Boris Petrovich Kornilov
Boris Petrowitsch Kornilow ( Russian Борис Петрович Корнилов ; born July 29, 1907 in the village of Pokrovskoye, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate ; † February 20, 1938 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet poet.
Life
Kornilov was the son of a teacher. In 1922 he moved to Semyonov and began writing poetry there. A first selection appeared in print in 1923. In 1925 he moved to Leningrad, where he wanted to show his poems to the revered Sergei Jessenin , but he never found him alive.
For a long time he lived there in the so-called "Skyscraper of the writers", Malaja-Konjuschennaja-Straße 4/2, apartment 123. Numerous other writers lived in the same house, including Mikhail Soschtschenko , Evgeni Schwarz , Nikolai Olejnikow , Alexander Vvedensky and Nikolai Sabolozki .
In 1928 Kornilov married the just 18-year-old writer Olga Bergholz and had their daughter Irina with her, who died in 1936. The marriage was divorced in 1930.
Kornilov fell victim to the Great Terror of Stalin . He was expelled from the Writers' Union in 1936 and arrested on March 19, 1937. After a show trial, he was sentenced to death on February 20, 1938 and shot on the same day. On January 5, 1957, he was posthumously rehabilitated.
In 1932, Kornilov wrote the lyrics of the song Gegen dem Kühlen Morgen , which was set to music by Dmitri Shostakovich .
Works
- Молодость: Стихи (Youth. Poems), 1928
- Стихи и поэмы (Poems and Poems), Leningrad 1933, 202 pp.
literature
- Galina Zurikowa, Борис Корнилов: очерк творчества (Boris Kornilow. An essay on creativity), Moscow 1963
- Kornilov, Boris Petrovich in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Engl.)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kornilov, Boris Petrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Корнилов, Борис Петрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pokrovskoye, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1938 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |