Biography of Benedict Livshitsa

At the end of your alley, compressed by rows of narrow -hearted lires and again - your watch about the sky and Vaiya and the Most Holy clergy, which betrayed a single lot and again - the gravel -boiling gravel and in the spaces of the trembling world - and you go back to the tender glory from panting lyre! Livshits's own work, however, far from the style of Khlebnikov or twisted - this is extremely saturated with the metaphor of the poem of the exquisite form that simulate the style of Mallarm; In the texts of the years, an important role is played by the image of St.

Petersburg, the cycle “Swamp Medusa”, where various architectural and natural monuments of the city on the Neva are represented in a complex historiosophical context. According to Korney Chukovsky, Livshits - “Estete and the Secret Parknatist”, “in vain raping himself” by cooperation with futurists. According to the memoirs of Anna Akhmatova, "the poet Benedict Lifshits complains that he, Blok, prevents him from writing poetry with one existence." Before the start of the war with Germany, Benedict Livshits, along with other futurists, was a bright regular in a “wandering dog”.

However, the tone in this institution was still not asked the futurists, but by acmeists and their friends. In this artistic basement, they lived “for themselves” and “for the public”, playing the role of bohemia of the imperial capital. They gathered usually after midnight, and dispersed - only in the morning.

Benedict Livshits in his memoirs left descriptions of the regulars of the “vagabond dog”: “Plucked in black silk, with a large oval of a camera near the waist, swam Akhmatova, lingering at the entrance, so that, at the insistence of Pronin, who was thrown towards her, to enter their last verses in the“ pork ”book, according to the simple -minded“ pharmacists ”built, The curiosity tickled them.

In a long frock coat and black regatta, which did not ignore a single beautiful woman, he was retreating between the tables, Gumilev, either observing the court etiquette thus, without fear of the "dagger gaze into the back." The Arabs of the cousin Andrei Bely and the relative of his bride of faith, took the middle name of Konstantinovich by birth - Nakhmanovich, returned to Kyiv.

In the summer of the year, he was mobilized into the army, fought in the GO infantry Tsaritsynsky regiment, on August 25 of the same year in one of the battles during the attack on the Vistula under the village of Lublin province, he was wounded, shell -shocked and lost in one ear. He was awarded the 4th degree by the St. George Cross for courage. Demobilized by wound.

Deep night with a wise delight oh, heavy art! This expanse is steppe, all five seas and thirty -two rivers come to me, the great jacket, and demand from Lyra: Calls! But is it possible to restructure the bowls of alien to the hearing, and is there also Russia at night, and not the spaces of boundless boards? As I am entrusted with the name but the meadow, where everything is filled with the muddy light, I.

I am already distinguished: a marvelous attachment and the first search for sound in the depths, two poles of earthly handshake, and in oblivion, almost without understanding what kind of line I rush to. From the kingdom of darkness, in the footsteps of Orpheus, I take the Russian stone. In years he lived in Kyiv, then moved to Petrograd. He worked as the head of the chancellery at the Demiyevsky shell plant, since October a member of the liquidation of the People's Commissariat of the Ukrainian SSR, the head of the worker and peasant inspection of the Kyiv province executive committee, then the translator and editor of World Literature; He also served in the Gubvoenprodsnab, performed with recitation of children's poems in matinees.

After a year of poems, he practically did not publish, although he worked on the book “Kartvelsky Odes”. The sad path is not yet finished