Youth years in Ukraine

Neonil's grandmother, a very well-read woman who passionately loved poetry, instilled in Dmitry a love of poetry, was engaged in the literary education of her grandson: she read from her notebook Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, as well as in the original - Shevchenko and Mickiewicz. Grandmother became the first listener of Kedrin's poems.

Among the poet's ancestors were noblemen, Kedrin's daughter Svetlana even calls him "a pure-blooded nobleman". Kedrin was barely 6 years old when the family settled in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). In 1916, 9-year-old Dmitry was sent to commercial school. On the way to the school along the green Nadezhdinskaya (now Chicherinskaya) street to a wide avenue, he always stopped on the boulevard where the bronze Pushkin towered. “From the monument to Pushkin, my craving for art begins,” the poet later recalled.

In his youth, Kedrin did a lot of self-education. He studied not only literature and history, but also philosophy, geography, and botany. On the table were volumes fiction, encyclopedic Dictionary, "The Life of Animals" by Brehm, writings from various areas science. Even at the commercial school, Dmitry succeeded in epigrams and poems on the topic of the day. Seriously engaged in poetry began at the age of 16.

Revolution and Civil War changed all plans. He began to publish in 1924 in the Yekaterinoslav provincial Komsomol newspaper "The Coming Change". One of the first published poems was called "So ordered Comrade Lenin".

In Moscow and at the front

In 1931, following his friends, the poets Mikhail Svetlov and Mikhail Golodny, he moved to Moscow. Kedrin and his wife settled in the semi-basement of an old two-story house on Taganka in Tovarishchesky Lane. He honestly wrote in his questionnaire that in 1929 he was imprisoned in Ukraine "for not reporting a well-known counter-revolutionary fact." The fact was that his friend's father was a Denikin general, and Kedrin, knowing this, did not report him to the authorities. For this "crime" he was sentenced to two years, spent 15 months behind bars and was released early. With this event, as well as with Kedrin's refusal to be a secret informer of the NKVD (sexot), a number of researchers connect the subsequent problems of the poet with the publication of his works, as well as the mystery of the death of Dmitry Borisovich under circumstances that have not yet been clarified.

After the birth of their daughter, in December 1934, the Kedrin family moved to the village of Cherkizovo, Pushkin District, near Moscow, where the poet first had a “working room”, a nook behind a curtain.

He worked in the factory newspaper "Forge" of the Mytishchi plant "Metrovagonmash", then as a literary consultant at the publishing house "Young Guard" and at the same time as a freelance editor at Goslitizdat. Here he publishes such poems as Gorky noticed "Doll" (1932), "Moscow Autumn" (1937), "Winter" (1939), the ballad "Architects" (1938), the poem "Horse" (1940). Kedrin's works are very psychological, addressed to historical, chamber and intimate themes, he glorified the creators - the creators of timeless true beauty. The poet was almost indifferent to the pathos of contemporary pre-war reality, for which the Secretary General of the Writers' Union of the USSR V. Stavsky severely criticized Kedrin and, according to the poet's relatives, even threatened him. Critics advised Dmitry Borisovich to run away from historical topics.

Neighbors and acquaintances in Cherkizov noted that Kedrin gave the impression of a silent, reserved, self-absorbed thinker: even during a walk, he often did not greet, did not answer greetings, did not enter into conversations with anyone. The poet did not part with a notebook and a pencil, he worked hard on the texts of his works.

I met here<на фронте>with exclusively interesting people… If you only knew how much daring courage, calm courage they have, what wonderful Russian people they are… important feeling, which I rarely experienced in Moscow, in our writing environment.

From Dmitry Kedrin's letters to his wife

Immediately after the war, in the summer of 1945, together with a group of writers, he went on a creative business trip to Moldova. On the way home, a neighbor in the compartment accidentally broke a jug of honey that Dmitry Borisovich was carrying to the children, which was interpreted by eyewitnesses as a mystical sign of imminent trouble. On September 15, on the platform of the Yaroslavsky railway station, for some unknown reason, unidentified persons almost pushed Kedrin under the train, and only the interference of passengers in last moment saved him. Returning home to Cherkizovo in the evening, the poet, in a gloomy foreboding, said to his wife: "This looks like persecution." He had three days to live.

