Krivulin, Victor Borisovich

Father, Boris Afanasyevich Krivulin, originally from Vologda, was a military officer. Mother, Yevgenia Borisovna, half Jewish and half Polish - (originally from the Polish gentry ) worked as a medical assistant.

In 1960, he met Anna Akhmatova , from 1962 he attended a literary association led by Gleb Semyonov . He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad State University in 1967, a year before graduation he left the Komsomol. He defended a diploma in the works of Innocent Annensky .

A prominent figure of the unofficial culture of Leningrad . The first winner of the Andrei Bely Prize in 1978. In the 1970s one of the largest figures of the Leningrad literary and cultural samizdat (magazines 37, Severnaya Pochta, etc.).

In the early 1990s. Member of the editorial board of the journal " Bulletin of New Literature ." In the 90s he conducted extensive literary and social activities.

The first books under the same name "Poems" (1981 and 1988) were published in Paris, then followed the poetic collections "The Appeal" (1990), "Concert on Applications" (1993), "The Last Book" (1993), "Pre-Frontier" (1994 ), “Requiem” (1998), “Bathing in Jordan” (1998), “Poems of the Jubilee Year” (2001), “Poems after Poems” (2001). The book of poems of the 1970s “Compositions” (2010) was published posthumously.

From 1974 he was married to Tatyana Goricheva before her emigration in 1980. Later he was married several times; last wife - philologist Olga Kushlina .

He was buried at the Smolensk Orthodox cemetery of St. Petersburg.

Victor Krivulin Publications

Books

• Krivulin Victor. Poems. - Paris: Rhythm, 1981. - 62 p.
• Krivulin, Victor. Poems. - Paris, Leningrad: Conversation, 1988. - T. 1,2. - 150, 205 s.
• Krivulin Victor. Appeal. - L .: Soviet writer , 1990. - 64 p. - ISBN 5-26501-283-4 .
• Krivulin Victor. Concert by request. Three books of poems of the last three years (1990-1992) . - SPb. : Publishing House of the Russian Poetry Foundation, 1993. - 109 p. - ISBN 5-89108-061-3 .
• Krivulin Victor. Pre-Frontier: Texts 1993–94. . - SPb. : Borey Art, 1994. - 52 p. - ISBN 5-7287-0122-9 .
• Krivulin Victor. Requiem . - M .: ARGO-RISK , 1998. - 20 p. - ISBN 5-900506-84-3 .
• Krivulin Victor. Swimming in the Jordan . - SPb. : Pushkin Foundation, 1998. - 80 p. - (Autograph). - ISBN 5-89803-020-4 .
• Krivulin Victor. Mammoth Hunt - SPb. : Russian-Baltic Information Center "BLITZ", 1998. - 333 p. - (Russian Pen Club). - ISBN 5-86789-073-2 .
• Krivulin Victor. Poems of the anniversary year . - M .: OGI, 2001. - 80 p. - (Poetry series of the club "Project OGI"). - ISBN 5-94282-020-1 .
• Krivulin Victor. Poems after poems . - SPb. : Petersburg writer; Russian-Baltic Information Center "BLITZ", 2001. - 144 p. - (Russian Pen Club). - ISBN 5-86789-135-6 .
• Krivulin Victor. Compositions . - M .: ARGO-RISK ; Book Review, 2009. - 104 p. - (Book draft of Air magazine, issue 46; “In Memoriam”, issue 3). - ISBN 5-86856-189-9 .
• Krivulin Victor. Sunday clouds. - SPb. : Palmyra, 2017. - 232 p. - (Part of speech). - ISBN 978-5-521-00139-2 .

• Kazak V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIK "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5000 copies - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 .
• Ivanov, Boris. Victor Krivulin - poet of the Russian Renaissance (1944-2001) // Petersburg poetry in faces: essays / Ivanov, Boris, comp. - Moscow: New Literary Review, 2011. - p. 293-368. - 392 s. - ISBN 9785867937980 .

• Victor Krivulin in the " Journal Hall "
• Victor Krivulin on the site " New Map of Russian Literature "
• Viktor Krivulin on the site “Unofficial Poetry”
• BABYLON: Texts and Authors: Victor KRIVULIN
• Russian poetry of the 1960s as hypertext. Victor KRIVULIN
• Obtaz-arts. Victor Krivulin
• Victor Krivulin on Vikilirre.ru
• Viktor Krivulin in the electronic archive of the Center Andrei Bely