Biography Fokina Olga

A large peasant family was left without a father, who died of wounds, in the year. A difficult childhood in the hungry military and post -war years turned out to be filled with drama and a special sense of a reverent sensation to moments of joy. Olga Fokina graduated from a seven-year school in the village of Kornilovo, Verkhnetemsky district, then, having studied at the Arkhangelsk Medical School, returned to her homeland and worked as a paramedic in the village of Yagrysh.

In the middle of the X, the first poems of the novice poetess were published on the pages of Arkhangelsk newspapers and in the Almanac of North. In the city of Olga, Fokina entered the Literary Institute. Gorky, Nikolai Rubtsov began to study in the poetic seminar of Nikolai Sidorenko later in this seminar. There she met not only Rubtsov, but also with V. Belov, S. Vikulov, A. In the year O.

Fokina graduated from the Literary Institute. Her diploma work was the poetry collection "Syr-Bor", which was published in Moscow in the year. In the X years, a large number of collections of Olga Fokina’s poems are published. For the collection "Macs Day", released by the North-Western Book Publishing House in the year, O. Olga Fokina's work goes into the traditional Russian oral-poetic tradition, her poems grow from the northern epics and legends, from folk songs and ballads.

No wonder more than a hundred poems by Olga Fokina became songs. Some of them - “Hello, Paloga River”, “My Yasnaya Star” - gained real folk glory and are performed by each new generation of talented performers. The theme of the poetic pearls of Olga Fokina is very different, but whether it is joking initiation to friends or the soulful memories of childhood, songs about love or odes northern nature, the intonation of the poetess always remains recognizable, unique, and natural, alive.

Rhymes, it seems, themselves are formed one to one, the words seem to be impossible differently, except in a poetic recitative. The special direction of Olga Fokina’s work is the chanting and annalistic domestic of the fate of a Russian woman who sometimes personifies the poet and all his native land, all of Russia. Lyric, full of love and subtle understanding, sensitivity of the line are dedicated to women of all eras of Russian history.

Olga Fokina creates a poetic anthem of mercy and hard work, tenderness and power of the spirit, compassion and firmness of the character of a Russian woman. Olga Fokina currently lives in Vologda, but almost every year she comes to her native places. In the year, she was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the Verkhnetomsky district. In Verkhnyaya Toyma, regular creative meetings with the poetess are held, and the Fokinsky festival was first held in the year.