Doom

At the head of the grave of Dmitry Kedrin, a 300-year-old oak grows, the oldest on the Vvedensky Mountains, which became the motive for a philosophical poem by Svetlana Kedrin dedicated to the memory of her father.

Creation

One of the most significant works of Kedrin is the poetic drama Rembrandt () about the great Dutch artist. The poem was first published in three issues of the October magazine in 1940. At the same time, the author was ordered to shorten the text of the drama, and Kedrin complied with the editorial requirement. Therefore the reader for a long time was familiar with the text only in its journal version, which was reprinted more than once. The full author's text of the drama was first published in SD Kedrina's book about her father only in 1996. In 1970-1980, the production was performed in several theaters in Russia as a drama and once as an opera. The poem was read on radio and television.

In the same genre of drama in verse, Parasha Zhemchugova was written before the war. According to the poet's daughter, tragic history serf actress Kedrin worked for about ten years. The almost completed thing disappeared without a trace in the fall of 1941 - along with a suitcase of manuscripts in a mess, when a family with two children was preparing for an evacuation, which fell through at the last moment.

In 1933, Kedrin begins and only seven years later finishes the poem "The Wedding" (first published more than 30 years later) - about the all-crushing power of love, which even the heart of Attila, the leader of the Huns, could not resist, who died on the night of his wedding, unable to stand surging and previously unknown feelings. The action of the poem unfolds against the background of a large-scale picture of the change of civilizations and contains the historiosophical understanding of the ongoing changes, characteristic of Kedrin.

In 1935 Kedrin wrote Dowry, a version sad fate poet Ferdowsi. According to the literary critic Yuri Petrunin, Kedrin equipped the poem with autobiographical overtones, enhanced its sound with his own experiences and gloomy forebodings.

The gift to penetrate into distant epochs, to be in them not an archivist researcher, but a contemporary, an eyewitness to events that have long sunk into oblivion is the rarest, exceptional property of Kedrin's talent. In history, as a rule, he was not interested in princes and nobles, but in working people, creators of material and spiritual values. He especially loved Russia, writing about her, in addition to "Architects", poems - "Horse", "Ermak", "Prince Vasilko of Rostov", "Song about Alena the Elder". At the same time, unambiguous symbolism is inherent in Kedrin's poetry: the lines in “Alena Staritsa” “All animals sleep. All people are sleeping. Some clerks execute people" - were written at the height of the Stalinist terror and are quoted by all researchers of the poet's work.

Dmitry Borisovich was not only a master historical poem and ballads but also by superb lyrics. One of his best poems “Do you want to know what Russia is - Our first love in life?” , addressed to the origins of the Russian spirit, is dated September 18, 1942, when the poet was waiting for permission to go to the front.

Poetry Kedrin received appreciated such writers as M. Gorky, V. Mayakovsky, M. Voloshin, P. Antokolsky, I. Selvinsky, M. Svetlov, V. Lugovskoy, Ya. Smelyakov, L. Ozerov, K. Kuliev and others. Before the war, Kedrin published poems in the magazines October, New world”, “Krasnaya Nov”, with poems - collections “Day of Soviet Poetry”, “Winners”. However, when it came to publishing a book, literary critics were merciless to the poet.

Kedrin made his first attempt to publish his poems as a separate edition at the State Fiction Literature Publishing House (GIHL) shortly after his arrival in Moscow in 1931. However, the manuscript was returned despite positive reviews Eduard Bagritsky and Joseph Utkin. Trying to find a compromise with the publishing house, Kedrin was forced to exclude many works from it, including those that had already received recognition. After thirteen returns of the manuscript for revision, several renamings, the only lifetime poetic collection - "Witnesses", which included only 17 poems, was published in 1940.

In 1942, Kedrin handed over to the publishing house " Soviet writer» The book «Russian poems». However, the collection did not see the light of day due to negative feedback reviewers, one of whom accused the author of "not feeling the word", the second - of "lack of independence, an abundance of other people's voices", the third - of "unfinished lines, sloppy comparisons, unclear thinking". Decades later, literary scholars characterize Kedrin's creative palette in a completely different way: his poetry of the war years was nourished by intonations of confidential conversation, historical and epic themes, and deep patriotic impulses.

Soviet editions Dmitry Kedrin.

Kedrin in the Library of Soviet Poetry.	Leningrad edition of "Children's Literature".	Perm "thick" edition of Kedrin with a circulation of 300,000 copies.

