The poet Tarkovsky, a famous Russian translator from oriental languages, was a representative of the classical style in literature. Father of the famous director Andrei Tarkovsky. In 1989 he was posthumously awarded the USSR State Prize.
Genealogy of the poet
There are two versions regarding the genealogy of the poet Tarkovsky, each of which contains historical sources, family legends and statements by the hero of our article himself.
The first version is Polish. It was presented as fully as possible in the book by Tarkovsky’s daughter Marina “Fragments of the Mirror.” She claims to have seen her family tree as a child. It was drawn in ink on parchment. Then only the 1803 charter in Polish remained, which confirmed the noble privileges of Major Matvey Tarkovsky.
From this letter it followed that the Tarkovsky family was from Poland. And the grandfather and great-grandfather of the poet Tarkovsky were military men and lived on the territory of Ukraine.
There is also a Kumyk version, which became popular after the first trip of the poet Arseny Tarkovsky to Dagestan in 1938. Later, he repeatedly pointed out his origins from the Shamkhals, and was even proud of his Dagestan ancestors. Marina Tarkovskaya confirms that there was such a version of the origin of their family in the family. However, none of these versions is supported by documents, so it is not possible to establish the truth.
Childhood and youth
The future poet Tarkovsky was born in the Kherson province in 1907. As a child, together with my father and brother, I went to poetry evenings when metropolitan celebrities came. Young Arseny saw with his own eyes Konstantin Balmont, Igor Severyanin, Fyodor Sologub.
In 1919, during the Civil War, the family remained in Ukraine. The lives of Arseny and his older brother were in the balance. They were detained because Valery threw a bomb at Atamansha Maruska Nikiforova, an ally of Nestor Makhno, leader of the Ukrainian anarchists. Then the Tarkovskys were released, but Valery was soon killed. He died in battle against Ataman Grigoriev in the same year.
When Soviet power was established in Ukraine, relations with it with the poet Tarkovsky, whose biography is presented in this article, did not immediately work out. In the newspaper, he and his friends published an acrostic poem, the first letters of which formed an unflattering description of Lenin. They were arrested, but Arseny managed to escape from the train. He wandered for a long time, trying many professions. He worked in a fishing cooperative and was a shoemaker. According to some reports, by 1925 he graduated from a vocational school and went to Moscow.
Tarkovsky in Moscow
The hero of our article arrived in the capital in 1923. He moved in with his paternal aunt. In 1925 he entered the Higher Literary Courses. There he met the poet Shengeli, who in the future became his best friend.
Maria Vishnyakova, who three years later became his wife, also entered with him. But I failed to complete the courses. In 1929, they were closed due to the suicide of one of the students; failed graduates were not allowed to take exams at Moscow State University.
First poems
As the poet Tarkovsky himself stated, he began writing poems from early childhood. He managed to publish for the first time only in 1927. The 4-verse "Candle" was published in the collection "Two Dawns", and the following year the poem "Bread" appeared in the magazine "Spotlight".
Until 1929, he worked at the same time for the newspaper "Gudok", wrote poetic fables and feuilletons, and judicial essays. Published under the pseudonym Taras Podkova. Since 1931 he began to collaborate with the All-Union Radio. At the request of the literary and artistic department, he even wrote a production play, “Glass.” To get acquainted with the glass company, I made a special trip to the plant in Nizhny Novgorod. The production premiered in 1932, but Tarkovsky was criticized for using mysticism as a literary device.
Translator's work
The hero of our article began to engage in literary translations in 1933. Basically, these are works of national poets, in order to get to know them better, Arseny Tarkovsky goes on creative trips to Crimea, Kyrgyzstan, and the Caucasus.
In 1936, the poet met the wife of literary critic Trenin, Antonina Bokhonova, and left his family for her sake. By that time, he already had two children - Andrei, born in 1932, and Marina, who was two years younger.
In 1939, with Bokhonova and her daughter Elena, they lived in Chechnya, where Tarkovsky translated poems by local poets. Returning to Leningrad, he falls ill with diphtheria. He has been undergoing treatment for a long time in the infectious diseases department of the Botkin Hospital.
In 1940 he was accepted into the USSR Writers' Union. In the same year, he officially filed for divorce and married Bokhonova.
During the war years
When the war began, Tarkovsky accompanied both his families to evacuation, and he himself underwent military training. But according to the conclusion of the medical commission, he is denied mobilization.
