Lisovsky, Kazimir Leonidovich

Born November 29, 1919 in Ukraine in the village of Obodovka, Vinnytsia region, in the family of an accountant.

In early 1930, the family moved to Siberia, at the Harik junction, near the large village of Kuitun, where the construction of the Irkutsk grain farm began.

He began to write poetry while still at school, in 1933, the poem “Angara” was published in the Irkutsk pioneer newspaper “For a Healthy Change”.

In the same 1933, the family moved to Krasnoyarsk, where he graduated from high school.

Since 1934, it began to be published in the newspaper Krasnoyarsk Worker . For several years he worked in the editorial offices of the Krasnoyarsk newspapers Stalin’s Grandchildren and the Bolshevik Yenisei.

During the Great Patriotic War, the writer was not accepted into the army for health reasons (since childhood, he suffered from a serious illness - bone tuberculosis). Together with the Krasnoyarsk poet Ignatius Rozhdestvensky, he performed poetry on the radio and in newspapers, at factories and in hospitals, and participated in the production of propaganda posters “ TASS Windows ”.

In 1942-1943 he worked in Igarka as executive secretary of the newspaper Bolshevik Zapolyarya.

The first book of poems “Oath” was published in Krasnoyarsk in 1944.

In 1945 he became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR .

In 1958 he moved to Novosibirsk .

He was actively engaged in creative work, despite a severe progressive illness, bedridden by the end of his life, traveled all over Siberia, climbed into the most remote places - he sailed almost the entire Lower Tunguska on a raft, and the Podkamennaya Tunguska on an limka boat.

He spent a lot of effort on finding the lost grave of the legendary polar explorer N. A. Begichev in the tundra, and then securing a special expedition to investigate the circumstances of his death, dedicated the poem Russian Begichev to him.

He died on January 25, 1980.

Rewards

He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1969, " for services to the development of Soviet literature ") and the Order of the Badge of Honor .

The title "Honorary Builder of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station", and with which he was especially proud - the title "Honorary Riverman", assigned to him as "the singer of the great Yenisei River."

The first poem "Angara" appeared in 1933 in the Irkutsk pioneer newspaper. The first book of poems “Oath” was published in Krasnoyarsk in 1944.

Then more than thirty poetry collections were published by the publishers of Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, and Krasnoyarsk. Fifteen collections of the poet were published in Moscow.

Poems were published in central newspapers, in the magazines Oktyabr, Ogonyok, Moscow, Neva, Siberian Lights, Smena.

The main theme in the poet's work is Siberia. The heroes of his poems are really living people: builders, pilots, rivermen, trackers. Most of them the author knew personally. The poet spoke about a specific fate, about the main business of life, about the main action that determined this fate.

I absolutely believe that the historians of Siberia, recalling the years of the civil war and the first five-year plans, studying the years of the Great Patriotic War and peaceful construction, the construction of new railways, combines, giant hydroelectric power stations, will not pass indifferently by our lines, because in each of them it is felt pulse of Siberia, her heart beats.

- Casimir Lisovsky

The poet’s main work is usually called the poem novel “The Russian Man Begichev” (1947) about the famous polar traveler I. Begichev , whose personality the poet was interested in all his life, and about whom he wrote books of documentary essays “The Pathfinder of the North Nikifor Begichev”, “The Secret of the Cape Entrance ”and“ In the footsteps of Ulakhan Antsifor ”.

Also among the works are the poem “The Tramp Ran From Sakhalin” whose name originates from the folk song of the pre-revolutionary time, especially popular in Siberia. The poem about Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, who was sentenced to hard labor because "he could not give his piece of land to the landowner // And avenged the whole fortune // The manor house was set on fire ", he escapes from hard labor and ends up in Evenkia, where he settles down firmly, marries Evenki building a house for a girl ... laying the foundation for the Nepomniachtchi family, which gave its name to the large Evenki-Russian village.

The cycle of poems about Krasnoyarsk "The City of My Youth" (1949) is famous and popular.

Of particular interest is the poem “ Crazy Train ” written in the period of the “thaw” (1966) - the biography of Admiral A.V. Kolchak , where he was presented unable to accept the revolution as a “knight of the white idea”, which, in the end, became his tragedy: in the poem it is shown how political ambitions can destroy a bright personality, a bold polar explorer.

Fragments of poems:

rhythmic transitions, as required by the content itself

Impact

According to the memoirs of the writer Viktor Astafyev, the very first youthful impression that led him to literature was one event that shocked him: in the orphanage where he studied, the whole class did not learn the poem “Borodino” by Mikhail Lermontov, and then the literature teacher read the poem “To the Poet's Death” "Allegedly written by an unknown author. This teacher was Ignatius Rozhdestvensky , who knew Kazimir Lisovsky, and the poem read was a poem by Kazimir Lisovsky about the duel of Lermontov, published in the Krasnoyarsk Almanac . However, for some reason, the teacher chose to hide the poet’s name, and this poem was never published again. ^[2]

Bibliography ^[3]