Going to the front in 1943, Kedrin gave new book poems "Day of Wrath" in Goslitizdat, but she also received several negative reviews and was not published. Probable cause refusal was that Kedrin reflected in verses not the heroic side of the war, but meager life rear, nights in the shelter, endless queues, endless human grief.

Many of my friends died in the war. The circle of loneliness is closed. I'm almost forty. I don't see my reader, I don't feel him. So, by the age of forty, life burned out bitterly and completely senselessly. This is probably due to the dubious profession that I have chosen or that has chosen me: poetry.

Along with original work, Kedrin did a lot of interlinear translations. From the end of 1938 to May 1939 he translated from Hungarian the poem "Janos the Knight" by Sandor Petofi, then from the Polish poem "Pan Twardowski" by Adam Mickiewicz. In 1939 he traveled to Ufa on the instructions of Goslitizdat to translate Mazhit Gafuri's poems from Bashkir. In the first years of the war, before being sent to a front-line newspaper, Kedrin did a lot of translations from Balkar (Gamzat Tsadasa), from Tatar (Musa Jalil), from Ukrainian (Andrey Malyshko and Vladimir Sosyura), from Belarusian (Maxim Tank), from Lithuanian (Salomeya Neris, Ludas Gyra). His translations from Ossetian (Kosta Khetagurov), from Estonian (Johannes Barbaus) and from Serbo-Croatian (Vladimir Nazor) are also known. Most of these translations were published after the death of the poet.

Prior to the release of Kedrin's collection in the Poet's Library series (1947), his work was known only to a few connoisseurs of poetry. S. Shchipachev at the Second Congress of the SP in 1954 spoke out against the hushing up of Kedrin's work.

In his work, along with song poems about nature, there is a lot of journalism and satire, and narrative poems, often historical content. In his clear and precise verses, where the measure is skillfully observed in the figurative recreation of the spirit and language of past eras, the suffering and exploits of the Russian people, the meanness, ferocity and arbitrariness of autocracy are reflected.

A family

Wife - Lyudmila Ivanovna Kedrina (Khorenko) (January 10, 1909 - July 17, 1987), originally from Krivoy Rog, from a peasant family. They met in 1926, got married in 1930. She was buried next to D. Kedrin at the Vvedenskoye cemetery in Moscow (plot No. 7). The Kedrins have two children - Svetlana and Oleg (1941-1948). Last address Kedrina - the village of Cherkizovo, Pushkinsky District, Moscow Region, 2nd School Street, house 5. A memorial plaque was installed on the house.

The daughter of the poet Svetlana Dmitrievna Kedrina (b., the village of Cherkizovo, Moscow Region), a poet, prose writer, artist, is known for her work on the study of her father's work. In 1996, in Moscow (Yaniko publishing house), her book of memoirs about her father, Living in spite of everything, was published. For the reprint of this book in Ukraine, Svetlana Kedrina was awarded in 2007 literary prize them. Dmitry Kedrin in the nomination "Prose".

In the mid-1930s, watching the persecution of Osip Mandelstam, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Pavel Vasiliev, Kedrin wrote a caustic epigram:

Poets have a strange lot,

The weak oppress the strong.

Music on poems by Kedrin

• Kedrin's texts are used in Moses Weinberg's Requiem (-).

• Composer David Tukhmanov in the 1980s composed the song "Duel" based on Kedrin's verses. Composer Igor Nikolaev wrote a song based on Dmitry Kedrin's poem "Babka Mariula".

• Kazan composer Rustam Zaripov writes to Kedrin's verses: "Voice", a vocal poem (in the original - "Record") and the cycle "Five choirs to the verses of Dm. Kedrin (for mixed choir a capella).

• In 1991, in Moscow, the Melodiya company released a giant vinyl disc by the Ufa musician and writer Sergei Krul “Everything involuntarily wakes up in memory ...”, which, in addition to songs and romances to verses by Rubtsov, Blok, Zabolotsky and Zhigulin, included two ballads on Kedrin's poems - "Heart" and "Blood". In April 2007, the same author recorded the CD "Plate" (8 songs) and donated it to the poet's daughter Svetlana Kedrina.

