This author is familiar to any reader of the man.At children's parties it sounds the same: "Do not you dare forget the teachers!".On the corporate parties devoted to March 8 men inspired quote: "No women disliked - there are unmet ...".And from the radio we are catching up with the line of famous songs: "Forgive me, my love, for someone else's evil ..." "Apples on snow - pink on white, what do we do with them - with apples in the snow?", "I'm drawing, Iyou paint, I will paint sitting at the window ... ".All these verses written Andrei Dementyev, whose biography is little known of its wide range of readers.
However, in the author's poetry, as in a mirror, reflected the major milestones of his career.Where do without it?That appointments and events that occurred in his life, experiences and joy befell, and constitute the source from which comes the lyrics.
Biography Andrei Dementyev: childhood
poet was born on July 16, 1928 in Tver, on the Volga River.The city is rich with famous countrymen, but of poets, whose homeland is the former Kalinin, can perhaps mention only "the king of Russian chanson" Michael Krug.So Tver rightly proud Dementieva, who is an honorary citizen.Andrei Dmitrievich warmly remembers parents - Mary Grigorievna and Dmitry Nikitich, wooden house with a mezzanine, the Volga, where the local boys in the summer of swimming and rowing, but in winter - skating and skiing.
In 1936, the future poet went to school, so his "universities" have fallen on hard military time.The classes were maps with red and blue flags, demonstrate the advance of the troops at the front.The lessons began with the Soviet Information Bureau reports.Father arrested for the notorious Article 58, and Dementieva brought mom.Sometimes life was so hard that during adolescence Andrei nearly took his own life.
Biography Andrei Dementyev: youth
Due to the fact that his father and uncle were in the camps, the young man was unable to enroll in the Military Medical Academy and the famous Institute of International Relations, as he would have liked.He was teaching at the Philology of Tver.But three years later he transferred to the world-renowned Institute of Literature named after AMGorky in Moscow.Recommendations known he wrote in those years, the authors Michael and Sergei Lukonin Narovchatov.
Dementiev felt happy and eagerly absorbed the information in lectures and seminars.Still would!After all, the institute taught Paustovsky and Kata, Tvardovsky and Simonov, Boris and Ehrenburg.
Biography Andrei Dementyev: professional activity
graduating from the Writers Institute, the young man returned to Tver.He worked in the agricultural department "Kalinin truth", then in the regional newspaper "Change", and at night he wrote poetry.The first poem of the poet was published in 1948 here in Tver.In his native city, and saw the light of the first 5 books of the author, published from 1955 to 1963.In 1959 Dementiev became a member of the Writers' Union.
However, real poetry, creative life has been turbulent in Moscow, Andrei rushed there with all my heart.Even at the Literary Institute poet he joined the party.In 1967 he was appointed instructor of department of propaganda and agitation in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League in the capital.Creative, "uncombed" personality was hard to get used to life on the bureaucratic laws.But in the present Central Committee attended the male fraternity is tempered character.
Moscow did not break Dementieva.He worked for several years in the publishing house "Young Guard".And in 1972 it began the era of totally amazing.Dementiev became first deputy editor, and later editor in chief of the legendary magazine "Yunost".He worked in '21 at this edition, printed Vasilyev and Alexina, Voznesensky and Yevtushenko.In his tenure as editor in "Youth" published "100 days before the order" and "state of emergency of regional scale" Yuri Polyakov, "About Fedot-Archer, swashbuckling young man" by Leonid Filatov, "The Island of Crimea" Vasily Aksyonov and "The Life and Adventures of Private IvanChonkin "Vladimir Voinovich.Circulation of the magazine when Dementieva reached more than 3 million copies.
In the 90s the poet was in Israel, where he worked for several years the head of the Middle East representative of RTR.Later he worked in radio and television.Not once he was fired from his job: the publication of the objectionable verses, then for the preparation ostropoliticheskoy transmission.All the while, the author of the book came out, there were songs on his poems.
Biography Andrei Dementyev: personal life
poet was married four times.From his second marriage he had a daughter, Marina, who now lives in St. Petersburg.From the third marriage - daughter, wife Natalia (adoptive Dementyev) and son Dmitri.In the poet's life was a terrible tragedy.The son of Dmitri in the 30-year-old died by shooting himself literally in front of his wife.Poet lifetime blames himself for what happened.However, increased grandson - a full namesake of the poet Andrei Dementyev, the actor chosen career.
Andrei Dementyev - poet, whose biography is full of happy and tragic moments, ups and downs, perhaps because of his work penetrates into the souls of many readers.
