My ambiguous glory

My unambiguous talent...
I. Severyanin

Childhood of Igor Vasilievich

In fact, Northerner is a literary pseudonym. In one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev was born in St. Petersburg in the family of a retired staff captain, cultural family, who loved literature and music, especially opera (“I heard Sobinov alone at least forty times”). Igor's mother came from a noble family of the Shenshin family. A. Fet and N. Karamzin belonged to this famous family. Parents separated. And that's all further years Igor Vasilyevich lived in the Novgorod province in the Cherepovets district. Resided future poet on the estate of his father's sister.

Traveling around your native country and the beginning of creativity

Then Igor Severyanin travels with his father throughout Russia. Then he goes to Far East, where it remains for several years. And in nineteen hundred and four he returns to his mother. It was there that he would meet many future famous poets, writers, and cultural figures. Severyanin himself will call his early publications brochures. Young poet sent his poetic experiments to various editorial offices, which were regularly returned. However, in 1905 the poem “The Death of Rurik” was published, then a number of separate poems.

The appearance of a pseudonym or big name

Started new era in Russian literature and poetry. Lotarev, or the future Igor Severyanin, whose biography developed in such a way that he appeared as a poet at the same time, will become truly famous much later. But it was at this time that his literary pseudonym appeared. At first it was Igor the Severyanin, that is, with a hyphen, and a little later this sign will disappear and a big name will remain.

Interesting facts about the poet’s work

The first poet to welcome the appearance of “Severyanin in poetry” was K. Fofanov (1907), the second was V. Bryusov (1911). From 1905 to 1912, Severyanin published 35 poetry collections (mainly in provincial publications).

One of the poems, which begins like this: “Plunge the corkscrew into the elasticity of the cork...” was read in Tolstoy’s house in Yasnaya Polyana. It was an ordinary noble life - reading books aloud. The entire Severyanin brochure caused an unusual stir, but this work created a real sensation. Everyone laughed at the unusual moves of the author's new poetry. But suddenly Lev Nikolayevich got angry and said: “There are gallows, murders, funerals all around, and they have a corkscrew in a traffic jam.” Soon these words were replicated in many newspapers. This is how Igor Vasilyevich Severyanin gained fame. His biography and work became popular literally the next morning.

The true popularity of the creator and the most famous book

But real fame came after the publication of the book “The Thundering Cup.” This was followed by other collections of Northerner’s poems - “Zlatolira” (1914), “Pineapples in Champagne” (1915), etc., which were reprinted many times. The name of Northerner was associated with a new direction in literature - futurism. In nineteen hundred and twelve, the direction of egofuturism emerged, and Severyanin stood at its head. Then he will move away from his brothers.

Searching for a creative circle

There was a lot of new things in Igor Vasilyevich’s poems. It is no coincidence that he declared himself as a poet who changed the course of Russian literature and poetry. He was an innovator in the field of poetic language, was engaged in word creation, and introduced many new words into Russian literature. The Northerner was so multifaceted.

King of Poets

The northerner spoke at the Polytechnic Museum at a poetry evening. It was February 27, 1918. Evenings were regularly held there where poets from various schools of thought performed. Previously, posters were posted, where everyone was invited to a competition for the title of “King of Poetry.”
The stage was as crowded as a tram. Severyanin’s reading style had a hypnotic effect on the audience.
The election of the “king” was accompanied by a playful crowning with a mantle and a crown, but it is known that the poet himself took this very seriously. In May, the almanac "Poesoconcert" was published with a portrait of Igor the Severyanin on the cover indicating his new title.

From the memoirs of Gergiy Ivanov - “St. Petersburg Winters”:
“Then Northerner was at the zenith of his fame. Triumphant trips around Russia. The huge hall of the City Duma, which could not accommodate everyone who wanted to attend his “poetry evenings”. Thousands of fans, flowers, cars, champagne. It was real, somewhat actorly, perhaps, glory ".

From the memories of Sun. Rozhdestvensky about poetry evenings:

“The poet appeared on stage in a long frock coat, narrow at the waist. He held himself straight, looked slightly down at the audience, occasionally shaking his black, curled curls hanging over his forehead.

