Koltsov in poetic work was the Voronezh book -seller Dmitry Kashkin, who gave the young man the opportunity to use books from his library for free. Kashkin was direct, smart and honest, for which the youth of the city loved him. Kashkin’s bookstore was a kind of club for them.

Kashkin was interested in Russian literature, read a lot and wrote poetry himself. Apparently Koltsov showed his first experiments. For 5 years, Koltsov used his library free of charge. Somewhere in his youth, the future poet survived a deep drama-he was separated from the serf girl, who wanted to marry. This was reflected, in particular, in his verses “Song”, “You don’t sing, Nightingale” and a number of others.

In the year he met the seminarian Andrei Srebryansky, who later became his close friend and mentor. It was Srebryansky who instilled in Koltsov an interest in philosophy. The drawing of P. Boorers “Koltsov by Pushkin” the first publications of the young poet were anonymous - 4 poems in the year. Under his name, Alexei Koltsov published poems in the year when N. Stankevich, a famous poet, publicist and thinker, whom Koltsov met in the year, published his poems with a short preface in the Literary Newspaper.

In the year - the output of the first and only during the life of the poet of the collection "Poems of Alexei Koltsov." Belinsky, who had a great influence on him, with Zhukovsky, Vyazemsky, Vladimir Odoevsky and Pushkin, who published in his magazine “Contemporary” the poem of Koltsov “Harvest”. He called the main feature of these verses "Burning Personality." Driving around the trade affairs of his father, Koltsov met with various people, gathered folklore.

His lyrics sang ordinary peasants, their work and their life.

Many poems became words to the music of M. Balakirev, A. Dargomyzhsky, M. Mussorgsky, N. Rimsky-Korsakov and many others. The death of the poet Alexei Koltsov often had quarrels with his father, especially in the last years of his life; The latter was negative about the literary work of his son. As a result of depression and prolonged consumption of Koltsov, Koltsov died at the age of thirty -three years a year.

Belinsky wrote: to restore his health, it was necessary first of all calm, but meanwhile he was offended daily, tormented, teased as a wild beast in a cage ... Once in the next room, his sister had a lot of guests, and they started a game in the middle of the room, put a girl on him, covered her with a shelter and began to drink the eternal memory Alexei. The poet was buried at the Mitrofanev cemetery in Voronezh.

In the year, the famous Russian actor of the era of romanticism, P. Mochalov, who knew A. Koltsov, published in the journal “Repertoire and Pantheon” I came to his poems, low.