Vladislav Khodasevich Biography

He also acted as a critic, memoirist and historian of literature Pushkinist. Khodasevich was born in the family of an artist-photograph. The mother of the poet, Sofya Yakovlevna, was the daughter of the famous Jewish writer Y. Khodasevich early in his calling, choosing literature the main occupation of life. Already at the age of six he composed his first verses. He studied at the third Moscow gymnasium, where the poet Valery Bryusov’s brother was his classmate, and Viktor Hoffmann studied in the senior grade, greatly influenced the worldview of Khodasevich.

After graduating from a gymnasium in the year, Khodasevich first entered the law faculty of Moscow University, then to historical and philological. Khodasevich began to be printed in the year, then he marries Marina Erastovna Ryndina. The marriage was unhappy - already at the end of the year they broke up. Part of the poems from the first book of the poems of Khodasevich “Youth” is devoted to relations with Marina Ryndina.

Collections "Youth" and the later "Happy House" - were kindly met by readers and criticism. The clarity of the verse, the purity of the language, the accuracy in the transfer of thoughts identified Khodasevich from a number of new poetic names and determined his special place in Russian poetry. For six years that have passed from the writing of “Youth” to the “Happy House”, Khodasevich became a professional writer who made his life with translations, reviews, feuilletons, etc.

The first work of Khodasevich about Pushkin’s “first step of Pushkin” was published, which opened the whole series of his “Pushkinians”. The study of the life and work of the great Russian poet Khodasevich has been engaged in his whole life. In the year, Khodasevich enthusiastically accepts the February revolution and at first agrees to cooperate with the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution.

This book nominated Khodasevich to a number of the most significant poets of his time. The collection of poems by Khodasevich “The Heavy Lira”, which became the last published in Russia, is published. Abroad, Khodasevich collaborated for some time with M. Gorky, who attracted him to joint editing the magazine "Conversation". In the year, Khodasevich and Berberov move to Paris, where Khodasevich produces a cycle of poems “European Night” in two years.

After that, the poet writes poetry less and less, paying more attention to criticism. It lives difficult, needs, is sick a lot, but it works intensely and fruitfully. More and more often acts as a prose writer, literary critic and memoirist: “Derzhavin. Biography ”,“ About Pushkin ”and“ Necropolis. Memoirs ”In recent years, Khodasevich published reviews in newspapers and magazines, articles, essays on outstanding contemporaries - Gorky, Bloc, White and many others.

He translated the poetry and prose of Polish, French, Armenian, etc.

Vladislav Khodasevich in Paris on June 14 Bibliography collection "Youth". The first book of poems. The second book of poems. Grzhebina, Fourth Book of Poems - Khodasevich V. Writers about writers circulation of eCz. Collection of poems. The poet’s library, a large series, edition of the third circulation of Ex. Library of the magazine "Polygraphy" - M. Circuit Ex. Paid tripod: Favorites.

By boulevards. Poems GG. Literary and historical articles. From a poetic heritage. Collected works in 4 t. New library of the poet, small series Khodasevich V.