Anatoly cross stories from life. Report: Anatoly Grigoryevich Cross-section

Cross Anatoly Grigoryevich was born on November 22, 1934 in the village of Novaya Odessa (now the city of Novaya Odessa) in the Nikolaev region of Ukraine. Father - Grigory Demyanovich, agronomist. Mother - Alexandra Mikhailovna, paramedic. Wife - Transverse Svetlana Ivanovna. Son - Sergey (born in 1958).

In 1938, the Poperechny family moved from New Odessa to Nikolaev. In August 1941, 7-year-old Anatoly, together with his mother, a medical train nurse, had to cross the country from the Dnieper to the Urals. Until now, in my memory - the crossing over the Dnieper, when the fascist "Messers" began to dive on the column of refugees and the wounded. Many years later, A. Poperechny wrote a poem about this "Forty-first Ferry", later - "Orphan", "She defends the Motherland", "Tovarnyak", "Night crossings".

The military childhood of A. Poperechny passed in the Urals. These were the hardest years for the country, and Anatoly felt it with all his heart, not protected from resentment and bitterness. It was scary to fall into the abyss of "fatherlessness", everyday life, hooliganism. But my father's letters from the front helped, books helped, my mother helped. The theme of "war", the eternal theme of "fathers and sons" many years later was reflected in the poems of A. Cross-section "Black Bread", "Vineyard", "Full Moon", "Swan Flock", "In a country that does not remember kinship" and others. And the poem "Soldier" thanks to the strong, dramatic music of the composer A. Dolukhanyan became a widely popular song.

In 1944 Anatoly and his mother returned to Nikolaev. He served as a cabin boy on the destroyer "Smart". “I cleaned the deck there, and lived in the cockpit, and they gave me a uniform! I really liked it, - Anatoly Grigorievich recalls. - But my father returned from the front and took me away - it is necessary, they say, to continue my studies. If he didn’t do this, I would go to the sea part. The maritime theme was subsequently widely reflected in the poet's work. Anatoly began to write poetry early, but he had to compose secretly: his father forbade him, who wanted to see his son as an agronomist, engineer, but not a poet in the future. After graduating from ten years, Anatoly went to work at the Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant, first as an auxiliary worker in the "hot" shop, then as an employee of the editorial office of the factory's large-circulation newspaper "Stakhanovite's Tribune". He wrote essays, including in verse, about factory workers. His poems began to appear in the local newspaper Yuzhnaya Pravda, and soon in national newspapers.

At the same time, A. Poperechny studied at the correspondence department of the philological faculty of the Nikolaev Pedagogical Institute (later he transferred to the Herzen Leningrad Pedagogical Institute). At the plant, he became close to working people, got acquainted with interesting human destinies, difficult, and sometimes tragic. All this later served as an impetus for writing poems "Three Masters", "Tsar Turner", "Hot Shop", dedicated to the workers. An important understanding of labor as the highest meaning of life appeared in his creative biography.

In 1957, A. Poperechny sent a manuscript of his poems to Moscow, to the publishing house "Soviet Writer". Unexpectedly, I received a letter of approval and two positive reviews. At that time, for an unknown author, this was unheard of. Among the reviewers who positively decided the fate of A. Poperechny's first book was A. P. Mezhirov. The first book for a poet is his poetic passport, his clergy and, at the same time, the application with which he came into the world. Such a document for A. Poperechny was the collection of poems and poems "Full Moon", published in the "Soviet Writer" in 1959 in Leningrad. The young poet was "recognized" immediately, his works began to be published in many magazines. In 1960, the second book of poems and poems, "Red Leaves", was published. As in the first, it still felt the influence of poetry E. Bagritsky, P. Vasilyeva, B. Kornilova. However, A. Poperechny did not hide his craving for apprenticeship with these great masters, different, but at the same time creating a whole trend in Russian poetry, where the brightness and colorfulness of the image, metaphor, the "twice" sense of life, being in the "beautiful, violent the world."

In 1960, A. Poperechny was accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR, where he was elected secretary of the Komsomol organization. Soon he was invited to head the department of poetry in the Moscow magazine "October", and A. Poperechny, together with his wife and son, moved to the capital. A "new" life began with "old" worries, in a painful search for "one's own" word. He traveled a lot around the country, met people of different professions, tried to comprehend the essence of the events of current life. So, once I had to go fishing in the Caspian on a par with professional fishermen, live in the very outback, face the tragic fate of the fisherwoman Mani, in order to bring and put on my desk an almost finished poem “Red Stones”. If possible, I always tried to thoroughly study the “material” or to experience the feeling, the state that I was going to describe. He visited construction sites - in Siberia, the Urals, Belarus, Ukraine, lived for a long time in Transbaikalia. There, in Transbaikalia, the book "The Core" was born. The appearance of his contemporaries, the spiritual search for an ideal formed the core of this book. Somewhat departing from the violent "herbs" of images and metaphors inherent in his early books, the poet peered more and more closely into the fate of people, his contemporaries, into the world of memory, into the world of forever gone childhood and alluring future. So the book of poems "Orbit" appeared.

Coming to poetry in the early 1960s, at the height of the so-called "pop" poetry, A. Poperechny never abandoned civil themes, he preached quiet, sincere lyrics. He entered the galaxy of such poets as R. Kazakova, V. Tsybin, N.Rubtsov, V. Gordeychev, A. Peredreev.

