Rozhdestvensky V.A. (1895-1977), poet

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ROZHDESTVENSKY Vsevolod Alexandrovich (1895, Tsarskoe Selo of St. Petersburg province - 1977, Leningrad), a poet. He graduated from the First St. Petersburg Gymnasia and began to appear in the press in 1910. In 1914 he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Petrograd University, but in 1916 was mobilised to serve in the army. He took part in the February Revolution and October Revolution of 1917, as well as in the Civil War. He was a member of the Third "Guild of Poets". His first collections of poems include: Years in Gymnasia (1914), Summer, Golden Spindle (both date back to 1921), Ursa Major (1926), Granite Garden (1929); altogether he published over 30 volumes of poetry. His acquaintance with A.A. Blok had a significant impact on Rozhdestvensky. In the early 1920s M. Gorky engaged him in the work of the publishing house World Literature, and that appeared to be the starting point of his poetic translations to which he devoted himself. In 1941 he was attached to the Leningrad Militia, later assumed the functions of a war correspondent at the Volkhovsky and Karelsky fronts. Rozhdestvensky left memoirs Passages of Life (1962, second edition in 1974), Box of Memory (1972), and a number of opera librettos. The unique image of his native city, which had inspired the best works of Russian and World culture, as well as the heroic pages of its past, the charm of its suburbs represent the basic subjects of Rozhdestvensky's lyric poetry (cycles On the Banks of the Neva, The City of My Youth, Familiar Names, The City of Glory, Gardens of a Poet etc.). In 1919-21 he lived in the House of Arts, dwelled at 33 Liteiny Avenue from the late 1930s, and 9 Griboedova Canal Embankment from 1949 (memorial plaque). He was buried at Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Амстердам А. В. Всеволод Рождественский: Путь поэта. М.; Л., 1965; Васильева И. А. Всеволод Рождественский: Очерк жизни и творчества. Л., 1983; О Всеволоде Рождественском: Воспоминания. Письма. Документы. Л., 1986.

T. M. Dvinyatina. Blok G.P.
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Rozhdestvensky Vsevolod Alexandrovich
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 33
Амстердам А.В. Всеволод Рождественский: Путь поэта. М.; Л., 1965
Васильева И.А. Всеволод Рождественский: Очерк жизни и творчества. Л., 1983
О Всеволоде Рождественском: Воспоминания. Письма. Документы. Л., 1986 Poets Guild
World of Literature, publishing house, 1918-1924
Volkhov Front
Arts, The House of, literary society
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis