Serbian, Victor Solomonovich

Victor Serbsky
Victor Serbsky
Date of Birth	May 1, 1933
Place of Birth	Verkhneuralsk , Ural region of the USSR
Date of death	January 9, 2011 (aged 77)
A place of death	Bratsk , Russia
Citizenship	USSR, Russia
Occupation	poet, essayist, bibliophile
Language of Works
Awards	Prize "For Asceticism" by the Dmitry Likhachev Foundation (2005)

Viktor Solomonovich Serbsky ( May 1, 1933 - January 9, 2011 ) - poet, bibliophile, collector of a unique library of Russian poetry.

Content

1 Biography
2 Library of Russian poetry
3 books
4 Articles about the life and work of V. Serbsky
5 notes
6 References

Biography

Serbian Victor Solomonovich was born on May 1, 1933 in prison, in the Verkhneuralsk political prison, where his mother was imprisoned. On October 13, 1937, his parents, Evgenia Tigranovna Zakharyan (1901-1937, a native of Tiflis ) ^[1] and Solomon Naumovich Serbsky (1906-1937, a native of Berdichev ) ^[2] , convinced Trotskyists , were shot in Magadan , and a four-year-old boy ended up in orphanage in Vladivostok .

In 1950, he graduated from high school with a silver medal, in 1955 - the Irkutsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute . Since 1955, he worked in Norilsk at a metallurgical plant as a foreman, site manager, and shop manager. Since 1967, in Bratsk, in Bratskgesstroi - Director of the Central Mechanical Plant. Since 1976, at the Bratsk Heating Equipment Plant, he was the head of the production and dispatch department, then deputy. production director. He was awarded the medals "For Labor Valor" , "For Valiant Labor" , "Veteran of Labor" . Twice elected as a deputy of the Council of People's Deputies of the city of Bratsk.

In 1989, V. S. Serbsky was one of the initiators of the creation of a branch of the Memorial Society in the city of Bratsk.

Searching in the opened archives of the NKVD- KGB for information about the circumstances of the arrest and death of his father and mother, Viktor Solomonovich was able, as an adult, to receive for the first time copies of prison photographs of his parents and several official documents. These materials formed the basis of the book ^[3] - "Conversations with portraits of parents . " After the release of this book, the author received many reviews. Here are some of them: ^[4]

I read this tiny little book, which, using Fet's words, is "volumes of very heavy ones." It is very difficult to separate “literature” from a terrible creature, this, alas, a typical Soviet fate ...
Yuri Nagibin

Your book is a spiritual barrier on the way to oblivion, to the reassurance of conscience, to forgiveness "for the remoteness of the deed."
Willy Petritsky

You have included documents in the text and found a tone for the text that allows them to be adjacent. Poetry is a way of telling the truth, invisible to the eye, and therefore truth, naked in its terrifying fullness, in itself becomes poetry.
Poel Carp

V.S. Serbsky was a member of the Union of Russian Writers , a member of the Association of Russian Bibliophiles , was admitted to the International Pushkin Society . He was awarded the “Provincial Intelligent” prize of the Irkutsk branch of the Russian Cultural Foundation (2001) ^[5] , and the Certificate of Merit of the Mayor of Bratsk (2003).

In 2005, V.S. Serbian was awarded the prize "For Asceticism" of the Dmitry Likhachev Foundation .

In 2008, V. S. Serbsky was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the city of Bratsk .

V.S. Serbsky died on January 9, 2011. He was buried in Bratsk .

June 21, 2013 the long-awaited event in the cultural life of Bratsk took place - the grand opening of the memorial plaque on the house on the street. Primorsky, 49, where V.S. Serbsky lived and assembled his library.

Library of Russian Poetry

From his student years, more than half a century, Viktor Solomonovich collected poetry collections that were published in any corner of our country. He continued the tradition of the literary critic and bibliophile Anatoly Tarasenkov , the creator of the most complete book collection of Russian poetry in the first half of the 20th century. By the number of collected books V. Serbsky far surpassed his predecessor.

