Today we will talk about such a wonderful writer as Yuri Ryashentsev. Biography, personal life and his work will be the main topics of this article. Ryashentsev is a famous Soviet and Russian screenwriter, poet and prose writer. He composed lyrics for films and musicals known to very many in our country since childhood. Since 1970, Ryashentsev is a member of the Writers' Union, and since 1992 he has been a member of the PEN Club (international society of writers).
Yuri Ryashentsev: biography
The writer was born on June 16, 1931 in Leningrad. In his childhood memories, he writes that he was a very spoiled child who enjoyed the love of not only the whole family, but also friends and neighbors. And in the 7th grade, a teacher of literature called Ryashentseva Ilya Ilyich, comparing him with Oblomov, who in childhood was also loved and spoiled by everyone.
When the boy was 3 years old, the family moved to Moscow. His mother was a knitwear artist. My father was repressed in 1938 and died. The writer's stepfather was arrested in 1949.
The childhood and youth years of Ryashentsev took place in Moscow. Here, Khamovniki, Mandelstam Garden and Novodevichy Convent became his favorite places. These places had a great influence on the formation of the poet. Later, their beauty will be embodied in poetic lines.
Yury Ryashentsev says that despite the hardships experienced during the war (hunger, poverty, devastation), he always happily recalls the Khamovniki associated with this period.
Admission to the University
After leaving school, Yuri wanted to go to Moscow State University, but in Soviet times, this road was closed forever for his son and stepson of the two repressed. Then the future writer decides to enter the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. Lenin. His Yuri Ryashentsev in 1954 graduated with honors, receiving a philological education.
Yuri Evgenievich arrived at the age of 19, as he lost one school year due to evacuation. The choice of a future educational institution was greatly influenced by one noteworthy case. Being already in the last school class, Yuri was at the district volleyball competitions as part of the pedagogical institute team. After the game was over, the physical education teachers of this institute approached the young man and offered to go study with them. So Ryashentsev received a pedagogical education.
Study
Ryashentsev Yuri Evgenievich was very fond of studying. In addition, he met such famous people as Yu. Koval, Yu. Vizbor, Yu. Kim, V. Dolina, P. Fomenko and many others at the pedagogical university. Ryashentsev believed that at his institute all the talents inherent in nature manifested themselves in man.
Ryashentsev studied well, as evidenced by the diploma with honors. However, the poet himself claims that he was not a diligent student, but simply knew how to take exams. In his memoirs, he writes that he especially remembered one teacher who managed to fall in love with the future writer in his subject and such little-known authors as D. Venevitinov and A. Delvig. This woman also taught at the university additional classes on the Pushkin period.
The student years were marked for Ryashentsev with a passion for bardic song. In those years, this genre was very popular among young people - songs sounded around bonfires, on hikes, and on trains. Then Yuri Evgenievich, together with V. Krasnovsky and Yu. Vizbor began to compose melodies for songs themselves.
First publications
After graduating from the Pedagogical Institute, Yuri Ryashentsev spent the next seven years teaching, of which 3 years he worked in a school for difficult teenagers.
Only in 1955 Ryashentsev began to publish his first works in the journal Yunost. The author himself believes that he should have started to engage in literature much earlier.
In 1962, Yuri Evgenievich was invited to work in the journal "Youth", in the poetry department. The writer worked on this site until the 90s, helping many young poets to publish for the first time.
To date, six poetry collections of Ryashentsev have been published. The first was called The Hearth and was printed in 1967. And the poet’s poems at one time at least once were published on the pages of all the central Russian and Soviet literary magazines.
The second book of Ryashentsev’s poems was published in 1972 and was called “The Clock over the Lane”.
Theater and Cinema
Ryashentsev himself, Yuri Evgenievich, considers his play “Poor Liza,” which was staged in 1973 on the stage of the Leningrad Academic Bolshoi Theater, as his debut in the theater. The work was written in collaboration with Mark Rozovsky. Also for the performance Ryashentsev wrote lyrics for songs.