The poetry of A. Poperechny is a kind of confession of a contemporary about the pains and joys of the age. It combines colorfulness, linguistic coloring, breadth of transferred intonation. The heroes of his poems are people of difficult and sometimes tragic fate. In search of truth, in overcoming evil, the poet's lyrical hero sees the meaning of life. Transverse, with its inherent expression, develops the themes of love, homeland, earthly love for the surrounding world, preaches the harmony of man and nature. Loyalty to civic duty is expressed in the following verses:

I hate false words And the ashes that played into the fire! I will never lie to the earth.

The poetry of A. Poperechny, with its melodiousness, attracted the attention of songwriters. A. Dolukhanyan, having read his poem "The Soldier", decided to put it to music and asked the poet to change the title to and write the chorus. This song performed by L. Zykina gained immense popularity, spread all over the world, was recorded in many countries, including Japan, France.

A special place in the work of A. Poperechny was occupied by the song. It was the lines that became songs that brought him national fame. Songs created in collaboration with such composers as A. Dolukhanyan, N. Bogoslovsky, J. Frenkel, Y. Saulsky, D. Tukhmanov, E. Ptichkin, V. Shainsky, V. Matetsky, V. Migulya, I. Krutoy, I. Mateta, O. Ivanov, A. Morozov, V. Dobrynin, E. Stikhin, E. Khanok, E. Bednenko, V. Semyonov, E. Shchekalev, A. Zuev and others, entered the repertoire of L. Zykina, K Shulzhenko, I. Kobzon, L. Leshchenko, S. Rotaru, E. Shavrina, V. Tolkunova, V. Troshin, N. Gnatiuk, N. Chepragi, O. Voronets, L. Dolina, V. Leontiev, E. Piekha , I. Allegrova, groups "Syabry", "Pesnyary", "Verasy", VIA "Flame", M. Evdokimov, N. Babkina, M. Shufutinsky and other performers. , , "Olesya", "Wedding Horses", , "Stork on the roof" , "Why, I don't know". . "Zavalinka" has long been recognized as a pop classic. They have a lot of light, joy, tenderness, kindness, anxiety, experiences, they give innermost feelings, inspiration, memories, hope, inspire people's hearts.

According to A. Poperechny, a song is the fate of a person, and sometimes a whole generation of people. The poet believes that work in the song brings him closer to Nekrasov's understanding of poetry and nationality, its civic essence. He is convinced that "poems made by suffering, created about people and for people and set to talented music are necessary." There is something in the poetry of Anatoly Poperechny that makes the listener think and feel the song. His poetry goes back to the heights of folk art, reflecting the fate and spirit of the people and making songs and their performers popular.

The poet believed that catholicity should always be present in a song, a song should gather, unite, reconcile people. The artistic thinking of A. Poperechny is distinguished by active associativity, deep psychologism, which help him penetrate into the innermost corners of the human soul. His works are a tribute to the Fatherland, to his father's house, a "raspberry ring", floating from the fate and greatness of the Motherland. His work is a tribute to nature, love, fidelity, the village, the plowman, the blacksmith and the shipbuilder, childhood and adolescence, life in general, to which he considers himself an eternal debtor. A. Poperechny once defined the themes of his poems and songs with lines from his poem:

There is a great art in the world - To spare nothing for people.

On December 4, 2000, in the State Central Concert Hall "Russia", a jubilee evening dedicated to the 40th anniversary of creative activity by A. Poperechny "Russia, Motherland, Love" was held, at which he performed not only as a recognized people's poet of Russia, but also as a composer: at the evening, the Borodino march written to his poems and music was performed for the first time.

A. Poperechny is the author of 22 collections of poems and poems: "Full Moon" (1959), "Red Leaves" (1960), "Black Bread" (1960), "Invisible Battle" (1962), "Orbit" (1964), " Russia, Motherland, Love" (1964), "Night Trains" (1965), "The Ninth Circle" (1968), "Rage-Life" (1973), "The Core" (1975), "August Field" (1976), "The Green Gate" (1981), "The Face" (1982), "Selected Poems and Poems" (1984), "Grass at the House" (1985), "Tribute" (1987), "Night Crossings" (1988). He published several translated books (from Georgian, Armenian, Bashkir, Jewish), as well as a collection of stories for children "Zuydvestka". Wrote a number of plays and screenplays. The poet is the author of the drama "Fiery Legend" (together with L. Mitrofanov). In 1968, A. Poperechny and I. Glazunov's book "Russia, Homeland, Love" was published, which was conceived as a lyric-epic composition in paintings and poetry. This publication is the result of the creative collaboration of the poet and the artist, who each in their own way reproduce the stages of the historical fate of Russia. A. Poperechny is the author of a large number of publications and critical articles in periodicals.

Anatoly Grigorievich was fond of fiction, he especially singled out N. V. Gogol, T. G. Shevchenko and V. M. Shukshin. He liked to spend his free time in nature.

TRANSVERSE, Anatoly Grigorievich (b. 22.XI.1934, New Odessa, Nikolaev region of the Ukrainian SSR) - Russian Soviet poet. He studied at the Nikolaev Pedagogical Institute. The poems of Poperechny, especially the poem "Full Moon", which gave the name to the first collection (1959), are characterized by romantic aspiration, juiciness of the language. Author of the collections "Black Bread" (1961), "Orbit" (1964) and others, in which a significant place is occupied by historical subjects. Cross gravitates toward the genres of ballads, romantic poems (The Ninth Circle. Poems, ballads, poems, 1968). Some of Poperechny's poems have been criticized for language "liberties".

Op.: Russia. Motherland. Lyubov, M., 1968 (with I. Glazunov).