• Based on the poem “Wedding”, the group “Aria” wrote the song “Attila”, released on the album “Phoenix” in 2011. The text of the song tells about Attila, the leader of the Huns.
• Composer N. Peiko wrote the vocal cycle “Pictures and Reflections” to Kedrin's poems, and Peiko's students (Vulfov, Abdokov) also wrote to Kedrin's poems.

Compositions

• Witnesses, 1940
• Rembrandt. Play, 1940
• Selected, 1947, 1953, 1957
• Poems and poems, 1959
• Beauty, 1965
• Selected Works, 1974, 1978
• Architects, 1980
• Poems. Poems, 1982
• Nightingale decoy, M., "Book", 1990

Sources

• Cossack V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917. - M .: RIK "Culture", 1996. - 492 p. - 5000 copies. - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8

Links

	Portal "Literature"
	Portal "Personalities"
	Dmitry Kedrin at Wikiquote
	Dmitry Kedrin at Wikimedia Commons
	Project "Russian history"

• Kedrin Dmitry poems in the Anthology of Russian Poetry
• Biographies. Interview. Stories > Classical poets > 105 poems by Dmitry Kedrin
• Military literature > Poetry of war > Poems by D. Kedrin
• "Lilac on the Window" (centenary of Dm. Kedrin through the eyes of its participant), Sergey Krul, February 2007

From the bibliography

• "Live Against Everything"(the secret of the birth and the secret of the death of the poet Dmitry Kedrin). - M.: "Yaniko", 1996. - S. 228. - ISBN 5-88369-078-5.
• "Live Against Everything"/ Compilation, foreword by A. Ratner. - Dnepropetrovsk: Monolith, 2006. -368 p., ill.
• "Four Winds", 2005.
• "Transformation", 2008. (poems about people of difficult fate, about nature and long road to the Temple.)
• "My Island", 2009. (poems about the motherland and spiritual quest, about joyful and sad, about the nature of creativity, about spring and autumn.)

• "Network Literature" > Alexander Mikhailovich Kobrinsky:

Notes

1. Dmitry Kedrin. Kedrin Dmitry Borisovich
2. Lib.ru/Classic: Kedrin Dmitry Borisovich. Yuri Petrunin. Intentions and accomplishments
3. The fate and fate of the poet | Number 05 (2007) | Literary Russia
4. TV channel "Culture". Kedrin Dmitry. Seeing a lot, knowing a lot, knowing hatred and love
5. Dmitry Kedrin. Foreword by Lyudmila Kedrina. // Poems and poems / Ed. D. Demerdzhi. - Dnepropetrovsk: Dnepropetrovsk regional publishing house, 1958. - S. 3-10. - 104 p.

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Kedrin Dmitry Borisovich (1907-1945), Russian Soviet poet playwright, translator.

Born on February 4 (17), 1907 in the Bogodukhovsky mine, now the village. Shcheglovka (Donbass). He studied at the Commercial School, then at the Technical School of Communications in Yekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk), where in 1924 he became a literary employee of the local Komsomol newspaper. Since 1931 he lived in Moscow, in 1933-1941 he worked as a literary consultant to the publishing house "Young Guard".

These proud foreheads of the Vinci Madonnas
I met more than once with Russian peasant women,
At Ryazan pullets, bent by labor,
On the current threshing sheaves early in the morning.

Kedrin Dmitry Borisovich

Gained fame after the publication of the poem Doll (1932), warmly supported by M. Gorky, touching and sincere poems about Russian nature (Moscow Autumn, 1937; Winter, 1939, autumn song, 1940) and related to the folk-song beginning in the work of Kedrin (Two songs about the pan, 1936; Song about a soldier, 1938) poems Architects (1938) - about the legendary builders of the unprecedented beauty of the Church of the Intercession (Basil the Blessed), by order of the king blinded, when they inadvertently confessed that they could build a temple even more beautiful and thereby diminish the glory of the one erected; Song about Alena-Staritsa (1939), dedicated to the legendary participant in the rebellion Stepan Razin; The Horse (1940) - about a semi-legendary builder-architect "city builder" of the late 16th century. Fedor Kon.

Only one came out in 1940. lifetime collection poems Kedrin Witnesses. In 1943, despite poor eyesight, the poet managed to be sent as a special correspondent to the aviation newspaper Sokol Rodina (1942-1944), where he published, in particular, satirical texts under the pseudonym Vasya Gashetkin.

