Biography of Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg

The pseudonym was taken from life itself. Sasha was born on October 1 13 and raised in Odessa, in a large Jewish family, where there were five children, of which two were Sasha. Brightly called white, and dark black. Due to the then existing gymnasiums in the Limit of the Jewish students, Sasha was impossible to enter the gymnasium. And when the parents suddenly decided to baptize all the children, it was already too late to study, according to Sasha.

He fled to Petersburg, but soon realized that he could not survive there alone. Parents did not answer letters, letting Sasha understand that he himself chose his path. From the starvation of Sasha, the rich Zhytomyr official who accepted him to his family saved. The whole further biography of Sasha Black is the biography of the satirist poet. In years, he actively collaborated with various satirical magazines: Almanac, Journal, Hammer, Masks, Goblin.

But one of his publications in the “Spectator” in November made such a scandal that the magazine was closed. The first collection of poems of the black “Different Motives” was arrested. To avoid the arrest himself, he went to Germany with his wife, where he created a cycle of lyric satire “among the Germans”, the poem “Carnival in Heidelberg”, “Corporatives”, etc. The level of his poetic skill increased sharply, the horizons expanded, which allowed him shortly after returning from abroad to take the place of one of the poetic leaders in the St.

Petersburg weekly Satyricon, where Sasha Black finally found his niche. His poems were literally memorized by heart at that time, they were so topical. In the year, the Satire collection was published, uniting the cycles of poems published earlier, which ridiculed the Russian layman and the vulgarity of the world around him. Then the second book of poems was published - Satires and Lyrics were published in other editions - in the newspapers “New Day”, “Kiev Thought”, “Russian Rumor”, “Odessa News”, magazines Modern World, Argus, “Sun of Russia”, Almanac “Rosehip”.

I was looking for support in art, nature, children, folk life, creating the cycles of lyrical miniatures about the village “Northern Twilight”, “In the village” and others. Another area of ​​black work was poems for the children that he wrote from the year, and in the year took part in the “Blue Book” created on the initiative of M. Gorky and in the children's almanac “Firebird”. He tried himself as a translator from German, preparing for the press “Book of Songs” by G.

Heine, “Selected Stories” by G. Safir, translations of R. Demel, K. Gamsun and others. With the outbreak of World War I, Private Glickberg went to serve in the field hospital. His impressionability almost deprived him of his mind and life. Only a loving wife and the opportunity to splash impressions on the paper saved the poet. The impressions obtained at the front formed the basis of the cycle of poems "War".

After the October Revolution of the year, he leaves Russia among the first emigrants. At first, Black lived in Vilna, where he wrote poetry about Lithuania, the Russian Pompey cycle, in which the poet admits that for him there are no ways back, as well as the book of children's poems “Children's Island”. In the year, the poet moved to Berlin, where he worked in the publishing house "Grani", "Russian Newspaper" and "Rule", in the magazines "Spolokhi", "Volya of Russia", edited the literary department of the magazine "Firebird".

Then his third book Satir “Thirst” was published, which became the end of the work of the Black Poet. Since the year, Alexander has been living in Paris, now in his work a more and more place has been occupied by prose: numerous books for children “Biblical Tales”, “Professor Patrashkin’s Dream”, “Squirrel-School”, “Rush Book”, “The Diary of Fox Mickey”, “Silver Fecel”, etc.

In the summer of the year, Sasha Black House settled in a small house in the south of France in the south of France La Favier, near Lavender, where he died on August 5 in the year of life-overstrained the heart, helping the neighbors extinguish the fire.

A line was carved on his grave plate from Pushkin’s poem: “The poor knight lived in the world.” Alexander Mikhailovich actually resembled the very poor knight. Merciless in his satire, in life he was a very sincere and kind person. He could not stay away from someone else's trouble. Persons of the day March 17: - Gotlib Daimler German engineer, designer and industrialist.