Putting his hand behind his back or crossing them on his chest near the lush orchid in his buttonhole, he began in a deathly voice, more and more sing-song, with a special cadence inherent only to him with fading, rising and an abrupt break in the poetic line...

The mournfully intoxicating melody of half-chanting and half-chanting powerfully and hypnotically captured the listeners..."

Last years of life

In 1920, Severyanov went on vacation to the Estonian seaside village of Toila, and in 1920, Estonia separated from Russia. The poet found himself in forced emigration.
He lived with Felissa Krut for 16 years. She protected him from all everyday problems. Before his death, he admitted that breaking up with her in 1935 was a tragic mistake.
And there, cut off from Russia, Igor Vasilyevich Severyanin will continue to create and create a kind of epic lyrics that will reflect human life, suffering and ideas about happiness.
While in exile, he published collections of poems “Vervena” (1920), “Minstrel” (1921), a novel in verse “Falling Rapids”, etc. He published an anthology of Estonian classical poetry.
In recent years, his life in Estonia was very bad.

"I have a blue boat,
My wife is a poetess."

He was starving. He spent whole days fishing from his blue boat and began to lose his sight from the sparkling ripples of the water.

The annexation of Estonia to the Soviet Union in 1940 aroused his hopes for the publication of his poems and the possibility of traveling around the country. The illness prevented the implementation of not only these plans, but even his departure from Estonia when the war began.
On December 22, 1941, the Northerner died in Nazi-occupied Tallinn.
A northerner once prophetically wrote: “How good, how fresh the roses will be, / My country threw me into my coffin!”

Brief biography from the book: Russian writers and poets. Brief biographical dictionary. Moscow, 2000.

Every intellectual who often discovers something new for himself will sooner or later want to read the poetry of poets Silver Age, which they tried to introduce into a standard and disciplined Soviet life something of our own, living, natural and new. Each of them, in their own way, wanted to change this world, open a window and let in a fresh wind of inspiration. Give confidence in business, feelings, relationships, etc.

Silver

One of these representatives is Igor Severyanin (his biography will be presented below). He had to work hard before becoming “Russian intellectual baggage,” as teacher Dmitry Bykov said about him. The avant-garde artists who came after the Golden Age began to boldly call for “throwing Pushkin and Dostoevsky off the steamship of modernity,” and with them various literary movements and groups. The works of the Silver Age really excite minds, as they mainly relate to pressing issues love lyrics.

Many still quote favorite and popular lines from the poems of Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Blok, Maldenstam, Tsvetaeva, etc. Igor Severyanin is one of them. His biography contains not random, very important and fateful moments, which will be discussed further. This a true master pen. It was very popular not only among adults, but also among young people. However, a whole volume could be compiled from the articles constantly criticizing him. But be that as it may, at his performances he attracted a huge crowd of grateful listeners. His famous poems are “Pineapples in Champagne”, “I am a Genius”, “It Was by the Sea”, etc.

Igor Severyanin. Biography (briefly and most importantly about the poet’s family and childhood)

It is impossible to unequivocally relate to his literary heritage. The most important thing in his short biography is that he worked and published exclusively under a pseudonym. His real name was Lotarev. He was born in St. Petersburg on May 4, 1887. The whole family lived on Gorokhovaya Street at number 66, which was the central fashionable thoroughfare of the Northern capital. Igor was brought up in a cultured and very wealthy family.

His father was Vasily Petrovich Lotarev, a tradesman who rose to the highest rank - staff captain of a railway battalion. Mother, Natalya Stepanovna Lotareva, was a distant relative of Afanasy Fet. She came from the noble family of the Shenshins.

In 1896, Igor’s parents divorced and decided to go their own ways. What caused their divorce remains unknown.

Changes

As a boy, he began to live on the estate with his father’s relatives, who lived in the Cherepovets region in the village of Vladimirovka, where his father went to live after his resignation and divorce. And then Vasily Petrovich went to the city of Dalniy in Manchuria, accepting the position of commercial agent.

