Sergeant Nicholas

Starshinov Nicholas (p. 1924), poet.

Born on December 6 in Moscow, in Zamoskvorechye, in a large family. The outbreak of World War II forced the soldiers of yesterday's schoolboy put on his coat and go to the front. He received the rank of sergeant. In the battle of Christ-Demensk was seriously wounded. Then there was the hospital and state crutches.

The first poems were published in the newspapers front. In 1947 came the poem "The Guard soldier," where there are such lines: "The war did not we sat in the basement ..." The notebook has become a kind of front-line poems pass to the Literary Institute, which for many years remained for him a second family home. Here the poet wrote his first book of poems "Friends", published by "Young Guard" in 1951.

In 1955 he graduated from the Institute. In the 1950's saw the light of poetry collections: "In our dorm," "Soldier's youth," "Song of the world", in 1960 - "Cheerful pessimist," "Seeing," "I'm going on a date", etc..

Starshinov traveled around the country, but felt a special love for Lithuania, finding friends among the inhabitants of small villages and towns. The poet is known as a collector of rhymes, which he publishes from time to time certain books - "Joker with pictures," "Oh, Semyonovna!" etc..

In recent years, emerged poetry collections: "The verb (1993)," My friends - the soldiers, "" My Birds "(1995) and others.

In 1994 were published literary memoirs Starshinova - Faces and faces of magnitude ". N. Starshinov lives and works in Moscow.