The intonations of a confidential conversation, historical and epic themes and deep patriotic impulses fed Kedrin's poetry of the war years, where the image of the Motherland rises, with the bitterness of the first days of the war and the unshakable will to resist (poems and ballads 1941, Raven, Raid, Deafness, Prince Vasilko Rostovsky, This whole region, dear forever ..., Bell, Judgment Day, Victory, etc.).

The images and rhythms of the Russian folk art, landscape and intimate-chamber lyrics of Kedrin are saturated with traditional plots of Russian culture at this time (poems and ballads Beauty, 1942; Alyonushka, 1942-1944; Lullaby, 1943; Gypsy, One-horned Month ..., both 1944, etc.) . The dramatic nature of Kedrin's poetry, saturated with dialogues and monologues (poetry Conversation, Ballad of twins, Griboedov), was most clearly manifested in poetic dramas (Rembrandt, 1938, published in 1940; the manuscript of Parasha Zhemchugova, lost during the evacuation of 1941), and laconic imagery his poetry - in the poem The Duel (1933, which is also interesting for its peculiar poetic self-portrait of the writer: “A boy comes to visit us / With unibrows, / A deep crimson blush / On his swarthy cheeks. / When you sit next to me, / I feel that between you / I'm boring, a little superfluous / A pedant in horn-rimmed glasses").

The depth and energy of thought differs philosophical lyrics poet (Homer was blind and Beethoven was deaf ..., 1944; Immortality, Record (“When I leave, / I will leave my voice ...”), I, 1945). For the planetary thinking of Kedrin, as well as others domestic poets his generation, is characterized by a constant sense of its successive connection with world history and culture, signs of which were poems and ballads dedicated to the history, heroes and myths of other nations / Noble Ferdus...”); Pyramid, 1940 (“...Memphis lay on a bed of brocade...”); Wedding (“King of Dacia, / Lord's scourge, / Attila...”), Barbarian, both 1933-1940, and others. Kedrin translated poetry from Ukrainian, Belarusian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Georgian and other languages.

Kedrin, Dmitry Borisovich - Russian Soviet poet. Born February 4, 1907 in the Donbass village of Shcheglovka in the family of a miner. He began to print in 1924. Studied in Dnepropetrovsk railway technical school(1922-1924). At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War volunteered for the front. He worked as a correspondent for the aviation newspaper "Falcon of the Motherland" (1942-1944). After moving to Moscow, he worked in the factory circulation and as a literary consultant at the publishing house "Young Guard".
The first collection of poetry, Witnesses, was published in 1940. One of the first significant works of Kedrin is the remarkable verse drama Rembrandt (1940) about the great Dutch artist.
The poet had a wonderful gift to penetrate into distant epochs. In history, he was interested not in princes and nobles, but in working people, creators of material and spiritual values. He especially loved Russia, writing about her, in addition to "Architects", poems - "Horse", "Ermak", "Prince Vasilko of Rostov", "Song about Alena the Elder", etc.
Dmitry Borisovich was not only a master of the historical poem and ballad, but also an excellent lyricist.
September 18, 1945 he tragically died under the wheels of suburban train(according to Igor Losievsky, was thrown out). He was buried in Moscow at the Vvedensky cemetery.

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Kedrin Dmitry Borisovich (1907-1945) - a remarkable Russian poet, playwright and translator. AT early age became an orphan and was raised by a noble grandmother. She introduced the future poet to folk art, acquainted with the poetry of such famous writers like Pushkin, Nekrasov.

Born in the Donbass in the village of Shcheglova. Educated at the Commercial School and Technical School of Communications. In 1924 he was already published in the local Komsomol newspaper, wrote poetry. He was fascinated not only by poetry, but also by theater. From 1933-1941 worked as a literary consultant in the publishing house "Young Guard" in Moscow.

Fame came to the poet after the publication of the poem Doll (1932), touching poems about the nature of Russia (Moscow Autumn, 1937; Winter, 1939; Autumn Song, 1940). A number of poems are permeated with notes of historicism and epic "Death Man", "Execution", "Petition". In 1938 Kedrin published a wonderful poem "Architects", which was dedicated to the builders of St. Basil's Cathedral. The poet dedicated the poems “Alena-Staritsa” to the Moscow warrior.

