Biography of Surikov and Z

Father, Zakhar Andreevich, was engaged in small trade in Moscow, had a vegetable shop. The future poet from childhood was addicted to reading and books. But Ivan did not consider the service in the shop with his calling. He was destined to work as a scribe and a student in a printing house, hold a coal shop, alternately working with a hammer or a pen. Need and serious illness pursued him all his life.

In Surikov he meets the poet A. Pleshcheyev, who truly appreciated the first poetic experiments of the young poet.

With the help of Pleshcheev, Surikov begins to appear in print. His first poems were printed in the magazine "Entertainment", and the 1st collection of poems of the poet was published. His work continued and developed the traditions of the poetry of Alexei Koltsov, Ivan Nikitin. The song Russian element was revealed in his works. The dream of happiness and will in the work of Surikov is often crushed by a dreary sigh of an exhausted spirit, which broke under the weight of a person’s grief.

When is the dawn? Where is the goal of vigilant labor? It is no accident that L. Trefolev called Surikov the singer-naval, a singer with an honest, but sad burden, torn under the unbearable load of life. Despite the abyss of grief, misfortunes, suffering, which, it would seem, had to devastate, break heroes, the soul is alive and humanity is alive. Surikov found in his characters the features of a "secret man." His poems in the genre are often resembled by poetic sketches, novels, feuilletons.

Fate took Surikov from the earth and peasant labor, but in his poetry he constantly returned to the images of village nature, his native village of Novoselovo. An appeal to the memories of childhood “Here is my village, here is my home ...”, to the folk tales and epics “Sadko”, “Bogatyr wife”, “The execution of Stenka Razin”, to the joy and grace of children's games “In the Night”, “Children”, to his native landscapes brought Surikov healing.

He did not idealize the village and village life, but the images of his homeland, his native nature returned lyrical inspiration, gave a saving rest from the difficult impressions of being: there were no constant earnings. Surikov drank, suffered from depression, in moments of despair he attempted to suicide. A faithful friend and assistant in life and fate was for him his wife M. saved a passionate craving for poetic creativity.

And I am ready to sit on the shore all night, and not go home, and not go to bed at all, so that the smell of grass in a mowing meadow and this silence of healing enjoy, ”he wrote“ sleep and awakening ”. In Moscow, Surikov united a self-taught writers around him, including those who came from the province, especially from the Yaroslavl province, and organized a circle, which later received the name of the Surikovsky literary and musical circle among the members of the circle, S.

Derunov, M. Leonov, the father of the future well-known writer L. Surikov also created a draft publication of a literary and artistic journal "Zarnitsa", but did not receive permission for this publication. Despite the support of the literary fund, which gave money for treatment in Crimea, his consumption was aggravated, and Surikov died on April 24. His poems are alive in folk memory, they attract the reader with a tasteless sincere intonation, a lyrical song beginning, a connection with the tradition of Russian folk art.

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