Poet Kamensky biography. The boredom of an old maid. Decree on fence literature, on street painting, on balconies with music, on art carnivals

Plan:

Introduction

• 1 Biography
• 2 Awards
• 3 Artworks
• 4 Editions
• 5 memory
• 6 Other facts
Notes

• 8 Bibliography

Introduction

Vasily Vasilyevich Kamensky(April 5 (17), 1884 near Sarapul on a steamboat, according to other sources on April 14 of the same year, on a steamboat on the Kama River near Perm - November 11, 1961, Moscow) - Russian futurist poet, one of the first Russian aviators.

1. Biography

Kamensky was born into the family of the overseer of the gold mines, Count Shuvalov. The childhood of the future poet passed in the village of Borovskoye in the Urals; at the age of five, he lost his parents and was brought up in the family of his aunt, whose husband served as the manager of a towing shipping company in Perm. Childhood years passed "among steamships, barges, rafts ... hookers, sailors, captains."

It was too early to earn a living: in 1900 Kamensky left school and from 1902 to 1906 worked as a clerk in the accounting department. railway. In 1904 he began to contribute to the newspaper " Perm region”, publishing poems and notes. In the newspaper, he met local Marxists, who determined his further left-wing beliefs. At the same time, Kamensky became interested in theater, became an actor and traveled with the troupe around Russia. Returning to the Urals, he conducted propaganda work in the railway workshops and led the strike committee, for which he ended up in prison. Having been released, he made a trip to Istanbul and Tehran (impressions from the Middle East would later be reflected in his work).

In 1906 he came to Moscow. In 1907 he passed the matriculation exam in St. Petersburg, studied agronomy, and from 1908 worked as deputy editor-in-chief in the journal Vesna, where he met prominent metropolitan poets and writers, including futurists (Burlyuk, whom he studied painting, Khlebnikov and others).

In 1911 he traveled abroad, to Berlin and Paris, to study flying, on the way back he visited London and Vienna, then he was an aviator for a short time, he was one of the first in the country to master the Blériot XI monoplane. For some time he lived in his own estate near Perm, but in 1913 he moved to Moscow, where he joined the group of "cubo-futurists" and actively participated in its activities (in particular, in the publication of the collection of poems "The Garden of Judges"). At this time, Kamensky, together with Burliuk and Mayakovsky, actively traveled around the country with performances and later often performed readings of his futuristic works.

Passion for aviation did not put an end to Kamensky's literary activity - in 1914 his poetry collection "Tango with Cows" was published, in 1915 - the poem "Stenka Razin" (in 1919 it was reworked into a play, in 1928 into a novel).

Kamensky took the October Revolution with enthusiasm, like most other futurists. Conducted cultural work in the Red Army. Member of the LEF group.

In the 1930s he wrote his memoirs.

The futuristic poetry of Kamensky in its anti-urban orientation is associated with V. Khlebnikov and S. Gorodetsky. It glorifies nature, the world of the original, spontaneous, is rich in neologisms, wordplay and sound parallels that form the structure of the verse. "Stenka Razin" (written in 1914-15) - not historical novel, but a mixture of lyric-pathetic prose with poetry; Kamensky praises the restless, rebellious beginning in the Russian people, his Razin is a gusler and a singer with the features of Kamensky himself. This novel Kamensky not only intensively revised, but based on it created his own best poem"The Heart of the People - Stenka Razin" (1918).

Wolfgang Cossack

Introduced into use a stable new meaning for the word airplane.

2. Awards

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Badge of Honor
• Medals

3. Works

Path. Woodcut for the poem "Emelyan Pugachev". N. P. Dmitrevsky. 1931

• Dugout (1910, novel)
• Tango with Cows (1914, collection of poems)
• Barefoot Girls (1916, collection of poems)
• Stenka Razin (1916, novel) - published in 1918 under the title "Stepan Razin"
• The spring maiden sounded, 1918 (poetry)
• Folk heart - Stenka Razin, 1918
• Stenka Razin. Play, 1919
• Gribushin family. Film script, 1923
• 27 adventures of Hart Joyce. Roman, 1928
• Emelyan Pugachev. Poem, 1931. Staged as an opera at the Mariinsky Theatre.
• Ivan Bolotnikov. Poem, 1934
• Ural Poems (1934, collection)
• Three poems, 1935
• Homeland of happiness, 1937
• Life with Mayakovsky. Memories, 1940

4. Editions

• Kamensky V.V. Selected, 1958.
• Kamensky V.V. Poems and poems / Entry. article prepared. text and notes. N.L. Stepanova. - M., L.: Sov. writer, 1966. - 499 p. (Library of the poet. Large series. Second edition.)
• Kamensky V.V. Summer on Kamenka: Selected prose. - Perm, 1961.
• Kamensky V.V. Poems, 1977.
• Kamensky V.V. Live wonderful! - Perm, 1984.

5. Memory

• A street in the Parkovy microdistrict of the city of Perm is named after Vasily Kamensky.
• In the village of Troitsa in the Permsky district of the Perm Territory, in the house where the poet lived in 1932-1951, the Memorial House-Museum of V.V. Kamensky was opened.

6. Other facts

• Worked with Meyerhold.

Notes

1. Russian writers. XX century. Biobibliographic dictionary. At 2 p.m. Part I: A-L. Moscow: Education, 1998. ISBN 5-09-006993-X. S. 594

8. Bibliography

• Gins S. Vasily Kamensky. - Perm, 1984.
• Writers of Soviet feature films. M., 1972. - S. 160
• 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
• World Biographical encyclopedic Dictionary. M., 1998. - S. 321

Kamensky was born in the family of Vasily Filippovich Kamensky, the overseer of the gold mines of Count Shuvalov. He was born in the cabin of one of the steamboats that sailed along the Kama, the captain of which was his maternal grandfather - Evstoliya Gavriilovna - Gavriil Serebrennikov. The childhood of the future poet passed in the village of Borovskoye in the Urals; when he was not yet five years old, he lost his parents and was brought up in the family of his aunt Alexandra Trushchova, his mother's sister, whose husband, Grigory Semenovich Trushchov, served as the manager of the Lyubimov towing shipping company in Perm. Childhood years passed "among steamships, barges, rafts ... hookers, sailors, captains."

It was too early to earn a living: in 1900 Kamensky left school and from 1902 to 1906 worked as a clerk in the accounting department of the railway. In 1904, he began to collaborate in the Permsky Krai newspaper, publishing poems and notes. In the newspaper, he met local Marxists, who determined his further left-wing beliefs. At the same time, Kamensky became interested in theater, became an actor and traveled with the troupe around Russia. Returning to the Urals, he conducted propaganda work in the railway workshops and led the strike committee, for which he ended up in prison. Having been released, he made a trip to Istanbul and Tehran (impressions from the Middle East would later be reflected in his work).

In 1906 he came to Moscow. In 1907 he passed the matriculation exam in St. Petersburg, studied agronomy, and since 1908, at the invitation of the journalist and publisher N. G. Shebuev, he worked as deputy editor-in-chief in the journal Vesna, where he met prominent metropolitan poets and writers, including including the Futurists (Burlyuk, from whom he studied painting, Khlebnikov and others).

In 1911 he traveled abroad, to Berlin and Paris, to study flying, on the way back he visited London and Vienna, then he was an aviator for a short time, he was one of the first in the country to master the Blériot XI monoplane. After the plane crash in Czestochowa on April 29, 1912, he lived on the Kamenka farm built forty kilometers from Perm, but in 1913 he moved to Moscow, where he joined the group of "cubo-futurists" and actively participated in its activities (in particular, in the publication of a collection of poems "Garden of Judges"). At this time, Kamensky, together with Burliuk and Mayakovsky, actively traveled around the country with performances and later often performed readings of his futuristic works.

Passion for aviation did not put an end to Kamensky's literary activity - in 1914 his poetry collection "Tango with Cows" was published, in 1915 - the poem "Stenka Razin" (in 1919 it was reworked into a play, in 1928 into a novel).

Kamensky took the October Revolution with enthusiasm, like most other futurists. Conducted cultural work in the Red Army. Member of the LEF group.

In the 1930s he wrote his memoirs, published in 1968.

Introduced into use a stable new meaning for the word airplane.

Awards

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Badge of Honor
• Medals

Artworks

• Dugout (1910, novel)
• Tango with Cows (1914, collection of poems)
• Barefoot Girls (1916, collection of poems)
• Stenka Razin (M., 1916, novel) - in 1918 published under the title "Stepan Razin"
• Sounded stoneflies, M., "Kitovras" 1918 (poetry)
• Folk heart - Stenka Razin, 1918
• Stenka Razin. Play. M., 1919; Kharkov, 1923
• Gribushin family. Film script, 1923
• 27 adventures of Hart Joyce. Roman, 1924
• The path of the enthusiast. M., 1931
• Emelyan Pugachev. Poem, 1931. Staged as an opera at the Mariinsky Theatre.
• Ivan Bolotnikov. Poem, 1934
• Ural Poems (1934, collection)
• Three poems, 1935
• Homeland of happiness, 1937
• Power, a novel in verse, 1938. Dedicated to Valery Pavlovich Chkalov.
• Life with Mayakovsky. Memories, M., 1940

Editions

• Kamensky V. V. Selected, 1958.
• Kamensky V. V. Poems and poems / Entry. article prepared. text and notes. N.L. Stepanova. - M., L.: Sov. writer, 1966. - 499 p. (Library of the poet. Large series. Second edition.)
• Kamensky VV Summer on Kamenka: Selected prose. - Perm, 1961.
• Kamensky V.V. Poems, 1977.
• Kamensky VV It's wonderful to live! - Perm, 1984.

Memory

• A street in the Parkovy microdistrict of the city of Perm is named after Vasily Kamensky.

Other facts

• Worked with V. E. Meyerhold and M. V. Koval.

Vasily Vasilyevich Kamensky(17 (29) April 1884 , by boat on the river Kame between Perm and Sarapul, - November 11, 1961, Moscow) - Russian futurist poet , one of the first Russian aviators.