In Cherepovets, Igor was able to complete only four classes of school, and then, when he turned 16, he moved to his father (in 1904). He certainly wanted to see this wonderful region with his own eyes. He was inspired by the beautiful and harsh nature of the Far Eastern region, which is why he later took the pseudonym Northerner, in imitation of Mamin-Sibiryak. But in the same year before the Russo-Japanese War, his father dies, and Igor is sent back to his mother in St. Petersburg.

First successes in poetry

From childhood, Igor Vasilyevich showed his remarkable literary talent. He began writing his first poems at the age of 7-8. In his early youth he was inspired by Zhenechka Gutsan, and therefore his poems were lyrical. Then the war began, and a military-patriotic note began to appear in his works. Since 1904, his poems began to be published in periodicals. This was influenced by his favorite writer Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy. Igor most of all wanted to get a response from the editors, but the poems did not cause much delight among the readers, so his works were returned to him.

Noting the most important thing in the biography of Igor Severyanin, one cannot help but say that he began to publish under the pseudonyms “Count Evgraf d’Axangraf”, “Igla”, “Mimosa”. Around this time, he took his final pseudonym Igor Severyanin. In 1905 he published his poem “The Death of Rurik”.

In 1907, the poet met Konstantin Fofanov, who was the first to appreciate the talent of the young writer and became his mentor.

Aspiring poet

In 1909, a poetry circle began to form, thanks specifically to Igor Severyanin. By 1911, a whole creative association egofuturists. This was a new movement, which was characterized by refined sensations, neologisms, selfishness and a cult of personality. They tried to show all this off. But the founder of this new literary movement soon left him, found himself in Symbolist circles and began performing solo.

The appearance in Russian poetry of such a master of the pen as Severyanin was welcomed by Bryusov. And from that moment on, 35 poetry collections by the poet Severyanin were published. One of his manuscripts, “Habanera II,” thanks to the writer Ivan Nazhivin, fell into the hands of Leo Tolstoy himself, who mercilessly criticized the postmodernist Severyanin to smithereens. But this fact did not break him, but on the contrary, promoted his name, albeit “in a black way.” He became famous.

King of Poets

Magazines, which found a sensation in this, began to willingly publish his works. In 1913, his famous collection was published, which brought him fame - “The Thundering Cup”. The northerner began to travel with his performances throughout the country and attracted full houses. The poet had a magnificent performing gift. Boris Pasternak said about him that in pop recitation of poetry he could compete only with the poet Mayakovsky.

He took part in 48 national poetry concerts and gave 87 personally. Participating in a poetry competition in Moscow, he received the title of “King of Poets.” In terms of points, he beat his main rival, Vladimir Mayakovsky. A huge number of fans gathered in the spacious auditorium of the Polytechnic Institute, where poets read their works. The conversations were heated, and there were even fights between fans.

Personal life

IN personal life Igor Severyanin was not very lucky. One can add to his biography that from his youth he loved his cousin Lisa Lotareva, who was 5 years older than him. As children, they spent the summer together in Cherepovets, played and talked a lot. But then Elizabeth was married off. Igor was beside himself with grief and even almost lost consciousness at the wedding ceremony in the church.

When he turned 18, he met Zhenechka Gutsan. She simply drove him crazy. He called her Zlata (because of her golden hair) and gave her poems every day. They were not destined to become a married couple, but from this relationship Zhenechka had a daughter, Tamara, whom the poet saw only 16 years later.

Then he will have many fleeting novels, as well as common-law wives. With one of them, the previously mentioned Maria Volnyanskaya, a singer of gypsy romances, he developed a long-term relationship. In 1912, the poet liked the Estonian city of Toila, which he once visited. In 1918, he transported his sick mother there, and then his wife Maria Volnyanskaya arrived. At first they lived there on her fees. However, in 1921 their family broke up.

The only and official

However, he soon married a Lutheran, Felissa Kruut, who converted to the Orthodox faith for his sake. She gave birth to Igor’s son Bacchus, but did not tolerate him for long and in 1935 kicked him out of the house.

