O Kochetkova biography

For a quarter of a century, these words have been heard over the snowy expanses of Russia on New Year's Eve, filling with a sense of bright sadness not one heart. Poems by Alexander Sergeyevich Kochetkov became known to thousands of spectators after the premiere of E. Ryazanov’s popular film “The Irony of Fate, or with a slight steam”. A comedic, almost farce plot, framed by spiritualized poetic and musical phrases, was filled with deep meaning, sincerity and warmth.

It was then that many first learned the name of the poet - Alexander Sergeyevich Kochetkov. But the “ballad of a smoky carriage” in a manuscript and sabotage options has existed since a year and has its own story. In the year, in Tashkent from Kochetkov evacuated there, “Ballad of a Cloud Wagon” was heard by the military journalist Leonid Solovyov, the author of the popular book about Hodge Nasruddin.

Its list became the original from which copies were removed. During the Great Patriotic War, she enjoyed the same success that “Wait for me” K. she became a spell, a prayer for a future meeting. It seemed that the author experienced the horror of bombing and crashes. In the X years, poems chained the attraction of related and loving souls to themselves. Kochetkov, the same age as our century, was born in May.

After graduating from the Losinoostrovsky gymnasium in the year, he entered the philological faculty of Moscow University, but was soon drafted into the Red Army, where he served two years. Then, for some time, he worked as a librarian in the North Caucasus, a literary consultant in the Moper International Society for Assistance to Revolutionary Workers. But always, in the most difficult life situations, A.

Kochetkov worked on verses, starting to write them since the age of fourteen. As the author of original poetic and dramatic works by A. Kochetkov, he was not known little, his translations of Cornell, Rasin, Schiller, Hafiz, the Epic poems of the peoples of the Soviet Union were more valued. Already after the death of A. Kochetkov, the author of the most complete study of his work L. Ozerov managed to publish two “small tragedies” of the poet - “Homer's Head” and “Adelaide Grabbe”, as well as “Ballad”, whose share of the greatest success fell.

The impulse for poetic thoughts about love and death, sacrifice and tenderness was a specific case from the life of the poet. Hundreds of passengers were killed. Among them are Kochetkov’s acquaintances returning from the sanatorium.

Friends who came to meet the poet considered him the dead. He could most likely have to die. The miracle saved. Two had two relations to the creation of this miracle: Kochetkov himself and his wife, Inna Grigoryevna Pereriteleva. At the end of summer, they rested in Stavropol. It was time for him to return. She intended to linger for a couple of weeks. A ticket was bought - on the same Sochi train.

However, on the eve of the departure, wanting to delay the separation, even for a short -lived, they exchanged a ticket, postponed the departure for three days, arranged this holiday, a gift of fate, which turned out to be not metaphorical - “a price to life”. The poem seems to us a dialogue of two loving hearts, its unity, inextricable in order to confront fate.

It was the love of his wife, Inna Grigoryevna Pisoroteleva, who became that “hand calling in the distance,” contrary to the fate of the poet who defended the poet. Inna Grigoryevna, a man of high culture and morality, was the daughter of G. Porriteleeva, known in the North Caucasus of the local historian and public figure, whose name is today the Stavropol Museum of Local Lore.

She inherited from her father mind, intelligence, kindness and selflessness. In the prewar years, A. Kochetkov and his wife often visited Stavropol, in her father’s house. Later, the family lived in Kislovodsk, where Alexander Sergeyevich was engaged in translations, and Inna Grigoryevna opened the public library, taught children. How and how did these amazing people live in the difficult 30s?

Ozerov recalls: “Behind the works of Kochetkov, their creator arises - a man of great kindness and honesty. He possessed the gift of compassion for someone else's trouble he was an artist in everything. He did not have money, and if they appeared, then they were immediately migrated to the pillows of the patients, in empty wallets of those in need. He was helpless about the device of the fate of his works, he was friendly and friendly by some cute and long-out-of-fashion friendliness of Kochetkov S.

Shervinsky in the book “From Acquaintance to Kinship” wrote about meetings with the poet in the year: “Kochetkov worked a lot in Schiller’s translations. He sat for hours, bending over the desk at the window. Galka flew up and sat on his head, on his shoulders. He could not not notice them, but he did not dare to drive them away: every living creature in his circle was considered, if not sacred, then in any case, requiring tenderness and guardianship.

” Having lived a difficult, but full of inner light and dignity, A. Kochetkov worked on the word until his death. His Peru belongs to the amazing in the beauty of the verse and plasticity of images the dramatic poem “Nikolai Copernicus”, on which the author worked for many years, studying everything that has been connected with Copernicus and his era was published in the city of Dramatic tests, and before “Nikolai Copernicus”.In the year, he wrote the libretto of the opera “Steppe” of muses.

In the year, together with S., the famous director Yu. Zavadsky staged his play in the poems “Nadezhda Durov” together with K. to large dramatic works, one -acting: “Homer's head” about Rembrandt, “Adelaide Grabbe” about Beethoven, “Andersen's holiday”, “King Mark”, the poem “adolescence”, “end of Faust” and many trees and many ”and many Other poetic works and translations. Unfortunately, A.

Kochetkov’s work is not known enough, despite the fact that P. Antokolsky, A. Tarkovsky and other poets close in spirit were highly valued. Both during his lifetime and after death, he was not awarded a well -deserved recognition. Our contemporary, V. Perelmoter rightly wrote about A. Kochetv: “From the nervous, uneven handwriting, from the inconspicuous movements of the steel, with the ink spray of the penciling paper of the pen there are lines of such purity and piercing, which, perhaps, should distinguish the author of the originality of lyrical intonation, which is almost less common than the granting of the first magnitude.” But the lines of his beloved and felt “ballads” instill the hope that the path to recognizing his amazing life and creativity is not over, it continues.