Witnesses (1940) is the first and only collection of the poet's poems. In the same year, Rembrandt was published - dramatic story about the Dutch artist. In 1943, Kedrin worked as a correspondent for the Sokol Rodina newspaper, where he published under the assumed name of Vasya Gashetkin. During this period, the poet's work reflected the bitterness of wartime, an unshakable will to win. He was worried about the topic, different social strata population. He fought for the rights of talented, honest and brave people who were defenseless against authority, brute force and profit. Dmitry creates a poem dedicated to women with hard fate- Evdokia Lopukhina, Princess Tarakanova, Praskovya Zhemchugova.

Kedrin devoted many works to world history, its connection with modernity, the culture of other peoples (Wedding, Barbarian, etc.)

He loved his homeland and dedicated to Russia more than one work “Horse”, “Ermak”, “Prince Vasilko of Rostov”, “Song about Alena the Elder”.

Kedrin D. B. declared himself not only as a master of a poem, a ballad, but also as a wonderful lyricist and translator. He translated many poems from Georgian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and other languages.

On September 18, 1945, a talented poet died under the wheels of an electric train at the hands of scoundrels. He foresaw trouble and more than once noticed that he was being followed.

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short biography Kedrin

Kedrin Dmitry Borisovich

(14.02.1907 – 18.09.1945)

Kedrin Dmitry Borisovich (02/14/1907 - 09/18/1945), Russian poet, translator. Orphaned at an early age, Kedrin was brought up by a well-educated grandmother, a noblewoman, who introduced him to the world of folk art, introduced him to the poetry of Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Shevchenko. Already in 1923, having left his studies at a technical school, he began working in a newspaper, writing poetry, and was fond of poetry and theater. By the end of the 1920s, Proletkult broke with certain tendencies of the “iron poetry”, in his poems there was a tendency towards epic and historicism (“Suicide Man”, “Execution”, “Petition”).

In 1929 arrest follows. Since 1931, after his release, Kedrin settled in the Moscow region, served as a literary consultant in the publishing house "Young Guard". The problems of his work are expanding, he is interested in “living and museum history”, that is, the connection of history with modernity. In 1938 Kedrin created a masterpiece of Russian poetry of the 20th century. - the poem "Architects", poetic embodiment legends about the builders of St. Basil's Cathedral. The verses “Alena-Staritsa” are dedicated to the Moscow holy fool warrior, and the poem “Kon” (1940) is dedicated to the semi-legendary nugget-builder Fyodor Kon. The historical and patriotic theme prevails in Kedrin's poetry even during the war years, when he was freed from military service, seeks his appointment to the front-line newspaper "Falcon of the Motherland": "The Thought of Russia" (1942), "Prince Vasilko Rostovsky" (1942), "Ermak" (1944), etc.

During the war, Kedrin declares himself as a major lyric poet: “Beauty”, “Alyonushka”, “Russia! We love dim light”, “I keep imagining a field with buckwheat…”. He starts writing a poem about women tragic fate- Evdokia Lopukhina, Princess Tarakanova, Praskovya Zhemchugova. Orthodox motifs sound more and more clearly in his poems:

When the fighting subsides little by little,

Through the measured breath of silence

We will hear how they complain to God

Killed on the last day of the war.

Upon returning from the front, Kedrin notices that he is being followed. The premonition of trouble did not deceive the poet: three months after the end of the war, he would be found killed near the railroad track.

The only lifetime collection of poems Kedrin "Witnesses" (1940) was severely curtailed by censorship.

In the 1960s and 70s, the widest, popular interest in creative heritage Kedrina defined him true place in Russian patriotic poetry.

“How dark it is in this house!” exclaims the poet Dmitry Kedrin in his famous poem"Doll" (1932). And this phrase becomes the leitmotif of his life and work. Unfortunately, he was never able to make his house bright, failed to ignite the soul with a solar spark. Perhaps this is due to the secret of birth, because the mother never revealed to him who real father poet. Or maybe the reason is the very timelessness that came after the 1917 revolution.

Adopted at the request of the mother of one of his sisters, who received the patronymic and surname of a stranger, the boy initially carried some kind of fatality. She was observed in everything: uncharacteristic for that time, intelligent, appearance, defenseless look, uncertainty of actions, absence inner rod that makes a young man an adult confident man. All his life, D. Kedrin (1907 - 1945) wanted recognition, wanted to be heard, but internal reserves were limited, and understanding this introduced an insurmountable imbalance and affected creativity.