Lit .: Denisova I., From the “full moon” to the “solstice”, “Mol. guard”, 1960, No. 6; Chukhontsev O., "This is us!", "Youth", 1962, No. 10; Glezer A., Sources of Imagery, Znamya, 1964, No. 3; Toporov A., Fedik M., ... and visible even for the blind!, Novy Mir, 1965, No. 10.

L. V. Shereshevsky

Brief literary encyclopedia: In 9 volumes - Vol. 1. - M .: Soviet encyclopedia, 1962

Born on November 22, 1934 in the village of Novaya Odessa (now - the city of Novaya Odessa) of the Nikolaev region of Ukraine. Father - Grigory Demyanovich, agronomist. Mother - Alexandra Mikhailovna, paramedic. Wife - Transverse Svetlana Ivanovna. Son - Sergey (born in 1958).

In 1938, the Poperechny family moved from New Odessa to Nikolaev. In August 1941, 7-year-old Anatoly, together with his mother, a medical train nurse, had to cross the country from the Dnieper to the Urals. Until now, in my memory - the crossing over the Dnieper, when the fascist "Messers" began to dive on the column of refugees and the wounded. Many years later, A. Poperechny wrote a poem about this "Ferry of the forty-first year", later - "Orphan", "She defends the Motherland", "Tovarnyak", "Night crossings".

The military childhood of A. Poperechny passed in the Urals. These were the hardest years for the country, and Anatoly felt it with all his heart, not protected from resentment and bitterness. It was scary to fall into the abyss of "fatherlessness", everyday life, hooliganism. But my father's letters from the front helped, books helped, my mother helped. The theme of "war", the eternal theme of "fathers and sons" many years later was reflected in the poems of A. Cross . And the poem "Soldier" thanks to the strong, dramatic music of the composer A. Dolukhanyan became a widely popular song "Ryazan Madonnas".

In 1944 Anatoly and his mother returned to Nikolaev. He served as a cabin boy on the destroyer "Smart". “I scrubbed the deck there, and lived in the cockpit, and they gave me a uniform! I really liked it,” Anatoly Grigoryevich recalls. “But my father returned from the front and took me away, I must, they say, continue my studies. I'm in the Marine Corps." The maritime theme was subsequently widely reflected in the poet's work. Anatoly began to write poetry early, but he had to compose secretly: his father forbade him, who wanted to see his son as an agronomist, engineer, but not a poet in the future. After graduating from ten years, Anatoly went to work at the Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant, first as an auxiliary worker in the "hot" shop, then as an employee of the editorial office of the factory's large-circulation newspaper "Stakhanovite's Tribune". He wrote essays, including in verse, about factory workers. His poems began to appear in the local newspaper Yuzhnaya Pravda, and soon in national newspapers.

At the same time, A. Poperechny studied at the correspondence department of the philological faculty of the Nikolaev Pedagogical Institute (later he transferred to the Herzen Leningrad Pedagogical Institute). At the plant, he became close to working people, got acquainted with interesting human destinies, difficult, and sometimes tragic. All this later served as an impetus for writing the poems "Three Masters", "Tsar Turner", "Hot Shop", dedicated to the workers. An important understanding of labor as the highest meaning of life appeared in his creative biography.

In 1957, A. Poperechny sent a manuscript of his poems to Moscow, to the publishing house "Soviet Writer". Unexpectedly, I received a letter of approval and two positive reviews. At that time, for an unknown author, this was unheard of. Among the reviewers who positively decided the fate of A. Poperechny's first book was A.P. Mezhirov. The first book for a poet is his poetic passport, his clergy and, at the same time, the application with which he came into the world. Such a document for A. Poperechny was the collection of poems and poems "Full Moon", published in the "Soviet Writer" in 1959 in Leningrad. The young poet was "recognised" immediately, his works began to be published in many magazines. In 1960, the second book of poems and poems - "Red Leaves" was published. As in the first, it still felt the influence of the poetry of E. Bagritsky, P. Vasiliev, B. Kornilov. However, A. Poperechny did not hide his craving for apprenticeship with these great masters, different, but at the same time creating a whole trend in Russian poetry, where the brightness and colorfulness of the image, metaphor, "ten times" sense of life, being in "beautiful, furious" were always appreciated. the world."

In 1960, A. Poperechny was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR, where he was elected secretary of the Komsomol organization. Soon he was invited to head the department of poetry in the Moscow magazine "October", and A. Poperechny, together with his wife and son, moved to the capital. A "new" life began with "old" worries, in an agonizing search for "one's own" word. He traveled a lot around the country, met people of different professions, tried to comprehend the essence of the events of current life. So, once I had to go fishing in the Caspian along with professional fishermen, live in the very outback, face the tragic fate of the fisherwoman Mani, in order to bring and put on my desk an almost finished poem "Red Stones". If possible, I always tried to thoroughly study the "material" or to experience the feeling, the state that I was going to describe. He visited construction sites - in Siberia, the Urals, Belarus, Ukraine, lived for a long time in Transbaikalia. There, in Transbaikalia, the book "The Core" was born. The appearance of his contemporaries, the spiritual search for an ideal formed the core of this book. Somewhat departing from the violent "herbs" of images and metaphors inherent in his early books, the poet peered more and more closely into the fate of people, his contemporaries, into the world of memory, into the world of forever gone childhood and alluring future. So the book of poems "Orbit" appeared.

Coming to poetry in the early 1960s, at the height of the so-called "pop" poetry, A. Poperechny never abandoned civil themes, he preached quiet, soulful lyrics. He entered the galaxy of such poets as R. Kazakova, V. Tsybin, N. Rubtsov, V. Gordeychev, A. Peredreev.

I hate lying words

And played ashes in the fire!

