Viktor Andreyevich Mamchenko ( 1901 , Nikolaev - December 11, 1982 , Schell, near Paris) is a Russian poet of the “first wave” of emigration, a participant in a number of literary associations. In verse, the influence of the aesthetics of the “Parisian note” and avant-garde poetics intersects.
He served in the Navy. Emigrated in 1920 from Sevastopol to Tunisia. From 1923 in France, he studied at the philological faculty of the Sorbonne (he did not graduate due to lack of funds). One of the organizers of the Union of Young Poets and Writers (1925), a member of the "Circle" association. He was also close to the circle of Z. Gippius . The first poetry collection - "Heavy Birds" (1936). After the Second World War, he published several more books of poetry; the final is “Sleeping in a cold house” ( Paris , 1975). In recent years, he was seriously ill (after the stroke suffered in 1967).
The poems by V. Mamchenko were included in most of the anthologies of Russian foreign poetry.
Sources
- Unforgettable graves: Russian abroad: obituaries 1917-1997: 6 tons. / Russian State. b-ka Separate lit. rus foreign countries; status V.N. Chuvakov ; by ed. E. V. Makarevich . - M .: Pashkov House, 2004. - V. 4: LM — M. - p. 368. - 699 p. - 1000 copies - ISBN 5-7510-0278-4 (v. 4).