Then he organizes for Muscovites, and on October 16 he leaves the capital with his mother for Chistopol. There Tarkovsky reunites with his family and writes his famous cycle “The Chistopol Notebook”. At the same time, he continues to write applications asking to be sent to the front. Finally, on January 3, 1942, he was enrolled in the newspaper "Combat Alert".
Almost every day he is sent to the front line to collect information, his partner dies, Tarkovsky himself takes part in battles more than once. In April 1943 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
In December, near Vitebsk, he was wounded in the leg. In the hospital he develops gas gangrene. His wife brings him to Moscow to see Professor Vishnevsky, who performs the sixth amputation. He left the hospital in 1944, his second wife selflessly caring for him.
"Silence of the Muse"
In 1945, Tarkovsky published a book of poems, “The Silence of the Muse,” but due to the fact that it did not contain a single poem praising Stalin, and only one mentioned Lenin, the book’s printing was stopped after the famous Decree “On Zvezda Magazines.” and "Leningrad".
The year 1946 becomes one of the most important in his biography. Tarkovsky meets Akhmatova, they remain friends until the end of their lives. Soon he decides to part with Bokhonova, who saved his life during the war by coming to the front. He translates Turkmen poets, but cannot publish his poems, which becomes a difficult test for him.
In 1951, the hero of our article officially married Tatyana Ozerskaya, who had been accompanying him on business trips for several years. That same year, his second wife died after a serious illness.
Tarkovsky still does a lot of translations, but writes his poems for the table.
Release of the first book
For the first time, a book of poems by Arseny Tarkovsky was published only with the onset of the “thaw”. The collection "Before the Snow" was published in 1962, when the poet was 55 years old.
In the 60s, he published two more books - “Earthly - Earthly” and “Messenger”. Tarkovsky's poems are becoming popular and beloved by many. He even has the opportunity to travel abroad - to England and France.
Akhmatova's death in 1966 turns into a personal tragedy for him. He accompanies her coffin and speaks at the civil funeral service. He dedicates a cycle of his poems to Akhmatova.
"Magic Mountains"
In 1978, Tarkovsky published the book “Magic Mountains” at the Merani publishing house, which includes his translations of Georgian poets and original poems. In subsequent years, the poet Tarkovsky worked on the collections “Winter Day”, “Favorites” and “Poems of Different Years”. Of this list, the most important is the book "Favorites", which also includes his poems.
In the spring of 1982, his son went to Italy to work on the film Nostalgia. Two years later, he holds a press conference in Milan, at which he announces that he will not return to the Soviet Union. Arseny respected his son’s civic position, but in a letter to him he stated that he was convinced of the need for a Russian artist to live and work in his homeland, together with his people enduring all the hardships and sorrows that befall him.
The hero of our article is having a hard time being separated from his son; Andrei’s death in December 1986 was a terrible blow. After this, his illness began to develop rapidly.
The Secretariat of the Soviet Union of Cinematographers is working to ensure that the name of Andrei Tarkovsky returns to his homeland. This also removes disgrace from his father. At the age of 80, he was even awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. In the same year, the collections “Be Yourself” and “From Youth to Old Age” were published. He no longer participates in their preparation, as he physically feels extremely bad.
Death of Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky spent the last years of his life in the House of Cinema Veterans. By November 1988, his condition deteriorated so much that he was urgently transferred for treatment to the Central Clinical Hospital of Moscow. Already in the hospital, he learns that he has been awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, first degree.
In 1989, another book by the poet, “Star over Aragats,” was published. This became his last lifetime publication.
Late in the evening of May 27, 1989, Arseny Tarkovsky dies in hospital after a long illness. To bid farewell to him, the Great Hall in the Central House of Writers was provided. On June 1, the funeral took place in Peredelkino. Previously, the poet was buried in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Arseny Tarkovsky was 81 years old.
At the end of 1989, he was posthumously awarded the USSR State Prize for a collection of poems entitled “From Youth to Old Age.”
Another important publication, which, however, was published after the poet’s death, is the collection “Blessed Light.” Its appearance was initiated by the publisher from St. Petersburg Vadim Nazarov in 1993. It contained a preface by Yuri Kublanovsky, in which he talks about the work and life of the poet. Among the compilers was his daughter Marina Tarkovskaya.
Tarkovsky's poems are heard in many of his son's films. In particular, in “Mirror”, “Nostalgia”, “Stalker”. In Vyacheslav Amirkhanyan's documentaries "In the Middle of the World" and "Little Life" the author's poems are performed.
Life, life
I don’t believe in premonitions, and will accept
I'm not afraid. No slander, no poison
I'm not running. There is no death in the world:
Everyone is immortal. Everything is immortal. No need
To be afraid of death at seventeen years old,
Not at seventy. There is only reality and light,
There is neither darkness nor death in this world.
We are all already on the seashore,
And I'm one of those who choose networks,
When immortality comes in a jamb.
Live in a house - and the house will not collapse.
I will call any of the centuries,
I will enter it and build a house in it.
That's why your children are with me
And your wives are at the same table, -
And there is one table for both great-grandfather and grandson:
The future is happening now
And if I raise my hand,
All five rays will remain with you.
Every day of the past I grow stronger,
He propped himself up with his collarbones,
Measured time with a measuring chain
And he passed through it as if through the Urals.
I selected my age according to my height.
We walked south, kept the dust over the steppe;
The weeds were smoking; the grasshopper spoiled
He touched the horseshoes with his mustache and prophesied,
And he threatened me with death like a monk.
I strapped my fate to the saddle;
I am still in the times to come,
Like a boy, I stand up in my stirrups.
My immortality is enough for me,
So that my blood flows from century to century.
For the right angle of even heat
I would willingly pay with my life,
If only her flying needle
It didn’t lead me like a thread through the world.
Arseny Tarkovsky. Poems from different years.
Moscow, "Sovremennik" 1983. Life, life
I do not believe in premonitions, and will accept
I"m not afraid. Neither slander nor poison
I"m not running. There is no death in the world:
All are immortal. Immortal everything. Don't
To fear death at the age of seventeen,
Not at seventy. There is only reality and light,
There is no darkness, no death in this world.
We are all on the shore of the sea,
And I"m one of those who choose networks,
When there is immortality in a jamb.
Live in the house - and the house will not collapse.
I will call any of the centuries,
I will enter into it and build a house in it.
That's why with me your children
And your wives at the same table, -
A table alone and great-grandfather and grandson:
The future is happening now,
And if I raise my hand,
All five rays will remain with you.
I am every day past, as a staple,
He clutched his clavicles,
I measured the time by the earth-measuring chain
And through it passed, as through the Urals.
I picked up my own eyelid for growth.
We went to the south, kept dust over the steppe;
Burian was drinking; the grasshopper indulged,
Horseshoe touched a mustache, and prophesied,
And he threatened me with death, like a monk.
I pressed my fate to the saddle;
I am now in the future times,
As a boy, I stand in the stirrups.
I have enough of my immortality,
That my blood flowed from century to century.
For the right angle of smooth heat
I would have paid my own life with will,
When would her flying needle
I, as a thread, did not lead in the world.
Arseny Tarkovsky. Poems of different years.
Moscow, The Contemporary 1983.
“So the summer has passed, as if it never happened.
It's warm when warming up. Only this is not enough...”
Few people know that in her legendary hit she performed poems by Arseny Tarkovsky. The poet's daughter is sure that if her father had written a couple of poems about the party, his collections would have been published much earlier. But, an aristocrat in spirit, he did not serve the system and received recognition only at the age of 55.
Childhood and youth
Arseny Tarkovsky was born on June 25, 1907 in Elisavetgrad (now the city of Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine). Mom Maria Danilovna was born Romanian and worked as a teacher. Father Alexander Karlovich served in the Public Bank. For organizing a populist circle, the man was exiled to Eastern Siberia for five years, where he began to engage in journalism. Upon his return, he wrote for local and Odessa newspapers.
Arseny had an older brother, Valery, in 1919 he died in battle against Ataman Grigoriev. Poetry was close to the boy since childhood: with his father they attended creative evenings and other authors of the Silver Age. In 1925, after graduating from a seven-year school, Arseny went to Moscow and entered the Higher Literary Courses, which he graduated in 1929.
Literature
Since the late 1920s, Tarkovsky has been writing articles for the newspaper Gudok and poetic feuilletons for the magazine Spotlight. In 1933 he began to engage in translation activities, and a year later the first books of translations were published.
In 1940, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Writers, Mark Tarlovsky proposed to include Tarkovsky in the Union for translations of Kyrgyz and Turkmen poetry and Georgian folk songs. The decision was made positively.