I will never lie to the earth.

The poetry of A. Poperechny, with its melodiousness, attracted the attention of songwriters. A. Dolukhanyan, having read his poem "The Soldier", decided to put it to music and asked the poet to change the title to "Ryazan Madonnas" and write the chorus. This song performed by L. Zykina gained immense popularity, spread all over the world, was recorded in many countries, including Japan, France.

A special place in the work of A. Poperechny is occupied by the song. It was the lines that became songs that brought him national fame. Songs created in collaboration with such composers as A. Dolukhanyan, N. Bogoslovsky, J. Frenkel, Y. Saulsky, D. Tukhmanov, E. Ptichkin, V. Shainsky, V. Matetsky, V. Migulya, I. Krutoy, I. Mateta, O. Ivanov, A. Morozov, V. Dobrynin, E. Stikhin, E. Hanok, E. Bednenko, V. Semenov, E. Shchekalev, A. Zuev and others, entered the repertoire of L. Zykina, K Shulzhenko, I. Kobzon, L. Leshchenko, S. Rotaru, E. Shavrina, V. Tolkunova, V. Troshin, N. Gnatiuk, N. Chepragi, O. Voronets, L. Dolina, V. Leontiev, E. Piekha , I. Allegrova, groups "Syabry", "Pesnyary", "Verasy", VIA "Flame", M. Evdokimov, N. Babkina, M. Shufutinsky and other performers. Nightingale Grove, Crimson Ringing, Olesya, Wedding Horses, Robin, Stork on the Roof, Why, I Don't Know, Grass by the House, Zavalinka have long been recognized as pop classics. They have a lot of light, joy, tenderness, kindness, anxiety, experiences, they give innermost feelings, inspiration, memories, hope, inspire people's hearts.

The poet believes that catholicity must always be present in a song, a song must gather, unite, reconcile people. The artistic thinking of A. Poperechny is distinguished by active associativity, deep psychologism, which help him penetrate into the innermost corners of the human soul. His works are a tribute to the Fatherland, to his father's house, "crimson ringing", floating from the fate and greatness of the Motherland. His work is a tribute to nature, love, fidelity, the village, the plowman, the blacksmith and the shipbuilder, childhood and adolescence, life in general, to which he considers himself an eternal debtor. A. Poperechny once defined the themes of his poems and songs with lines from his poem:

There is a big thing in the world

Art -

Nothing to regret for people.

December 4, 2000 in the State Central Concert Hall "Russia" was held a jubilee evening dedicated to the 40th anniversary of creative activity of A. Poperechny "Russia, Motherland, Love", where he performed not only as a recognized people's poet of Russia, but also as a composer: at the evening, the Borodino march written to his poems and music was performed for the first time.

A. Poperechny is the author of 22 collections of poems and poems: "Full Moon" (1959), "Red Leaves" (1960), "Black Bread" (1960), "Invisible Battle" (1962), "Orbit" (1964), " Russia, Motherland, Love" (1964), "Night Trains" (1965), "Ninth Circle" (1968), "Fury Life" (1973), "Core" (1975), "August Field" (1976), "Green Gate" (1981), "Lik" (1982), "Selected Poems and Poems" (1984), "Grass at the House" (1985), "Tribute" (1987), "Night Crossings" (1988). He published several translated books (from Georgian, Armenian, Bashkir, Jewish), as well as a collection of stories for children "Zuydvestka". Wrote a number of plays and screenplays. The poet is the author of the drama "Fiery Legend" (together with L. Mitrofanov). In 1968, A. Poperechny and I. Glazunov's book "Russia, Motherland, Love" was published, which was conceived as a lyric-epic composition in paintings and poetry. This publication is the result of the creative collaboration of the poet and the artist, who each in their own way reproduce the stages of the historical fate of Russia. A. Poperechny is the author of a large number of publications and critical articles in periodicals.

Anatoly Grigorievich is fond of fiction, especially N.V. Gogol, T.G. Shevchenko and V.M. Shukshin. He likes to spend his free time in nature.

In the Nikolaev region in November 1934, the popular poet Anatoly Poperechny was born, a Soviet and Russian songwriter, the author of texts that the people immediately sang and sing to this day.

Childhood and youth

The first four years the poet spent on the picturesque coast of the Southern Bug in the regional center of the Nikolaev region called New Odessa, and in 1938 the family moved to Nikolaev. During the war, they had to be evacuated, and the future poet Anatoly Poperechny, with all sorts of worries and dangers, traveled all the way to the Urals, where he lived until the liberation of his native places. They returned to the land devastated by the war in 1944, where they had to restore and equip everything anew. In the same place, in Nikolaev, Anatoly Poperechny graduated from the ten-year period and got a job at the Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant.

However, he did not leave his studies. Despite production difficulties (he worked in a hot shop), beautiful verses were written, and the poet was willingly accepted to the Nikolaev Pedagogical Institute for philology. True, I had to study in absentia and with many interruptions. At the shipyard for many decades there was a literary association "Stapel", which Anatoly Poperechny visited with great pleasure: there he was understood and appreciated his work.

First publications

"Stakhanovite's Tribune" - that was the name of the large-circulation newspaper of the shipyard, where Anatoly's first publications appeared. Factory everyday life surprisingly tuned in to activity, the poet managed to do a lot: he wrote poetry, prepared tests for the institute, gradually learned to write small notes and extensive essays about his comrades in the hot shop. And he did it so well that an offer of cooperation was received from the editorial authorities.