He was born in April 1884. Borovskoye village on the border of the present Perm and Sverdlovsk regions is considered to be the birthplace of the future poet. But in fact, Kamensky was born in the cabin of one of the steamers that sailed along the Kama, the captain of which was his grandfather, Gavriil Serebrennikov.
Vasily almost did not remember his parents, who died when he was not yet five years old. The boy was brought up by his mother's sister. He attended a parochial school, and then a city two-year school.
At the age of eleven, Kamensky began to write poetry.
For family reasons, Vasily had to leave his studies. He got a job in the accounting department of the Perm railway. In 1902, the theater group of V. Nikulin came to Perm on tour. Kamensky, fascinated by the theater, decided to try himself as an actor. Despite all the persuasion of relatives and friends, he left the service and joined the troupe, taking the pseudonym "Vasilkovsky".
The acting path led Kamensky to Nikolaev, to the troupe of V. Meyerhold. Once Vasily, considering that a poetic monologue in one of his roles is no good, wrote poems that he read at a rehearsal. After that, Meyerhold advised him to leave the theater and devote himself to literature. Following his advice, Kamensky left for his homeland.
He went back to work for the railroad. Kamensky became close to the Marxists and in 1905, when the railroad strike began, he was elected to the strike committee, and then in December of the same year he was sent to prison near Nizhnyaya Tura.
Having been released in May 1906, Vasily again set off on a journey: from Perm to Sevastopol, from there to Persia, and then to St. Petersburg. Once in the capital, he externally passed the matriculation exams and entered the higher agricultural courses. At the courses, Vasily began to study painting and after a few years he took part in exhibitions. In 1909, for example, at the exhibition "Impressionists" his painting "Birches", written in the technique of pointillism, was presented. Nevertheless, Kamensky did not become a professional artist.
Kamensky entered literary circles thanks to the well-known journalist N. Shibuev, who in 1908 decided to create a literary almanac "Spring", where the works of beginning authors would be published. In the autumn of 1908, Kamensky became co-editor of the Vesna magazine, in which L. Reisner, N. Aseev, Igor Severyanin, A. Averchenko and many others were published. While working in the magazine, the young poet met many venerable writers - A. Blok, A. Remizov, F. Sologub, A. Kuprin. Velimir Khlebnikov owed his first publication to Kamensky.
In March 1910, a collection of poems called “The Garden of Judges” was published, where, along with the works of David and Nikolai Burliukov, Elena Guro and Velimir Khlebnikov, Kamensky’s poems written in the summer of 1909 were published.
In 1911, Kamensky decided that he should become a pilot. Having made friends with the famous aviator Vladimir Lebedev, Vasily acquired a Blériot airplane with his help. In the meantime, the plane was delivered to Russia, the poet visited Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Rome. Having passed the exam for the title of pilot in Warsaw, he made demonstration flights in various cities. May 29, 1912 in Polish city Czestochowa, in front of numerous spectators, the plane fell into a swamp. Newspapers reported the death of a talented poet and fearless pilot. But Kamensky survived, although he received numerous severe injuries. But the airplane was not subject to restoration. Vasily again, for the umpteenth time, changed his occupation: he acquired a piece of land near Perm and founded the Kamenka farm, having tried himself as an architect and builder. In addition, he designed an airship - a kind of glider capable of moving on water and snow. In the summer of 1913, the construction in Kamenka was completed, and in the autumn the poet went to Moscow, where he met Mayakovsky, which resulted in the Futurists' tour of Russia. It was attended by Kamensky, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov and the Burliuk brothers.
In 1914 he became the editor of the First Journal of Russian Futurists, which was published by David Burliuk; at the same time Kamensky’s poetry collection “Tango with Cows” was published, the following year - the poem “Stenka Razin” (which in 1919 the poet reworked into a play, and in 1928 into the novel “Stepan Razin”), in 1916 - a collection of "Barefoot Girls".
Kamensky enthusiastically accepted the revolution, hoping that the new social order will open up unlimited scope for creative self-expression before the futurists. In 1917, he wrote his famous “Decree on Fence Literature...”, which in the early days of Soviet power was pasted on fences all over Moscow.
After the revolution, Kamensky lost the desire to shock the reader, his poems became simple and sincere.
Kamensky sincerely believed that he lived in the happiest and most advanced country. He didn't have to step on the throat of his own song. He won a prominent place for himself on the Soviet Parnassus (in 1933, when the twenty-fifth anniversary of creative activity poet, one of the Kama ships was named after him). The poems "Emelyan Pugachev" (1931), "Ivan Bolotnikov" (1934), "Encounters with the World" (1934), the novel "Pushkin and Dantes" (1922), the novel in verse "Power", dedicated to Soviet pilots(1938), and other works Kamensky wrote quite sincerely. He bowed before Pushkin, admired the brave pilots, was devoted to the revolution and the Soviet country, and the spirit of the Russian rebellion was close to his freedom-loving nature.
In 1918, Kamensky's collection of poetry "Sounded by a stonefly" was published. Then Vasily tried himself as a film actor, starring in the film "Not Born for Money."
His ebullient nature found a way out in an active social activities: in 1918 he was elected to the Moscow Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies; acted as the organizer of the Union of Poets, which existed until 1929, and became its first chairman. In 1919, he began working at the Higher Military Inspectorate and, as a cultural worker, went to the Southern Front. There he was captured by the White Guards and until the capture of the Crimea by the Red Army he was in Yalta prison. Then he went to the Caucasus, to Tiflis, where, remembering the past, he went to work as an accountant, but soon returned to Russia. Since 1924, the Perm newspaper Zvezda published many of his essays and stories dedicated to the Ural village. In 1931, Kamensky's memoirs "The Way of the Enthusiast" were published. In 1934, the poet headed the Central Theater of Water Transport Workers and hatched the idea of ​​​​creating a "floating" theater. Then he transferred Kamenka with all the property to the collective farm, and he himself moved to an empty house in the village of Trinity. In 1940, his book "Life with Mayakovsky" was published. In the early 40s, the poet began work on the poem "Ermak Timofeevich", which he completed in 1947.
He did not age in soul, but the years took their toll. In 1944, in a Tbilisi hospital, his leg was amputated, and a year later, the second. The speech delivered on April 14, 1948 in Moscow at an evening dedicated to the memory of Mayakovsky was the last public speech of the poet: five days later, Vasily Vasilyevich was struck by a stroke, which deprived him of speech and the ability to move. In the early 1950s he moved to the South with his wife and eldest son, and in 1956 Kamensky returned to Moscow: the poet did not want to give up; the thought of becoming an invalid living out his life was unbearable for him. Kamensky somewhat recovered from the blow: his hands worked, he could sit, which means that life went on. The poet's wife, Valentina Nikolaevna, and his three sons, Vasily, Alexei and Gleb, did everything so that he would not feel out of touch with life.
November 11, 1961 Vasily Kamensky died. The urn with his ashes rests on Novodevichy cemetery. The house of Kamensky in Trinity was transferred to the Trinity rural library, a museum of the poet was created in it.

Artworks

• Dugout (1910, novel)
• Tango with Cows (1914, collection of poems)
• Barefoot Girls (1916, collection of poems)
• Stenka Razin (M., 1916, novel) - in 1918 published under the title "Stepan Razin"
• Sounded stoneflies, M., "Kitovras" 1918 (poetry)
• People's Heart - Stenka Razin, 1918
• His-my biography of the Great Futurist. M., 1918
• Stenka Razin. Play. M., 1919; Kharkov, 1923
• Gribushin family. Film script, 1923
• 27 adventures of Hart Joyce. Roman, 1924
• The path of the enthusiast. M., 1931
• Emelyan Pugachev. Poem, 1931. Staged as an opera at the Mariinsky Theatre.
• Ivan Bolotnikov. Poem, 1934
• Ural Poems (1934, collection)
• Three poems, 1935
• Homeland of happiness, 1937
• Power, a novel in verse, 1938. Dedicated to Valery Pavlovich Chkalov
• Life with Mayakovsky. Memories, M., 1940