The Northerner was constantly cheating on her, and Felissa knew about it. Each of his tours ended with a new passion for the poet.

His last woman was a school teacher, Vera Borisovna Korendi, who bore him a daughter, Valeria. Later, she admitted that she had recorded it under a different name and patronymic, naming it in honor of Bryusov.

In 1940 they moved to the city of Paide, where Korendi began working as a teacher. Severyanin’s health condition has deteriorated greatly. Soon they moved to Tallinn. He died of a heart attack in 1941 on December 20th. The funeral procession was modest; the poet was interred at the Alexander Nevsky cemetery.

Famous Poems

Such a restless and loving poet Igor Severyanin was. On his grave there are still prophetic words written by him during his lifetime: “How good, how fresh will be the roses, thrown into my coffin by my country!”

The most famous works The poet's works were "The Thundering Cup" (1913), "Zlatolira" (1914), "Pineapples in Champagne" (1915), "Collected Poets" (1915-1918), "Behind the String Fence of the Lyre" ( 1918), “Vervena” (1920), “Minstrel. The Newest Poets" (1921), "Mirrelia" (1922), "The Nightingale" (1923), "The Dew of the Orange Hour" (poem in 3 parts, 1925), "Classical Roses" (1922- 1930), “Adriatic. Lyrics" (1932), "Medallions" (1934), "Leandra's Piano (Lugne)" (1935).

Conclusion

Igor Severyanin, like many other poets, left his indelible mark on poetry. The biography and work of the poet are studied by those who understand that the creators of the Silver Age, like the Golden Age, drew their inspiration from love for a friend, a woman and the Motherland. Patriotism was not alien to them. They were not indifferent to the events taking place around them, reflecting everything in their poems. Sensitivity and vulnerability predetermined their character, otherwise it is difficult to be a good poet.

Of course, the work and biography of Igor Severyanin, briefly described in this article, may not give many a complete understanding of his true talent, so it is better to read his works yourself, since they contain echoes of his difficult life and manifestations of his amazing poetic gift.

Severyanin, Igor (real name and surname - Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev), poet (16.5. 1887, St. Petersburg - 20.12.1941, Tallinn). Born into a noble family, his father was an officer, his mother was related to A. Fet. Igor did not receive higher education. His first poem appeared in print in 1905; he was followed by a large number lyrical works, which initially bore signs of the influence of Konstantin Fofanov and Mirra Lokhvitskaya. In October 1911, Northerner proclaimed the birth of a new eccentric movement in the poetry of ego-futurism; later he was for some time associated with the Cubo-Futurists (see Russian Futurism). Severyanin’s collection of poems attracted a lot of attention Thunderous Goblet(1913), the preface to which was written by F. Sologub and which went through 7 editions within two years.

Geniuses and villains. Igor Severyanin

Not accepting the October Revolution, Northerner emigrated to Estonia in mid-1918. Being an excellent performer of his poems, Severyanin from time to time organized “poetry evenings” in Helsinki, Danzig, Berlin, Paris, and in 1930/31 - in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. He stayed away from emigrant groups and lived in the Estonian fishing village of Toila. As a poet, he almost completely lost his readers in exile and lived poorer every year, but until 1923 he managed to publish several collections in Berlin, then in Tartu, and in the early 30s. – in Belgrade and Bucharest. The northerner translated many poems from Estonian. After annexation Soviet Union Baltic states in 1940 Northerner wrote a number of conformist poems, trying to adapt to the new political situation in the country.

The northerner has significant lyrical talent, but the provocative language of his poems, characteristic of the period of ego-futurism, along with admiration, also caused sharp denial. Together with other futurists, Severyanin denied poetic traditions (Pushkin), demanded something new in all areas of art, loved public speaking and gravitated toward bohemia. Nikolai Gumilyov said about Severyanin: “Of course, nine-tenths of his work cannot be perceived otherwise than as a desire for scandal.” Collection Thunderous Goblet At first he was successful only among the intelligentsia, but soon made Severyanin a very beloved poet among a wide circle of readers.

