Wolf, Sergey Evgenievich

Sergey Evgenievich Wolf (real surname Wolf-Israel ; August 8, 1935 , Leningrad - September 15, 2005 , St. Petersburg , buried at the Theological Cemetery of St. Petersburg) - Russian poet and prose writer. The son of the outstanding cellist Eugene Wolf-Israel .

Sergey Wolf
Birth name	Sergey Evgenievich Wolf-Israel
Date of Birth	August 8, 1935 ( 1935-08-08 )
Place of Birth
Date of death	September 15, 2005 ( 2005-09-15 ) (aged 70)
Place of death
Citizenship	USSR Russia
Occupation	poet , prose writer
Father	Evgeny Vladimirovich Wolf-Israel

In the late 1950s and mid 1960s. participated in the unofficial literary life of Leningrad, was close to the circle of Valery Popov and Andrei Bitov, and enjoyed a certain fame as the author of ironic poems , especially miniatures:

Don't leave, beauty, the tent,

I beg you - do not get out.

I'll give you a chocolate bar for this

And I will slightly violate your virginity.

At the same time, he began to act as a prose writer: Wolf's stories had some circulation in samizdat , gravitating to the ascetic, following Hemingway's manner, which later shifted towards a more absurd worldview. At the same time he published prose for adolescents and youth as a child writer graduated from the Higher Literary Courses ; released 8 books for youth.

In the 1970s again turned to poetry , substantially changing his creative manner: Wolf's later poems, with his natural philosophical mood, develop the line of Nikolai Zabolotsky .

Come back to the sea -

This fish

Which year stubbornly awaits

When with an oblique dawn angle

Sad wolf will come her

And leaning on an ancient bridge,

To a cloud as heavy as mercury

Grabbing her tail lightly

He will take a look at the air.

The literary legitimization of Sergei Wolf as a poet and prose writer for adults occurred in the post-Soviet years. In 1997, he won the Star Magazine Prize for two cycles of poems. ^[one]