Almost immediately, poems by Anatoly Poperechny began to appear in the newspaper, which were read with pleasure not only by the workers of the native enterprise, but also by completely strangers. The regional newspaper Yuzhnaya Pravda drew attention to this fact and also published Anatoly's poems from time to time. After a short time, even the central newspapers several times honored the work of the young poet with their publication.

Books

The debut turned out to be successful. Literally a year later, the collection "Red Leaves" was released. And after the publication of the second book, writers and poets could already enter into a high professional union, and Anatoly Grigoryevich Poperechny was given the necessary recommendations. In 1960, he was not only admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR, but also invited to work in the October magazine as the head of the poetry department. Thus, the whole family had to move to Moscow, where he found his real nationwide fame.

Milestones

The rest of his life was spent in the capital, although the work of Anatoly Poperechny trumpeted completely different realities and forced him to spend most of his time traveling and in nature. From childhood he loved to read, the authors of his desktop books were Shevchenko and Gogol, and in the seventies, Vasily Makarovich Shukshin forced almost all the authors to make room on his writer's desk, whose books became not just desktop. Anatoly Poperechny knew the work of his beloved writer better than his own texts. His biography was built on the unshakable principles of goodness and truth.

How could they dream of such a future for the son of the wife of the Cross - a simple agronomist Grigory Demyanovich and paramedic Alexandra Mikhailovna? What kind of nightingale did their Anatoly grow up to be, if one after another his poems are set to music, and then immediately begin to sound from every window, at every feast? The family of Anatoly Poperechny knew by heart every poem, every poem from all twenty-two of his collections. All his life his wife supported the work of the poet, his muse - Svetlana Ivanovna. And his son Sergei, who was born in 1958, helped to go through the difficult path to fame, when there was no fame yet and nothing, it would seem, foreshadowed it.

Creation

Is there a person in the country who would not sing at least occasionally the song "Stork on the Roof"? And the song "Grass by the House" has been sung by all generations since 1985, and will be sung in all future times. Such songs, which have become popular, can be listed and listed, there are dozens of them that instantly became popular and did not lose this hypostasis with all the changes in the country that affected both the way of life and moral principles, and even with the change of social and political system.

The collections of Anatoly Poperechny can be re-read at all times, they will never lose their relevance, since the external manifestations of life concern them little. This is deep, painfully familiar to everyone. This is "Black Bread" and "Invisible Fight" from the sixties, this is the earth and space - "Orbit", "Grass near the House", this is the eternal "Raspberry Ringing", which does not subside in the soul of every Russian, and not just Soviet people. Songs to poems by Anatoly Poperechny will always sound.

May 2014

Not everyone remembers the names of songwriters. But the songs that were once performed by Lev Leshchenko, the Zemlyane group, Alexander Malinin, Nadezhda Babkina, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Philip Kirkorov, Sofia Rotaru, Iosif Kobzon, Lyudmila Zykina and many other stars of previous years, were picked up by new performers. That is why the voice of the robin will sound, and the next astronauts will dream of the grass near the house, and they will sing about Olesya from Polissya at a family holiday in the twenty-second century, and the song "Stork on the Roof" will not be forgotten. These are truly timeless hits.

And in May 2014, Anatoly Poperechny passed away. The cause of death is a common cause of death today - heart failure. This is a real grief for all people who are in love with the song. The poet was ill for a long time, he had a heart attack, which is also not uncommon at the age of eighty. Life in the end did not spoil him at all, despite the huge number of constantly sounding hits. And he wrote poetry literally until his last minute. It turned out that there was no money even to adequately bury the poet in the Moscow cemetery. Svetlana Ivanovna had to sell the apartment.

Memories

Anatoly Poperechny was a good man, judging by the words of people who worked with him a lot. The only objection that was heard from him was that Anatoly did not consider himself a cohort of songwriters. He claimed that the title of "just a poet" was enough for him. And indeed, you need to be a truly brave poet to use the phrase "glorious bird" (everyone's favorite song "Nightingale Grove"). Almost Mayakovsky.

His wife Svetlana Ivanovna, who was the only muse that she managed to "tame" ten long years after the first meeting, says that her husband never wrote poems about love. Apparently, that is why the whole nation has been singing songs to the words of Anatoly Poperechny for many decades. This topic is close to everyone, but not everyone will be able to reveal it so clearly and so laconic.

Poet about his life

The poet rarely gave extensive interviews throughout his life. And now they are few and therefore invaluable testimonies. The path of life is exactly what leads the poet to an understanding of poetry, to figurative thinking, to the essence of poetic creativity.

The father's chorus speaks most of all about the family: "You are an agronomist, an agronomist, black soil under your nails ..." My father was simple in understanding life, pure in thoughts. He did not encourage his son's passion for poetry, he saw him only with a real craft in his hands. The theme of fathers and children, associated with the war, was raised many times by the poet: "The Swan Flock", "Full Moon", "Vineyard", "Black Bread" - poems remarkable for their depth.

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If it were not for the exceptional popularity of song lyrics, Anatoly Poperechny would still stand on a par with prominent Russian poets - Kazakova, Tsybin, Rubtsov, Gordeychev, Peredreev. Let them not sing about what difficult, sometimes tragic fates of the working people are displayed in the poems "Hot Shop", "Tsar Turner", "Three Masters", where labor is the highest meaning of human life. These are real poems.

Mother was a nurse during the war and accompanied an ambulance train from Ukraine to the Urals. Naturally, the little son saw and felt all the hardships that the people suffered during the war. When crossing the Dnieper, they had to endure a raid by fascist "Messers" on the columns of the wounded and refugees. Then, after many years, it was from these experiences that the poems "Ferry of 41 Years", "Tovarnyak", "Orphan", "Night Crossings" were born.