The starting point of Severyanin’s lyrics is most often his own life; his poems are either descriptive or narrative in nature. One way or another, his lyrics are related to the theme of love, he wrote about events everyday life and never lost touch with nature.

The intelligible musicality of his poems, often with a rather unusual metric, coexists with Severyanin’s love of neologisms. Severyanin’s bold word creation creates his style. These neologisms contain much of their own ironic alienation, hiding the author’s true position behind exaggerated word formation.

After Severyanin’s youthful revolutionary-futuristic poems, his poetry during the period of emigration gradually became more natural and traditional.

1887 , May 4 (16) - born in St. Petersburg into the family of a retired staff captain. He spent the first 9 years in St. Petersburg.

1903 – having finished 4th grade at the Cherepovets Real School, in the spring he and his father made a trip to Dalniy Port (Dalian, China), where they lived for six months.

1904 - returns to his mother in Gatchina.

1907 - meets the poet K. Fofanov, who warmly approved of his poems.

1911 – Northerner announces the creation of “Ego of Universal Futurism”.

1913 – publication of the collection “The Thunderboiling Cup” in the Moscow publishing house “Grif” with a foreword by F. Sologub. In the same year he began giving his own poetry concerts. March–April 12 – the first concert tour at the invitation of Sologub and Chebotarevskaya to Russian cities, performing in Minsk, Vilna, Kharkov, Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, Simferopol, Rostov-on-Don, Baku, Tiflis, Kutaisi and other cities.
November 2 – performance at the St. Petersburg Women’s medical institute together with V. Mayakovsky, V. Khlebnikov, N. Burliuk and V. Gnedov.
November 29 – performance in the hall of the “Salt Town” in St. Petersburg together with Mayakovsky, Kulbin, Kruchenykh.
December 14 – the first solo poetry concert in the hall of the Tenishevsky School in St. Petersburg.

1914 , February 18 – the publishing house “Grif” publishes the fourth edition of the book “The Thundering Cup”. Circulation 1000 copies.
March 4 – Igor Severyanin’s second book “Zlatolira” is published, M., K-vo “Grif”. Circulation 1415 copies.
November 9 – is present at the First Evening of Russian Music at the artistic cabaret “Stray Dog”. Singer A. I. Egorov performed the Northerner’s “Poet about Belgium,” set to music by composer N. K. Tsybulsky. The sheet music of this work was published with a cover by Sudeikin.

1915 – release of the collection “Pineapples in Champagne”. The poet's evenings were a huge success. B. Pasternak recalled: “... On the stage before the revolution, Mayakovsky’s rival was Igor Severyanin...”

1917 , October–November – in Petrograd, in the hall of the Petrovsky School (Fontanka, 62), 5 poetry evenings by Igor Severyanin are held, at which the poet reads poems from the collections “Thunderboiling Cup”, “Zlatolira”, “Pineapples in Champagne”, etc.

1918 , February 27 - in the hall of the Polytechnic Museum - election of the king of poets. K. Balmont, V. Mayakovsky and other poets took part in the competition. The Northerner won, and was awarded the title of “King of Poets.”

1918 - Since this year he has been living permanently in Estonia, having found himself outside his homeland after Estonia was declared an independent state.

1922 , November 7 – performs in Berlin at concerts together with V. Mayakovsky and A. N. Tolstoy.

1924 , June 14 - at the Pushkin evening in the building of the German Theater in Tallinn, he reads poetry dedicated to A.S. Pushkin.

1925 – a “novel in stanzas” entitled “Royal Leandra” was published.
April – Vadim Bergman’s publishing house (Yuryev-Tartu) published a book by Igor Severyanin: “Bells of the Cathedral of Senses. Autobiographical novel in 3 parts" (circulation 2000 copies). Part of the edition came in a dust jacket in the form of a ribbon with a red inscription: “XX. Igor-Severyanin. The latest manuscripts published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the poet’s literary activity.”