Loss of a father

In 1914, Dmitry's father dies, and education passes into the hands of his mother, aunt and grandmother. Grandmother, Neonila Yakovlevna, introduces her grandson to the works of Russian and Ukrainian poets, teaches him to read, dream, and think. Women's hands completely surrounded him with love and affection, but did not teach him to overcome difficulties, to live in real world war and chaos in the early twentieth century. The boy really lacked a strong male shoulder.

commercial school

At the age of 9, Dmitry was sent to a commercial school in Yekaterinoslav, where the family moved. The road to the school ran along Nadezhdenskaya Street past the boulevard with the monument to Pushkin. Every day the boy saw the poet, whose poems fascinated with beauty, depth, and he wanted to, if not repeat, then come closer to the glory of A.S. Pushkin.

Technical College

From 1922 to 1924, D. Kedrin studied at the railway technical school, but vision problems did not allow him to get an education. He put on glasses early, and by his youth, his eyesight had dropped to -17. Without glasses in an unfamiliar environment, he was completely disoriented. However, this did not prevent him from starting work at the Young Smithy literary union, where he was hired as a reporter.

The magazine published his essays, feuilletons, the first poems reflecting the ideology of the time: about the pioneers, workers, peasants, the first five-year plans (“I fell in love with my monastery - the All-creating plant ...”), Lenin.

A family

Dmitry Kedrin met his future wife at the age of 19. Four years later, when Lyudmila turned 21, they got married and lived together for fifteen years, maintaining a tender relationship with each other, despite the everyday disorder, poverty, and creative failures of the poet. Dmitry Borisovich did not look much like a person "from the people", noble roots made themselves felt. Kedrin was short, graceful, with curly hair and thoughtful eyes;

Moving to Moscow

It is difficult to say why the Kedrin family decided to move to Moscow in 1931, where there was neither housing nor work. Perhaps the youthful desire to “be” prompted him, following the poets M. Svetlov and M. Golodny, to leave Ukraine and go to the capital of the Soviet state, where in the questionnaire he openly indicated the fact of “failure to report”, for which he was imprisoned for 1.3 years in prison.

First fame

In 1932, the poem "Doll" was published, which brought the first recognition and was highly appreciated by M. Gorky. The theme itself female share characteristic of Russian poets, but here the author refers to the theme of childhood insecurity, which, he hopes, will pass with the advent of the Komsomol and Soviet state. It is sad that the poem is still relevant today, it is read angrily, leaving a feeling of hopelessness.

Children

In 1934, a long-awaited event happened in the Kedrin family - a daughter was born Svetlana, and there was an opportunity to move to a house in Cherkizovo. Here the family lived until the death of the poet, and the desktop, at which Dmitry Borisovich pored, became a family relic and today is carefully kept by his daughter. In 1941, the son Oleg was born, but poor health did not allow him to live long.

Kedrin wrote a lot, but more often he put the manuscripts in a drawer, they printed it reluctantly, pointing to unpolished rhymes and weak syllables. The poet worked to improve his works constantly, but the need to earn money and feed his family left little time for inspiration. Often he felt depressed, dissatisfied, realizing that what he wanted to tell people about would remain unspoken.

War

Despite poor eyesight, D. Kedrin got a job in a front-line newspaper and was incredibly proud of the opportunity to serve the country. The war breathed life into D. Kedrin.

Let it sound anomalous, but getting to know the soldiers, their difficult unsettled life and at the same time, their selfless faith in victory inspired the poet. His experiences faded into the background, leaving room for exceptional people in the trenches with whom he had worked since 1943. In the newspaper "Falcon of the Motherland" for two years, 100 of his works were published. Kedrin was incredibly proud of his poetic success at the front and the fact that he had the opportunity to write essays about heroes. In 1943 he was awarded the Military Merit Medal.

Doom

The events of the death of D.B. Kudrin, like his birth, remains a mystery and is unlikely to ever be discovered. In Svetlana Kedrina's book about her father, Living in spite of everything, several assumptions are made about the causes and people who may be involved in the tragedy, but accurate information no. Dmitry Borisovich foresaw trouble, but no one is able to change the karma of fate. He left for Moscow on September 18, 1945, and the next day his body was found on the opposite side of the house with broken ribs and a shoulder. The wife, who tried to restore the events of her husband's death, was instructed to "take up the upbringing of children."