Koktebel biography

He wanders in a grind, the Russian creepy hops shakes the peoples. Under the White Guards, Voloshin hid in his house the Bolsheviks-undergrounds. He helped the liberation of the poet of the poet Osip Mandelstam and saved General P. Marx, who switched to the side of the rebellious people. Not without pride, he writes Bunin in the year: “I live here with the reputation of the Bolshevik, and look at my poems as Bolshevik.” In the post -revolutionary years, Voloshin takes an active part in the formation of young Soviet culture.

He gives a course of lectures at the People's University in Feodosia, helps to organize an art studio in the city. Together with the sculptor, Snnytkin sets the statue of Marxism. With the mandate of the authorized Revolutionary Committee for the protection of monuments of history and culture, he went around the entire Theodosian district. In the fall of the year, Voloshin on foot got from Koktebel to Simferopol to transfer to the Crimean Committee for the Protection of Monuments of antiquity and arts of Krymochris a list of monuments of Eastern Crimea, and immediately proposed a number of measures to save them.

And a year later, participates in the creation of the museum in Sudak. And yet. In the difficult years, Maximilian Aleksandrovich, to the best of his strength, tried to support the people needed by the republic. He invites artists, writers, poets to spend the summer in Koktebel and work in a calm atmosphere on relatively cheap grunts. During the period of devastation, hunger and universal disorder, when the young Soviet government had to solve more important problems, Voloshin essentially organized something like the House of Creativity.

The People's Commissariat of the RSFSR considers this institution extremely useful, asks all the military and border authorities to provide all assistance to M. Voloshin in this matter. ” The poet, artist, local historian, amateur archaeologist who found the remains of the ancient settlement near Koktebel. But first of all, a person who did not think away from his homeland, from her fate.

And in this sense, Voloshin’s decision to transfer his estate to the Union of Writers. Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin died on August 11. He is buried on the top of the mountain ridge of Kuchuk-Senishar, not far from Cape Hameleon. This place was indicated by the poet himself. Before his death, he asked not to plant flowers and trees around his grave, as he loved Koktebel for the pristine and wild beauty, which the man’s hand did not have time to touch.

In the year, Koktebelts buried him next to Maximilian Alexandrovich his wife and faithful friend Maria Stepanovna Voloshina Voloshin was and remains the main attraction of Koktebel 3. The unique library, which M. Voloshin began to collect in Paris, remains here. The house is the best collection of paintings and watercolors of Voloshin himself over one and a half thousand!

An interesting collection of portraits of the owner of the house, performed by the famous artists K. Petrov-Vodkin, A. Golovin, E. Kruglikova, A. Ostroumova-Labedva, Mr. S. should be especially said about the two portraits of Voloshin of the remarkable Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Here you can see the cast of the bust of M. Voloshin the work of the Polish sculptor Edward Wittig Bust was installed in Paris in the year.

Immediately - the posthumous masks of the great Russian writers and the cast of the sculptural portrait of the Egyptian Queen Tanya mentioned above. The poet’s house is not only the Voloshinsky Memorial Museum, but also the place of communication of many writers, poets, artists, musicians, and scientists. If someone wanted to perpetuate their names in memorial boards, there would simply not be enough walls.

Falk, A. Aleksey Tolstoy lived with Voloshin for a long time. The owner built a special bureau A. Tolstoy for the guest, he worked standing, which has been preserved to this day. A friend of the house was the poetess Maya Kudasheva, the future wife of Romain Rollan. In the year, A. he also visited Koktebel, he was a frequent guest of the poet. I had dinner on the beach itself - in the institution of Greek Sinopli, a one -room wooden house with shutters.

The inhabitants of the Voloshinsky house drew him with funny pictures and poems. It was a cafe "Tambourines", painted among others with a talented artist Aristarchus Lentulov. On one of the walls of the ribbon, he depicted a huge figure of A. Tolstoy, wrapped in a sheet in the manner of toga. The inscription read: “Passerby, wait! Alexey Tolstoy. " In a couple to it - on the other wall - the same giant Voloshin was represented with the corresponding ridiculous inscription.

In the year, Voloshin was visiting Bryusov. On his initiative in Koktebel, peculiar literary tournaments were organized. Especially for such a tournament, Bryusov wrote, in particular, his well -known poem Solomon. I. Selvinsky, K. Chukovsky, V. Rozhkovsky, N. Zabolotsky, M. Shaginyan and I. Here, after the death of the owner of the house, the writer Andrei Platonov, but let's return to the history of Koktebel, visited the walls of the poet.

Of course, this is not a special study, and we do not set a goal for a year after year to trace the growth of the village at Karadag. During the years of imperialist war, and then foreign intervention was not carried out in Koktebel. It seemed that the village fell asleep. But the echoes of big events came here.In May, in the period of the Wrangel terror, the regional parties-the Party Conference 4 was held in Koktebel.

Its background is as follows. In connection with the frequent arrests of members of the underground organizations of Crimea, the Bolsheviks called the conference not in Simferopol, but in Feodosia. When almost all delegates were in place, for even more conspiracy they decided to move to Koktebel, to the dacha V. Veresaeva 5. The conference was going on to an end. It was decided to create partisan detachments in the Crimean mountains.

It was necessary to discuss the composition of the future underground regional committee. At this time, Wrangelians burst into Koktebel. On the highway, not far from the cottage, crews with officers and carts with armed soldiers appeared. At the exits from Koktebel, the White Guards set up posts. The delegates managed to go to Mount Ekim-Chek. Here they intended to hold the elections of the underground regional committee.

The counting of votes began-at that moment, the counterintelligence appeared from behind the cliff. During the shootout, the head of the Sevastopol party organization Ilya Serov 6 was killed. Wounded Kate Kate Grigorovich, delegate from Simferopol and the rest of thirteen, the delegates managed to hide. The delegate of the Khmilka-Khmelevsky secretary of the Theodosian underground committee ran to Voloshin.

Maximilian Alexandrovich hid him in the attic. The Wrangelians appeared at night. Voloshin refused to let them in, saying that there were no 7 outsiders in the country house. This case remained in the memoirs of Veresaev Veresaev, the author of the “Notices of the Doctor”, lived in Koktebel almost unconditionally in the most difficult years - with software. At the whites, he interrupted from bread to water, existed due to small medical practice, helped underground he could.

In Koktebel, Veresaev began work on his famous novel "at a dead end." The action of the novel unfolds in the conditional village of Armatluk read: Koktebel, and in many of its heroes it is easy to recognize the inhabitants of the Koktebel of those years. Poets, artists, and members of the Koktebel Revolutionary Committee appear here. Treneva can also be considered a koktebel. At one time he came here annually.

He worked a lot.