Boris Khersonsky - Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist. He was born in Chernivtsi in 1950, on November 28. The author writes mainly in Russian, and is also a clinical psychiatrist and psychologist.
Relatives
The poet Boris of Kherson was born into a family of doctors. Our hero’s grandfather, Robert Aronovich, is one of the founders of child psychoneurology in Odessa. In the post-revolutionary years, this man, using the pseudonym Ro, published two books with satirical poems “Hooter” and “All Odessa in Epigrams”. The father of our hero, Grigory Robertovich, in turn, released a collection of poems "Students". The mother's family lived in Bessarabia before the war. Later she moved to Chernivtsi. Our hero’s father studied there when he returned from the front and became a student at a local medical institute.
Biography
Kherson Boris spent his childhood in Starobelsk. His parents got there by distribution. He became a student at the Ivano-Frankivsk Medical Institute. Later he changed his university - transferred to the
Odessa Medical
Institute. He received the post of neuropsychiatrist in the Ovidiopol district. He was a psychiatrist and psychologist at the Odessa Regional Psychiatric Hospital. At the time of perestroika, Khersonsky Boris G. worked in one of the city newspapers. Collaborated with various emigrant media. Since 1996 he has been working at the Department of Psychology at Odessa National University. From 1999 to 2015, the activity of our hero was also purely scientific. During this period, he was the head of the department of clinical psychology. The author of 6 monographs. They are dedicated to psychiatry and psychology. Separately, the work “Psychodiagnostics of Thinking,” written in 2003, should be noted. Our hero is a candidate of medical sciences. Head of the Union of Psychotherapists of Ukraine. In the 1990s, he actively acted as a publicist and journalist in the city press.
Creation
Above, we talked about how Boris Khersonsky began his activities. His poems began to be published in the 60s. In 1970-1980, our hero became one of the brightest figures representing unofficial poetry in Odessa. He was a member of the Samizdat social movement. Moreover, he acted not only as an author, but also as a distributor of other illegal literature. His poems diverged in the usual way for that time - in typewritten copies. In the early nineties, books began to be published, unofficially, but without prohibitions. The appearance of works in the emigrant Russian-language press occurred in the second half of the eighties. The first book, which was published legally, was published in 1993 and is called the Eighth Share. Then came “Beyond the Fence”, “Family Archive”, Post Printum, “There and Then”, “Scroll”, “Draw the Little Man”, “Verbs of the Past Tense”. Our hero also published transcriptions of biblical texts, collecting them in the Book of Praises and a collection entitled Poetry at the Crossroads of the Two Testaments. Psalms and odes of Solomon. " The author was published on the pages of the magazines Homo Legens, October, New World, Khreschatyk, Banner, Arion.
We can assume that the most significant work of our hero is the “Family Archive”. In this book, from the biographical poems, essays, the canvas of life, as well as the disappearance of Jews in southern Ukraine in the twentieth century, is formed. The Samizdat book appeared in 1995 in Odessa. By 2006, “Family Archive” is the first collection of our hero, published in Russia. This work was published by the New Literary Review, including it in the series Poetry of the Russian Diaspora.
"Building Site" is the second full-fledged book of our hero. She also appeared in the above mentioned publishing house in 2008. “Out of the Fence” - a collection of essays and poems, which appeared in 2008. It was published by the publishing house “Science” in the series “Russian Gulliver”. In 2009, a book entitled “Marble Leaf” was published. It included poems that were written in the fall of 2008 in Italy. The Spirituals book soon appeared. In 2010, the UFO publishing house published the work “Until It Got Dark”, the preface to it was written by Irina Rodnyanskaya. In 2012, the book “Still Someone” was published. This work was published by the Spadshchina-Integral publishing house and consisted of poems.
civil position
Kherson Boris consistently acts as a supporter of Ukrainian independence. He is an opponent of pressure on the country from Russia. The author claims that because of this he was subjected to hostility, as well as bullying during the Orange Revolution. He also noted that in 2014 and 2015 several times he was threatened with reprisal. According to the poet, he would have left Odessa if the city had been occupied. On the day when our hero made the above statement, there was a terrorist attack near his house.
Confession
Boris Khersonsky is a laureate of the fourth and fifth Voloshinsky competition, as well as a diplomat of the seventh and eighth. He was awarded at the festival “Kiev Laurels”. Boris Khersonsky received a special award “Moscow Account”. Our hero is a laureate of a scholarship to the I. Brodsky Foundation. Received an award from the magazine "New World". He became a laureate of a poetry award established by Anthologia. The book “Family Archive” is included in the short list of the Andrei Bely Prize. The work of Spirituals was also noted. This work is included in the short list “Book of the Year”. The book "Family Archive" was awarded the special prize of Austria - Literaris. The work “Until It Has Darkened” was also awarded. The book also received a Russian award.
A family
Boris Khersonsky is married to a poetess named Lyudmila. The niece of our hero Elena Akhterskaya, an American writer, was born in 1985.