The beginning of the war found Arseny in Moscow: he sent his first wife and children to be evacuated to the Ivanovo region, and his second to the city of Chistopol. At the end of October 1941, he himself went to Tatarstan, where he created a cycle of poems, “The Chistopol Notebook.” At the same time, he writes to the Presidium of the Writers' Union with requests to take him to the front. Since January 1942, he was assigned to the post of writer for the army newspaper “Combat Alert”.
The poet took part in hostilities more than once, managed to write poems glorifying the feat of the Soviet army, and fables ridiculing the Nazis. Soldiers cut out poems from newspapers and carried them in their breast pockets along with documents and photos of loved ones - they were so popular in difficult years. In 1943, he was wounded in the leg and had to have it amputated due to gas gangrene.
Tarkovsky failed to publish his first collection: he refused to include political poems in it. The first book, “Before the Snow,” was published only in 1962, two more – in 1966 and 1969. Tarkovsky began to be invited to perform at popular poetry evenings. In 1978, the Georgian publishing house “Merani” published another book, “Magic Mountains,” where, in addition to original poems, readers are offered translations of Georgian poets written by Tarkovsky.
The last lifetime publication was the book “Stars over Aragats”, published in 1988. In total, 12 collections of Tarkovsky’s poems and 1 three-volume collected works were published. Arseny's work occupies a unique place in Russian poetry. He managed to convey to the reader, under the conditions of a strict aesthetic dictatorship, the traditions of the Silver Age, giving them an individual modern touch.
In March 1982, the son went to Italy to film the film “Nostalgia”. A few months later, at a press conference in Milan, he stated that he had no plans to return to the USSR. Tarkovsky Sr. accepted his civic position, but in his letters he expressed the opinion that “a Russian artist should live and work in his homeland.”
The death of his son in 1986 was a strong blow for Arseny Alexandrovich. From that moment on, his health began to deteriorate sharply.
Personal life
Maria Gustavovna Falz is considered the poet’s first youthful love - the poem “First Date” was dedicated to her. The woman, the widow of an officer, lived in Elisavetgrad and was much older than Tarkovsky. Maria Gustavovna was a muse for Arseny, he wrote poems to her throughout his life. But a serious relationship with Falz did not work out.
The biography of Arseny Tarkovsky includes three official marriages. He married for the first time in 1928 to classmate Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakova. The marriage produces two children - Andrei and Marina. Arseny's son will become a great film director and screenwriter, his daughter will become a writer.
In 1937, the father of two children left the family for Antonina Aleksandrovna Bokhonova. Officially, the divorce and new marriage were registered only in 1940. Biographers see a banal reason for the breakup of the first marriage: children. They required time, attention, care. And the poet needed love, silence and peace for creativity.
In addition, son Andrei recalled that his mother was “a nihilist at home”: there were not even curtains on the windows in the house. A woman’s spiritual life was more important. Apparently, Tarkovsky Sr. wanted peace and a homely atmosphere.
Tarkovsky literally owes his life to his second wife. It was she who took him from the front to the capital and achieved the reamputation of his wounded leg from the famous professor Vishnevsky. There were no common children in the marriage; Antonina’s daughter did not love her stepfather. Arseny's friends recall that Bokhonova was kind, beautiful and gentle. And Tarkovsky needed a powerful woman who could channel his creative soul into his work.
In 1947, the poet left Antonina, but filed for divorce only in December 1950. On January 26, 1951, he remarried Tatyana Alekseevna Ozerskaya. The woman, by Soviet standards, was a wealthy person; she made her living by translating popular novels from English. For example, her version of Gone with the Wind was a huge success.
It is striking that he was in no hurry to divorce a single woman before building a new relationship. It was as if he left hope for both: for one, that which would return, for the other, that which would come.
Death
In the last years of his life, Tarkovsky often visited the House of Cinema Veterans. In November 1988, his condition worsened sharply, and the poet was sent to the Central Clinical Hospital for treatment. Arseny Alexandrovich died on May 27, 1989, the cause of death was old age.
They said goodbye to Tarkovsky in the Great Hall of the Central House of Writers and buried them in the cemetery in Peredelkino. A few months after his death, Arseny Tarkovsky was posthumously awarded the USSR State Prize.
Bibliography
- 1962 - “Before the Snow”
- 1966 - “Earth - earthly”
- 1969 - “Bulletin”
- 1974 - “Poems”
- 1978 - “Magic Mountains”
- 1980 - “Winter Day”
- 1982 - “Favorites”
- 1983 - “Poems of different years”
- 1987 - “From youth to old age”
- 1987 - “Be Yourself”
- 1988 - “Stars over Aragats”
- 1993 - “Blessed Light”
Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky was officially married three times.
