Time erases the names of famous poets from the memory of descendants. However, individual poems and even lines remain forever on the lips. Today, few people know that the words of the popular song "By the Black Sea" were written by Semyon Kirsanov.
Routes of Destiny
According to all forecasts and predictions, this person was destined for a completely different life path. However, revolutionary events confused all the layouts of astrologers. Samuil Isaakovich Kortchik was born on September 18, 1906 in the family of a famous cutter and fashion designer of women's clothing. Parents lived in the city of Odessa. The boy was loved, but not pampered and brought up in severity. When the age approached, he was enrolled in the gymnasium. Sema studied well, but the events that took place under the windows of his father's house distracted him from studying classical philosophy.
The future creator of rhymed prose, not only watched the development of revolutionary processes, but took an active part in them. Already in the lower grades of the gymnasium, he began to write poetry and came up with a poetic pseudonym Kirsanov. In those years, the idol of young poets and writers was the futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. It is not surprising that Semyon, as they say, became infected with the energy of this person and tried in every possible way to imitate him. He wrote his first poem in 1916, when he was ten years old.
Literary activity
As a student at the Odessa Institute of Public Education, Kirsanov took an active part in the literary life of the city. He, as a young and promising poet, was admitted to the creative association "The Collective of Poets", whose members were already Eduard Bagritsky, Vera Inber, Valentin Kataev. It is interesting to note that the young poet did not succumb to the influence of his older comrades in the shop. He went his own way and after a while created the Odessa Association of Futurists. His poems and feuilletons were published in the newspapers "Stanok", "Moryak", "Odessa Truth".
At the invitation of Vladimir Mayakovsky, in 1925, Kirsanov moved to Moscow. A year later, his first collection of poems, entitled "Trailer. Stories in rhyme ". Gradually merging into the creative process, the poet firmly adhered to the positions taken by the surviving futurists. Kirsanov not only wrote works glorifying a new life, but continued to experiment with the word. In his poems, he linked political themes with philosophical and historical overtones. Invented great palindromes.
Recognition and privacy
During the Great Patriotic War, Kirsanov worked in different editions of front-line newspapers. He worked on the release of leaflets and posters. He wrote feuilletons, ditties slogans. The poet's creativity was appreciated - Semyon Kirsanov was awarded the Order of Lenin and two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor.
The poet's personal life cannot be called ideal. He entered into legal marriage three times. The first wife died of tuberculosis. The second - did not leave traces in the biography of Kirsanov. From the third, the wife was next to the poet until his death. Semyon Kirsanov died in December 1972 from laryngeal cancer. Buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.
