Oleg Evgenievich Grigoriev - poet and artist,typical representative of the Leningrad underground of the 20th century. He was born in 1943, during the evacuation on the territory of the Vologda region. After the war, Oleg Evgenievich, together with his mother and brother, moved to the city of Leningrad.
The future poet began his creative activityas an artist. From childhood, Oleg Grigoriev loved to draw and at first wanted to leave his mark in this particular area of art. Therefore, he went to study at the art school at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad. But was subsequently excluded from there. This happened in 1960, the reason for the exclusion of a student was formulated as “formalism”, in fact, an occasion to be called an attempt by a future poet to defend his individuality. Also, the reasons they called what he did not draw was wrong, he was a brawler with a special look, capturing the satirist and tragic side of life, which many did not like.
After leaving the Academy and parting with his “artistic” dream, Oleg Grigoriev was engaged in a completely different activity, far from being creative. At that time he worked as a watchman, a fireman, a janitor.
Тем не менее человеком он был талантливым.And his abilities were not limited to drawing. Verses Oleg Grigoriev began writing in 16 years. Writing his works, he fully lived into the role, his infantilism and eccentricity won, and it was with such an inclination that he always lived and wrote.
In 1961, the poet came up with a quatrain: "I asked the electrician Petrov." This little poem has become a well-known and beloved folk poem.
This man had an amazing skill.The poet Oleg Grigoriev saw adults through the eyes of children and children through the eyes of adults; this made him popular with those and others. The miniatures from the poems were easily remembered, and the veracity of the described absurdity attracted the Soviet people even more.
The main property of Oleg Grigoriev's poems is irony.In the USSR, to put it mildly, she was not encouraged. But without irony, watching the news on TV or reading Soviet newspapers of that time was simply impossible. With a mocking attitude towards modern reality, everything was covered then, so this peculiarity of Oleg Grigoriev’s poetry turned out to be popular and memorable.
In 1971 the first book of the author was published.Oleg Grigoriev published poems and stories for children in it. The book was called "The Eccentrics" and gained wide popularity and popularity among the Russian people. On several creations from it even releases of the popular television magazine "Yeralash" were made. Many works from this collection have become part of the St. Petersburg urban folklore. The irony in this children's book was much softer, the poems here are quite sweet, funny, sometimes even heart-felling.
In the early 1970s, the poet was sentenced to twoyear "for parasitism." His punishment consisted of forced labor for the construction of a plant in the Vologda region, where he served him directly. But later the poet was released early.
In 1975, Oleg Grigoriev took part inwidely known for the time exhibition in the DC "Nevsky". But even this success did not contribute to the moral elevation of the author. He still continued and continued to drink and more and more became a person who was incompatible not only with the social life of society, but also with its household side.
In 1981, his second book was published.children - "Vitamin growth." Unfortunately, the verses from it caused misunderstanding and indignation of some important representatives of literary circles, due to which Grigoriev was then not accepted into the Writers' Union.
His next book, The Talking Raven, is published.already in new times for the country - during Perestroika, in 1989. In the same year he received the following conviction - “for the riot and resistance of the police,” but for this he was given a suspended sentence. He received such a light punishment because many colleagues then spoke in his defense.
The life of Oleg Grigoriev was quite difficult, in recent years he was constantly under the influence of alcohol, as, indeed, throughout his life.
At the end of his life, however, a significant event occurred for the poet - six months before his death, he was finally accepted into the Writers' Union.
Oleg Evgenievich Grigoriev dies April 30, 1992of the year. The cause of his early death was the perforation of gastric ulcer. The funeral of Oleg Grigoriev took place in St. Petersburg, at the Volkov cemetery. In honor of the poet in the house on Pushkinskaya Street, 10, a memorial plaque with his name is opened in the northern capital.
Oleg Grigoriev wrote poems truly responsiblethe ironic spirit of the Soviet era. To this day, many admire the humor and ease of such poetry. Oleg Grigoriev published books in his lifetime in small quantities, but they gained fame from the public and are still being published.