For the first time in 1928, he married a fellow student at Higher State
Literary Courses, Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakova.
He married for the second time in 1940 with Antonina Alexandrovna Bokhonova,
wife of the critic and literary critic Vladimir Trenin, a friend of Mayakovsky and Burliuk.
His last chosen one was translator Tatyana Alekseevna Ozerskaya in 1951.
Let's look at this meager figure a little more carefully.
Biographers of Tarkovsky write,
1937 - leaving the family. Connects life with A.A. Bokhonova.
1940 official divorce from M.I. Tarkovskaya-Vishnyakova, marriage to A.A. Bokhonova.
1947 - goes to T.A. Ozerskaya.
1950 December - files a divorce from A.A. Bokhonova.
1951 - January 26 - registers marriage with T.A. Ozerskaya.
It is striking that when leaving his previous family, Tarkovsky was in no hurry to formalize
divorce his former wife and marry a new one. He seemed to have given up hope
one woman, while introducing a probationary period for another.
In addition, Tarkovsky, when leaving his family, never left just like that, to nowhere,
(fell out of love and left), he always leaves for something prepared in advance,
(I almost wrote, heated), place.
All biographers write about his beauty, aura and energy, that people fell in love with him
almost all the women who appeared on his horizon, but did he love any of them?
I don't know. Yes, he dedicated poems, but did he love them?
So, in 1937, he left the mother of his children (Andrei was 5 years old, Marina was 3 years old)
Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakova, to Antonina Bokhonova. Why is he leaving?
Discarding empty talk about the unprecedented power of love, I looked for more
simple and understandable reasons for events. And, it seems, I found it.
Actually, the first obvious reason is children. Who scream, squeak, cry,
who need to be fed, their noses and butts wiped, and dad is a poet,
he needs silence, he needs peace. He wants to create...
In addition, in the memoirs of Andrei Tarkovsky, I found such a remarkable phrase,
“And our mother was a nihilist in everyday life: she didn’t need anything - not even curtains on the windows.
She was out of everyday life. She represented a special type of woman, formed in the 20s,
for whom the most important thing was spiritual life, and everything else was considered philistine.”
I think this is the main reason for leaving his first wife,
for it is said, “the way to a man’s heart is through...”
Tarkovsky left Antonina Alexandrovna in 1947, and this despite the fact that
that he literally owed her his life. All biographers are united
in the opinion that it was she who managed to bring him from the front to Moscow and achieve re-amputation
wounded leg at the Institute of Surgery, which was carried out by the then famous
Professor Vishnevsky, who stopped gas gangrene with the sixth operation...
The feeling of gratitude is one of the main human feelings and I began to look for
significant reasons for Arseny Alexandrovich’s departure from his second family.
And I came across this
The poet and translator Semyon Lipkin said:
Then Tonya appeared... (Trenina, after her first husband)... She was a beautiful, kind woman,
soft, but she was not domineering... She was a doll... Adorable, sweet, kind, decent,
- and it was hard for him... The apartment was like this: on the first floor (on Serpukhovskaya somewhere,
if I'm not mistaken)... one room is dark (no window), the other is good; slept in the dark
Tony's daughter, who didn't like him very much (why, I don't know)... It was very hard for him:
the path to the house was often flooded with water, and it was very difficult for him, on a crutch... on crutches...
My opinion, which I cannot prove, was that Tatyana had a good
apartment, in a convenient location, and this is humanly understandable... As a woman, she was,
in my opinion, unattractive... Dry... For example, we lived in the same house on Chernyakhovskaya;
We’re meeting, - she complains that Arsik doesn’t translate, he’s lazy... I didn’t like her...
Well... I can't say anything bad about her... I don't think he loved her."
So, it seems to me that the reason for leaving Bokhonova, as well as Vishnyakova, is banal and prosaic
- “the fish looks where it is deeper, and the person where it is better.”
Tarkovsky's third wife, by Soviet standards, was a wealthy person.
As a translator from English, she translated famous English writers:
T. Dreiser, O. Henry, A. Cronin, Katharina-Susanna Pritchard, John Brain and many others.
In the 60s, John Brain's novels "The Way to the Top" and "Life at the Top" were very popular.
in her translation. Many translations were published in the journal “Foreign Literature”,
and A. Haley’s novel “Airport” was recognized as the best translation of the year.