In the Russian poetic world, the name of Victor Serbsky is symbolic and familiar to many who have published at least one, at least a small book of poems. Not a single modern Russian poet living even on the edge of the earth has passed his poetic collection. He will print a collection in the printing house, sign an autograph and send it to Bratsk. At one time, books were sent and handed over to him by Korney Chukovsky , Samuel Marshak , Konstantin Simonov , David Samoilov , Pavel Antokolsky , Alexander Kushner , Oleg Chukhontsev , Anatoly Zhigulin , Bulat Okudzhava , Evgeny Evtushenko , Andrey Voznesensky , Bella Akhmadulina , Ilya Fonyakov , Anatoly Kobyakov Sergey Mikhalkov ... The list is huge - about ten thousand poetry collections autographed by Russian poets from around the world are stored in this library! And since 1955, Serbsky has collected about fifty thousand poetry collections of famous and little-known poets. ^[6]
Vladimir Monakhov, poet

In the library of V.S. Serbian, now numbering more than 50,000 books, there are many unique, rare editions, including books that are not in the main libraries of the country. A significant part of the books has autographs of poets and writers. A special place is occupied by the section devoted to political repressions. There is a Pushkin section, a large collection of miniature publications.

In 1992, a decision was made by the executive committee of the city Council of People’s Deputies of the city of Bratsk to create a municipal library on the basis of V.S. Serbian.

In 2002, Serbsky received two grants - the President of Russia and a Soros grant for the development of the library and the creation of an electronic catalog.

Daughter V.S. Serbsky - Catherine, a physician by profession, received a second higher education, a library, and continues the work of his father.

Books

Set off: verses / Preface. B. Okudzhava ^[7] . - Irkutsk: East Siberian book. Publishing House , 1989 .-- 127 p. from. - 500 copies.
Conversations with portraits of parents ^[8] . - Bratsk: Brother. mountains printing house, 1993. - 56 p. - 300 copies.
Conversations with portraits of parents. - Bratsk: Brother. mountains printing house, 1995. - 80 p. - 500 copies.
Victor Drotkiv. ^[9] "A romance at sea." - SPb. : Thursday, 1996 .-- 24 p. - (Library of the Russian palindrome). - 75 copies.
Exam: verses / Foreword by B. Okudzhava. - SPb. : Thursday, 1998 .-- 128 s. - (Miniature Library of Poetry). - 150 copies.
From the notes of the bibliophile. - Yekaterinburg-Bratsk: Edition of the newspaper "Stern", 2000. - 64 p. - 150 copies.
From notes of bibliophile-2. - Yekaterinburg-Bratsk: Publishing of the Stern newspaper, 2002. - 64 p. - 150 copies.

Conversations with portraits of parents continue . - Yagodnin.o. "Search for illegally repressed." - Magadan: JSC "MAOBTI", 2002. - 92 p. - (Archives of memory; Issue 10). - 500 copies.
Thickets of Fate / Foreword. A. Kobenkova. - Irkutsk: Publisher Sapronov , 2003. - 124 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 5-94535-029-X .
Crossing the Angara: From notes of a provincial bibliophile. - Yekaterinburg – Bratsk: the publication of the newspaper “Stern, 2004. - 90 p.
Thickets of Fate / Foreword. A. Kobenkova. - Irkutsk: Publisher Sapronov, 2008 .-- 176 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-94535-090-8 .

Articles about the life and work of V. Serbsky

Vereshchagin S. Library - for everyone: (a story about book lovers of the Irkutsk region, including from Bratsk - about V. S. Serbsky) // Vost.-Sib. truth. - 1984 .-- June 2.

Kobenkov A. Let us envy a happy man // Sov. the youth. - 1985. - Sep 17.

Monakhov V. Joy in half with pain: (about the publication of the miniature "Offset") // Kras. banner. - 1989. - Oct 20.

Monakhov V. Poetry - not bread, but how to live without it ?: (About the Library of Russian poetry of the 20th century, which opens in Bratsk on the basis of the personal library of poetry of V. Serbsky) // Kras. banner. - 1992. - Jan 18.

Monks V. The point has not yet been set: (on the work of V. Serbsky) / Vost.-Sib. truth. - 1993. - July 6.

