Today we will talk about such a wonderfula writer like Yuri Ryashentsev. Biography, personal life and his work will be the main themes of this article. Ryashentsov is a famous Soviet and Russian screenwriter, poet and prose writer. The texts of songs for films and musicals he composed have been known to very many in our country since childhood. Since 1970, Ryashentsov is a member of the Writers 'Union, and since 1992 he has been a member of the PEN Club (International Writers' Society).
The writer was born on June 16, 1931 in Leningrad.In his memoirs about childhood, he writes that he was a very spoiled child who enjoyed the love of not only the whole family, but also friends, and neighbors. And in the 7th grade, the teacher of literature called Ryashentseva Ilya Ilyich, comparing him with Oblomov, who in childhood was also loved and spoiled by everyone.
When the boy was 3 years old, the family moved to Moscow. His mother was a knitwear artist. His father was repressed in 1938 and died. The writer's stepfather was arrested in 1949.
The children and youth years of Ryashentsev were held inMoscow Here Khamovniki, the Mandelstam Garden and the Novodevichy Convent became his favorite places. These places had a great influence on the formation of the poet. Later, their beauty will be embodied in verse lines.
Ryashentsev Yuri says that despite the experienced through the war years (hunger, poverty, ruin), he always remembers the Khamovniki associated with this period.
After graduation, Yuri wanted to enter the Moscow State University,however, in Soviet times, for the son and stepchild of two repressed, this road was forever closed. Then the future writer decides to enter the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. Lenin. Yury Ryashentsev graduated with honors from him in 1954, receiving a philological education.
Yuri Yevgenievich at age 19, as oneschool year lost due to evacuation. The choice of the future educational institution was strongly influenced by one remarkable case. Being already in the last school class, Yuri found himself at the regional volleyball competitions as part of a team of the pedagogical institute. After the game was over, teachers of physical education at this institute approached the youth and offered to go to study with them. So Ryashentsev received a pedagogical education.
Yury Evgenievich Ryashentsev loved to learn.In addition, he met such famous people as Y. Koval, Y. Vizbor, Y. Kim, V. Dolina, P. Fomenko and many others in the pedagogical university. Ryashentsev believed that at his institute all the talents laid down by nature were manifested in man.
Учился Ряшенцев хорошо, о чем свидетельствует и diploma with honors. However, the poet himself claims that he was not a diligent student, but simply knew how to pass exams. In his memoirs, he writes that he especially remembered one teacher who managed to make the future writer fall in love with her subject and such little-known authors as D. Venevitinov and A. Delvig. Also, this woman taught additional classes in the Pushkin period at the university.
Student years were marked for Ryashentsevfond bard song. In those years, this genre was very popular among young people - the songs were played around campfires, on hikes, on trains. It was then that Yury Evgenievich, together with V. Krasnovsky and Yu. Vizbor, began to compose the melodies for the songs themselves.
After graduating from the Pedagogical Institute, Yuri Ryashentsev was engaged in teaching for the next seven years, of which for 3 years he worked in a school for difficult adolescents.
Only in 1955 Ryashentsev begins to publish his first works in the journal “Youth”. The author himself believes that he should have started writing literature much earlier.
In 1962, Yuri Evgenievich invited to work in the journal "Youth", in the department of poetry. The writer worked at this place until the 90s, helping to publish for the first time many young poets.
To date, six poems have been published.collections Ryashentseva. The first was called "Hearth" and was printed in 1967. And the poems of the poet were at least once published in the pages of all central Russian and Soviet literary magazines.
The second book of poems by Ryashentsev was published in 1972 and was called "The Clock over the Lane".
Yury Evgenievich Ryashentsev himself considers hisdebut in the theater play "Poor Lisa", which was staged in 1973 on the stage of the Leningrad Academic Bolshoi Theater. The work was written in collaboration with Mark Rozovsky. Also for the play Ryashentsev wrote lyrics for songs.
In addition, the poet often wrote lyrics for other plays staged at the Leningrad Bolshoi Theater. Among them is such a famous performance as The Horse's History.
In the 1980s, two more poetry collections of the writer appeared: "The Iberian Side" and "Leap Year".
Ryashentsev also participated in the creation of a hugenumber of television movies. Including the writer worked on the Russian version of "Metro". He wrote many famous songs for films that we know from childhood: “D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers”, “Midshipmen, Go!”, “The Forgotten Melody for Flute”, “Merry Chronicle of the Dangerous Journey”, “The Island of the Dead Ships”, etc. .
In 1990 saw the light of another collection of poems of the poet called "Rainy Thursday."
But Yury Ryashentsev wrote not only poetry, but alsoprose works. So, in 1994, he created a novel, which he called “In Makovniki. And nowhere else. The work was published as a separate book only in 2001.
And the last to date collectionpoems, called "Lanfren-Lanfra", was released in 2002. In addition to writing his own works, Ryashentsy is engaged in poetic translations from Armenian, Ukrainian, Buryat and Georgian.
Поэт Юрий Ряшенцев в 1995 году стал лауреатом awards of the printed publication “Arion”, nomination - “The Best Poems of the Year”. Three times he was the winner of the All-Union competition for the translation of poetic works. And in 2002 he was awarded the prize. Bulat Okudzhava.
In 2006, the writer celebrated his 75th birthday.
Some works written in collaborationRyashentsev Yuri. The poet's wife, Galina Polidi, worked with him on the musical “Metro”, as well as on the libretto for the operas “The Queen” (D. Tukhmanov), “Albert and Giselle” (A. Zhurbin), “Crime and Punishment” (E. Artemiev ). The creative tandem was formed back in 1996 and turned out to be incredibly successful and fruitful. No less successful was the marriage of the creative couple.
As for his profession, Ryashentsy is notconsiders himself a poet. Usually Yury Evgenievich says that he is engaged in literature and writes poems for theatrical productions and films. In addition, the writer claims that he would not have left the theater, even if he had not had the need to earn money.
Ryashentsev Yuri does not agree that hiscalled the poet of the sixties. For the writer, the sixties are primarily associated with fame, Ryashentsev himself says that he has nothing to do with fame and is not interested in it. The poet never wanted to “wake up famous”, he was interested in much more interesting things - the surrounding reality, the speed of life, the beauty of nature.
Nevertheless, Ryashentsev had a good relationship.with almost all the sixties. Among them are A. Voznesensky, E. Yevtushenko, R. Rozhdestvensky, and B. Akhmadulina - the writer even managed to play volleyball and tennis with all these people. They were all good friends for Ryashentsev. However, the writer does not include himself in their number. Yury Evgenyevich says that his main desire throughout his life was one thing: not to have bosses over himself.
The personal life of the writer was quite stormy:he has two divorces. For the first time, Rshentsev married while still in college. It was a thoughtless step, the cause of which was a fleeting passion. It is therefore not surprising that the union did not last long - after a year and a half the couple divorced.
The next wife of the poet was Olga Batrakova,working as an editor at Mosfilm and having membership in the Russian Union of Cinematographers. In this marriage, Ryashentsev had two children: a daughter, Maria (1962) and a son, Eugene (1976). However, in the end, the couple still divorced. Yuri Ryashentsev does not particularly like to talk about this stage of his life.
Galina Polidi, playwright and librettist, has becomenext chosen by the writer. This marriage turned out to be the most successful for Ryashentsev in all respects. In addition to the companion of life, he found in the person of the spouse a wonderful collaborator.
Ryashentsov is still married to Polydi. Happy family lives in Moscow.