"Ryazan Madonnas"

The poem "Soldier" turned out to be so penetrating, permeated with such genuine, real, high pathos, that they were read to them even before the song that the whole world fell in love with appeared. The name of the song is different - "Ryazan Madonnas", according to the line inside the poem. The wonderful composer Alexander Dolukhanyan insisted on this change, who wrote music really in tune with poetic lines.

The song instantly became a hit, it was recorded in Japan and France, and the voice of Lyudmila Zykina sounded all over the world. This song is for all time, as it is recognized as a pop classic, like many other songs based on verses by Anatoly Poperechny. Light, joy, tenderness, kindness, anxiety, experiences do not dry out in them, which give people inspiration and innermost feelings, memories and hope, inspire hearts.

co-creation

Such demanding composers as Bogoslovsky, Dolukhanyan, Tukhmanov worked a lot with Anatoly Poperechny. Among the musicians, such recognized professionals as "Pesnyary", "Flame", "Earthlings", "Verasy" and many, many other excellent masters performed songs based on the verses of this poet. Dolina and Leontiev, Shavrina and Gnatyuk, Piekha and Allegrova - it is even impossible to list all those who helped raise these songs to the top of popularity.

Dobrynin and Shainsky, Migulya and Krutoy, Morozov and Ivanov were inspired by the poems of Anatoly Poperechny. And all because, despite the simplicity of verbal images, the texts turned out to be very deep, leaving a long "aftertaste" in the form of memories. Songs one after another became legends: "The Soul Hurts", "Stork on the Roof", "Heavenly Forces", "White Lilac" ... The author simply loved life very much and did not get tired of being surprised and rejoicing at all its good manifestations.

About the poetic world

Even according to hits known throughout the country, one can conclude that the poetic world of Anatoly Poperechny is wide and diverse. Everything is already here: the search for the meaning of life, and the Motherland, and love for it, and the desire from its historical roots to achieve the real purpose of the poet through his own, hard-won word. Reality is always reflected in the works of Poperechny artistically, vividly lyrically, vividly figuratively and aphoristically.

The poet gave more than twenty poems and poems to the memory of the Great Patriotic War. It is amazing how a seven-year-old child managed to keep all these small, intimate, precious details that fill his poems with a terrifying reality until the very incarnation. However, there is no hopelessness there either. There is a flavor of the native land, painfully suffering, but always victorious, lets you know with every letter.

Your word

But this "own word" had to be sought in the same way as every poet does - relentlessly and painfully. Anatoly Poperechny spent his whole life looking for these, traveled almost the entire country, where he talked with completely different people. He fished in the Caspian Sea (where the most penetrating poem "Red Stones" was brought from), was in Siberia, often visited Ukraine for a long time - after all, his homeland was in Belarus, and he even settled in Transbaikalia, since it was there that the book was supposed to be born and was born " Core".

All the joy and all the pain of the past century are reflected in the poetry of Anatoly Poperechny. Reading it is not boring: the language is colorful, with its characteristic Little Russian flavor, the intonation is wide, entailing. The heroes of his poems quite often have a tragic fate, but evil is always overcome, because the theme of love never ceases to sound - for people, for the Motherland, for the world that is about to arise. There is harmony in Poperechny's poems, in them nature and man are one.

Melodika

It is not for nothing that the song is called the fate of a generation of people. Some songs survive their generation. The transverse melody of the verse is such that one can count several dozens of "long-lived" songs. Some critics talk about the approach of these texts to folk art, where there is a kind of catholicity - uniting, gathering, reconciling a variety of people.

Others talk about deep psychologism, which helps to penetrate into the innermost corners of the soul, about associativity. After all, what is "crimson ringing" for a Russian person? First of all, it is a symbol. Therefore, all the work of the poet is a bow to his native nature, this is the giving of his own loyalty and understanding to any plowman, shipbuilder, blacksmith, this is love for life in all its manifestations.

Born on November 22, 1934 in the village (now the city) of Novaya Odessa, Mykolaiv region (Ukraine). Father - Grigory Demyanovich, agronomist. Mother - Alexandra Mikhailovna, paramedic. Wife - Transverse Svetlana Ivanovna. Son - Sergey (born in 1958).

In 1938, the Poperechny family moved to Nikolaev. In August 1941, 7-year-old Anatoly, together with his mother, a medical train nurse, had to cross the country from the Dnieper to the Urals. Until now, in my memory - the crossing over the Dnieper, when the fascist "Messers" began to dive on the column of refugees and the wounded. Many years later, A. Poperechny wrote a poem about this "Ferry of the forty-first year", later - "Orphan", "She defends the Motherland", "Tovarnyak", "Night crossings".

The military childhood of A. Poperechny passed in the Urals. These were the hardest years for the country, and Anatoly felt it with all his heart, not protected from resentment and bitterness. It was scary to fall into the abyss of "fatherlessness", everyday life, hooliganism. But my father's letters from the front helped, books helped, my mother helped. The theme of "war", the eternal theme of "fathers and sons", many years later was reflected in the poems of A. Poperechny "Black bread", "Vineyard", "Full moon", "Swan flock", "In a country that does not remember kinship" and others. And the poem "Soldier" thanks to the strong, dramatic music of the composer A. Dolukhanyan became a widely popular song "Ryazan Madonnas".

