Biography of Bryusov Valery Yakovlevich is complex and contradictory. He is a man who witnessed two wars and three revolutions. Author of in-depth studies about Pushkin, prose writer, playwright, poet, literary critic.
A family
Valery Yakovlevich was born on December 13, 1873 in the family of a Moscow merchant. The father of the future poet, Yakov Kuzmich, was fond of the ideas of the revolutionary populists, published his poems in print publishing houses and paid great attention to the education of his son. The future founder of Russian symbolism was educated in the best Moscow gymnasiums of F.I. Kreiman and L.I. Polivanov. The latter had a significant impact on the development of Valery as a poet.
Training
Bryusov's biography contains information that the young poet wrote his first poems at the age of 13. After completing training in gymnasiums, the young man continues his studies at Moscow University, at the Faculty of History and Philology. He studies history, literature, philosophy in depth, shows interest in languages - ancient and modern. In 1892, the young poet became acquainted with the work of representatives of French symbolism - Rambo, Verlaine, Malarm. Bryusov's biography and his work is influenced by this literary movement. In letters to Verlaine, he says that fate is destined to spread symbolism in Russia and is, as it were, the founder of this new Russian movement in literature.
Young talent
In the years 1894-1895 compiles and prints three collections of "Russian Symbolists." Many poems in it were written by Bryusov himself, and even then testified to the outstanding talent of the author. In 1895, a young and ambitious young man published his first collection of his own poems, Masterpieces. Critics of that time negatively met the emergence of a new author. The next collection was called "This is Me." He came out in 1897, the work of the young Bryusov was filled with extreme egocentrism and individualism. In the same year, an important event in the life of the poet.
Bryusov's biography in 1987 was replenished with a line about marrying John Runt. This woman will be next to the poet until her death and will preserve his archives and literary heritage for posterity. But in the life of Valery Yakovlevich, there were hobbies by other women - Nadezhda Lvova, Nina Petrovskaya.
Confession
After graduating from university in 1899, Bryusov's biography finally turns out to be connected with literary activity. He begins to work as a secretary in the journal Russian Archive. Two years later, Valery is one of the leaders of the Scorpio magazine, founded by S. Polyakov.
The 1900s are the years of the literary heyday of Bryusov - in these years the books “Third Guard”, “City and Peace”, “Wreath” are published. They are the best in the work of the author and brought him public recognition.
Military commander
Bryusov meets the First World War at the front, where he went as a correspondent from a Petersburg newspaper. At the front, he writes patriotic poems and appeals. But the war strikes the author with its meaninglessness - he soon returns home from the front.
Work at Moscow University
Bryusov welcomed the 1917 revolution . Actively worked in various publishing institutions. In the Soviet period he gives lectures at Moscow University. The theme of his lecture courses was antique and modern Russian literature, the theory of poetry, Latin, the history of the Ancient East.
The poet died on October 9, 1924 in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. Even a brief biography of Bryusov speaks of his mission as a poet.