Mark Davidovich Maksimov (real surname Lipovich ; December 27, 1918 , Snovsk , Chernihiv province - November 20, 1986 , Moscow ) - Russian Soviet poet , playwright and publicist , translator , journalist, special correspondent.
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| Birth name | Mark Davydovich Lipovich | |
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| Occupation | poet , playwright , publicist , translator , journalist, special correspondent | |
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Biography
Born in the family of an employee of the forestry. The father died when Mark was a child, and he and his sister were brought up by the mother Eva Yudovna Lipovich, then in the family of her sister Gita Yudovna Lipovich, a pediatrician in Moscow. [1] In the years 1936-1940 he studied at the Kiev Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Philology. After the institute he was sent to the editor of a local newspaper, but was drafted into the army [2] .
The first poem was published in the New World in 1939.
Member of World War II . He started the war on June 22, 1941, was captured, fled. He fought in the partisan detachment named “Thirteen” under the command of the Hero of the Soviet Union S. V. Grishin . He was a scout, political instructor of horse intelligence, edited the partisan newspaper “Death to enemies!”. [3] In November 1944, he was seconded to Omsk , where he was a special correspondent for the Gudok newspaper [2] . At the same time, he took the literary pseudonym Maximov.
Participant in the First All-Union Seminar of Young Writers in Moscow in 1947 (seminar by Pavel Antokolsky ). Since this year he has always lived in Moscow.
The poetry of Mark Maximov is inherent in deep lyricism, an insight into the essence, the basis of the human soul and character. He remained a lyric poet even in his front-line verses. He worked a lot in epic genres: the author of a number of major poems, in particular The Last Supper, which tells about Leonardo da Vinci , The Ballad of Silence and others. Author of collections of poems: “Inheritance” ( 1946 ), “Peers” ( 1947 ), “Ten Years Later” ( 1956 ), “Soldier” (1959), “Blue Lights” (1965), “Unclaimed Love” (1967), “Constancy” (1971), “Lyrics” (1976), “Favorites” (1982) and others. The author of the documentary short story Soembo (1974), the collection of journalism, poetry and prose, Intrepid (1968). The author of the play “We Never Forget!” ( 1950 ), the screenplay of the films “ Personally Known ” (1958), “ Twenty-Six Baku Commissars ” (1971, co-authored), and the multi-part documentary epic “Your Orders, Komsomol” (1968). He is the author of translations of verses from Ukrainian , Armenian , Lithuanian and Georgian . Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR .
He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree (1985) [4] , two orders of the Badge of Honor and medals [2] .
He was buried at Kuntsevsky cemetery [5] .
Family
The first marriage broke up when he was at the front. Daughter - Marina (born 1941).
The second marriage was married to Antonina Nikolaevna Maximova, who worked at the Bureau of Fiction of the Union of Writers of the USSR (widow of songwriter Georgy Rublev ). Their son is writer and TV presenter Andrei Maksimov .
Notes
- ↑ Gita Yudovna Lipovich in the GA of the Russian Federation
- ↑ 1 2 3 Russian Soviet writers. Poets: Bibliographic Index. - M. , 1990. - T. 13. - S. 96.
- ↑ Andrei Maksimov: “My father taught me how to live!”
- ↑ Memory of the people
- ↑ Tomb of M.D. Maximov
Links
- A. Maksimov's program “Love of the Bygone Age” about Mark Maksimov. Audio recording is available.
- Brief Encyclopedia of Literature. Maximov