In 1944 Anatoly and his mother returned to Nikolaev. He served as a cabin boy on the destroyer "Smart". "I scrubbed the deck there, and lived in the cockpit, and the uniform

I was given! I really liked it, - Anatoly Grigorievich recalls. - But my father returned from the front and took me away - it is necessary, they say, to continue my studies. If he had not done this, I would have gone along the sea side. "The marine theme was subsequently widely reflected in the poet's work. Anatoly began to write poetry early, but he had to compose secretly: his father forbade him, who wanted to see his son as an agronomist, engineer in the future, but only not poet. After graduating from ten years, Anatoly went to work at the Black Sea Shipbuilding Plant, first as an auxiliary worker in the "hot" shop, then as an employee of the editorial office of the factory large-circulation newspaper "Stakhanovite's Tribune". He wrote essays, including in verse, about the workers of the plant. His poems began to appear in the local newspaper Yuzhnaya Pravda, and soon in national newspapers.

At the same time, A. Poperechny studied at the correspondence department of the philological faculty of the Nikolaev Pedagogical Institute (later he transferred to the Herzen Leningrad Pedagogical Institute). At the plant, he became close to working people, got acquainted with interesting human destinies, difficult, and sometimes tragic. All this later served as an impetus for writing the poems "Three Masters", "Tsar Turner", "Hot Shop", dedicated to the workers. An important understanding of labor as the highest meaning of life appeared in his creative biography.

The document for A. Poperechny was the collection of poems and poems "Full Moon", published in the "Soviet Writer" in 1959 in Leningrad. The young poet was immediately recognized, his works began to be published in many magazines. In 1960, the second book of poems and poems - "Red Leaves" was published. As in the first, it still felt the influence of the poetry of E. Bagritsky, P. Vasiliev, B. Kornilov. However, A. Poperechny did not hide his craving for apprenticeship with these great masters, different, but at the same time creating a whole trend in Russian poetry, where the brightness and colorfulness of the image, metaphor, "ten times" sense of life, being in "beautiful, furious" were always appreciated. the world."

In 1960, A. Poperechny was accepted into the Writers' Union of the USSR. Soon he was invited to head the department of poetry in the Moscow magazine "October", and A. Poperechny, together with his wife and son, moved to the capital. A "new" life began with "old" worries, in an agonizing search for "one's own" word. He traveled a lot around the country, met people of different professions, tried to comprehend the essence of the events of current life. So, once I had to go fishing in the Caspian along with professional fishermen, live in the very outback, face the tragic fate of the fisherwoman Mani, in order to bring and put on my desk an almost finished poem "Red Stones". If possible, I always tried to thoroughly study the "material" or to experience the feeling, the state that I was going to describe. He visited construction sites - in Siberia, the Urals, Belarus, Ukraine, lived for a long time in Transbaikalia. There, in Transbaikalia, the book "The Core" was born. The appearance of his contemporaries, the spiritual search for an ideal formed the core of this book. Somewhat departing from the violent "herbs" of images and metaphors inherent in his early books, the poet peered more and more closely into the fate of people, his contemporaries, into the world of memory, into the world of forever gone childhood and alluring future. So the book of poems "Orbit" appeared.

The poetry of A. Poperechny is a kind of confession of a contemporary about the pains and joys of the century. It combines brilliance, language coloring. The heroes of his poems are people of difficult and sometimes tragic fate. In search of truth, in overcoming evil, the poet's lyrical hero sees the meaning of life. Transverse, with its characteristic expression, develops the themes of love, Motherland, earthly love for the surrounding world, preaches the harmony of man and nature. Loyalty to civic duty is expressed in the following verses:

The poetry of A. Poperechny, with its melodiousness, attracted the attention of songwriters. A. Dolukhanyan, having read his poem "The Soldier", decided to put it to music and asked the poet to change the title to "Ryazan Madonnas" and write the chorus. This song performed by L. Zykina gained immense popularity, spread all over the world, was recorded in many countries, including Japan, France.

Brothers Radchenko House overlooking the garden

The poet believes that catholicity should always be present in a song: a song should gather, unite, reconcile people. The artistic thinking of A. Poperechny is distinguished by active associativity, deep psychologism, which help him penetrate into the innermost corners of the human soul. His works are a tribute to the Fatherland, to his father's house, "crimson ringing", floating from the fate and greatness of the Motherland. His

Creativity is a tribute to nature, love, fidelity, the village, the plowman, the blacksmith and the shipbuilder, childhood and adolescence, life in general, to which he considers himself an eternal debtor. A. Poperechny once defined the themes of his poems and songs with lines from his poem:

There is a big thing in the world
Art -
Nothing to regret for people.

The poet's creative evenings were repeatedly held at the Central House of Writers: in 2004, a jubilee evening dedicated to the poet's 70th birthday was held, and in 2005, a creative evening "Spareing Nothing for People".

In 2005, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, an album of songs about the war "Spring Whitewash" was released, dedicated to the memory of great-grandfathers, grandfathers and fathers who defended us and the Fatherland. The album includes 15 songs on the poems of the poet, which were performed by Soviet and Russian pop stars K. Shulzhenko, E. Khil, L. Zykina, I. Kobzon, brothers Radchenko, L. Senchin, M. Rasputina, N. Gnatyuk, A. Buldakov , Y. Evdokimov, Bulgarian singer B. Kirov, Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble.

Anatoly Grigoryevich dedicated the song "Prokhorovskoye Field", performed by Y. Evdokimov, to his father, who participated in the famous battle of Prokhorovka. Together with the composer Alexander Morozov, the poet traveled with concerts to the cities in the Prokhorovka region. The funds received from these concerts were invested in the construction of a memorial-chapel in Prokhorovka in memory of those who died in that terrible battle.

