Sergey Mnatsakanov Biography

The popularizer of poetry, wrote wonderful articles about poets published in the Literary Gazeta. He was born on Markhlevsky Street in the very center of Moscow. His childhood passed on Sretenka, and youth in the Sadovo-Sukharevskaya and Fourth Meshchanskaya, where he lived opposite the now burned outfit “Forum”. Sergei Mnatsakanyan began to be published in the end of the x.

In the seventies, fame came to him. Leonid Martynov, Anatoly Zhigulin and Boris Slutsky, who were warmly recommended to accept the poet in the famous writer's union, spoke at his ...

poetry. In the year, the poet became a member of the Russian Pen Club. The poems of Sergei Mnatsakanyan were published in the magazines “New World” and “Youth” - those who are published by millions of circulations, in the magazines October, Moscow, Literary Armenia, Change, “Poetry”, “Poetry Day”, “Literary Newspaper”, the first publication of his poems took place in the “Moscow Komsomolets” - year, "Komsomolskaya Pravda", renewed "Bulletin of Europe" and other mass publications.

Some of these verses, previously not included in the poet’s books, confirms the imperishable idea that true poetry does not deteriorate from time, rather, on the contrary, acquires new and previously indistinguishable features. In these publications, articles and reviews dedicated to the work of the poet have repeatedly appeared. For decades, the poet’s verses were published abroad in transfers to German, Spanish, Serbian, Armenian, Georgian, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian and other languages ​​of the world.

In the years of the last century and at the beginning of the new, Sergey Mnatsakanyan, under the name of Jan Akhsta, published ten books, among which the book of poems “The hangover”, the book of stories “is wanted ...”, the book of the essay on world culture and literature “Time Walks. Books and Persons ”, several issues of“ Augustisms for the lazy, but curious ” - unsubstantiated works on the verge of different genres in one volume.

The poetic books of Sergei Mnatsakanyan were a total circulation of more than a quarter of a million copies. The city is its element. The poet’s poems are worldwide. In Soviet times, I was even surprised - not so much that he writes like that, but how he manages to print his transparent and not tied to time or politics verses: cut out coffee - and start on time: you are on the Calvary of the spoken lines.

Such verses were remembered from the first reading. Pavel Gusev.