The history of Soviet literature deserves to be known to posterity. It is important, and very interesting, to know the poets and writers of a bygone era. Nikolay Aseev is one of many writers that it is advisable to remember an erudite person.
Childhood and youth
The famous Soviet poet was born July 10, 1889 in a petty bourgeois family. Parents lived at that time in the town of Lgov, which is still located in the Kursk province. The father of Nikolai Nikolaevich Aseev, a native of a seedy noble family, worked as an insurance agent. Mother, as was customary in those days, was busy with the house. When the child was barely eight years old, the mother was gone. The boy was taken up by his grandfather, who was distinguished for his well-read and good memory. It was he who instilled in Nicholas a taste and love for literature.
From young nails, Nikolai watches how people live in the district, green fields, fly around autumn leaves and a snowstorm howls outside the window. In 1909, having received primary education in a real school, the budding poet went to Moscow. The father insists that his son study at a commercial institution. The young man does not reread to the parent, but in parallel with his studies, he is engaged in creativity and spends all his free time in the circle of like-minded people. He meets with Vladimir Mayakovsky and Boris Pasternak.
In a whirl of events
The biography of Nikolai Aseev as a mirror reflects the sequence of historical events. When the First World War began, the poet was drafted into the army. But work on the word is not interrupted. Asei didn’t get to the front - he got sick with tuberculosis. Recovered. And by this time the first revolution broke out. In a disrupted social storm, life turned out to be difficult. Nikolai, together with his wife, decided to change their place of residence and went to the East. With adventure and anxiety we got to Vladivostok. Here the poet was actively engaged in journalistic activities.
In 1922, the famous People's Commissar of Education Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky persistently invited him to return to Moscow. Literary life was already in full swing here. Aseev, along with long-time comrades involved in the creation of the "Left Front of the Arts." In the wake of enthusiasm and freedom, Soviet poets create their masterpieces. Aseev’s poem Blue Hussars was included in the gold fund of Soviet poetry. The basis for the work was the fate of the Decembrists.
