Kirsanov Semen Isaakovich

(1906 - 1972)

Born September 5 (18 NS) in Odessa in the family of a tailor

. Children and youth Kirsanov held in Odessa: he graduated from high school, . saw revolution, . beginning of Soviet power, . civil war, . steamers, . emigres took them to Constantinople, . and working units under the red flags, . entered the city,
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In 1920, studying at the Faculty of Philology of the Odessa Institute of National Education, Kirsanov have written poems about the campaign against illiteracy, the Red Army, the revolution. Who arrived in 1924 in Odessa, Mayakovsky took the young Odessan poems and published them in "LEF". Kirsanov longed to Moscow, on the "left front", to create new poetry, not similar to anything that happened in the past, longed disputes and discoveries. In 1925, arrives in Moscow, published in the journal Lef, together with Mayakovsky appeared with the reading of poems in different cities of the country. Release of the first of his books - "Sight" (1926), "Experiments" (1927), the poem "My birthday party" (1928). Since the early 1930's has been active in the field of poetic journalism (collections of "Lines of construction," "Poems in the ranks," "Impact quarter", the poem "Five-Year Plan", etc.). Amounted slogans for plants, published in the factory newspaper, went to the construction of the Dnieper. In the late 1930's returned to the lyrics, wrote "Cinderella" and "thy poem. With a group of Soviet poets traveled to Europe (Paris, Prague, Warsaw).

During the war he worked in wartime editions, visited on different fronts, writing leaflets, slogans, limericks, satires, poetry. After the war came out of his book - "The feeling of the new," Soviet Life "," Comrades, poems, and translations of poems by P. Neruda, Hikmet, N., Louis Aragon and other poets. In 1954 published a significant work - poem, "The Peak". By this time belongs to the cycle of poems about Italy, poems about London and the cycle Leningrad Notebook ".

In recent years, emerged compilations "Lyrics. 1924 - 1962 "," quests "(1967)," Mirrors "(1970). S. Kirsanov poet died in Moscow in 1972.

Used materials kn.: Russian writers and poets. Brief Biographical Dictionary. Moscow, 2000.


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Kirsanov Semen Isaakovich (5.6.1906, Odessa - 10.12.1972, Moscow), poet laureate of the Stalin Prize (1951). The son of a tailor. Educated at the Faculty of Philology of the Odessa Institute of Education (1935). He made his debut with his poems in 1922. Was close to the VV. Mayakovsky was a member of LEF (Left Front). He specialized in the field of literary journalism: a compilation of poems "Lines of construction" (1930), "Poems in the ranks" (1932), the poem "Five-Year Plan" (1931), "Go" (1933), etc.. The most famous of his works: "Comrade Marx" (1933), a verse novel "Makar Mazzei (1947-50), the poem" Eden "and" Alexander Matrosov (1946). His poems were an integral part of political propaganda. During the Great Patriotic War, a war correspondent for several newspapers and TASS. The peak of his popularity came in the Khrushchev "thaw".