Her poems are always different - now about love, now about the Motherland, now about war - but always equally figurative, filled with rich vocabulary, unusual epithets and metaphors. She wrote about what she saw around and about what she felt, so her poems were close to everyone.
Rimma was born in 1932 in Sevastopol. Parents gave her the name Remo, which stands for "Revolution, Electrification, World October." Later she changed this name to a more euphonic one.
All of Rimma's childhood was spent in Belarus, including the difficult war years, then her parents transported her daughter to Leningrad.
After school, the future poetess became a student at Leningrad State University - she studied to be a historian. And after graduation I went on assignment to the Far East.
She worked in Khabarovsk, in the House of Officers - she was a consultant lecturer, then got the position of editor at the Far Eastern news studio.
Here, in 1958, the first collection of poems by Kazakova was published under the title "Let's Meet in the East". The Khabarovsk Territory presented the young poetess with meetings with interesting people, from these meetings she drew inspiration for her poems. However, the main work was not related to poetry, and Rimma wanted to devote himself entirely to poetry, to link his biography with literature.
Therefore, she enters the Higher Literary Courses and graduates from them in 1964. By that time, Kazakova was already a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR. She writes a lot on various topics, publishes her collections, translates foreign poets and collaborates with composers to create songs.
In 1976, Rimma Kazakova became the secretary of the board of the Union of Writers of the USSR and worked there until 1981, and in 1999 became the first secretary of the Union of Writers of Moscow.
In these positions, she organized Days of Literature, poetry holidays, poetry evenings, meetings of young young writers.
Poetic creativity
Despite her workload, Rimma Fyodorovna wrote a lot, and she drew inspiration for her poems on trips to different countries. Hence the names of her poems: "Tokyo", "I'm back to the East", "From a Cuban diary", "And there is fog in London", "The Baltic states", "Central Asian pages", "Karlovy Vary".
However, her poems about love were especially touching, many of which were later set to music, and they became wonderful songs: "Wedding Music", "You Love Me", "Madonna" and others. In total, fans of Rimma Fedorovna's work counted more than 70 songs on melodies of Doga, Krutoy, Zatsepin, Martynov, Basner and other composers.
In the 90s of the last century, Kazakova writes more and more on social topics, reflecting in her lyrics this difficult time and state of society.
Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova has many awards: four orders, including the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree, and four medals, as well as literary prizes.
After the death of the poetess, a literary prize named after her "Beginning" was established, which is awarded to young poets.
Personal life
The first husband of Rimma Kazakova is writer-publicist Georgy Radov. Together they lived for eight not very happy years: the husband drank, scandalized, rowdy. They had a little son - Yegor, but this did not stop Radov.
A few years after the divorce, Rimma Fedorovna married a man younger than herself. At first, everything was wonderful - she was a happy wife and mother, but later treason began, and the couple broke up.
Not everything was all right with my son either - he started taking drugs. However, in recent interviews, Rimma Fedorovna said that he managed to cope with this problem.
Rimma Kazakova passed away at the age of 77, in May 2008, and was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
