Vladimir Vladimirovich Klopotovsky ( 1883 , St. Petersburg , Russian Empire - March 28, 1944 , Riga , then - the General Commissariat "Latvia" as part of Ostland ) - a well-known Russian feuilletonist , writer and poet, journalist. An employee of the newspaper " Today ", the fourth most popular newspaper of Russian emigration. He served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Russian Bulletin", published in Riga during the reign of the Nazi occupation administration.
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With his works, often characterized by a sharp social orientation, he, working under his "company" pseudonym "Leri," participated in creating the unique style of this rather popular print organ in the circles of Russian emigration. His feuilleton was a kind of "calling card" of Russian-speaking Latvian journalism.
Biography
He was born in St. Petersburg , but in spirit he belonged to the city of Kiev , in which he spent his childhood. There he was educated, his debut publication in one of the local newspapers took place there. From there began his life's journey, his ascent from an ordinary journalist to the editor of Dvinskiy Vestnik , a periodical published during the period of Nazi occupation.
His first literary work - the story, which was signed by the pseudonym Vladimir Vesenyev, appeared in the newspaper Southwest Week. The period of literary activity began quite early in the student era. He himself describes the beginning of his literary formation as follows:
My literary journey began in the usual pattern. A young student with a manuscript of the story just written is to the editorial office of the magazine and hands it to the red-headed, bald gentleman with trembling hands, who, upon closer examination, turns out to be the secretary of the editorial office.
After some achievements in the artistic field, he turned to a new genre for himself, which is characterized by a greater relevance to the journalistic sphere - theatrical reviews. At that time, the most promising provincial theater was the Solovtsev Theater, to which the novice reviewer, who had become attached to the theatrical stage with his whole youthful soul, began to devote his reviews. Thus, Klopotovsky almost went along the artistic path, and still continued to love the theater "from the outside." The next stage of his creative biography is described by him succinctly:
As a young man, I became so attached to the theater that I decided to enter the stage, but one circumstance prevented me: I began to write feuilletons, and these feuilletons fascinated me so much that I became not an artist, but a poet.
Soon he chose the capacious and sonorous pseudonym Leri for himself and finally devotes himself to journalistic activities, cooling off from his initial hobby for Talia and Melpomena . The first feuilleton work by Vladimir “Leri” appeared in the rather readable Kiev newspaper “ Poslednye Novosti ”, after which the editor believed in Klopotovsky’s abilities and strives to create comfortable conditions for Leri to work.
Nevertheless, circumstances soon changed and V. Klopotovsky moved to Odessa , where he met a warm welcome from the editor of the Odessa Leaf . Several decades of V. Klopotovsky’s life were devoted to newspaper activities in Odessa, which brought him fame as a sharp and interesting feuilletonist who writes on topical issues and quickly responds to many current events. In Odessa, his interest in the stage flared up: for the Odessa opera troupe he wrote many sketches and theatrical reviews.
The hardships of life could not change the tonality of his feuilleton works, which always reacted vigorously and with immediate youthful cheerfulness to what was happening, no matter how sad it seemed. Often changing his place of residence (he moved from Kiev to Odessa, and from there to Petersburg, then again to Kiev, then again to Odessa, from where he emigrated abroad), he worked everywhere by profession. The first city he went to emigrate was Prague , from where, together with many Odessa citizens and Kiev, he moved to Berlin , where the color of Russian emigrant thought concentrated at that time (early 20s). When circumstances forced many emigrants to leave Berlin, entrenched in Paris , where he experienced certain financial difficulties. In the end, in 1924 he managed to stop and stay in Riga . He lived there for 20 years, working in various local periodicals, but most of all in the newspaper Segodnya.
After the period of June-July 1940, Latvia joined the USSR and in connection with the closure of a number of newspapers (including Today,) lost his job. After the beginning of the Nazi occupation, he participated in the creation of Nazi Russian-language print media. At an early stage, the Rodina newspaper became one. As a result, he took over as editor-in-chief of Russky Vestnik and Dvinskiy Vestnik.
He died after a protracted illness on March 28, 1944. He was buried at the Pokrovsky cemetery in Riga.
Links
- Svetlana Vidyakina, Svetlana Kovalchuk: “Pokrovsky cemetery. Glory and oblivion. ”