One of the most prominent poets of the early 20th century, Anatoly Mariengof, left us many wonderful works. Life in the troubled times of the Civil War was not easy, which also left its mark on his work. Yes, and the biography of Mariengof can be read as a fascinating book – this extraordinary man really has seen quite a lot, but, most importantly, he has found his talent, which we can now appreciate.
Although he went down in history as a poet, he also wrote prose. She is simply less famous than his poems. In his memoirs, Mariengof argued that his father’s penchant for literature and views on life was strongly influenced by an intelligent and very intelligent man. At seventeen, the future poet traveled on a sailing ship across the Baltic Sea, and even received the title of sailor). He began to write on the fronts of the First World War. Then from his pen came his first play.
The famous Mariengoff novel “Cynics” was published in Germany 60 years earlier than in the USSR. In the Union, he did not pass censorship. One of the closest friends of Mariengof was Sergey Yesenin. In the 1930s, the Soviet press called his work “a product of the collapse of bourgeois art”. Anatoly Mariengof always remained, in his own words, an extremely anti-religious person.
The son of the poet committed suicide for unknown reasons. The famous Bulat Okudzhava dedicated some of his poems to the memory of Mariengof. In the Nizhny Novgorod region, in the village of Pletnich, there is Mariengof street. During his lifetime, he wrote about 40 different works, from poems to novels and plays.
