Memory. Novella Matveeva

On October 7, 1934, the short story was born, the poetess.

Personal business

Novella Nikolaevna Matveeva (80 years) was born in a children's village (now Pushkin) of the Leningrad Region. Her father, Nikolai Nikolaevich Matveev-Bodry, was a geographer, historian-local historian of the Far East and a full member of the All-Union Geographical Society. Mother, Malkova Nadezhda Timofeevna, taught literature, wrote poetry, was printed under the pseudonym of Matveeva-Orlenev. Grandfather Nikolai Petrovich Matveev-Amursky was also a writer, the author of the first “History of the city of Vladivostok”, lived in Japan for many years.

The novels began to write poems in childhood, during the war, and at the end of the war the first songs appeared. From 1950 to 1957, Matveeva worked in the orphanage of the Schelkovo district of the Moscow region.

From the end of the 50s, it began to speak in public with its songs to the accompaniment of the seven-string guitar. The girl from the province with an unusual “childish” voice and guitar in her hands was noticed and loved. She began to be printed in 1958. Already in 1961 the first collection of her poems “Lyrics” was published, in the same year Matveev was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1962, she graduated from the highest literary courses at the Literary Institute named after A. M. Gorky (in absentia).

The second poetic collection of the novel Matveeva - “Ship” - was published in 1963. In 1966, the first record was released with the songs of Matveeva. In the 1970s, she published the books “Lastochkina School”, “River”, in the 1980s-“Law of Songs”, “Country of the surf”, etc.

In 1996, a book of memoirs of the novel Matveeva “The ball remaining in the sky” was published. In 1998, she became the laureate of the Pushkin Prize in the field of poetry, in 2002 - the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art.

Novella Nikolaevna lives in Moscow. Recently, she has been working on her translations of Shakespeare's sonnets.

What is famous

In 1964, Hovella Matveeva wrote her most famous song - “Girl from the Harchevni” (she is also called the “Ballad of the Nail”). The words of this song “My love were afraid of in vain, not so terribly love ...” Even those who do not know their author know.

The short story was one of the first Soviet poets-songwriters, its popularity was very great-most of the students of our country sang Matveeva songs, full of light, romance and kindness, whose charm intensified its unusually thin, almost childish, voice.

The most famous and popular songs of the novels of Matveeva steel: “The song of the mule drove” (“Ah, how long, for a long time we go for a long time ...”), “Wind” (“What a big wind ...”), “Damber pipes” (“Rain, evening rain ...”), “Girl from the tavern” (“My love was afraid of in vain ...”), “Outskirts” (“Summer night”), “Captains without mustache”) (“Here is a blue sea in front of me ...”), “Delphinius Country” (“Blue waves run up ...”), “magician” (“Ah you, magician ...”), “gypsy” (“The cheerful mints of Moldova walked ...”), “Snarmier” (“Snow fell on the ground ...”).

What you need to know about

Despite the fact that the short story was usually ranked to the sixties (according to purely chronological grounds), she herself never ideologically ranked herself to them and, as a whole, as journalist Boris Zhukov wrote about her, “remained a completely loyal Soviet citizen.” The short story has always been an introvert, sought to limit contacts with the outside world as much as possible, which was largely helped by her husband, Ivan Kiura, who took over the lion's share of communication with the editorial offices and publishers.

According to the short story of Nikolaevna, the craving for solitude developed in her childhood: “From cowardice, probably, from fear. I am a wild man, I don’t know how to behave. It’s very easy for me to look funny. Therefore, I try to be somehow separately ... "

She carefully avoided all forms of publicity. Even photos of the short story of Matveeva of the 60s, when she was at the peak of fame, can literally count on the fingers. She performed infrequently, and over the years - less and less.

Her husband, the poet Ivan Kiura (1934-1992), was from a family of repressed Soviet Finns. They lived together for 29 years. The few memories of the people who knew Matveev and Kiura closely indicate that this pair was inexplicably annoyed by others. Either neglect of “everyday life”, or devotion to each other, or by the fact that they were self -sufficient - creating their own universe for two, they did not allow anyone there.

In 1992, Ivan Kiura died, and three years later, Mikhail Nodel died, a young journalist and poet, who in the 90s became the secretary and the Litactive of the novel Matveeva, and, in fact, as Zhukov writes, “an intermediary between her and the world”. For several years, Matveeva fell silent. New verses (but not songs) began to appear only at the very end of the 90s. The novella Nikolaevna herself practically “fell out” from all public life, spending almost all the time in the winter in a city apartment, and in the summer - at the dacha in a gathering, where neighbors may not notice her presence for months. By her own admission, he closely monitors politics, the news and very closely takes everything to heart.

Direct speech

“I never had songs for poetry. I always compose only the whole song as a whole. Sometimes not immediately, sometimes - a disarming, but so that all of its own: both poems and melody - without loans from the outside, ” - the short story of Matveeva

“Greenovsky landscapes, nightmares, even Greenov’s names - what is in the world more hypnotically the name“ The Blue Cascade of the Teleluri ”, which is one capable of replacing the novel, but what is the novel - a whole country? Such a burn was for me, maybe only the poetry of the short story of Matveeva, and especially her songs, ” Dmitry Bykov.

“If Okudzhava is blessed rain, then the novel is Matveeva is an amazing island,” Zinovy ​​Paperny.

“I remember, in the beginning of the sixties, when I first heard her sunny, fairy-tale songs, for some reason I decided that only a very happy person can write such songs ... Once for the first time in the house to the short story of Matveeva and seeing the monstrous life of her huge unremarkable communal apartment on Podnoye Street, I was shocked. What a mighty imagination of the artist, what courage and optimism should the author possess, who came up with his fairy -tale world in such an environment! .. ”, Alexander Gorodnitsky .

5 facts about the novel Matveeva

• Father Matveeva was a romantic, so he gave such unusual names to his children, calling his daughter Novella, and his son - Roald. The short story of Matveeva in all of Russia does not have a single namesake.
• The record of the novel Matveeva, released in 1966, was released in 1966, the first plate of bard song in the USSR became the first in the USSR.
• The short story of Matveeva does not like the words “bard” and prefers to call the performers of the author’s song “polygiments”.
• In 1984, a play “Egli’s prediction” was staged at the Central Children's Theater in Moscow - a fantasy based on the works of Alexander Green, containing 33 songs of Novella Nikolaevna.
• The Moscow Studio-69 Theater staged a performance on the verses of the novel Matveeva. Each poem performed on stage is a small miniature performance.

Materials about the novel Matveeva

Dmitry Bykov. Novella Matveeva. Bykov calendar on YouTube

Boris Zhukov. "Eternal novel"

Songs of the novel Matveeva (TC Culture 09.03.2007)

“Believe in Russia ...” An interview with the novel Matveeva.