Lev Ivanovich Oshanin

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Cyrillic ( Russian )
Лев Иванович Ошанин
Transl. : Lev Ivanovič Ošanin
Transcr. : Lev Ivanovich Oshanin

Lev Ivanovich Oschanin (born May 17 . Jul / the 30th May  1912 greg. In Rybinsk , government Yaroslavl , † the 30th December 1996 in Moscow ) was a Soviet poet .

Life

Oschanin came from a noble family. His father, Ivan Alexandrowitsch Oschanin, was a lawyer, his mother Maria Nikolajewna Oschanina a music teacher. Lev Oshanin had five brothers and a sister. After the early death of the father, the mother supported the family with charity concerts. After the revolution, the family moved to Rostov in the same governorate, where the mother opened the first kindergarten. Since 1922 Oshanin lived in Moscow. He worked as a lathe operator in a factory and later as a guide through exhibitions. Oshanin became a member of a circle of writing workers, published his first book, a short story devoted to his school days, was accepted into the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers, and published poetry in the magazines Komsomolskaya Pravda , Ogonyok and "Young Guard". At the beginning of the thirties he left Moscow to avoid being investigated into his family origins. From 1932 to 1935 he lived in Chibinogorsk , where he first worked in a factory, later as director of the Association of Miners and correspondent of the Kirovsk workers magazine . However, his aristocratic origin was his undoing here too. After being denounced by an envious person, Oshanin was expelled from the Komsomol and dismissed as a correspondent. Oschanin returned to Moscow, where he began studying at the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature in 1936 . He married the writer Jelena Uspenskaja , the granddaughter of the writer Gleb Uspenski . The couple had two children, their daughter Tanya and their son Sergei. During the war, Oshanin and his family were evacuated to Kazan and later to Yelabuga . During this time Oshanin could not work literarily, not even as a war correspondent. In Yelabuga he met Boris Pasternak , who advised him to join the Writers' Union of the USSR , since membership meant a ticket to the front. Oshanin took Pasternak's advice. He was assigned to the Political Department of the Red Army and worked for army newspapers. During the war, Oshanin wrote numerous poems that were set to music and then became very popular. In 1944 Oschanin became a member of the CPSU . In 1950 he received the Stalin Prize for his cycle of poems and songs for the film Die Jugend der Welt . Oshanin was one of the Soviet poets and writers who demanded the expulsion of Boris Pasternak after his novel Doctor Zhivago was published in the West in 1957. Oshanin died on December 30, 1996 and is buried in the Vagankovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Works

Oshanin is best known for his lyrics, he was one of the most popular Soviet songwriters. He also wrote love poetry and ballads, e.g. B. About Alexander the Great. The most important songs are:

  • Ways («Дороги» / «Эх, дороги, пыль да туман ...», 1945)
  • The anthem of the democratic world youth ("Гимн демократической молодежи мира", 1947)
  • Song of the restless youth («Песня о тревожной молодости», 1958)
  • The Volga flows ("Течёт Волга" / "Издалека долго течёт река Волга ...", 1962)
  • Always live the sun ("Солнечный круг", 1928)

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SURNAME Oshanin, Lev Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oshanin, Lev; Ошанин, Лев Иванович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Rybinsk
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1996
Place of death Moscow