The poet does not need intermediaries for a conversation with God. He communicates with heaven directly. Not every earthly person is given to understand what the poet writes about. Maria Petrovykh spoke about love and the destiny of those living on Earth.
Childhood and youth
Each person, willy-nilly, has to learn about the world around him. And everyone has their own reaction to everyday events. One goes into a birch forest and calculates how much firewood can be prepared here. And the other looks at the birch trees, and rejoices together take off a clear spring day. Maria Sergeevna Petrovs belongs to the generation of poets who had to live in the fateful years of cardinal changes and reforms. She knew how people live and feed on their strip of land. She saw how factory buildings grow in the place where oak and pine groves rustled.
The future poet was born on March 26, 1908 in a bourgeois family. Parents lived at that time in the suburbs of the ancient Russian city of Yaroslavl. My father served as the director of a weaving factory. The mother was engaged in housekeeping and raising children. The child grew up surrounded by care and attention. In the year that World War I began, Maria went to primary school. Then she moved to the Nekrasov School. She began to write poetry and attend a poetry studio. When Maria turned 17, she left for Moscow to become a student at the literary faculty of Moscow State University and receive a specialized education.
On the creative path
During her student years, she was actively engaged in poetry. She regularly attended events with the participation of famous Soviet poets. The literary process was gaining momentum in those years. Vladimir Mayakovsky regularly performed at the Polytechnic Museum. Maria was not a fan of this poet. I did not develop a close relationship with Joseph Mandelstam. He even dedicated his famous poem "The Master of Guilty Eyes" to her. After graduating from the University Petrovs worked in the editorial office of the newspaper "Gudok" and in the state publishing house of agricultural literature.
Maria Sergeevna was friends with the famous Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova. They met regularly, discussed current events, news of the literary process and other topics. When the war began, Maria Petrovs was evacuated to the city of Chistopol. In order to somehow feed herself in the hungry war years, the poetess was engaged in translations. In 1944, the poetess was invited to warm and hospitable Armenia. Mary was offered to translate and prepare for publication the works of young Armenian poets. She fulfilled this order brilliantly. Later, in the 60s, she will continue to cooperate with colleagues from Yerevan.
Recognition and privacy
The poems of Maria Petrovs, which come from the depths of the heart, were highly appreciated by Boris Pasternak. The poetess was awarded the honorary title "Honored Worker of Culture of the Armenian SSR".
In the personal life of Maria Sergeevna, not everything went smoothly. She officially married twice. The first husband was the poet Mikhail Zenkevich. They broke up after a year. The musicologist Vitaly Golovachev became the second spouse. In 1937, their daughter Arina was born. Husband and wife did not live long under the same roof. Golovachev was arrested in the same year and sentenced to 5 years in the camps. He died in 1942 in custody. Maria Petrovykh died in the summer of 1979.