The novel “Gone with the Wind” by M. Mitchell, translated by Ozerskaya, was a huge success.
and besides, her labors saw the light,
Rafael Sabatini, Chronicle of Captain Blood,
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Castaways,
Jack London, Daughter of the Northern Lights
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Theodor Dreiser, Titan (together with V. Kurela),
Robert Sheckley, Something for Free, Murder Warrant,
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, May Day...
In short, Tatyana Alekseevna was a sought-after translator, and therefore without work,
which means she didn’t sit without fees.
It’s probably worth mentioning that none of Tarkovsky’s biographers calls her a beauty,
Oleg Nikolaevich Pisarzhevsky, a writer and publicist, said this most accurately,
“Women's beauty is a relative concept, but breed is indisputable. In Thane
the breed can be felt both from a distance and from a close acquaintance.”
The poet's daughter Marina writes in her memoirs, -. “For five years he resisted this marriage,
understood that he was making a fatal mistake, but still failed to overcome the very
This woman's strong will."
I don't think he put up much of a fight.
The poet Alexander Revich, who knew the Tarkovskys closely in those days, recalls:
“I came to see him; he had already moved into a house near the Airport metro station.
I came to him, he was sitting with one leg tucked and his stump under him, on a large ottoman,
he had painting albums lying around, he looked at all sorts of artists, at the same time
He had atlases of the starry sky and looked at some colored amateur slides.
There was a lot of music. He had a wonderful record library, such records were for those
from time to time... By the way, he is the first one from whom I heard two versions of the opera
"Jesus Christ Superstar".
Did Tatyana Alekseevna love him? God knows.
Alexander Lavrin recalled
"Yes. But I still remember how he was jumping on one leg in the Central House of Writers, with difficulty giving her
coat. I then reproached her, and she: “I did it on purpose so that he wouldn’t feel
flawed..." Yes. But she still bullied him. Once, when I was with them
Peredelkino, two fans came, students. They directly prayed for him.
He was on a roll, made jokes, and read poetry. Time passed unnoticed, it became dark. And it turned out like this
that the Tarkovskys needed to go to Moscow, the girls and I were offered to go with them
together. Tatyana Alekseevna was driving the car. We had not even gone a hundred meters before
she caught herself. A.A. was supposed to take something with him, but forgot. My God,
how rudely she scolded him, called him a stupidity and I don’t remember yet how. Fans
dumbfounded. And Arseny Alexandrovich guiltily and affectionately reassured her: “I’m sorry,
Tanyusha, it’s okay, let’s go back...” We're back.
I whispered to the girls in confusion: “Don’t attach any importance to this.
He is above this, he is a great poet!
Below is the famous poem “First Dates”, which is what the author reads
in the autobiographical film by Andrei Tarkovsky “Mirror”,
the film is largely dedicated to Andrei’s mother, Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakova (Tarkovskaya),
but this poem is not dedicated to her at all, but to the youthful love of Arseny Alexandrovich,
Maria Gustavovna Falz. This is such a curious inconsistency, aren’t these inconsistencies?
I meant Andrei Tarkovsky’s favorite cameraman Vadim Yusov, who shot “Ivan’s Childhood”,
"Andrey Rublev" and "Solaris", when he said that one of the reasons why he
stopped working with Andrey, the reason was that he, Yusov, did not internally accept the script
“White Day” (“Mirror”).”I didn’t like that, although it clearly talks about Andrei Tarkovsky himself,
in fact, everything in life was not like that: I know his father, I knew his mother... Fans of the Mirror, probably
They will object to me that an artistic image should not coincide in everything with the real one. I understand it,
I agree, it shouldn't. But I saw something else: an incomprehensible and unpleasant desire to stand on small
buskins - and this didn’t fit with Andrey. I told him about it and felt that he was mine
This time he won’t accept amendments and demands, which will be difficult for me, and I will only hinder him...”
FIRST DATES
Our dates every moment,
We celebrated like an epiphany,
Alone in the whole world. You were
Bolder and lighter than a bird's wing,
Up the stairs like dizziness
She ran down the steps and led
Through the wet lilacs into your domain
On the other side of the mirror glass.
When night came, I had mercy
Darovana, altar gates
Opened and glowed in the darkness
And nakedness slowly declined,
And, waking up: “Be blessed!” -
I spoke and knew that I was bold
My blessing: you were sleeping,
And touch the eyelids of the blue universe
The lilac was reaching out to you from the table,
And blue-touched eyelids
They were calm and the hand was warm.
