N Otsupa biography

Brother of the poets of George Raevsky and Sergey Gorny. Graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo Nikolaev gymnasium; After the end, in the city of Bergson, who had a strong influence on the young Otsup. Under the influence of Bergson and Gumilyov, he begins to write poetry.

Upon returning to his homeland, he was enrolled in the historical and philological faculty of the Imperial Petrograd University, simultaneously serving military service in the reserve regiment. After the October Revolution, he was invited by Gorky to the World Literature Publishing House as a poet-translator, where he met Nikolai Gumilev and Alexander Blok; He translated R.

South, J. Byron, S. Along with Gumilyov and M. Lozinsky, he was the organizer of the reconstruction of the “Workshop of Poets”, in the publishing house of which the first collection of Otsup’s poems was published, Gumilyov decided to leave Russia and went to Berlin, where he contributed to the reprinting of three almanacs “Socials of Poets” and the release of the Poems and the release Fourth.

Soon he moved to Paris, where he released the second poetic collection “In Smoke”, which served as the introduction to the next work of Otsup, the Poem “Meet” of the East European Institute in Breslau published his study “Die Neueste Russian Dichtung”, “The latest Russian poetry”. In the year, he founded the journal "Number", dedicated to issues of literature, art and philosophy and served as a launching pad for many young representatives of Russian emigrant literature.

In the year, Otsup’s only novel was released, “Beatrice in hell” - about the love of the bohemian artist for the beginning actress. During the Second World War he served as a volunteer in the French army, was arrested in Italy and was in captivity for more than a year and a half, made two escapes from the second concentration camps and took an active part in the Italian resistance from a year, for which he was awarded military awards.

At the end of the war, Normal began teaching in the Parisian Ekol, where he was defended by a doctoral dissertation dedicated to Gumilyov, the first significant scientific work about the poet; He prepared for the press the volume of the “chosen” Gumilyov. I released the monumental “Diary in Verses. The latter's lifetime work-the poem “Three Kings” suddenly died of a break of his heart, was buried in the Russian cemetery of St.

Geneviveev-de-Bois. The two -volume of the poems of Otsup “Life and Death”, Paris, two collections of his historical and journalistic works were posthumously published. In Russia, the most complete edition went to Otsup. The ocean of time. SPb, Logos. In them, Russian literature always becomes the subject of reflection or an object for comparison. Dante Beatrice, about which Otsup speaks in poetry, novel and articles, is for him “the most bold synthesis of philosophy, theology and the real local love of human love“ Literary Essays ”, a detailed biography, family history, family tree in the book: Rudolf Otsup :.

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