Morgenstern I. Cause of death - execution: (review of the book “Conversations with Portraits of Parents”) // Evening Chelyabinsk . - 1993. - Nov 13.

Unrequited L. Revelations of Bratsk: A bitter fate, a bitter book, an amazing performance (about the book “Conversations with Portraits of Parents” and about the play created from it) // Vost.-Sib. truth. - 1994. - May 25.

Nemirovsky E. The Art of Donation Inscription // Book Review. - 1995. - March 7. - from. 6.

Kobenkov A. “Older than anyone ...” // Trud-7. - 1996. - March 15.

Kobissky V. “Volumes of Much Harder”: (about the book “Conversations with Portraits of Parents”) // Transbaikal Worker. - 1996. - Apr 10

Kanavschikov A. People’s Library: (about V. Serbsky’s library) // Book Review. - 1999. - Dec 13 - from. twenty.

Tirskikh A. Poems in Siberia are more than poems: (the story of the arrival of the participants of the Poetry Festival on Lake Baikal in Bratsk is accompanied by a photograph of E. Evtushenko with V. Serbsky) // Banner. - 2001. - Aug 3.

Zachinyaev E. Grant of Soros - to Ivan Kalita of Russian poetry: (the library receives a second grant for the creation of a catalog) // Banner. - 2002. - Dec 20

Serbskaya E.V. Library of Russian poetry of the XX century: history, composition of the fund, social mission // Library Bulletin of the Baikal Region - 2003. - No. 2. - p. 69-73.

Vologdina L. “Poetry is my God ...”: (librarians of the Bratsk region about V. S. Serbsky) / Banner. - 2003. - May 2; Library Bulletin of Pribaikalye - 2003. - No. 2. - p. 69.

Zakharyan S. Collector: (review of the book “Thickets of Fate”) // Green lamp. - Irkutsk, 2003. - p. 187-188.

Yastremskaya T. “The Candle”: (the performance “The Candle” was staged based on the works of V. S. Serbsky) // Your newspaper. - 2003. - May 8.

Astashkin E. The only library in the world // Literary Russia . - 2004. - Feb 6.

We have the honor of living next to the person-era // Brother. university. - 2004. - Oct 29.

Dementieva E. The Guardian of Poetry: Library of the Serbian Servant - under the auspices of UNESCO: (problems of the library of Russian Serbian poetry) // Arguments and Facts . - 2004. - No. 11. - p.3.

Notes

↑ Evgenia Tigranovna Zakharyan
↑ Solomon Naumovich Serbian
↑ The first edition of V. Serbsky’s book “Conversations with Portraits of Parents” was published in Bratsk in 1993.
↑ Newspaper Banner February 18, 1994
↑ Prize “Provincial Intelligent” awarded in Irkutsk
↑ Almanac "45th parallel"
↑ was the first miniature in the country to be released at the expense of the author
↑ Poems. Facsimile copies of documents from investigative files of the author’s parents repressed in 1937
↑ Victor Drotkiv - a pseudonym under which Victor Serbsky published his palindromes

Links

[1] Evgenia Tigranovna Zakharyan

[2] Solomon Naumovich Serbian

[3] The first edition of V. Serbsky’s book “Conversations with Portraits of Parents” was published in Bratsk in 1993.

[4] Newspaper Banner February 18, 1994

[5] Prize “Provincial Intelligent” awarded in Irkutsk

[6] Almanac "45th parallel"

[7] was the first miniature in the country to be released at the expense of the author

[8] Poems. Facsimile copies of documents from investigative files of the author’s parents repressed in 1937

[9] Victor Drotkiv - a pseudonym under which Victor Serbsky published his palindromes

Victor Serbsky

Date of Birth	May 1, 1933 ( 1933-05-01 )
Place of Birth	Verkhneuralsk , Ural region of the USSR
Date of death	January 9, 2011 ( 2011-01-09 ) (aged 77)
A place of death	Bratsk , Russia
Citizenship	USSR, Russia
Occupation	poet, essayist, bibliophile
Language of Works
Awards	Prize "For Asceticism" by the Dmitry Likhachev Foundation (2005)