Fokina Olga Alexandrovna is a Russian poetess, author of several dozen books of poems and poems, who has devoted her original great talent to selfless service to the people and beloved Northern Territory. Fokina's works are permeated with the theme of Russian folklore, an incredible love of nature, each blade of grass, a leaf, a flower.
Olga Alexandrovna’s creativity is the colors of her native land, her tunes, voices, breath, heartbeat. Through all her work, the poetess carries blood attachment and respect for hard peasant labor, worries about the "dying" village and the fate of her beloved Russia.
Olga Fokina: biography
Olga was born on September 2, 1937 in the village of Artemyevskaya (Arkhangelsk region), in a large family, who lived in a rather poor, but very friendly manner. Father Alexander Ivanovich and mother Klavdiya Andreevna came from ordinary peasant families. Dad worked as a team leader on the collective farm “New North”, with the outbreak of war he went to the front, went to the hospital and died a few weeks after discharge “because of his stay at the front”. This was stated in the certificate, according to which the state allocated an orphanage to the family in the amount of 6 rubles 50 kopecks per month: for five children from infancy to 14 years.
Childhood: heavy and military
In the famine, little Olya, in order to somehow help the hungry relatives, went to a neighboring village to beg. The older brothers also tried to earn extra money in order to somehow help the mother with a baby in her arms. People helped the girl as best they could: cracker, pink, potato. It was about these difficult times that the first poems of the author were written. Throughout the work of the early period, echoes of childhood, interrupted by a terrible war, are traced. He touches the soul of the grief of a child who has lost his father. Touching the first children's joys. The motive of deep guilt before the mother is clearly felt, from which Olga Fokina fluttered out from under the wing into adulthood. “Snowdrops” is a famous poem about wartime and a simple boy who ended up in his millstones, but who did not lose his sense of beauty.
It was my mother - Klavdia Andreevna, who graduated from the 4th grade of the parish school, - who was able to lay in her heart a love of folk art. Her tender lullabies, fascinating tales, poems by Surikov and Nekrasov sowed a seed of love for the literary syllable in the soul of a child.
Years of study
The year 1945 marked the beginning of school life. In the process of learning, the girl showed a talent for writing poetry, which she carefully recorded in a makeshift album made from a notebook cut across. Fokina Olga grew up a sickly girl, often missed school, staying home alone. Communication with oneself and nature aroused observation and attentiveness to trifles in a teenager. The received impressions and new sensations immediately laid down in rhymed lines on a sheet of paper. Olga graduated from the seven classes of the Fokina school in 1952, with the result “excellent”. On the advice of her mother, she entered the medical school of Arkhangelsk.
First publications
In 1955, two poems by Olga Fokina with a portrait of the author and a warm parting word from the editorial staff were published in the youth newspaper Severny Komsomolets. After graduation, the girl got a job at the Verkhnetoyemsky timber industry farm as the head of the first-aid post. In the process, running on calls and winding kilometers through the forests, Olga composed even better. The poetess tried to quickly write down lines in her head on a piece of paper or on the reverse side of a mustard plaster. In a day I could write about a dozen poems. In the writer's organization, where Olga Fokina took her works, her talent was appreciated and published in the almanac "North" of the author’s poem.
In 1957, Olga Fokina decided to enter the capital's literary institute, easily passed the creative competition, and after passing the exams she became a student. After completing her studies in 1962, she worked for some time as a junior editor of Sovetskaya Rossiya publishing house, and in the autumn of 1963 she moved to Vologda for permanent residence. In the same year, two other significant events took place: the publication of the first book of poems “Syr Bor” and the admission of the young poetess to the Writers' Union.
The characteristic features of poetry
The works of Olga Fokina do not leave anyone indifferent: they contain an incredible amount of warmth, kindness, sincere love for nature and people. The speech of rhymed lines is expressive, memorable, often at its core contains the northern dialect. The principle of "in the everyday routine to see the beauty and inspiration of the national soul" in the life of the Russian poetess is one of the main ones.
Poems by Olga Fokina describe attractive people - noble workers of the village who know what labor is and who know how to value rest. A characteristic feature of the poetry of Olga Fokina is song; many songs familiar from childhood were written by a Russian poetess. This is the famous "My Clear Star" performed by Valery Meladze, and "Hello, Palenga River" - a song by Lyudmila Senchina.
Creativity Olga Fokina
The work of Olga Aleksandrovna Fokina is interesting and understandable to the younger generation, but nevertheless the author published a small book, only 32 pages long, “I was in the forest today”, which included mainly poems about nature.
A significant event was the publication in 2002 of the collection The Pendulum, which included the best poems by Olga Fokina from 1956 to 2012. The foreword was a soulful article by the Soviet poet Sergei Vasilievich Vikulov, dedicated to the life and work of Olga Fokina.
The author of numerous poetry collections, Fokina Olga Aleksandrovna, has repeatedly received state awards. The poetess often spends literary evenings, meets with readers. Olga Alexandrovna is especially warmly received in her native Vologda.