Мало кто сегодня помнит имя поэта Степана Petrovich Shchipachev. However, for the generation of Soviet citizens of the 40-50s, he was also known as A. Tvardovsky or K. Simonov. His poems were read, learned by heart, copied into notebooks. This story will be about the life and work of an almost forgotten poet.
Biography
Stepan Shchipachev was born in 1899 in the familya poor peasant from the village of Shchipachi, Yekaterinburg province. He was the youngest child in the family. When his father died, Stepan was barely four years old. Together with his grandmother, he went to the neighborhood courts to collect alms. Becoming older, I went to work: I hired a farm laborer for seasonal work, served in the mines and in the hardware shop.
In 1917, Shchipachev joined the Red Army.In 1921 he graduated from the military school, after which for some time he taught social science to the military. In parallel, he became interested in literary work, served as editor of the magazine "The Red Army", wrote poetry, for which from a young age he had a great inclination.
In the early 1930s, Stepan Shchipachev received a literary education. And since then he has been engaged exclusively in literary activity.
The path to literature
Stepan Shchipachev, whose biography wasatypical for poets and writers of the beginning of the 20th century, later admitted that he loved poems in his childhood years when he attended the parish school. He told how a teacher once read M. Yu. Lermontov's poem “Borodino” at a lesson. This work so excited the soul of the child that he was impressed for several days. Then Stepan decided that he would write poetry.
In the following years, he worked hard onversification, honed his style, looking for his own rhymes. In 1923, Stepan Shchipachev published his debut collection of poems, which was called “On the Barrows of the Centuries”. For the author, a small book of only 15 pages with early, still unskillful poems was the first step on the path to great literature.
Books
During his life, Shchipachev published more than 20 author collections, published a lot in newspapers and magazines.
After graduating from the institute, Stepan Shchipachev began to work in his work towards lyrical themes. During this period, books were written "Lyrics" and "Under the skies of my homeland."
During the Great Patriotic War, Shchipachev again put on his military uniform.He took part in the operation to liberate the western regions of Ukraine, was later involved in the creation of front-line newspapers and leaflets. During this period, his poems acquired bright patriotic intonations and at the same time intimate and lyrical. Two major collections of this time - "Front poems" (1942) and "Lines of love" (1945).
The most fruitful for the author were the 60s. During this period, he wrote an autobiographical novel, Birch Sap, the poem Heir, a collection of Songs of Moscow, and many other works.
"Love Strings"
Stepan Shchipachev, whose verses are usually attributed tosection of civil poetry, was nevertheless a master in the field of love lyrics. His collection with the modest name "Strings of Love" went on sale in May 1945. 45 poems about the feeling, understandable and familiar to everyone, instantly glorified the author. In his lines the boys and girls of the 50s confessed their love, they were so simple and sincere.
Stepan Petrovich Schipachev continued his work on this collection all his life, as a result of which the book increased almost four times. In the latest edition of the collection already included 175 poems.
In Soviet literature, a special type was cultivated.hero, hardworking, skillful, patriotic. Thanks to Shchipachev's poems, this hero has become more alive and humane. It became clear that a Soviet citizen can feel, can fall in love, rejoice and be sad, hope and seek his own happiness.
