Olga Fokina Biography

And it is stupid to share how “critics” sometimes do, this ocean for some “periods” depending on the political conjuncture. No, everything is together in the ocean: the penetrating verses “Words about Igor’s Regiment”, and the sonnets of Vasily Tridiakovsky, and the Odes of Mikhail Lomonosov, and the wise revelations of Gabriel Derzhavin - and everything else, including the recent time and time of our.

From time immemorial, Russian women tried themselves in the art of writing poetry. We appreciate their work, we bow to their names - sincere Marina Tsvetaeva, intellectual Anna Akhmatova, piercing, with naked soul Julia Drunina, tender and loving Lidia thermal, unusual and sophisticated novelty Matveeva. One could also cite a lot of wonderful female names in Russian poetry, among them one of the first is the name of Olga Fokina.

Her work occupies a unique place among the Russian poets. If others only sometimes “turned face” to the fate of the common people, then she devoted her whole soul and all her heart to him. Once, having swore allegiance to the northern Russian peasantry, Olga Alexandrovna has never changed the oath, continues to preserve it. Olga Fokina managed to do what other poets was not on the shoulder.

She heard, understood, retained the element of the folk life of the Russian North and introduced it into great poetry. Hence the uniqueness of her poetic voice, her poetic intonation. In this sense, Olga Alexandrovna was the best successor to poetry Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, who also gravitated to the elements of the Russian peasantry. She was born to Olga Alexandrovna on September 2 in the village of Artyevskaya Verkhnetomsky district of the Arkhangelsk region in a peasant family.

Her father, after being injured, who arrived in the village in the year, soon died of wounds. Claudia's mother raised a large family alone. Olga graduated from a medical school in Arkhangelsk, then headed the first -aid post on the forest. And she wrote poetry. It was then that she met in Arkhangelsk with prose writers and poets, including with the famous artist and storyteller, a famous prose writer and poet Stepan Pisakhov.

In the year, she entered Linstitite in Moscow, was engaged in the seminar of N. at the same time in Vologda, a writer's organization was created. And its first leader, the poet Sergei Vikulov, invited Fokin to Vologda. She agreed. In the fall of the year, she came to live in Vologda; He continues to live in the Dogoslavny City by this time. But every summer - such is her attachment to the Fatherland of the Earth - Olga Alexandrovna leaves for the native village of Artemyevskaya, where she lives until late autumn.

Over the past years, Olga Alexandrovna published more than 20 poetic books, one of the latest collections “The Pendulum” saw the light of the year. Many verses are put to her music by such famous composers as Valery Gavrilin, Alesander Fattah, Victor Peshak and others. Gorky, the Great Literary Prize of Russia, the All -Russian Literary Prize named after A.

Prokofiev “Ladoga” G. In everyday life Olga Alexandrovna remains itself: responds to requests from readers, hurries to literary events, and helps young authors. I remember somehow she told me that she was invited to speak in a team of one of the factories in Vologda, sent a taxi to the entrance. Olga Alexandrovna got into the car, and the driver tells her: - Can I read your poems?

And the driver all the way, while the poetess was thrown to the factory, read her poems. It was something amazing, unforgettable! Yes, this, of course, is an invented myth that the current residents of Russia do not read prose or poetry. Myth, and what! I was convinced that a few years ago, the regional youth library in Vologda asked to head the jury of the festival “On the Golden List Party” dedicated to the work of Olga Fokina.

In the conditions of the competition - several nominations; In particular, it was necessary to send their poems, consonant with motives of Fokinsky poetry, as well as drawings for her works. What began after the announcement of the competition struck both members of the jury and library workers. The letters went in a stream; Moreover, from all over the former Soviet Union - from Vladivostok to Kyiv.

We were pleasantly surprised that Olga Fokina knew and loved in the taiga outback of Siberia, in the Urals, in the steppe Orenburg region, in Ukraine and on the Black Sea coast. And you say that people do not read here! Read, and even as they read! As a result, in a short time, the jury received over 1 thousand letters! I share the anxiety of the poetess about what generation is replacing senior writers?

And the poet itself is already “twenty -second summer,” awaits the answer to the question. And the answer to this question, by and large, depends on each of us! I want to heartily congratulate Olga Alexandrovna today on birthday. She is still full of plans, new verses come out of the pen. Sometimes sharp, angular, “uncomfortable”, but honestly reflecting the aspirations of the Russian people.

That is the whole soul of Olga Alexandrovna. God forbid you health and many summer! Vologda, September 1.