Editions

• Kamensky V.V. Sounded stoneflies (poetry). - M.-Pg.: Kitovras, 1918. - 160 p.
• Kamensky V.V. Saryn on the kichka. Chosen poems. - Federation, 1932. - 112 p.
• Kamensky VV Selected poems. - M .: OGIZ, State Publishing House of Fiction, 1934. - 248 p. (Library of modern poets)
• Kamensky V. V. Selected, 1958.
• Kamensky VV Summer on Kamenka: Selected prose. - Perm, 1961.
• Kamensky V. V. Poems and poems / Entry. article prepared. text and notes. N. L. Stepanova. — M., L.: Sov. writer, 1966. - 499 p. (Library of the poet. Large series. Second edition.)
• Kamensky V.V. Poems / Artist Vagin V. - Perm: Perm book publishing house, 1967. - 252 p.
• Kamensky V.V. Poems. — M.: Fiction, 1977. - 270 p. (B-ka modern poetry)
• Kamensky V.V. Poems. Poems. - Perm: Perm book publishing house, 1981. - 252 p.
• Kamensky VV It's wonderful to live! Ural poems / trans. from Balkar. - Perm: Perm book publishing house, 1984. - 124 p.

Kamensky Vasily Vasilievich

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Vasily Kamensky

(1884 - 1961)

Vasily Vasilyevich Kamensky was born into the family of a gold mine inspector. In his youth he was a member of the revolutionary movement (in 1905 he was elected chairman of the revolutionary strike committee of the railway, where he worked), in 1905 he was imprisoned and released after an eleven-day hunger strike (by 1906).

Auth. - D. Burliuk

Since 1906 in St. Petersburg, where, after studying at higher agricultural courses, he receives an agronomist diploma. In 1910 he was seriously interested in aviation, went to Warsaw, where he was engaged in designing and testing aircraft, becomes a certified pilot of the International Aviation Federation. Introduced the word "airplane".

V.Kamensky began his literary activity in 1904, and in 1908 he was published in the St. Petersburg almanac "Spring". His first prose work, "Dugout", published in 1911, was not successful, which for some time suspended his literary work. But at this time he closely approached a group of futurists - D.D. Burlyuk, V.V. Khlebnikov and, later, V.V. Mayakovsky. Becomes the same participants! futuristic collections, newspapers, magazines. In 1913-1914, the "All-Russian Tour of the Futurists" was held - Burliuk, Mayakovsky and Kamensky traveled through seventeen cities of Russia, promoting futurism. Public performance Kamensky had a special success.

As an artist, declare yourself in 1909, when he took part in the exhibition "Impressionists" organized by N.I. Kulbin. In 1913 he arranges an exhibition of modern painting in Perm. 1914 is the pinnacle of his activity as a futurist artist: at the exhibition "No. 4" in Moscow, he exhibits eleven "reinforced concrete poems" - a kind of synthesis of pictorial graphics and the word in its semantic, symbolic and graphic meaning. The name itself spoke of the desire to reveal the structure of "poem pictures" (as he later called them), to discover the relationship between word and image.

In addition to such verbal and graphic experiments, he also illustrated his own books (the poem "Stenka Razin". M., 1917, together with A.V. Lentulov). As an artist throughout the 1920s and 1930s he continued to work in a primitivist manner.

V. Kamensky. Drawing by V.Mayakovsky. 1917

Exhibitor: Impressionists. Petersburg, 1909; Triangle. Petersburg, 1910; pictures of the left currents. Petrograd, 1915; 0.10. Petrograd, 1915; paintings of the society "Jack of Diamonds". Moscow, 1917 and others.

Literature: Kamensky 8.6. His is my biography of the great futurist. M., 1918; he is. The path of the enthusiast. M., 1931; Chukovsky KM. Vasily Kameensky. - In the book: Chukovsky KM. Futurists. M., 1922.

Futurist of futurists. A most charming personality, especially when he became a futurist. Kamensky was a pilot, but he fell and crashed. He left the airplane and took up his pen. He understood Futurism to perfection and even outdid the Kruchenykhs. Kamensky has concrete poems that none of the Futurists have. Some said that if you take a page from the editions of the Kruchenykhs and draw lines on it, as in reinforced concrete poems, you will get a reinforced concrete poem. But this is an extreme opinion. Kamensky is original in his poems. He told me the contents of the first poem, and I wrote down his story for the Sagittarius collection. The appearance of Kamensky's publications also surpasses the publications of other futurists: he has an edition on bright, bright wallpaper. Although the priority has already been declared by Burliuk, nevertheless Kamensky is original in this case too. Kamensky loved everything flowery. When he moved into a room, to a new apartment, the first duty was to decorate his new home with various ribbons, pieces of paper, rags and slogans.

And yet Kamensky was not lucky. Many knew him, but his company did not give him a go.<...»

Here is a typical case: when not so long ago there was a congress of Soviet writers, Bukharin spoke out in praise of the futurists. He said something about everyone, but forgot to mention Kamensky. Kamensky obviously protested, and Bukharin issued an additional article about Kamensky, recognizing him as a luminary of the first magnitude! But not everyone could know about the addition. The impression was that Kamensky was not a futurist at all, but just the seventh water on jelly. I think that this was highly offensive to Vasily Vasilyevich.<...>

Kamensky was a good comrade to the Futurists and he did a lot for Futurism. He performed at scandalous public competitions along with other futurists, but he also performed with his works in the circus arena!!! Neither Kruchenykh nor Burliuk did this. Once I received a circus poster from some athlete, in which there were pictures of the athlete in different forms. I wondered: what does this have to do with me? But a letter came from Kamensky, where the riddle was explained: Kamensky performed with a wrestler in a circus and somehow managed to fasten me here too.

From the memoirs of A.A. Shemshurin

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From 1900 he worked as a clerk on the railroad, performed in the troupe, participated in the roar. movement. Since 1906 in St. Petersburg, since 1908 collaborator. in the "Scales". From 1908 he took painting lessons from D. Burliuk and N. Kulbin. One of the first Russian pilots, from 1911 he studied in Paris in the workshops of the aviator Blériot; introduced the word "aircraft". From 1913 he lived in Moscow, a member of the Cubo-Futurist movement (with D. Burliuk and V. Mayakovsky), later he moved away from Futurism. From 1948 he was seriously ill. Collection of poetry "Barefoot Girls" (1916), "Sounded stoneflies" (1918), poems in the East. themes "Stenka Razin" (1912-20), "Emelyan Pugachev" (1931), "Ivan Bolotnikov" (1935), "Ermak Timofeevich" (1947) and others. Author of memoirs. "The Way of the Enthusiast" (1931), "Life with Mayakovsky" (1940).

