Soviet writer Alexander Vvedensky was remembered by many readers as the author of children’s works. The fact that he wrote a lot of literature, designed for adult readers, is less widely known. Unfortunately, Vvedensky’s life was cut short too soon, and many of his works were published after his death. Despite the fact that he lived very little, the biography of the writer is very full of amazing events.
The future career of the writer began with poems, which he began to compose while studying at the gymnasium. For many years, Alexander Vvedensky lived in a civil marriage with his former classmate Tamara Meyer. However, she later married their mutual old friend, the poet Leonid Lipavsky. He was a close friend of the writer Daniel Harms. In 1932, Vvedensky was arrested because of someone’s denunciation that he raised a toast to Nicholas II at a feast.
The link following this did not last long. Arriving at the place of serving the sentence, the writer first of all found a stool, took out a pencil, a notebook from his pocket, and sat down to write. Despite this “criminal” history, in 1934 Alexander Vvedensky was admitted to the Leningrad Writers’ Union. Almost all of his lifetime publications were intended for a young audience. Serious works were printed decades later.
A few months after the start of World War II, Vvedensky was accused of anti-government agitation, arrested and sent to Kazan, but he fell ill and died on the way. The Soviet government rehabilitated the name of the writer only in 1964. Since the 1960s, many of his works have been actively translated and published by the United States and Europe, but they often suffered from inaccurate translations. In Russia, Vvedensky’s works were first published in 1993. Rock group “AuktYon” wrote songs for his album “Spring” on the basis of some of his poems.