In addition, the poet often wrote lyrics for other plays staged at the Leningrad Bolshoi Theater. Among them is such a famous performance as "The Story of a Horse."
In the 80s, two more poetic collections of the writer were published: “Iverskaya Side” and “Leap Year”.
Ryashentsev also participated in the creation of a huge number of television films. Including the writer worked on the Russian version of Metro. He wrote many famous songs for films that we have known since childhood: “D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers”, “Midshipmen, Forward!”, “Forgotten Melody for the Flute”, “Fun Chronicle of a Dangerous Journey”, “Island of the Dead Ship”, etc. .
In 1990, another poetry collection of poetry called Rainy Thursday saw the light of day.
Prose works
But Ryashentsev Yuri wrote not only poetry, but also prose works. So, in 1994, he created a novel, which he called “In Macakovniki. And nowhere else. ” The work was published as a separate book only in 2001.
And the latest to date, a collection of poems, called "Lanfren-Lanfra", was released in 2002. In addition to writing his own works, Ryashentsev is engaged in poetic translations from Armenian, Ukrainian, Buryat and Georgian.
The poet Yuri Ryashentsev in 1995 became the laureate of the prize of the print edition "Arion", nomination - "The Best Poems of the Year". Thrice was the winner of the All-Union competition for the translation of poetic works. And in 2002 he was awarded the prize. Bulat Okudzhava.
In 2006, the writer celebrated his 75th anniversary.
Collaboration
Some works were co-written by Yuri Ryashentsev. The poet’s wife, Galina Polydi, worked with him on the musical Metro, as well as on the libretto for the operas Tsaritsa (D. Tukhmanov), Albert and Gisele (A. Zhurbin), Crime and Punishment (E. Artemyev ) A creative tandem was formed back in 1996 and turned out to be incredibly successful and fruitful. No less successful was the marriage of a creative couple.
As for his profession, Ryashentsev does not consider himself a poet. Usually Yuri Evgenievich says that he is engaged in literature and writes poetry for theatrical productions and films. In addition, the writer claims that he would not leave the theater, even if he did not have the need for money.
Does the poet belong to the sixties?
Ryashentsev Yuri does not agree that he is called a poet of the sixties. For the writer, the sixties are primarily associated with fame, while Ryashentsev himself says that he has nothing to do with fame and is not interested in it. The poet never wanted to "wake up famous," he was interested in much more interesting things - the surrounding reality, the speed of life, the beauty of nature.
Nevertheless, Ryashentsev had good relations with almost all sixties. Among them are A. Voznesensky, and E. Yevtushenko, and R. Rozhdestvensky, and B. Akhmadulina - with all these people, the writer even managed to play volleyball and tennis. All of them were good friends for Ryashentsev. However, the writer himself does not include them. Yuri Evgenievich says that his main desire throughout his life was one thing: not to have superiors over himself.
Yuri Ryashentsev: personal life
The writer's personal life turned out to be quite stormy: he had two divorces. For the first time, Rshentsev married at the institute. This was a rash step, the cause of which was a fleeting hobby. Therefore, it is not surprising that the union did not last long - after a year and a half the couple divorced.
The next wife of the poet was Olga Batrakova, who worked as an editor at Mosfilm and has membership in the Union of Filmmakers of the Russian Federation. In this marriage, Ryashentsev had two children: daughter Maria (1962) and son Eugene (1976). However, in the end, the couple nevertheless divorced. Yuri Ryashentsev does not particularly like to talk about this stage of his life.
Galina Polydi, playwright and librettist, became the next chosen one of the writer. This marriage was the most successful for Ryashentsev in all respects. In addition to his life partner, he found in the person of his wife a wonderful co-author.
To this day, Ryashentsev is married to Polydi. A happy family lives in Moscow.