Born in the village of Borovskoye, Perm province, in the family of a gold mine inspector. Having lost his parents early, he was brought up in Perm in a family of relatives. At the age of 18, he became interested in theater, toured with semi-professional troupes around the cities of Russia under the pseudonym of Vasily Vasilyevich Vasilkovsky. He was an active participant in the revolutionary movement. In 1905, during the first Russian revolution, he became chairman of the strike committee of the railway in N. Tagil, for which he was in solitary confinement for a year. After his release, he left for St. Petersburg, where, after studying at higher agricultural courses, he received an agronomist diploma. In 1910-1912. serious about aviation. He studied in Paris, London and Warsaw, bought an airplane "Bleriot-XI" at his own expense. He made the first airplane flights in Perm. In 1912 he nearly died in a plane crash in Poland.

The first publication appeared in 1902 in the newspaper Permsky Krai, then in 1904 he published freedom-loving poems in the Ural newspapers. From 1908 he worked and published in the almanac "Spring", where he met Velimir Khlebnikov. Later he met the future "father of Russian futurism" David Burliuk. In 1910, together with D. Burliuks, V. Khlebnikov and other poets, he published the collection “The Garden of Judges”. In the same year, the first book of Kamensky himself was published - the lyrical story "Dugout". However, it was not successful, which for some time suspended his literary activity. After a passion for aviation and a plane crash, Kamensky left for his homeland, bought a piece of land near Perm and founded the Kamenka farm, which became his home until 1931. In 1913, Kamensky resumed his literary activity, joining the famous “futurist tour” - the trip of D. Burliuk and Mayakovsky in the cities of Russia with public performances. Since that time, Kamensky has been a constant participant in futuristic collections, newspapers, magazines and public speeches. During the tour of 1913-1914. his speeches were especially successful, the glory of a professional pilot was added to the scandalous fame of the futurist. At the same time, the circle of his literary and artistic acquaintances was expanding, together with Mayakovsky and Burliuk, he starred in the first silent films.

As an artist, Kamensky worked from 1909 (exhibition "Impressionists"), then "Triangle" (Petersburg, 1910). In 1913, he arranged an exhibition of modern painting in Perm. In 1914, at the exhibition "No. 4" (Moscow), he presented his "reinforced concrete poems", which are a synthesis of pictorial graphics and words. He also took part in the last exhibitions of the Futurists (“Exhibition of paintings of the left currents” and “0.10” (Petrograd, 1915), “Jack of Diamonds” (Moscow, 1917).

The main work of the pre-revolutionary period is the novel "Stenka Razin" (1916), later revised into a poem. Kamensky's novel was a resounding success, performances based on it were staged in many theaters in Russia.

In the 1920s wrote the book "Summer on Kamenka", the story "27 Adventures of Hort Joyce", etc. In the 1930s - the poems "Emelyan Pugachev", "Ivan Bolotnikov". In 1923, one of the first Soviet films “The Gribushin Family” was shot according to his script.

Vasily Kamensky with his son Alexei. 1934

In 1931, instead of the Kamenka estate, he received a house in the village of Troitsa, 50 km from Perm, on the high picturesque bank of the Sylva River. In this house, which was rebuilt according to his own design, he lived until 1951. Vasily Kamensky died on November 11, 1961 in Moscow.

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Vasily Vasilyevich Kamensky was born in April 1884. The birthplace of the future poet is the village of Borovskoye on the border of the current Perm and Sverdlovsk regions. But in fact, Kamensky was born in the cabin of one of the steamers that sailed along the Kama, the captain of which was his grandfather, Gavriil Serebrennikov. Vasily almost did not remember his parents, who died when he was not yet five years old. The boy was brought up by his mother's sister. He attended a parochial school, and then a city two-year school. At the age of eleven, Kamensky began to write poetry. For family reasons, Vasily had to leave his studies. He got a job in the accounting department of the Perm railway. In 1902, the theater group of V. Nikulin came to Perm on tour. Kamensky, fascinated by the theater, decided to try himself as an actor. Despite all the persuasion of relatives and friends, he left the service and joined the troupe, taking the pseudonym "Vasilkovsky". The acting path led Kamensky to Nikolaev, to the troupe of V. Meyerhold. Once Vasily, considering that a poetic monologue in one of his roles is no good, wrote poems that he read at a rehearsal. After that, Meyerhold advised him to leave the theater and devote himself to literature. Following his advice, Kamensky left for his homeland. He went back to work for the railroad. Kamensky became close to the Marxists and in 1905, when the railroad strike began, he was elected to the strike committee, and then in December of the same year he was sent to prison near Nizhnyaya Tura. Having been released in May 1906, Vasily again set off on a journey: from Perm to Sevastopol, from there to Persia, and then to St. Petersburg. Once in the capital, he externally passed the matriculation exams and entered the higher agricultural courses. At the courses, Vasily began to study painting and after a few years he took part in exhibitions.

In 1909, for example, at the exhibition "Impressionists" his painting "Birches", written in the technique of pointillism, was presented. Nevertheless, Kamensky did not become a professional artist. Kamensky entered literary circles thanks to the well-known journalist N. Shibuev, who in 1908 decided to create a literary almanac "Spring", where the works of beginning authors would be published. In the autumn of 1908, Kamensky became co-editor of the Vesna magazine, in which L. Reisner, N. Aseev, Igor Severyanin, A. Averchenko and many others were published. While working in the magazine, the young poet met many venerable writers - A. Blok, A. Remizov, F. Sologub, A. Kuprin. Velimir Khlebnikov owed his first publication to Kamensky. In March 1910, a collection of poems called "The Garden of Judges" was published, where, along with the works of David and Nikolai Burliukov, Elena Guro and Velimir Khlebnikov, Kamensky's poems written in the summer of 1909 were published. In 1911, Kamensky decided that he should become a pilot. Having made friends with the famous aviator Vladimir Lebedev, Vasily acquired a Blériot airplane with his help. In the meantime, the plane was delivered to Russia, the poet visited Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Rome. Having passed the exam for the title of pilot in Warsaw, he made demonstration flights in various cities. On May 29, 1912, in the Polish city of Czestochowa, in front of numerous spectators, the plane crashed into a swamp. Newspapers reported the death of a talented poet and fearless pilot. But Kamensky survived, although he received numerous severe injuries. But the airplane was not subject to restoration. Vasily again, for the umpteenth time, changed his occupation: he acquired a piece of land near Perm and founded the Kamenka farm, having tried himself as an architect and builder. In addition, he designed an airship - a kind of glider capable of moving on water and snow. In the summer of 1913, the construction in Kamenka was completed, and in the autumn the poet went to Moscow, where he met Mayakovsky, which resulted in the Futurists' tour of Russia.

