Kunyaev Stanislav biography

Born in Kaluga. Mother - from the family of Kaluga peasants, in Soviet times graduated from two higher educational institutions - the Institute of Physical Education and Medical, became a famous doctor in her city. Ancestors on the paternal line from Petrozavodsk and N. Novgorod - Russian officers, provincial officials, zemstvo doctors. The name of the grandfather for the father - A.

Kunyaev, professor of medicine, is immortalized on two memorial boards in the Nizhny Novgorod Territory: on the building of the Red Cross hospital in the city center and on the wall of the Zemsky Karamzinsky hospital in the Arzamas. His father was born there, who later became a teacher of history and died in n. He was buried in the Piskarevsky cemetery. And grandfather and grandmother died during the civil war from typhoid - their Nizhny Novgorod hospital in those years was a military typhoid state picetric for the Red Army.

They were buried, as famous Nizhny Novgorod citizens, in the cemetery of the Pechersk Monastery. When a monastery in n. Kunyaev himself graduated in Kaluga a secondary school with a gold medal, studied at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University and, of his own free will, went to work in Taishet of the Irkutsk Region. In Siberia, he worked with the first head of the local newspaper, and then his own correspondent of the regional Irkutsk newspaper East Siberian Pravda.

Poems began to seriously write at the university, the first publications in Irkutsk and in Novosibirsk magazine "Siberian Lights" appeared at Kunyaev during the Siberian period of his life. Then he met the young Irkutsk writers V. Rasputin, A. Vampilov, V. The first book of the Participers poems, upon returning from Siberia in his hometown in Kaluga, he has published more than 30 books - poetic collections, books of criticism and journalism, for one of which - “Fire flickering in the vessel” was awarded the title of laureate of the state Russian awards.

Kunyaev, not without reason, is considered one of the most significant poets of his generation. Some of his poems became widely known - even the famous “good should be with fists”, “Reflections on the Old Arbat”, “Karl Twelfth”, etc. In the 60th he is along with N. Rubtsov, A. Perevyev, A. Zhigulin, Yu. Kuznetsov invariably entered the list of poets defining the patriotic, soil, Russian principle in modern poetry with great “additive” of the imperial state idea.

It was during this period that his poetry was constantly present in ideological contractions and disputes, which were conducted in the press and oral discussions of the most different, sometimes warring groups of critics and poets V. Kozhinov, A. Aninsky, T. Glushkova, S. Chuprinin, Yu. Seleznev, O. Mikhailov, E. Yevtushenko and others. But if sensual multiple, contrary Life and even the cult of freedom of creativity “I will give the whole soul October and May, but I won’t give it out sweeter”, then in his civil deeds, actions and statements he is extremely harsh, purposeful and addicted.

Being confident in the significance and incompleteness of his poetic world, Kunyaev is very risky several times in his life in the Soviet and post -Soviet times put his literary reputation, career, and everyday well -being on the map. In it, one of the main participants in the famous discussion “Classic and We”, which marked the first major uprising of the Russian national forces fighting for influence on society with the forces of the Soviet Jewish cultural hystblishment, supported by the pro -Western part of the party elite.

Continuing this struggle, in Kunyaev wrote a well -known public letter in the CPSU Central Committee, the reason was the publication by a group of Soviet writers of the dissident warehouse of the Almanac “Metropol”, where he directly accused the highest party officials of political two -dealing, of the dosage of anti -Russian and anti -state groups of writers, prosperous in those days in the literary life of the country.

As a result of these two shares, he was relieved of the post of worker secretary of the Moscow Writing Organization, where the poet lived with the life of a free artist with all the next decade, traveled a lot in Russia - he lived for a long time in Siberia, in the Russian North, wrote poems, stories, essays, lived one life with geologists, fishermen, which later helped him in creating a two -volume of his memoirs and thoughts “Poetry.

In thanks to the persistent requirements of the writers S. Vikulov, Yu. Bondarev, V. Rasputin, V. In this post, over the next decade, he fully showed himself as a Russian person and continued the best national traditions of the state patriotic wing of the “sixties”. The magazine "Our Contemporary" over the years becomes a truly spiritual center, uniting all the best spiritual forces of Russia.

In the context of the most severe struggle for existence, openly struggling with the Masonic pro-Western Gorbachevsky-Ultsian regime, the magazine was looking for and looking for ways to revive Russia and the salvation of Russian civilization.

Kunyaev, being on the tip of this struggle, as in the old days, took a passionate participation in the events of Augo. By the summer from the birth of S.Yesenina Kunyaev, along with her son, publishes the book "Sergey Yesenin", which has survived 4 publications. Kunyaev’s memoirs “Poetry. Russia "Prince. Saratov,; Torn the shadows: Zap. Literature: Kozhinov V. Articles about modern literature.

Notes on the fields of memoirs and articles of Stanislav Kunyaev. Chapter from Prince.