Kulchitsky, Mikhail Valentinovich

Born in Kharkov in 1919 in the family of a lawyer , a former officer of the 12th Dragoon Starodubsky regiment , Valentin Mikhailovich Kulchitsky , the author of several books of poetry and prose. The first poem was published in 1935 in the journal Pioneer . He studied at school number 1 eight classes. After graduating from ten-year school number 30, he worked as a carpenter, draftsman at the Kharkov Tractor Plant . Entering Kharkov University , a year later he transferred to the second year of the Literary Institute. Gorky (workshop of Ilya Selvinsky ). While studying, he gave lessons at one of Moscow schools. In 1941, Kulchitsky went to the fighter battalion . In mid-December 1942 he graduated from the machine gun and mortar school ^[1] , received the rank of junior lieutenant .

On January 19, 1943, the commander of the mortar platoon, junior lieutenant Mikhail Kulchitsky, died in battle near the village of Trembachevo in the Luhansk region ^[2] during the advance from Stalingrad to the Kharkov region (1178th Infantry Regiment, 350th Infantry Division , 6th Army , Southwestern front ). He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Pavlenkovo, Novopskovsky district, Lugansk region of Ukraine ^[3] . The name of the poet is embossed in gold on the 10th banner in the Pantheon of Glory of Volgograd .

Cossack V. , Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century ^[4] :

His early poems reflected the Komsomol enthusiasm for the events of the revolution, which embodied for him in the image of Shchors , since he died on the birthday of Kulchitsky. The poet insisted on continuing revolutionary unrest. Kulchytsky’s front-line poems have not been preserved for the most part, but some of them, on the topic of military readiness, have a gradual awareness of the coming darkness and horror. His youthful sacrifice is combined with faith in his own poetic word.

In the poem “On Friendship”, first published on December 17, 1960 ^[5] , Mikhail Kulchitsky wrote:

It was August. I was born

On the day they killed in the Shchors field.

I recognize in being: the last

Wasn't his sigh my first?

In fact, Mikhail Kulchitsky was born on August 22, 1919, and Nikolai Alexandrovich Schors died eight days later, on August 30, 1919.

Books

• Kulchitsky Mikhail. Youth. - Kharkiv: Vidannya KhDU, 1939.
• Kulchitsky Mikhail. The most. - Kharkov: Prapor, 1966.
• Kulchitsky Mikhail. Frontier. - M .: Young Guard, 1973.- 32 p., 50,000 copies.
• Kulchitsky Mikhail. Instead of happiness: Poems. Poems. Memories of the poet. / Comp., Prep. text and approx. O. V. Kulchitskaya and M. M. Krasikova. - Kharkov: Prapor, 1991.

Collective

• Poetry Day 1956. Almanac. - Moscow: Moscow Worker, 1956
• Poems remain in order. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1958
• Day of Poetry 1963. Almanac. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1963
• Through time. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1964
• Soviet poets who fell in the Great Patriotic War. (Library of the poet. Large series) - M. - L .: Soviet writer, 1965
• La Poesie Russe. Anthologie reunie et publie la direction de ELSA TRIOLET. - Paris: Editions Seghers 1965
• The names are in fact. - Murmansk Book Publishing House, 1966
• Day of Poetry 1966. Almanac. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1966
• Lines obtained in battles. - Moscow: Children's literature, 1969.
• Soviet poets who fell in the Great Patriotic War. (New library of the poet. Large series) - St. Petersburg: Academic project, 2005.

The most famous poem by Mikhail Kulchitsky is the line written by him shortly before his death. The finale of the poem has undoubtedly become one of the symbols of the Great Patriotic War:

Dreamer, dreamer, idler-envious!
What? Are bullets in a helmet a safer drop?
And the riders whistle
saber spinning propellers.

I used to think: “lieutenant”
sounds "Pour us!"
And knowing the topography,
he stomps on gravel.

War is not fireworks at all
but just hard work
when, sweat black, up
infantry glides on the plowed land.

March!
And clay in champagne stomping
to the bones of frozen feet
screwed on chobots
weight of bread per month rations.

On fighters and buttons like
scales of heavy orders.
Not up to the order.
There would be a homeland
with daily Borodino.

December 26, 1942, Khlebnikovo-Moscow

It is performed by Boris Slutsky in the evening scene at the Polytechnic Museum in the film by Marlen Khutsiev “Ilyich’s Outpost” (the last line is written like this: “... even after a hundred Borodino”; and in the third stanza: “infantry crawling on the plowed land ...”. In addition , this poem, put to music by Vladimir Mulyavin , was performed by VIA " Songs " ("War is not fireworks at all").

• “In general, Kulchitsky would probably have done everything that Voznesensky and his antipodes from the camp of village“ formators ”later became famous for, everything can be found in him: both fantastic associativity and deep sound recording, the line“ glides on the plowing of infantry ”to this day now it’s the envy of today's musicians of the language ... Dear “musicians of the language!” I foresee that your envy will increase even more, because Kulchitsky’s sound recording is much better than that of his uninvited editors: “infantry is in a hurry for plowing” - Lev Anninsky .

• In 1989, a memorial plaque was erected on the house where the poet was born and raised (9 Grekovskaya St. / 2, Vashchenkovsky Lane). The bas-relief and the famous lines cast in metal “The most terrible thing in the world is to be calm” hung exactly 10 years. In 1999, a plaque was destroyed by unknown vandals. The opening of the restored board was made by the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko .

• The name of Mikhail Kulchitsky is embossed on a plaque installed in the building of the Literary Institute (Tverskaya Boulevard, 25) in memory of students of the Literary Institute. A. Gorky, who died on the fronts of World War II ^[6] .

• Levin Gregory . Poet and soldier // Literary newspaper. - 1960. - No. 149. - December 17. - S. 6.

• Mikhail Krasikov. The fate of the heritage of Mikhail Kulchitsky as a mirror of our era