He published several translated books (from Georgian, Armenian, Bashkir, Jewish), as well as a collection of stories for children "Zuydvestka". Wrote a number of plays and screenplays. The poet is the author of the drama "Fiery Legend" (together with L. Mitrofanov). In 1968, A. Poperechny and I. Glazunov's book "Russia, Homeland, Love" was published, which was conceived as a lyric-epic composition in paintings and poetry. This publication is the result of the creative collaboration of the poet and the artist, who each in their own way reproduce the stages of the historical fate of Russia. A. Poperechny is the author of a large number of publications and critical articles in periodicals.

The poet is working on a poem-parable "Lamentation for the Slain". It is dedicated to the outstanding, talented people who died in the difficult years of the war and repressions - both those who are remembered and those who are undeservedly forgotten. A book-essay "Short Meetings, Long Memories" about meetings with interesting people, such as Vasily Shukshin, Boris Andreev, Mikhail Svetlov, Yuri Gagarin, Evgeny Matveev, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, and many others, is being prepared for publication.

A. G. Poperechny - Academician of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement Problems. He was awarded the Order of Peter the Great (2004), established by this academy.

The main hobby of Anatoly Grigorievich is fiction, he especially singles out N. V. Gogol, T. G. Shevchenko and V. M. Shukshin. He tries to spend his free time in nature.

In 1938, the Poperechny family moved from New Odessa to Nikolaev. In August 1941, 7-year-old Anatoly, together with his mother, a medical train nurse, had to cross the country from the Dnieper to the Urals. Until now, in my memory - the crossing over the Dnieper, when the fascist "Messers" began to dive on the column of refugees and the wounded. Many years later, A. Poperechny wrote a poem about this "Ferry of the forty-first year", later - "Orphan", "She defends the Motherland", "Tovarnyak", "Night crossings".

The military childhood of A. Poperechny passed in the Urals. These were the hardest years for the country, and Anatoly felt it with all his heart, not protected from resentment and bitterness. It was scary to fall into the abyss of "fatherlessness", everyday life, hooliganism. But my father's letters from the front helped, books helped, my mother helped. The theme of "war", the eternal theme of "fathers and sons" many years later was reflected in the poems of A. Cross . And the poem "Soldier" thanks to the strong, dramatic music of the composer A. Dolukhanyan became a widely popular song "Ryazan Madonnas".

At the same time, A. Poperechny studied at the correspondence department of the philological faculty of the Nikolaev Pedagogical Institute (later he transferred to the Herzen Leningrad Pedagogical Institute). At the plant, he became close to working people, got acquainted with interesting human destinies, difficult, and sometimes tragic. All this later served as an impetus for writing the poems "Three Masters", "Tsar Turner", "Hot Shop", dedicated to the workers. An important understanding of labor as the highest meaning of life appeared in his creative biography.

In 1957, A. Poperechny sent a manuscript of his poems to Moscow, to the publishing house "Soviet Writer". Unexpectedly, I received a letter of approval and two positive reviews. At that time, for an unknown author, this was unheard of. Among the reviewers who positively decided the fate of A. Poperechny's first book was A.P. Mezhirov. The first book for a poet is his poetic passport, his clergy and, at the same time, the application with which he came into the world. Such a document for A. Poperechny was the collection of poems and poems "Full Moon", published in the "Soviet Writer" in 1959 in Leningrad. The young poet was "recognised" immediately, his works began to be published in many magazines. In 1960, the second book of poems and poems - "Red Leaves" was published. As in the first, it still felt the influence of the poetry of E. Bagritsky, P. Vasiliev, B. Kornilov. However, A. Poperechny did not hide his craving for apprenticeship with these great masters, different, but at the same time creating a whole trend in Russian poetry, where the brightness and colorfulness of the image, metaphor, "ten times" sense of life, being in "beautiful, furious" were always appreciated. the world."

Best of the day

I hate lying words

And played ashes in the fire!

I will never lie to the earth.

The poetry of A. Poperechny, with its melodiousness, attracted the attention of songwriters. A. Dolukhanyan, having read his poem "The Soldier", decided to put it to music and asked the poet to change the title to "Ryazan Madonnas" and write the chorus. This song performed by L. Zykina gained immense popularity, spread all over the world, was recorded in many countries, including Japan, France.

There is a big thing in the world

Art -

Nothing to regret for people.

A. Poperechny is the author of 22 collections of poems and poems: "Full Moon" (1959), "Red Leaves" (1960), "Black Bread" (1960), "Invisible Battle" (1962), "Orbit" (1964), " Russia, Motherland, Love" (1964), "Night Trains" (1965), "Ninth Circle" (1968), "Fury Life" (1973), "Core" (1975), "August Field" (1976), "Green Gate" (1981), "Lik" (1982), "Selected Poems and Poems" (1984), "Grass at the House" (1985), "Tribute" (1987), "Night Crossings" (1988). He published several translated books (from Georgian, Armenian, Bashkir, Jewish), as well as a collection of stories for children "Zuydvestka". Wrote a number of plays and screenplays. The poet is the author of the drama "Fiery Legend" (together with L. Mitrofanov). In 1968, A. Poperechny and I. Glazunov's book "Russia, Motherland, Love" was published, which was conceived as a lyric-epic composition in paintings and poetry. This publication is the result of the creative collaboration of the poet and the artist, who each in their own way reproduce the stages of the historical fate of Russia. A. Poperechny is the author of a large number of publications and critical articles in periodicals.

Anatoly Grigorievich is fond of fiction, especially N.V. Gogol, T.G. Shevchenko and V.M. Shukshin. He likes to spend his free time in nature.

Lives and works in Moscow.