Naum Korzhavin from now on "Poet"

The prestigious literary award is awarded to the legendary sixtieth emigrant

We congratulate each other. Exactly so: each other. We hug as we can.

So, N.M. Korzhavin was awarded the Poet Prize. Now we will punish the whole world, the old and the new, where the Russian speech is still sounding, “while in the sublunar world ...” It is very cool that the tall jury pushed the lines of the not very young with his elbow, and the frankly mature poets to title and prefer Korzhavin. Although he does not need anything. He lives far from Moscow, in the center of the United States of America. For a long time it is his house and hospital, the world of his friends and relatives.

This is the old and amazingly strong bridge Moscow - the USA. This bridge was built by a man alone, without relying on anything. Neither the library of the Congress, nor really the university with a tolerable salary did not take it for contentment. Korzhavin lived half of his life in the United States by himself, without asking or asking. He left Moscow, looking for ghostly freedom, but carrying his genuine with him.

Pristress and cutter of spaces. A gloomy observer of Brodsky's ups. The surest comrade, from student Litinost trials (oh, when it was ...) adoring classmates. “Volodka Soloukhin”, who did not forget, “Yura Bondareva” - well, how else - rushing to the neck at a meeting in the Central House of Artists, when he first arrived in Moscow after many years of absence, which to this day wearing a cap “Vali Berestov”.

Korzhavin lived half of his life in the United States by himself, without asking and without chering it. He left Moscow, looking for ghostly freedom, but carrying his true

Of course, Korzhavin’s poems should be imprinted in textbooks: he “cannot be wake up in Russia ...”, his “And the horses all jump and jump, and the huts burn and burn ...” Perhaps now they will imprint. From now on, he is a title poet, perhaps. But he was always a real natural poet, as was with Russian writers, natives of Kyiv.

Naum Korzhavin, for friends - Emka Mandel, 1956, immediately after rehabilitation

Vivat and congratulations, our dear friend Naum Moiseevich Korzhavin.

We are here. We love and honor. We read and sing. We do not give a descent to bad people. Well, we will not give it. Congratulations on the title. It may be funny - and yet it is honorable ...

Almost priceless mine enem.

Yes, autumn has come for good.

I took it and arrived recklessly.

I will say so: you are not a groundhog at all.

Not every day - oracle and prophet.

But fate exacerbated something.

She took your poetic gift

For generally ridiculous fee ...

Gave in return love, freedom, childhood.

And people, seeing the tread and flight,

Learned to smell heat and hear the ice ...

And to elevate the voice, because the inheritance.

Yes, a voice. We heard for a long time

As in the old park, or something, as in a movie.

You from afar, you sounded from a time.

Hi, my dear friend Enem!

I will tell children to everyone, for everyone-

As it was miraculous to us at the beginning.

 **Reference**

Naum Korzhavin was born in Kyiv in 1925. In 1945 he entered the Moscow Literary Institute, studied with Vladimir Tendryakov and Rasul Gamzatov. In 1947, in the midst of the Stalinist “struggle against cosmopolitanism”, he was arrested and sent for three years as a “socially dangerous element”. He was amnestied in 1954 and rehabilitated in 1956. He began to be published in the 1960s: the first collection of 1963 was called "Years." He advocated Daniel and Sinyavsky, for which the ban on publication followed. In 1973, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Boston, where he still lives.

Photo: East News, Memorial.krsk.ru