Tachalov, Ivan Ivanovich

Ivan Ivanovich Tachalov (1879-1929) - Russian writer, poet and prose writer, self-taught. He was born and spent most of his life in Barnaul . He came from a poor large family of marginals living on the outskirts of the city. In childhood, he was very ill, half deaf. I was forced to earn money independently from childhood, I myself learned to read, and from the age of 24 I began to compose my own works.

Tachalov, Ivan Ivanovich
Date of Birth	1879 ( 1879 )
Place of Birth	Barnaul
Date of death	1929 ( 1929 )
A place of death	Moscow
Citizenship	RSFSR the USSR
Nationality	Russian empire
Occupation	poet, prose writer

In 1905, not having his own political views and not understanding the programs of political parties, he took an active part in political meetings, rallies and demonstrations. The result of which was the Cossack Marseillaise, which became popular with the Barnaul people, and the satirical poem Egor about the Black-Hundred pogrom in Barnaul. On suspicion of revolutionary activity, Tachalov served two weeks in prison.

In 1906-1911, Tachalov lived in Tomsk , where he met with Siberian writers T. Grebenshchikov , P. Kazan and V. Shishkov . Published in Tomsk editions. In 1908, his poems were published in the "Second Literary Collection of Siberians." In 1911, he was expelled from Tomsk, after which he wanders around Siberia, the Caucasus, Crimea, settles in Samara . In 1912-1913, his poems were published by the Barnaul newspaper Life of Altai .

After 1917 he was a librarian, he headed a club, an orphanage, and studied at the labor faculty. Settled in Moscow. In 1927, the satirical work “Wacky Carousel” with the subtitle “Half-Tale for the Sighted and the Blind” was released. In 1929, the Federation Publishing House published his Dark Gloom with a foreword by M. Gorky. In 1937, a collection of Tachalov was published in the Novosibirsk Book Publishing House in the series “Literary Heritage of Siberia”, which included this story and more than 20 verses. In 1989, the Altai almanac published chapters from his Stupid Carousel, in 1992 in the Altai magazine, according to the text of the 1929 edition, his Dark Gloom was published.