This author is familiar to any reading person. At children's parties, his unchanging sounds: “Do not dare to forget teachers!” At corporate parties dedicated to March 8, men enthusiastically quote: “There are no women who are unloved - there are those who are not met ...”. And from the radios we are caught up with the lines of famous songs: “Forgive me, my love, for someone else’s evil ...”, “Apples in the snow - pink on white, what do we do with them - with apples in the snow?”, “I draw, I I draw you, I draw you sitting by the window ... ". All these poems were written by Andrei Dmitrievich Dementiev, whose biography is little known to a wide circle of his readers.
However, the author’s poetry, like a mirror, reflects the main milestones of his career. Where without it? It is the events and meetings that happened in life, the experiences and joys that fell to the lot, and make up the source from which the lyrics are born.
Biography of Andrei Dementiev: childhood
The poet was born July 16, 1928 in Tver on the Volga. The city is rich in famous compatriots, but of the poets whose homeland is the former Kalinin, one can perhaps only mention the “king of the Russian chanson” Mikhail Krug. So Tver is rightfully proud of Dementiev, who is her honorary citizen. Andrei Dmitrievich warmly recalls his parents - Maria Grigoryevna and Dmitry Nikitich, a wooden house with a mezzanine, Volga, where local boys bathed and rowed in the summer, and in winter skated and skated.
In 1936, the future poet went to school, so that his "universities" fell on hard war. In the classrooms hung cards with red and blue flags showing the advancement of troops on the fronts. Lessons began with Sovinformburo summaries. Father was arrested under the infamous 58th article, and Dementieva was brought up by her mother. Sometimes it was so hard to live that as a teenager, Andrei almost took his own life.
Biography of Andrey Dementiev: youth
Due to the fact that his father and uncles were in the camps, the young man was not able to enter the Military Medical Academy and the famous Institute of International Relations, as he wished. He was at the faculty of Tver pedagogical. But three years later he transferred to the world-famous Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky in Moscow. Recommendations were written to him by well-known authors of those years, Mikhail Lukonin and Sergey Narovchatov.
Dementiev felt happy and eagerly absorbed information at lectures and seminars. Still would! After all, the institute was taught by Paustovsky and Kataev, Twardovsky and Simonov, Marshak and Erenburg.
Biography of Andrei Dementiev: professional activity
After graduating from a writing institute, the young man returned to Tver. He worked in the agricultural department of Kalinin Truth, then in the regional newspaper Smena, and wrote poetry at night. The poet’s first poem was published in 1948 here in Tver. In the hometown, the first 5 books of the author, published from 1955 to 1963, were also released. In 1959, Dementiev became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
However, real poetry, a hectic creative life was in Moscow, and Andrei Dmitrievich was eager to go there with all his heart. Even at the Literary Institute, the poet joined the party. In 1967, he received the post of instructor in the propaganda and agitation department in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in the capital. It was difficult for a creative, “unkempt” person to get used to life according to bureaucratic laws. But it was in the Central Committee that a real male fraternity was present, and character was tempered here.
Moscow did not break Dementiev. He worked for several years at the Young Guard Publishing House. And in 1972, a completely amazing era began. Dementyev becomes first deputy chief editor, and then chief editor of the legendary Yunost magazine. He worked for 21 years in this publication, printing Vasiliev and Aleksin, Voznesensky and Yevtushenko. During his tenure as an editor in Yunost, he published 100 Days Before an Order and an emergency of regional scale by Yuri Polyakov, About Fedot the Sagittarius, a retired youth Leonid Filatov, Crimean Island Vasily Aksenov and Life and Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin ”by Vladimir Voinovich. The circulation of the magazine under Dementiev reached more than 3 million copies.
In the 90s, the poet ended up in Israel, where he worked for several years as head of the Middle East representative office of RTR. Later he worked on radio and television. He was fired from work more than once: either for the publication of objectionable poems, or for the preparation of an acutely political broadcast. All this time the author’s books were published, songs appeared on his poems.
Andrei Dementiev Biography: personal life
The poet was married four times. From his second marriage, he has a daughter, Marina, who now lives in St. Petersburg. From the third marriage - the wife’s daughter Natalya (adopted by Dementiev) and son Dmitry. A terrible tragedy occurred in the life of the poet. Son Dmitry at the age of 30 died, having shot himself literally in front of his wife. The poet blames himself for what has happened all his life. However, a grandson grew up - a full namesake of the poet, Andrei Dmitrievich Dementiev, who chose the career of an actor.
Andrei Dementyev is a poet whose biography is full of happy and tragic moments, ups and downs, perhaps because his work penetrates the souls of numerous readers.