Belov, Dmitry Ivanovich

According to updated data, Dmitry Ivanovich Belov was born on October 26 ( November 8 ), 1900 in the village of Andreevskoye in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk province ^{[1] [2]} (now the Volga region of the Ivanovo region ) into a poor peasant family. He lived in the village of Tezino (since 1925 - the district of the city ​​of Vichugi ). In his youth he was a shepherd, he worked in a factory. In Soviet times, he served in the Red Army , was a commander .

In the 1920s, he worked for a short time in the Ivanovo-Voznesensk newspaper Smychka, and was published in the magazines Novy Byt, Krasnaya Niva , and Komsomoliya. In 1921 - 1923 D.I. Belov worked in the Kinesham Ucom of the RCP (B.). He continued to write poems that received a positive assessment of A. S. Serafimovich .

The famous art historian M.P. Sokolnikov in his Literature on Ivanovo-Voznesensky Krai (1925) wrote that D. Belov is a "gifted nugget who came to literature from the village and the factory, and used to be a shepherd. His best things are about the village and childhood. This is a cycle of his poems and the poem "The Childish Underground" .

In 1920, in the literary and art collection “On the Turn” (Orenburg), D. I. Belov’s poetry cycle “Working Songs” was published, among which were poems like “The plant gave me violent power ...”, “The buzzer roars again”, “ Chew, shimmer ... ".

In 1927, a collection of poems “May in the Heart” was published in Moscow , in which the poet sang the village and dreamed that “our mossy, timbered land will become a tractor, treacherous land”. In the preface of P. S. Kogan it was noted: “Like Yesenin, whom he often recalls in verse, he grew up among forests and fields [...]. But he, in contrast to the author of Moscow Kabatskaya, is young and endowed with such a wealth of joyful feelings that he is not afraid of the advent of a new world ... ” Some of the poems: “Return from Rest”, “Round dance”, “Happy childhood by the hut”, “I love herds in curly fields”, “New Village”.

The work of D.I. Belov was strongly influenced by the poetry of S. Yesenin . As a student of a party school in Moscow, at the end of 1923 - at the beginning of 1924 . D. Belov became closely acquainted with the great poet, with whom he later corresponded. After the death of Yesenin ( December 28, 1925 ), January 10, 1926 in the Ivanovo-Voznesensky newspaper "Work land" published his soulful poem "In memory of Sergei Yesenin":

My favorite songwriter, Seryozha,
The pain, like a bird, breaks from the tongue.
I know everything is dearer to you
Blood of the heart woven string.

Oh you, our land, the land of gold-woven,
In the gardens of a milk blizzard!
Song cradled a clearing
Tender seryozha pipe.

The moon wasn’t sweet, the donut became known
What oozed butter on the grass!
Clap the ground crumpled kartzishko -
And flowed into the tavern Moscow.

Your voice jubilant from the cradle
Suddenly a shaky note trembled:
You funny and wild foal
Life - a steel horse - did not catch up!

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According to the testimony of the relatives of D.I. Belov, after his death there were 15 letters from S. Yesenin , which for many years were in the attic of D. Belov’s house in Vichug , but in the 1960s, old papers along with letters were destroyed - burned in a furnace.

In 1926, Dmitry Belov’s health was broken, he fell ill, for a long time, but was unsuccessfully treated first in Ivanovo , then in Leningrad . April 4, 1942 he died in Kostroma and was buried in a hospital cemetery.

• Belov D. I. Working songs // a series of poems in the literary and art collection of the circle of proletarian writers "At the Turn". - Orenburg: Gubagentstvo Tsentropechat, 1920. - 69 p.
• Belov D.I. May in the heart (with a preface by P.S. Kogan ). - M .: “Moscow Worker”, 1927. - 92 p.

• Zakharov V. Unread letters from Yesenin // "Rural Youth". - 1970. - No. 7. - p. 38-40.
• Zakharov V. The Riddle of Old Letters // "Work Land". - 1970. - No. 194.
• Gorbunov S.V., Lubichev Yu. S. Vichuga: Historical and local history essay. - Yaroslavl, 1986, p. 90 - 92.
• Fornication Yu. V. / Belov D.I. My favorite songwriter Seryozha ...: from searches for the forgotten Yesenin addressee - poet Dmitry Belov / May in the heart (verses). - Ryazan: Litera M, 2011. - 104 p.

• The article “Belov Dmitry Ivanovich” in the bio-bibliographic reference book of S. I. Zinin “Yesenin and his entourage”
• The story of the lost letters of Yesenin in the Complete Works of S. Yesenin, vol. 7