Sergei Pavlovich Bobrov ( October 27 [ November 8 ] 1889 [1] , Moscow - February 1, 1971 , Moscow) is a Russian poet, literary critic , translator, artist, mathematician and poet, one of the organizers of Russian futurism , a popularizer of science.
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| Date of Birth | October 27 ( November 8 ) 1889 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | February 1, 1971 ( 81) |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Citizenship (citizenship) | |
| Occupation | prose writer , poet , literary critic , translator , mathematician |
| Genre | poetry , prose , popular science literature , literary studies |
| Language of Works | Russian |
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Biography
He was born in the family of the official of the Ministry of Finance P. P. Bobrov , known as a chess player and publisher of the journal “ Chess Review ”. Mother - children's writer Anastasia Ivanovna Sargina (wrote under the pseudonym A. Galagay).
He studied at the Katkovsky Lyceum and the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1904-1909). In 1911-1913 he was a volunteer at the Moscow Archaeological Institute . He worked in the magazine " Russian Archive ", studied the work of Pushkin and Yazykov . In 1913 he headed the post-symbolist group “ Lyric ”, since 1914 - the group of futurists “ Centrifuge ” (his closest literary associates are Boris Pasternak , Nikolai Aseev and Ivan Aksyonov ). Using nine pseudonyms, he filled about a third of the anthology of the “Second Centrifuge Collection” (1916) with his poems. In the three pre-revolutionary years, the centrifuge publishing house of the same name, under the direction of Bobrov, has released a dozen and a half books, including Pasternak's “Over the Barriers” and several collections of Aseev. Bobrov actively acted as the theorist of his groups and critic-polemicist (in the 1920s, in the journal Press and Revolution under various pseudonyms), the tone of his speeches was usually extremely harsh. In the 1920s, a number of myths developed in literary circles, wandering according to memoirs and making Bobrov’s figure odious (supposedly before the revolution he was a Black Hundred, and after it a Chekist; supposedly, during the speech of Alexander Blok, Bobrov shouted that he “ already dead ”, etc.); modern researchers show the inconsistency of these stories of reality.
Bobrov’s poems were published in several pre-revolutionary collections of 1913-1917. (“Vertogradar over the vines”, “Diamond forests”, “Lira lyre”), where he combines the characteristic techniques of futurism with imitations of classical Russian lyrics and the experiments of Andrei Bely (sometimes simultaneously styling both manners); from a formal point of view, it is characterized by experiments with interruptions in classical sizes and missed accents in three-syllables (as well as for Pasternak of that period and in Aksyonov’s translations from English drama). Bobrov continued to write poetry until the end of his life, in the 1960s he was again published (in the almanac " Day of Poetry ", etc.); not everything is published.
In the early 20's. Bobrov published three socio-utopian novels: The Rise of the Misanthropes (1922), The Specification of the Iditol (1923) and The Finder of the Treasure (1931, under the pseudonym A. Yurlov). In the 1920s and 1930s, Bobrov worked at the Central Statistical Office , was repressed and exiled to Kokchetav . After returning from exile, he wrote two non-fiction books for schoolchildren (in fairy tale form) in mathematics “The Magic Two-horn” (1949) and “Archimedean Summer” (1950s, two parts), which were very popular (“Two-horned” last time in 2018). Among his prose writings is his autobiographical novel, The Boy.
One of Bobrov's constant interests was poetry . In 1913, Bobrov was one of the first to describe dolnik (under the name “Pausnik”), in 1915 he published the book “New on Pushkin’s Composition”, appeared in the 1920s, and since 1962 he again participated in new generation poetry studies with A. N. Kolmogorov and young M. L. Gasparov . Bobrov owns important studies on interruptions in rhythm, on the rhythm of word lines (one of the pioneers of this topic). Gasparov left interesting memoirs about Bobrov and devoted the memory of Sergei Pavlovich - “Elders of Russian poetry” - his book “Modern Russian Verse”.
Bobrov is the author of a mystified continuation of Pushkin 's poem "When the Bishop of Assyria", published in 1918 . After Pushkin’s N.O. Lerner admitted the hoax for Pushkin’s original text, Bobrov made a self-disclosure, revealing the method of creating a fake.
A lot and fruitfully engaged in poetic translation, the author of the first full translation of “The Drunken Ship” A. Rimbaud . Translated into Russian " Song of Roland ." Many translations have not been published.
Works
- Beavers S. Vertogradar over the vines. Poems. Fig. N. Goncharova. M., "Lyric", 1913. - 162 p.
- Beavers S. Boy. - M., "Fiction", 1976. - 496 p., 50,000 copies.
- Buber K [from] . Criticism of worldly philosophy: Unknown book by Sergei Bobrov. From the collection of the Stanford University Library / Ed. M. L. Gasparova. Stanford 1993, 10 (Stanford Slavic Studies. Vol. 6).
- The Magic Two-Horn Ed. 2nd. - M., Children's literature, 1967. - 496 p. - 75,000 copies.
Notes
- ↑ Sergey Pavlovich Bobrov: short biography and works of the poet / Other authors - Literature of the 20th century - Classical literature
Sources
- Cossack V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIC "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 .
- Bobrov // Literary Encyclopedia : in 11 vols. - [ M. ], 1929-1939.
Links
- Bobrov Sergey Pavlovich
- Sergey Bobrov on slova.org.ru.
- Sergey Bobrov on the website “The Century of Translation”
- Sergey Bobrov in the background documents of V.D. Duvakin (memories of Velimir Khlebnikov)