And rivers pulsated in the crystal,
The mountains were smoking, the seas were sparkling,
And you held the sphere in your palm
Crystal, and you slept on the throne,
And - good God! - you were mine.
You have awakened and transformed
Everyday human dictionary,
And the speech is up to the throat with full-voiced force
Filled, and you revealed the word
Its new meaning meant: king.
Everything in the world has changed, even
Simple things - a basin, a jug - when
She stood between us, as if on guard,
Layered and hard water.
We were taken to an unknown place.
They parted before us like mirages,
Cities built by a miracle,
The mint itself lay at our feet,
And the birds were with us along the way,
And the fish rose up the river,
And the sky unfolded before my eyes...
When fate followed us,
Like a madman with a razor in his hand.
1962
In the photo, Tatyana Ozerskaya-Tarkovskaya in the early fifties and early sixties.
Reviews
Interesting article...
I myself recently wanted to enjoy Tarkovsky’s poems, but it didn’t work out...:)))
Tarkovsky's poems are not stupid, but often quite strange. Not everyone is a good read...
His line is unintuitive, and you often have to strain not to lose the thread
narrative or to understand what exactly the poet wants to convey to the reader...
It turns out that it is quite possible that he was pushed onto the big poetry stage by
his last wife is a major translator.
Like: I’m a star, which means I can’t have a mediocre husband!
His poems are not sung! There is no melody or poetic grace in them
His poems have a kind of stifling, unnatural quality!
When reading him, you need to strain, make an effort to perceive the images he created!
There is no breadth, no those flying Pushkin images, Lermontov’s power or Yesenin’s colors!
On the contrary, in many poems there is vagueness of imagery and the line is not always easy to read.
Some poems are written rather clumsily, rather rudely
Sometimes there are very strange, even downright clumsy verbal constructions that
in no way permissible to a true master!
In general, he has good, high-quality rhyming, but his lines are still not of the highest standard.
I completely understand those who like Tarkovsky. His poems are intelligent and meaningful
Those whose brain structure matches the twisted thoughts of this poet love his poems!
And - to your health! This is normal, everyone has different tastes - and this is even good.
But, still, it’s far from pure, high poetry, from classics...
Thanks for the smart feedback, Andrey.
This is a painful topic for me, because I value Tarkovsky’s poems very highly.
But you are certainly not alone.
Even on this site you have like-minded people, for example the Vladimir poet,
pro, Vadim Zababashkin, generally believes that Tarkovsky is nothing more than an epigone
the great Mandelstam, and with his arguments
It's hard to argue.
But, I’ll say a little from myself, about - they don’t sing, they sing perfectly. Most famous
This is Rotaru’s song - “the summer has passed, as if it never happened.” There are many others.
Regarding the rest, as an old experienced graphomaniac, I will say, poems of such quality
there is little in Russian poetry, some of his poems sometimes fascinate me, leading me either into delight or into a trance...))) Neither with Pushkin, nor with Lermontov, this does not happen,
but everyone has weak or controversial verses, including these two, isn’t that right?
And these are a couple of my favorites, to help you understand the situation.)
Arseny Tarkovsky - Swallows: Verse
Instead of Simon, I give you praise.
Do not imitate us, but only in that region,
Where Simon sleeps in the ground, you sing like a dope,
In my language, one line of mine.
Arseny Tarkovsky - Wind: Verse
My soul was sad at night.
And I loved one torn to shreds,
Wind-swept darkness
And the stars dawning on the fly.
Over the wet September gardens,
Like butterflies with blind eyes,
And on the gypsy oil river
Shaky bridge, and a woman in a headscarf,
Falling from the shoulders over the slow water,
And these hands are like before trouble.
And it seems she was alive
Alive as before, but her words
From the wet L now did not mean
No happiness, no desires, no sadness,
And the thought no longer connected them,
How things are in the world among the living.
The words burned like candles in the wind,
And they went out, as if it had fallen on her shoulders
All the grief of all times. We walked side by side
But this land, bitter as wormwood
She no longer touched with her feet
And I no longer seemed alive.
Once upon a time she had a name.
September wind and to my home
He breaks in and clangs the locks,
Then he touches my hair with his hands.
". ..they sing well. The most famous is Rotaru’s song - “The summer has passed, as if it never happened..."
Gennady, the point is that when I said that his poems “are not sung,” I meant
exactly the verse READING mode!
Poetry is akin to music and strong, skillful, harmonious poems often have their own rhythm and
they are read smoothly, sing-songly, easily - and in this way they are similar to music.