In 1914 he became the editor of the First Journal of Russian Futurists, which was published by David Burliuk; at the same time Kamensky’s poetry collection “Tango with Cows” was published, the following year - the poem “Stenka Razin” (which in 1919 the poet reworked into a play, and in 1928 into the novel “Stepan Razin”), in 1916 - a collection of "Barefoot Girls". Kamensky enthusiastically accepted the revolution, hoping that the new social system would open up unlimited scope for creative self-expression before the futurists. In 1917, he wrote his famous “Decree on Fence Literature...”, which in the early days of Soviet power was pasted on fences all over Moscow. After the revolution, Kamensky lost the desire to shock the reader, his poems became simple and sincere. Kamensky sincerely believed that he lived in the happiest and most advanced country. He didn't have to step on the throat of his own song. He won a prominent place on the Soviet Parnassus (in 1933, when the twenty-fifth anniversary of the poet's creative activity was celebrated, one of the Kama ships was named after him). The poems "Emelyan Pugachev" (1931), "Ivan Bolotnikov" (1934), "Encounters with the World" (1934), the novel "Pushkin and Dantes" (1922), the novel in verse "Power" dedicated to Soviet pilots (1938), and other works Kamensky wrote quite sincerely. He bowed before Pushkin, admired the brave pilots, was devoted to the revolution and the Soviet country, and the spirit of the Russian rebellion was close to his freedom-loving nature. In 1918, Kamensky's collection of poetry "Sounded by a stonefly" was published. Then Vasily tried himself as a film actor, starring in the film "Not Born for Money." His ebullient nature found a way out in active social work: in 1918 he was elected to the Moscow Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies; acted as the organizer of the Union of Poets, which existed until 1929, and became its first chairman. In 1919, he began working at the Higher Military Inspectorate and, as a cultural worker, went to the Southern Front. There he was captured by the White Guards and until the capture of the Crimea by the Red Army he was in Yalta prison. Then he went to the Caucasus, to Tiflis, where, remembering the past, he went to work as an accountant, but soon returned to Russia. Since 1924, the Perm newspaper Zvezda published many of his essays and stories dedicated to the Ural village. In 1931, Kamensky's memoirs "The Way of the Enthusiast" were published. In 1934, the poet headed the Central Theater of Water Transport Workers and hatched the idea of ​​​​creating a "floating" theater. Then he transferred Kamenka with all the property to the collective farm, and he himself moved to an empty house in the village of Trinity. In 1940, his book "Life with Mayakovsky" was published. In the early 40s, the poet began work on the poem "Ermak Timofeevich", which he completed in 1947. He did not age in soul, but the years took their toll. In 1944, in a Tbilisi hospital, his leg was amputated, and a year later, the second. The speech delivered on April 14, 1948 in Moscow at an evening dedicated to the memory of Mayakovsky was the last public speech of the poet: five days later, Vasily Vasilyevich was struck by a stroke, which deprived him of speech and the ability to move. In the early 1950s he moved to the South with his wife and eldest son, and in 1956 Kamensky returned to Moscow: the poet did not want to give up; the thought of becoming an invalid living out his life was unbearable for him. Kamensky somewhat recovered from the blow: his hands worked, he could sit, which means that life went on. The poet's wife, Valentina Nikolaevna, and his three sons, Vasily, Alexei and Gleb, did everything so that he would not feel out of touch with life. November 11, 1961 Vasily Kamensky died. The urn with his ashes rests at the Novodevichy cemetery.

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“I don’t know another poet,” wrote the famous theater figure N. Evreinov about Vasily Vasilyevich Kamensky, “who would so reek of youth with her smiles, jumps, a direct approach to the most difficult problems of life, recklessness, blue-eyed faith and songs, songs, songs !

He has the real magic of the transformation of Time!<...>

Being Vasily Kamensky means being forever 18 years old.

It means to be a sage who has solved a riddle beyond the power of mortals."

The whole life of Kamensky is in dynamics, in constant movement, in a thirst for discoveries and accomplishments. V. Shershenevich wrote that "if Kamensky is talented in his work, then in his life he is even more talented."

The beginning of Kamensky's professional literary activity dates back to 1908, when he became the secretary of the St. Petersburg literary magazine Vesna. He gets acquainted with L. Andreev, F. Sologub, A. Kuprin, and also, which turned out to be more important for his creative development, with V. Khlebnikov, D. Burlyuk, N. Kulbin and a little later with E. Guro and M. Matyushin. In 1910, the collection "The Garden of Judges" was published. The perspective value of this book, as Kamensky later recalled, was realized by its authors, who believed that they were laying "a granite stone at the foundation of a" new era "of literature." Kamensky was the editor of "The Garden of Judges", his twelve poems opened this collection. Evaluating this book, V. Bryusov noted that Kamensky "comes across not bad images." N. Gumilyov wrote that the reader "from the whole cycle of poems (Kamensky. - Note) takes away the impression of novelty, fresh and joyful." Poems from "Sadok" Kamensky included in his first book - the novel "Zemlyanka" (St. Petersburg, 1910; on the cover -1911).

