Only a limited number of people know that poets-minded people live in Russia. The main abstruse, Sergei Biryukov, not only writes poetry in a futuristic style, but also gives students lectures on the history of the Russian avant-garde.
Starting conditions
For many centuries, poetry was considered an elitist genre of literature. And only at the end of the 19th century, peasants and other representatives of the common people began to appear as poetic images. Sergei Evgenievich Biryukov, as he admitted, since childhood has been "branded with passion alone." Passion for the search for a poetic image. Craving for a word and sound appeared in him at an early age. At first, the boy himself could not understand how he picks up a secret call from the clouds and night shores. And only with time I realized that there are people in this world with kindred souls for him.
The future poet was born on May 19, 1950 in an ordinary Soviet family. Parents at that time lived in the small village of Torbeevka in the famous Tambov region. My father worked as a machine operator on a collective farm. Mother worked in a field crew and was engaged in household work. Sergey grew up an energetic and inquisitive boy. He learned to read early. As soon as he was enrolled in school, he asked where the library is. To the great surprise of those around him, he preferred to read poetry collections. After the tenth grade, Biryukov decided to get a specialized education at the philological faculty of the Tambov Pedagogical Institute.
Creative activity
After receiving a diploma, Biryukov entered graduate school and began to teach students a course in Russian literature. In his lectures, he talked a lot about avant-garde movements that appeared in literature at the dawn of the 20th century. Among many representatives of futurism, Sergei Evgenievich singled out the poets Velimir Khlebnikov and Vasily Kamensky. And not only singled out, but also acted as a direct successor to the Russian futurists. In his poems Biryukov used such forms of utterance as zaum and verse. By definition of Sergei Evgenievich, zaum is poetry in which the music of the word moves ahead of the meaning.
The first poems by Sergei Biryukov were published on the pages of a city newspaper in 1970. Twenty years later, the teacher and poet organized the world's first Zaumi Academy. Contrary to skeptics and ill-wishers, members of the academy expressed a desire to become poets from many countries of Europe, America and Asia. The poet’s creative career was developing successfully. His stage performances, which were called vocal and poetic, enjoyed great success. Biryukov not only read his works, but mostly sang.
