Brief biography of Sergey Gorodetsky

Among the literature of the "Silver Age" his work was able to take a special place. Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky was born on January 5 17 in St. Petersburg, in the family of the ethnographer writer Mitrofan Ivanovich Gorodetsky. The poet’s parents, having noble roots, highly appreciated morality, culture and education, trying to instill these qualities from the earliest years. Since childhood, the future poet absorbed the spirit of the best traditions of the Russian intelligentsia.

Parents tirelessly engaged in his training, so the boy went to the St. Petersburg gymnasium with a good baggage of knowledge and was there in a good account. In the sixth grade, due to material difficulties in his family, the young man began to earn extra money, giving private lessons. In the early xs, Gorodetsky entered the historical and philological faculty of St.

Petersburg University, starting his studies simultaneously with Alexander Blok. In addition, the first literary experiments of Gorodetsky include. A few years later, poetic collections “Yar”, “Perun”, “Wild will” were published. In the poetry of the years, folklore motifs are clearly traced. After a year, moving away from the Symbolists, Sergey Gorodetsky, together with Nikolai Gumilev, create a workshop of poets.

Among the "new peasant poets" who received their support, was Sergey Yesenin, Nikolai Klyuyev and other writers. During the First World War, the poet went to the Caucasian Front as a representative of the Union of Cities, and also worked as a military correspondent. In addition, Gorodetsky worked in a camp for patients with a rash typhus, performing the duties of a orderly.

After the October Revolution of the year, the poetic collection “Angel of Armenia” was released, dedicated to the theme of the genocide of the Armenian population. Starting from the year, the poet lived in Moscow, continuing to work a lot and fruitfully. Gorodetsky’s verses were actively published, as well as the poetry of Soviet and foreign authors translated by him. Gorodetsky combined creative activities with editing the magazine "Art of the Workers." Until a year, he was supplied at the Moscow Theater of Revolution, and then worked in the newspaper Izvestia.

In years, the poet devoted a lot of time to the opera libretto. At that time, writers could make it good and relatively safe to earn. In addition to the translated foundations to the parties of Ludwig Van Beethoven and Richard Wagner, Sergey Gorodetsky created a libretto to one of the first Soviet operas - the “breakthrough” of the composer Sergei Pototsky dedicated to the Civil War.

The poet spent the years of World War II in evacuation in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, where he translated the verses of local poets into Russian. In the year, Sergey Gorodetsky published an autobiographical essay “My Way”. The writer's wife was the actress and poetess Anna Alekseevna Kozelskaya.

As Alexander Blok wrote, she was distinguished by extraordinary beauty. The daughter Gorodetsky was called Rognede. Persons of the day of March 17: r.