1928 – publishes an anthology of Estonian poetry covering 100 years.
February 16 – evening at the Russian House, organized by the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists in Poland. In the newspaper “For Freedom!” reported: “The poems dedicated to Russian writers and Russia were met with noisy and long-lasting applause from almost exclusively the Russian public who had gathered to listen to their native poet.”

1930 , December 20 and 29 – gives a lecture about K. Fofanov and a lecture “Estonian Triolet Sologub” at the Russian Scientific Institute at the Chamber of the Academy of Sciences in Belgrade (Yugoslavia).

1931 , February 27 – performance at the Chopin Hall in Paris with the program: 1. “Classical Roses” (New Lyrics). 2. “Medallions” (12 characteristics). 3. “Thundering Cup” (Ante-War Lyrics).
Present at the concert is M. Tsvetaeva, who said in a letter to S.N. Andronikova-Galpern on March 3, 1931: “...The only joy (not counting the Russian reading of Moore, Alina’s drawing successes and my poems) - for all this time - long months - evening of Igor Severyanin. He more than remained a poet, he became one. It was the twentieth anniversary on the stage. Old to the point of dying of heart: wrinkles like those of a three-hundred-year-old, but - he lifts his head - everything is gone - the nightingale! That dictionary is not singing and gone. When we meet, I’ll tell you everything as it was, for now: my first POET, that is, the first consciousness of a POET in nine years (as I am from Russia).”

1941 , spring - sends sonnets about Russian composers to Leningrad.
Severyanin’s poems are published in the magazines “Krasnaya Nov”, No. 3 and “Ogonyok”, No. 13.
December 22 – died in Nazi-occupied Tallinn. He was buried at the Orthodox Alexander Nevsky cemetery in Tallinn.

Addresses in St. Petersburg:
1. Gorokhovaya, house No. 66 - born in this house on May 4, 1887.
2. Corner of Degtyarnaya and 8th Sovetskaya streets. (the exact address of the house has not been established) - I have been here since 1911. The editorial office of the newspaper “Petersburg Herald” was located

Biography

SEVERYANIN, IGOR (1887−1941), real name and surname Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev, Russian poet. Born on May 4 (16), 1887 in St. Petersburg in the family of an officer. Due to difficult relations between his parents, he spent his adolescence in Soyvol near the city of Cherepovets, Novgorod province, where his uncle’s estate was located. Studied in Cherepovets real school, then went to the Far East, where his father received a position as a commercial agent. Life in the Far East during the years Russo-Japanese War contributed to the fact that among the love lyrics that Northerner began to write, poems appeared in patriotic themes. The poem The Death of Rurik was published in the magazine “Word and Deed” (1905).

By 1913, according to his own profile, Severyanin had published 35 books of poetry, each of which consisted of two pages. In the early poems, the influence of the poets K. Fofanov and M. Lokhvitskaya is noticeable. Unlike many poets of the Silver Age, Severyanin avoided the influence of the Symbolists. In 1911 he organized the literary group “Association of Ego-Futurists” in St. Petersburg, which included I. Ignatiev, K. Olimpov, V. Gnedov, G. Ivanov and others. The program of Ego-Futurists, formulated by Severyanin, provided for self-affirmation of the individual, the search for the new without rejecting the old, bold images, epithets, assonances and dissonances, meaningful neologisms, etc. Severyanin himself created many poetic neologisms: dreamless, black-browed, lesofey, wind-blown, liliebatistovaya, etc. Subsequently, V. Mayakovsky admitted that he learned a lot from him in the field of word creation. Soon Severyanin parted ways with the Ego-Futurists and for some time joined the Cubo-Futurists, but this union did not last long.