The concept of "futurism" for Kamensky was not a literary term, he applied it to his life: "If we are really futurists<...>If we are people of motor modernity, poets of world dynamism, newcomers-heralds from the future, masters of work and action, enthusiastic builders of new forms of life, we must, we must be able to be aviators. "In March 1911, Kamensky went to study in Paris flying with one of the pioneers of aviation, Louis Blériot, after returning during one of the flights, he crashed, remained alive and after a year and a half joined the group of cubo-futurists that had formed by that time, becoming one of its most active participants.Poet, prose writer, artist and propagandist of the new art , Kamensky takes part in numerous speeches, lectures, tours, art exhibitions, published in futuristic almanacs. Word and image were combined by Kamensky in two books of "reinforced concrete poems" - "Tango with cows" and (together with A. Krivtsov) "Naked among dressed" (both - M., 1914); the combination of different fonts and the introduction of graphic elements were calculated to ensure that the literary text was perceived simultaneously as a work of fine art (some "poems" were shown at art exhibitions).

An important event for Kamensky was the publication of the novel "Stepan Razin" (M., 1915; on the region - 1916), as well as "Zemlyanka", which included poetry. His first purely poetic collection "Barefoot Girls" (Tiflis, 1916; on the title page -1917) combined both old and new works. In the Caucasus, Kamensky continued his activities to promote futurism, giving lectures and even participating in circus performances (he read poems from Stenka Razin while riding a horse).

In 1917, Kamensky organized a "Poets' Cafe" in Moscow, which for a short time became a haven for left-wing artists. During the October events, he issued a "Decree / On fence literature, / On street painting, / On balconies with music, / On carnivals of the Arts", which was indeed hung on Moscow fences and called on artists of all types of art to a revolutionary transformation of life.

The year 1918 also became fruitful for Kamensky: he publishes two books - the poetic "Sound of the Vesneyanka" and the memoir "His-My Biography of the Great Futurist" (both - M., 1918), participates in the publication of the only issue of the Futurist Newspaper.

In the future, Kamensky is a famous Soviet poet. He wrote poetry, poems, plays, as well as fiction, essays and memoirs.

Aviator call

Cacophony of souls

Ffrrrrrrr

Motors symphony

It's me - it's me -

Futurist song fighter

And an aviator pilot

Vasily Kamensky

Elastic propeller

Tossed into the clouds

Throwing there for a visit

Flabby death-kokotka

Made out of pity

Tango coat and

With pantaloons.

V. Kamensky, 1916

Exhibitions:

Impressionists. Saint Petersburg, 1909

Triangle. Petersburg, 1910

Exhibition of contemporary painting. Perm, 1913

No. 4. Moscow, 1914

Exhibition of paintings of the left movements. Petrograd, 1915

0.10. Petrograd, 1915

Jack of Diamonds. Moscow, 1917

Selected personal publications:

Dugout. St. Petersburg, 1910

Tango with cows. Concrete Poems. Moscow, 1914

My journal. M. 1915

Stenka Razin (novel). Moscow, 1916

Poems about Transcaucasia. Tiflis. 1916

Barefoot girls. Tiflis, 1916

Book about Jews. Petrograd, 1916

His is my biography of the great futurist. Moscow, 1918

It sounded like spring. Moscow, 1918

The heart of the people - Stenka Razin (poem). Moscow, 1918

Stenka Razin (play). Moscow-Petrograd, 1919

Tsuvamma. Tiflis. 1920

Bet on immortality. B.m. 1920

Library of poets, edited by Kamensky. Moscow, No. 1 (1923), No. 2 (1923)

27 Adventures of Hort Joyce. M.L. 1924

Playbook. M. 1925

And it is. Tiflis, 1927

Summer on Kamenka: notes of a hunter. Tiflis. 1929

The path of the enthusiast. Moscow, 1931

Youth Mayakovsky. Tiflis. 1931

Saryn on a kitchka. M. 1932

Poems about Transcaucasia. Tiflis. 1932

Aino the rider. B.m. 1932

Ivan Bolotnikov. M. 1934

Selected Poems. Moscow, 1934

Poems. Leningrad, 1934

Three poems. Leningrad, 1935

Power. M. 1939

Favorites. Moscow, 1958

Poems. Moscow, 1961

Summer on Kamenka. Perm, 1961

Poems and poems. Moscow-Leningrad, 1966

V. Kamensky. Downright amazing. B.m, b.g.

V. Kamensky. Reason is praised here. B.m., b.g.

Publications with the participation of Kamensky:

Spring. St. Petersburg, 1908

Milestones. St. Petersburg, 1908 (?)

Wreath. 1909

Space. Small lit. alm. for each. St. Petersburg, 1909

Garden of Judges. St. Petersburg, 1910

A slap in the face of public taste. Moscow, 1912

Harvest. Summer 1912. book. 3. M. 1912

Garden of Judges. Saint Petersburg, 1913

Dead moon. Moscow, 1913

Naked among the dressed (co-authored with A. Kravtsov). Moscow, 1914

Mare's milk. Futurists. "Gilea". Kherson, 1914

Futurists. Roaring Parnassus. Saint Petersburg, 1914

The first magazine of Russian futurists, no. 1-2. Moscow, 1914

Dead moon. (second edition). Moscow, 1914

Spring counterparty of muses. M. 1915

I took it. Futurist drum. M. 1915

The Enchanted Wanderer. Winter Almanac. 1915(?)

Journal of Journals, No. 2, 1916

Moscow masters. Art Journal. M. 1916

Four birds. Moscow, 1916

Newspaper of the Futurists. Moscow, 1918

Georgia. Poets and writers. Tiflis. 1931

Year 21. Almanac 13. M. 1938

He was born in April 1884. Borovskoye village on the border of the present Perm and Sverdlovsk regions is considered to be the birthplace of the future poet. But actually Kamensky was born in the cabin of one of the steamers that sailed along the Kama, the captain of which was his grandfather, Gavriil Serebrennikov.

Vasily almost did not remember his parents, who died when he was not yet five years old. The boy was brought up by his mother's sister. He attended a parochial school, and then a city two-year school.

At the age of eleven, Kamensky began to write poetry.

For family reasons, Vasily had to leave his studies. He got a job in the accounting department of the Perm railway. In 1902, the theater group of V. Nikulin came to Perm on tour. Kamensky, fascinated by the theater, decided to try himself as an actor. Despite all the persuasion of relatives and friends, he left the service and joined the troupe, taking the pseudonym "Vasilkovsky".