Tarkovsky has few such poems.
In addition, it is often difficult to put music on high-quality poems, because they are already
have their own rhythm.
But for clumsy verses, for verses, for verses with a march rhythm - the music often fits perfectly!
You can try reading the lyrics of famous songs separately from the music - and most will
sounds pretty primitive!
Lyrics of songs separated from the music are often not poetry at all!
But they sound great with music.
Therefore, songwriters were not recognized as full-fledged poets “as our own”; they were previously even in
writers' unions refused to accept (which is why the wonderful songwriter Leonid
Derbenev and refused to be accepted into the Writers' Union - because he did not have “pure” poetry, i.e.
the lyrics of the songs, separated from the music, sounded rather poor by poetic standards)
And the fact that some of Tarkovsky’s poems sound good together with music (and almost without processing) -
just testifies not in favor of the quality of his poetry, for most of the song texts themselves
in themselves - quite primitive. These are the laws of the genre.
But, in addition to the quality of the product, there is also the internal structure of the human brain and his individual taste
And Tarkovsky, as they say, “didn’t appeal to me,” I couldn’t feel close to his poems.
But there are poems, they are not stupid, they are versatile, people read them - and, in general, there is variety and opportunity
product selection is good (in this case)
.
.
Fly, swallows, but don't take them into your beaks
No saw, no drill, don't make any discoveries,
Don't imitate us; that's enough
Why do you speak barbarically fluently?
What sharp-sighted pupils are in your honorable retinue
And the first greenery is a holy triumph.
I've been to Georgia, and it turns out I once
Over rubble and grass to the deserted temple of Bagrat -
A broken jug, and over its mouth
Your network hung. And Simon Chikovani
(And I loved him, and he was like a brother to me)
He said that on earth I am guilty before you -
I forgot to write poems about your light body,
That he played here as a child, that maybe Bagrat
And I myself went crazy from your exclamations.
.....................
Oh, it’s difficult, oh, it’s difficult, he twists the line!
In some places it is very difficult to read, confusing, florid...
There is no lightness, no sparkle! - you have to strain.
Your brain is obviously structured in such a way that it is in tune with Tarkovsky’s way of constructing phrases in poetry.
And I, accustomed to the classics, to Pushkin’s lightness of poetry, get very tense when reading it
ornateness.
His poems, however, are difficult to understand.
"I've been to Georgia, and it turns out I once
Over rubble and grass to the deserted temple of Bagrat -
A broken jug, and over its mouth
Your network hung. And Simon Chikovani" ---- Well, how can you twist your tongue like that??????...:)))
In 4 lines he mixed Georgia, and a temple, and rubble, and a jug, and a net, and Chikovani!
What a cloudy and heavy quatrain!
It seems that there is a rhythm in this verse, and he wanted to tell us something smart, but beautiful, clear
He still failed to create images in this verse!!!
.
.
And the second poem - everything is written - AS IN THE FOG!
As if from somewhere in a barrel... :)))
Lermontov has a similar line, but, excuse me, Lermontov wrote CLEARLY! He created
clear, beautiful, strong images!
And here - a wonderful, confused muttering, as if written in delirium...
Also, what does it mean: “...And it seems she was alive...”?
And this: “..and a woman in a scarf, Falling from her shoulders...” - so is the scarf on her head or on her shoulders?
When they say “in a headscarf,” they mean that it is worn on the head. And he is right there on his shoulders!!!
"...The words burned like candles in the wind..." - What kind of miracle is this? Candles in the wind, actually
still going out...:))))
"...And I no longer seemed alive..." - Oops! Already managed to die!...:))))
It’s your choice, Gennady, but the classics don’t write such absurdities and oddities.
And Tarkovsky has a lot of such stupid mistakes.
And he complicated the line SPECIFICALLY - he hid the imperfections of his poems (this is a well-known technique)
"He bursts in and clangs the locks,
Then he touches my hair with his hands." --- And this is a very low level of presentation. Some kind of horror movie
it turns out pitch black. It was as if the man was delirious and wrote down his confused and gloomy dream.
This is far removed from high poetry. And writing such poems is MUCH easier than writing
strong, clear, beautiful classics.
I can't agree with you.
1- Pushkin and Lermontov are singing. By your logic, they are not poets.
2- The two examples I gave of Tarkovsky are impeccable and beautiful.
I don’t think this is worth discussing further, the positions are clear, let’s not quarrel.
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