In 1913, Northerner published his first book in the Moscow publishing house "Grif". big book poems Thundering Cup, with a foreword by F. Sologub. The stanza of F. Tyutchev's poem gave the collection its name. In the first part of the collection, The Lilac of My Spring, childlike purity and spontaneity of feelings were combined with mannered aestheticism. The second part, Lilac Ice Cream, was devoted to the theme of civilization’s intervention in the world of natural human relations. The characters in the poems in this part of the collection were “dreamers”, “extresses”, “ecstasers” and other inhabitants of the inside out modern world. In the third part, Behind the String Fence of the Lyre, the poet found his ideal in art and nature ennobled by man. This is evidenced by the names of the poems - Vrubel, On the Death of Fofanova, Koktebel, etc. The Northerner asserted in his poems the idea that the world will be saved thanks to beauty and poetry. The fourth part of the collection is a poetic manifesto of egofuturism. “I am the king of a country that does not exist,” said the Northerner in this part of the Thundering Cup. In his poetry, the beautiful non-existent country was called Mirrelia (in honor of Mirra Lokhvitskaya). The release of the Thundering Goblet made Northerner an idol of the reading public. Over the course of two years, the book went through seven editions. The northerner consciously cultivated his image as an exquisite poet-idol. He appeared at poetry evenings with an oricheda in his buttonhole, called his poems “poets,” and read in a melodious rhythm that corresponded to their pronounced musicality. “The Poet and His Glory” - this topic took important place in the works of Severyanin. The famous lines belong to him: “I, the genius Igor Severyanin, / am intoxicated with my victory: / I am screened all over the city! / I am thoroughly affirmed!” However lyrical hero Severyanin’s poetry differed significantly from the poet himself. His close friend G. Shengeli recalled: “Igor had the most demonic mind I have ever met... Igor saw right through everyone, with an incomprehensible instinct, penetrated into the soul with Tolstoy’s grip, and always felt smarter than his interlocutor...” The northerner asserted the poet’s right to be apolitical and write as is characteristic of him, regardless of social events. At the height of the First World War, he published the collection Pineapples in Champagne (1915), the figurative structure of which corresponded to the title. After the October Revolution, Northerner settled in Estonia. He lived in solitude in the fishing village of Toila. He managed to publish several poetry books, including Falling Rapids. A novel in verse (1922), The Nightingale (1923), etc. In the poem Classic Roses (1925), the Northerner prophetically wrote: “How good, how fresh the roses will be, / My country threw me into my coffin!” Despite the fact that Severyanin was considered “bourgeois,” in 1918, at an evening at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, he was called the “king of poets,” defeating Mayakovsky. Many of his poems were set to music and performed by A. Vertinsky. Northerner died in Tallinn on December 20, 1941.

Igor Severyanin was born on May 4 according to the old calendar or May 16 according to the new calendar in 1887 in the family of an officer, St. Petersburg. Igor's real name was Igor Vasilievich Lotarev. His parents had a difficult relationship, because of which the guy goes to his uncle in the Novgorod province, not far from the city of Cherepovtsy. He was educated at the Cherepovets School. Father gets new job, and Igor moves to him, to the Far East, where he begins to write poetry. In 1911 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he became the founder of his own literary group. In 1913, the first collection of Severyanin’s poems was published in 4 parts: “The Thundering Cup”, “Ice Cream from Lilacs”, “Behind the String Fence of the Lyre” and “I am the Tsar of a Non-Existent Country”, which makes Igor Severyanin an idol of readers. F. Tyutchev was involved in the first part, because the collection was named on his initiative. In the second part, the author reveals the fact of civilization's intervention in human relations. In the third part, the poet revealed human nature and tried to prove that the world will be saved thanks to beauty and poetry. Igor talks about the poetic manifesto of egofuturism in the fourth part of his collection.

In 1915, when the First world war Just beginning to gain its tragic momentum, Severyanin put into print his collection “Pineapples in Champagne.” Having survived October Revolution, Lotarev (Northerner) move to one of the fishing villages in Estonia - Toila. In a quiet village, the author began to create. The world saw a couple of his publications, namely in 1922 - “Falling Rapids. A novel in verse" and in 1923 - "The Nightingale".

In 1918, Severyanin, at an evening at the Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, received the title of “King of Poets” even despite his bourgeois writing style. In this way he surpassed Mayakovsky himself. The poems of the poet Igor Severyanin were often set to music and performed, one of which was A. Vertinsky.