Northerner

Igor Seversyanin (1887-1941) is a sign name of the Silver Age, a symbol of shocking, games, courage: "Still a corkscrew into the elasticity of the traffic jam, - / and the eyes of women will not be timid!" The scandalous fame of the poet began from these lines, tilted by the Great Lev Tolstoy, and the fifth anniversary of the unprecedented Severyaninsky glory, which crowned him with the title "King of the Poets" (1918), has come with the release of the collection. However, soon the "king" was in exile, where his festive talent began to fade away. Such a traditional view of the fate of the poet Vladimir Bondarenko challenges, proving that a real northerner appeared just in exile, and his best collection was "medallions" (1934) Gathering the facts, the author traveled many places of the poet’s stay - from the Cherepovets villages and the Estonian trays to Yugoslavia and China, attracted many letters, memories, documents. This biography is charged to polemic. Was Igor Severyanin"s so -uneducated in his thundering five -year period, as the author believes? Does the poet need a "diploma ”? What is poetry: poetry inspired by drunken impudence, which spread into aphorisms, or sobered lines sobered up?