Alexander Nikolaevich Blagov is a Russian poet who has lived his entire adult life in a Russian city with a truly Russian name Ivanov. There he lived and wrote his unpretentious poems.
Biographical data
The birthplace of Alexander Nikolaevich is the village of Sorokhta. It is a few kilometers from Kostroma. Now it is part of the Ivanovo region. The poet's date of birth is December 2, 1883. His biography is extremely simple. After studying several classes at the local parish school, he continued to receive education without the help of teachers, avidly reading books on history, literature and exact sciences. When Sasha was 14 years old, he moved to the city of Ivanov, where he worked at a local weaving factory. The work was hard, but the fourteen-year-old had to do it in full. At this time, the future poet and public figure lived on Uritsky Street.
Creation
While still working at the factory, Alexander began to engage in literary creativity. His first poems were published in 1909. The poet wrote about what was happening around him: about the hard life of the workers and their dissatisfaction with the existing order of things. His most famous poems of that time were "The Moan of the Weaver", "The Worker" and some others. In 1910 he wrote the poem "10 Letters". At this time, he simply gushed with poems with a social orientation, which brought him wide fame in the future.
After the 1917 revolution, the tone of his poems changed. Now, in his work, he glorifies the free labor of the Soviet people. Unfortunately, according to many critics at this time, his poems become less interesting. In 1920, his first book of poetry was published, it was called "Songs of a Worker". Since 1925, the poet begins to work in the Ivanovo city newspaper "Rabochy Krai". At this time, he was actively involved in the struggle against "lack of ideas", stigmatizing his fellow writers who did not bother themselves too much to glorify the socialist system.
In 1926 he wrote the poem "Yesenin", which was published in the Ivanovo newspaper "Rabochy Krai". The work was dedicated to the tragic death of the poet, who, according to Blagov, lived as if in a fog and went into the fog, killing himself. Blagov criticized the decadent poems of Sergei Yesenin, he believed that modern youth should read poems that would inspire them to labor exploits.
The poet's personal life is shrouded in mystery. It is only known that he did not have a wife and children. In 1940 Blagov joined the Communist Party. The poet died in 1961. He was buried at Ivanov's Sosnevsky cemetery. In the town of Ivonov, one of the streets is named after him.
Criticism
Eduard Bagritsky called Blagov's poems real working poetry, devoid of pathos and empty chatter. The critic said that Blagov wrote simple poems, in which there was no vocabulary, shouting to hammers and anvils, he spoke in simple language about simple things. However, Professor Taganov once noted that Blagov's work is a primitive opposition of the "accursed past" to the "bright future."
To our great regret, far from the best works of the Blagoy were raised on the shield of Ivanovo poetry. The propaganda of that time stuck out poems, which later became cliches, and the author's best poems remained in the shadows.
