Alexey Alekhin is a contemporary Russian poet, journalist and critic. His works have been translated into many languages of the world and have been repeatedly awarded literary prizes. He is the founder and ideological inspirer of the poetic magazine "Arion".
Biography: early years
Alexey Davidovich Alekhin was born on June 13, 1949 in Moscow. His family lived in a communal apartment near the Nikitsky Gate. She was in the former mansion of his maternal ancestors, who were famous industrialists. However, after 1917 the house was nationalized.
Alekhine's father was a Jew, originally from Voronezh. In Moscow, he first worked as a foreman in one of the factories, and later became a doctor of technical sciences.
Love for the world of art was in Alexei's blood. Lodges in the conservatory and a number of Moscow theaters have always been reserved for his ancestors. There were also artists in his family. In an interview, Alekhine noted that painting and music accompanied him almost from the cradle. From the age of three, his father began to take Alexei to various exhibitions.
He wrote his first poem at the age of six. And in the seventh grade Alekhine became interested in jazz, ecstatically listening to the Voice of America.
Career and creativity
After school, Alexey entered the journalism faculty of Moscow State University. Having successfully graduated from it, he worked for 21 years in the publication "Soviet Union". During these years Alekhine traveled very closely around the country. In parallel, he published a collection of poems "The Nature of Things". This was in 1983. The circulation was only 40 copies, which were sold mainly to friends. And four years later, his poems were first published in one of the "official" magazines of the country.
After leaving the "Soviet Union", he moved to China, where he began working for the China Pictorial Magazine. He lived in the Celestial Empire for only 1, 5 years. In 1995, he published a book about his life in China.
In 1994 Alekhine founded the poetic magazine "Arion". It became the first "thick" publication of this kind in modern Russia. From the same year, his works began to appear more and more often on the pages of many literary magazines.
His creations are based on free verse, in which he likes to include alliteration additionally. Alekhine's poetry is characterized by a capacious metaphor. It is in it that all the salt of his works is contained.
In total, Alexey Alekhin has published 10 books, including:
- "Around Sunday Europe";
- "A Psalm for a Typewriter";
- "Flight of the Beetle";
- "Kite Notes".
In 2015, Alekhine tried his hand at children's literature by publishing the book "I'll Tell You About Five Paws." It includes short stories about the adventures of mysterious characters.
Alekhine is the owner of a number of literary awards, including the Petropol Prize and the New Life magazine.
Personal life
Little is known about the personal life of Alexei Alekhin. He carefully hides it, because he believes that the reader should be interested only in the poet's creative life, and not in his “everyday life”. It is known that Alekhine is married. He often mentions his wife in his poems. There is no information about children.