The acting path led Kamensky to Nikolaev, to the troupe of V. Meyerhold. Once Vasily, considering that a poetic monologue in one of his roles is no good, wrote poems that he read at a rehearsal. After that, Meyerhold advised him to leave the theater and devote himself to literature. Following his advice, Kamensky left for his homeland.

He went back to work for the railroad. Kamensky became close to the Marxists and in 1905, when the railroad strike began, he was elected to the strike committee, and then in December of the same year he was sent to prison near Nizhnyaya Tura.

Having been released in May 1906, Vasily again set off on a journey: from Perm to Sevastopol, from there to Persia, and then to St. Petersburg. Once in the capital, he externally passed the matriculation exams and entered the higher agricultural courses. At the courses, Vasily began to study painting and after a few years he took part in exhibitions. In 1909, for example, at the exhibition "Impressionists" his painting "Birches", written in the technique of pointillism, was presented. Nevertheless, Kamensky did not become a professional artist.

Kamensky entered literary circles thanks to the well-known journalist N. Shibuev, who in 1908 decided to create a literary almanac "Spring", where the works of beginning authors would be published. In the autumn of 1908, Kamensky became co-editor of the journal Vesna, in which L. Reisner, A. Averchenko and many others were published. While working in the magazine, the young poet met many venerable writers - A. Remizov, A. Kuprin. he owed his first publication to Kamensky.

In March 1910, the poetic collection "Judges' Garden" was published, where, along with the works of David and Nikolai, and Velimir Khlebnikov, Kamensky's poems written in the summer of 1909 were published.

In 1911, Kamensky decided that he should become a pilot. Having made friends with the famous aviator Vladimir Lebedev, Vasily acquired a Blériot airplane with his help. In the meantime, the plane was delivered to Russia, the poet visited Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Rome. Having passed the exam for the title of pilot in Warsaw, he made demonstration flights in various cities. On May 29, 1912, in the Polish city of Czestochowa, in front of numerous spectators, the plane crashed into a swamp. Newspapers reported the death of a talented poet and fearless pilot. But Kamensky survived, although he received numerous severe injuries. But the airplane was not subject to restoration. Vasily again, for the umpteenth time, changed his occupation: he acquired a piece of land near Perm and founded the Kamenka farm, having tried himself as an architect and builder. In addition, he designed an airship - a kind of glider capable of moving on water and snow. In the summer of 1913, construction in Kamenka was completed, and in the autumn the poet went to Moscow, where he met with, which resulted in a Futurist tour of Russia. It was attended by Kamensky, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov and the Burliuk brothers.

In 1914 he became the editor of the First Journal of Russian Futurists, which was published by David Burliuk; at the same time Kamensky's poetry collection "Tango with Cows" was published, the following year - the poem "Stenka Razin" (which the poet reworked into a play in 1919, and into the novel "Stepan Razin" in 1928), in 1916 - a collection of "Barefoot Girls".

Kamensky enthusiastically accepted the revolution, hoping that the new social system would open up unlimited scope for creative self-expression before the futurists. In 1917, he wrote his famous “Decree on Fence Literature…”, which in the early days of Soviet power was pasted on fences all over Moscow.

After the revolution, Kamensky lost the desire to shock the reader, his poems became simple and sincere.

Kamensky sincerely believed that he lived in the happiest and most advanced country. He didn't have to step on the throat of his own song. He won a prominent place on the Soviet Parnassus (in 1933, when the twenty-fifth anniversary of the poet's creative activity was celebrated, one of the Kama ships was named after him). The poems "Emelyan Pugachev" (1931), "Ivan Bolotnikov" (1934), "Encounters with the World" (1934), the novel "Pushkin and Dantes" (1922), the novel in verse "Power" dedicated to Soviet pilots (1938), and other works Kamensky wrote quite sincerely. He bowed before, admired the brave pilots, was devoted to the revolution and the Soviet country, and the spirit of the Russian rebellion was close to his freedom-loving nature.

In 1918, Kamensky's collection of poetry "Sounded by a stonefly" was published. Then Vasily tried himself as a film actor, starring in the film "Not Born for Money."

His ebullient nature found a way out in active social work: in 1918 he was elected to the Moscow Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies; acted as the organizer of the Union of Poets, which existed until 1929, and became its first chairman. In 1919, he began working at the Higher Military Inspectorate and, as a cultural worker, went to the Southern Front. There he was captured by the White Guards and until the capture of the Crimea by the Red Army he was in Yalta prison. Then he went to the Caucasus, to Tiflis, where, remembering the past, he went to work as an accountant, but soon returned to Russia. Since 1924, the Perm newspaper Zvezda published many of his essays and stories dedicated to the Ural village. In 1931, Kamensky's memoirs "The Way of the Enthusiast" were published. In 1934, the poet headed the Central Theater of Water Transport Workers and hatched the idea of ​​​​creating a "floating" theater. Then he transferred Kamenka with all the property to the collective farm, and he himself moved to an empty house in the village of Trinity. In 1940, his book "Life with Mayakovsky" was published. In the early 40s, the poet began work on the poem "Ermak Timofeevich", which he completed in 1947.

He did not age in soul, but the years took their toll. In 1944, in a Tbilisi hospital, his leg was amputated, a year later - the second. The speech delivered on April 14, 1948 in Moscow at an evening dedicated to the memory of Mayakovsky was the last public speech of the poet: five days later, Vasily Vasilyevich was struck by a stroke, which deprived him of speech and the ability to move. In the early 1950s he moved to the South with his wife and eldest son, and in 1956 Kamensky returned to Moscow: the poet did not want to give up; the thought of becoming an invalid living out his life was unbearable for him. Kamensky somewhat recovered from the blow: his hands worked, he could sit - so life went on. The poet's wife, Valentina Nikolaevna, and his three sons, Vasily, Alexei and Gleb, did everything so that he would not feel out of touch with life.

November 11, 1961 Vasily Kamensky died. The urn with his ashes rests at the Novodevichy cemetery. The house of Kamensky in Trinity was transferred to the Trinity rural library, a museum of the poet was created in it.