A motion-feature on Aleinikova V. D. from the playwright Sapgir G. V.

A motion-feature on Aleinikova V. D. from the playwright Sapgir G. V.
Moscow. 1979 size 21 x 30 cm.

Heinrich Sapgir (20 November 1928, Biysk — 7 October 1999, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet writer and poet, screenwriter and translator.

He is an outstanding heir and successor of the brilliant creators of the Russian poetic language — from Vasily Trediakovsky to Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov. Author of many books. The poet of the rarest proteic talent: throughout the creative path he changed his style and looked for new forms of expression. In early (turn 1950-1960-ies) texts often inclined to social satire, often taking elegant game forms. Later in his poetry, you can find also an infinity lyric and civic poetry. Perfectly owning traditional methods of versification (for example, sonnet), at the same time developed new, experimental forms. In the late period, Sapgir's work organically combines laconism and a variety of expressive means, a tendency to experiment, a love of detail, play, grotesque, irony, pathos, ecstatic state of mind. Critics spoke of it as a classic of the modern Russian avant-garde. "They had Brodsky in St. Petersburg, and we have Sapgir in Moscow, " this well-known phrase reflects not so much the difference in literary tastes of the two capitals as the real creative weight of the poet Heinrich Sapgir. Andrei Voznesensky called it the great. "It seems that he comes out the winner of the most doomed struggle — with time" (A. Bits). Sapgir wrote: "I was looking for a new harmony in the language, which I found."

Born into a Jewish family in Biysk, Altai Krai, the son of a shoemaker Beniamin Faibisovich (Vladimir Pavlovich) Sapgir (1895-1963), who in the period of NEP the enterprise for manufacture of shoes and is forced with his family to move to Biysk. Sapgir wrote about the fact that the part of the mother, seamstress Malki of vulfovna (Maria Vladimirovna) Sapgir (nee white, 1902-1957), he was in relationship c Marc Chagall. Parents came from Vitebsk and the spoken language in the family was Yiddish[6]. He had older brothers Meer (in everyday life Michael, 1919-1991) and Igor, younger sister Ella. In the early 1930s, the family settled in Moscow.  

During the war, remained with his mother in Aleksandrov, Vladimir oblast father and brothers went to the front (my father was drafted in 1942, was awarded the order of the red Star, medals[9]; brother Igor was killed at the front). In 1944 he returned to Moscow alone (his mother and her three-year-old sister remained in Alexandrov).

Since 1944 member of the literary Studio of the poet and artist Yevgeny Kropivnitsky at the House of pioneers of the Leningrad region of Moscow. Since the late 1950-ies around Kropivnitskogo and his apprentice artist Oscar Rabin formed a tight circle of close aesthetically poets and artists, later called "Lianozovo school" (near Moscow Lianozovo lived Rabin). He studied at the printing College, in 1948-1952 he served in the military at the Sverdlovsk-4. After demobilization he worked as a quantity surveyor in the sculptural works of Art Fund (1953-1960). 

In the Soviet years, a lot Sapgir was published as a children's writer (his are the scripts of cartoons "Train from Romashkova" and others, the translation of the text of the song "Green carriage" (from Yiddish poems by ovsey driz) and others.

In his "New primer" Sapgir adheres to the traditional method of teaching reading by word. In the columns of words he created, the letters and sounds in the words resonate diagonally, vertically and horizontally, creating sound-sense and graphic correspondences. 

In 1979 he participated in the uncensored almanac "Metropol". The first publication of "adult" poetry Sapgir abroad in 1965, the Soviet Union only in 1989, during perestroika. He also acted as an interpreter (first of all, the Jewish poet Oatmeal Dries, German concrete poetry and the American poet Jim Kates). The author of the poetic section of the anthology "Samizdat of the century" (1998), on the basis of which the Internet project "Unofficial poetry"was created. 

In the years of perestroika became a member of the writers ' Union of Moscow (1988), although the idea of the Union of writers regarded negatively. He was a member of the PEN club in 1995, before his death, joined the group of does (1999).

In 1996, he was among the cultural and scientific figures who called on the Russian authorities to stop the war in Chechnya and move to the negotiation process. 

He died of a heart attack in a Moscow trolley bus on the way to the presentation of the anthology "Poetry of silence", where he was to speak. ("Trolleybus flight to the sky", — a line in the text of Henry Sapgir "Strange border", 1999).

Vladimir D. Aleinikov (born. 28 January 1946, Perm) — Russian poet, one of founders Smog. He began to write poetry and prose at school. He studied music, painting and graphics. In 1962-1964 he was a member of the group of young Krivoy Rog poets. Since may 1962 — the first publication of poems in Ukrainian Newspapers. In 1963, during Khrushchev's persecution of formalism, he was exposed in the Ukrainian press. In 1964 he entered the Department of history and art theory of the faculty of history of Moscow state University. Acquaintance and friendship with the main representatives of the domestic underground.

In January 1965, together with Leonid Gubanov, he founded the smog literary community and became its leader. February-March 1965 — smog performances in Moscow. Since 1965 — the publication of poems in the West. In the spring of 1965 Aleynikov was expelled from the University. In 1966 he was restored to Moscow state University, which he graduated in 1973.

Under Soviet power at home was not published, more than a quarter of a century poems were distributed in samizdat. In the years 1971-1978 bezdomnych, wandered about the country. He worked in archaeological expeditions, as a loader, as a janitor, at school, in a large-circulation newspaper, as an editor in a publishing house. In the early 1980s he wrote poems for children. For several years he wrote internal reviews in Moscow publishing houses. In the 1980s he was known as a translator of poetry of the peoples of the USSR.

The publication of poems and prose at home began in the period of perestroika. The first books of poetry were published in 1987. In the early 1990s, several large books of poetry were published. Now Aleynikov is the author of many books of poetry and prose - memories of a bygone era and his contemporaries. The poems have been translated into different languages.

Member of the editorial Board of magazines "Sagittarius", "Khreschatyk". Member of the Union of writers of Moscow, the Union of writers of the 21st century and the creative Council of the Union. Member of the PEN club. Since 1991 he lives in Moscow and Koktebel.

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