Poetess N. A. Grigorieva is the author of many poems filled with both philosophical and everyday meaning. Her teenage time fell on the arrest of her father, the war. All her life she had to show willpower and independence. She raised a sculptor son. The meaning of her life was in him and in poetry.
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Biography
Philosophy of life
Poetic activity
About our children
About great people
About women
Personal life
Biography
Poetess Grigorieva (Gomberg) Nadezhda Adolfovna was born in Saratov in 1927 in the family of a party worker who was shot in 1937. Three helpless women: a teenage girl, a grandmother and a mother - went through the war, evacuation. After the war, Anna Grigorievna, Nadezhda's grandmother, taught ancient history at Kursk University. After graduating from the literary department of the Kursk Pedagogical Institute in 1952, Nadezhda Grigorieva was hired as a teacher in one of the Kursk schools.
Poetic activity
N. Grigorieva was published in newspapers, magazines published in Kursk, in the Kazakh magazine "Prostor". The first book "Lyrical Diary" was published in 1957. The growth of the poet's career continued. Since 1960 to 1994 her collections were published: "About simple and good people", "Songs under the sun", "The stars cannot sleep", "Another planet", "In any weather", "Magic herbs", "I am used to living …" and others.
Philosophy of life
In the poem "And suddenly the hair lay down beautifully …" we hear reflections on age-related feelings, on the onset and retreat of old age. As the seasons change in nature, the temperature, the surrounding world, so sensual changes occur in a person, memories live or disappear.
In the poem "The Old Woman" the reader "sees" how an old woman, full of grief, barely climbs the stairs. She has groceries in her shopping bag. Now her destiny is as follows: to go with difficulty and overcome with rest, overcoming pain. She must not fall, because there is no one to lift her. The loneliness of the old man and the mercy of those around him are the last thought of the poem, reflecting his idea.
In the poem "An amiable habit of being …", the favorite way of life for a person and the whole family is recalled. This happens when the table is laid among the birches in the fall. The family is big, there is also a cousin who knits something for the kids. The great-grandfather is still alive, who calls everything that he sees around him, "an amiable habit of being."
About our children
In the poem "Mom" a generalized image of a soldier son is given. He was in a hurry to live with the times. There were bodily and mental setbacks in his young life. God is for him. The Lord can save a young man on the battlefield. The young man - a philosopher of life - was interested in Horace, was a philanthropist, believed in the transformation of the murderer, that a man would wake up in Judas. Brave in battle, not afraid of death. And there was not yet a girl who would remember him. The last lines about the fact that the young soldier did not survive.
About great people
The favorite images of the poetess were ancient Roman and ancient Greek figures. In the poem "About Caesar, about Caesar, I cry!" the poetess wants Caesar's life to last for many years. He could talk with friends, deal with people alien to the ancient Roman culture, think and fill a notebook with ideas and … relax with his beloved - the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. But the fate of the lucky gods decide in their own way.
In the poem "Dickens", the poetess pays tribute to the work of Charles Dickens, an English writer of the nineteenth century. His works are about you and me. The poetess thanks him for this. Among his heroes are the homeless, the poor, and the incognito who sends meat and sweet dishes to the poor for Christmas. In the books of Charles Dickens, they love worthy and worthy people. And the unworthy are trying to improve. The poet's desire is to live in the plans of this writer. This desire is expressed with the help of an expressive means - an exclamation sentence with an interjection "o": "Oh, if only I lived in that idea!"
And she would have walked in a cap with a basket on the cobblestone. C. Dickens would give her the opportunity to walk proudly through life.
About women
In the poem "Amazon" N. Grigorieva gives the image of fifty-year-old women who play tennis and badminton. In their youth, they did not have the opportunity to do this. And now they keep up with life. The poetess describes their sporty look, applied makeup, tense look, calls them accelerators, Amazons. This is how someone’s grandmother, someone’s wife, appears before the readers. The last line "And what has not come true - it will not come true" is covered with sadness.
There is a poem about a woman of easy virtue - "And this woman said." Her words of excuse are heard for who she is. Not distinguished by beauty. The appearance is inconspicuous. Kissed by many. The author does not accept this image, but feels that there is something in her that you will not immediately notice. This is how she laughs. Not all women are good at expressing joy.
Personal life
The core of the Grigoriev family was grandmother Anna Grigorievna. She made an invaluable contribution to the creative choice of her daughter-poet and grandson-sculptor.
The son of Grigorieva is Alexey. N. Grigorieva often said that her childhood fears that her father left and did not return have now turned into real fears for her son. If her son was not there at the exact time, she could not cope with the heartache. Love for her son was the meaning of her life. And one more meaning is literature. When serious art critics began to pay attention to him, she proudly said that he would soon have an exhibition. The son briefly outlived his mother. After a serious illness, he passed away in 2002, shortly after her death.
Alexey Grigoriev took place as a sculptor. His teacher was A. G. Pologova. She was friends with her student's family. in the form of a shield and gave it to this family. There are three figures on the shield: grandmother, mother and grandson. In the center is the grandmother. It was she who was the mainstay of the family, she helped in shaping the worldview and determining the professional path of her daughter and grandson. Behind the figure of Alexei there are shelves with books, because the son of N. Grigorieva was distinguished by a huge thirst for knowledge. The essence of the creativity of the mother and son is connected with the favorite of the muses, the winged horse Pegasus.
In recent years, the famous poetess N. Grigorieva lived in America and finished her life in 2001.