• Kureyka, fishing machine. - Krasnoyarsk, 1945
• Northern spring. - N-sk., 1946
• A word about a Russian woman. - N-sk., 1947
• The edge of my songs. - Irkutsk, 1948
• Five rays of a star. - N-sk., 1948;
• Poems and poems. - N-sk., 1949;
• Northern spring. - M., 1950
• The city of my youth. - Krasnoyarsk, 1950
• The lights of the north. N-sk., 1951
• Pathfinder of the North Nikifor Begichev: Essay. - N-sk., 1952
• The sun over Kureyka. - Krasnoyarsk, 1952
• The sun over Kureyka. - M., 1952
• Stars of happiness. - N-sk., 1953
• The edge of my songs. - N-sk., 1954
• From new poems. - N-sk., 1955
• My Siberia. Poems. - M .: Pravda (Library "Twinkle" No. 15), 1957. - 29 p. (circulation of 150,000 copies)
• My Siberian side. M., 1956;
• Always on the go. - N-sk., 1958
• New settlers of Siberia. - M., 1959
• To the native land. - Krasnoyarsk, 1959
• Silver spruce. Barnaul, 1959
• Morning of Siberia: Essay and Poems. - M., 1959
• To Cape Entrance: Essays. - N-sk., 1962
• Yenisei, native Yenisei ... - M., 1963
• At different latitudes. - M., 1963
• Your young face. - Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk Book Publishing House, 1963. - 352 p.
• Fav. poems. M., 1964
• About the deer / K. L. Lisovsky; artist V.P. Konyashev. - Novosibirsk: Zap.-Sib. Prince Publishing House, 1964. - 20 p.
• Stars of distant roads: Travel essays. - Krasnoyarsk, 1964
• Price line: New poems and the poem "Crazy Train". - N-sk., 1966
• I love trackers: Poems of different years / K. L. Lisovsky; artist V.I. Brodsky. - M .: Owls. writer, 1966. - 217 p.
• Poems. Poems. N-sk., 1968
• City of my youth: Poems / K. L. Lisovsky; artist V.I. Meshkov. - Krasnoyarsk: Book. Publishing House, 1968. - 183 p.
• In the footsteps of Ulakhan Antsifor / K.L. Lisovsky. - Krasnoyarsk: Book. Publishing House, 1970 .-- 99 p.
• Poems / K. L. Lisovsky; artist A. Tambovkin. - M.: Young Guard, 1971. - 128 p.
• In Shusha, at the foot of the Sayan: Poems / K. L. Lisovsky; artist E. Zaitsev. - Novosibirsk: Zap.-Sib. Prince Publishing House, 1971. - 62 p.
• Second Wind: Poems. - N-sk., 1972.
• In Shusha, at the foot of the Sayan: Poems. - N-sk., 1974
• Poems. Poems / K. L. Lisovsky; artist M. Elzufen. - M .: Hood. lit., 1974.- 302 p.
• Hospitality: Book of Poems / Art. E. Kleimenov, M. Shevtsova - M .: Hood. lit. 1974.- 247 p.
• The mystery of Cape Entrance: about N. Begichev. - Novosibirsk: Zap.-Sib. Prince Publishing House, 1975 .-- 127 p.
• In the land that has become my love: Poems, poems. - Krasnoyarsk: Book. Publishing House, 1975 .-- 231 p.
• Stars of distant roads: Poems / Art. I.I. Babayants. - M.: Soviet writer, 1977 .-- 189 p.
• Price line: Poems and poems. - Novosibirsk: Zap.-Sib. Prince Publishing House, 1978.- 298 p.
• Hospitality. Poems and poems. - M., "Contemporary", 1979.
• Crazy Train / Art. E.F. Zaitsev. - Novosibirsk: Book. Publishing House, 1989 .-- 135 p.

Some publications in periodicals:

• Casimir Lisovsky. A tramp fled from Sakhalin. Poem // Literary Journal " Siberian Lights ", No. 01 - January-February 1955 - pp. 140-148
• Casimir Lisovsky. Departure. Poems // Literary magazine " Siberian Lights ", No. 02 - March-April 1954 - p. 3-4

• Korzhev V. - Kazimir Lisovsky. Literary portrait. - Novosibirsk, 1980
• Shlenskaya G.K. - L. Lisovsky. // Literary Siberia. Critical-bio-bibliographic dictionary of writers of Eastern Siberia. - Irkutsk, 1988
• Lisovsky Kazimir Leonidovich // N. N. Yanovsky Russian writers of Siberia of the twentieth century. - Novosibirsk, 1997
• Poet of Siberia (Difficult versts of Kazimir Lisovsky) // Gorshenin, Alexey Valerevich - Persons of Siberian literature: essays and essays about the writers of Siberia / A. V. Gorshenin. - Novosibirsk: NPO SP of Russia, 2006. - S. 116-121.
• The most “Siberian” poet: about Casimir Lisovsky // Bowing to his father’s land: Russian writers - natives of Podillia / Anatoly Rechmedin . - Vinnitsa: Vinnitsa newspaper, 2009 .-- 147 p.
• Kazimir Lisovsky // Writers of the Yenisei province and the Krasnoyarsk Territory: a directory - Krasnoyarsk, 2015. - 320 p. - pp. 156-157

• Kazimir Lisovsky // Literary map of the city of Novosibirsk and the Novosibirsk region