Vladimir Afanasevich Arkhipov is a poet and children's writer, for whom two of his native places are Vyatka and Kuban, where he was born and where he lives. The people of these places and nature are the themes of his work. He is happy both as a man and as a poet. And this is felt in each of his poems.
From biography
Vladimir Afanasevich Arkhipov was born in 1939 in the Kirov region. In a peasant family, he was the second son. Father Afanasy Dmitrievich went the battle way from Moscow to Berlin, and his mother, Efrosinya Nikolaevna, worked in the village. For the first time, the poems of young Vladimir appeared in the regional and regional newspapers, in Pioneer Truth and in the journal Smena.
He graduated from the Kirov Agricultural College and went to the virgin lands, where he worked as a correspondent. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and the Literary Institute. He worked in the BAM newspaper and traveled many taiga kilometers. In 1979, he moved with his family to Krasnodar - to his wife’s homeland, where he currently lives.
Poetic collections
The names of poetry collections speak for themselves and for the poet. He writes about pioneers, how people live and love, that faith and love save us, that Russia will rise from the ashes, that the Vyatka character is a Russian miracle. He wants people to live in joy, to love life just like him, and asks to give a hand to another. He loves to write about unquenchable love, happy people and swan fidelity. He believes that no one has won the Russian soldier. When his verses are read, the faith of man grows stronger.
Pushkin and village Russia
Indeed, how connected are these three concepts! How long they go not so much hand in hand with a person, how much soul to soul! The childhood of a person flows with a poet who loved the Motherland and who extolled the feeling of love for both the Motherland and the woman. During the war, Hitler could not destroy our culture. In the post-war period, the author grew up on the poems of Pushkin and in his becoming as a poet, "Russia, Pushkin and Love" played a stunning role. Now all together these words are for the author as a covenant, on which he relies for the struggle for high morality - kindness and humanity.
The initial mood of the author is optimistic, solemn. He admires his native Russian sunset. He recalls the ancestors who gave amazing, nature-related names. Further, the poet's voice becomes alarming. The poet’s thoughts are connected with today's fate of rural Russia. The sounds of the native land are not the same. They are empty. He is scared, like in a cemetery. The beauty of the home side is dead. The author’s wishes sound simultaneously with sadness, but also with faith in the future. He believes that a small homeland inspires a person, and he should not lose touch with the earth.
Small homeland
The poet writes about his beloved land, about the fact that in Vyatka land he popularizes literary work and instills in children a love of poetry and his native land. Vyatka region is famous for its bright and heroic geographical names. There are many museums. God endowed this earth with wings.
This is a poem about the poet’s small homeland - Vyatka land, to which he comes almost every summer. He came to bow to the Vasnetsovsky house. This region is full of springs and heroes. And the name of the artist Vasnetsov is a symbol of the Vyatka region. A small homeland gives a person strength in order to support the weak, faith in himself, in a good life. Vyatka as a piece of "luminiferous Rus." The poet asks for the light that purifies the soul of man.
Forgive me mom
This poem is about the mother’s traditional desire for her son to find a good wife. Lines of remorse and that the mother’s life has already ended sound sad. It seems to him that the mother lives in himself. The memory of the closest person who loves his son and wishes him a grateful fate ends on a playful wave.
I want to create love so much
In the first lines, the author recalls the remote taiga - the time when he built the BAM. He was not cowardly or sad. Then he was loved by the best girl. He neglected the best place of life - Moscow. He went in for sports, became a famous poet. He went through many tests. He was and remains a romantic, by nature a peasant. The author thanks the “sweet feeling” of love that he carried through his whole life and which warmed and saved him. The words that the best girl loves him have become his testament to life.
In the poem, the author rejoices that he and she are alive. This is husband and wife. Their life is not an easy path, and much has already been lost. But ahead is an assault on the following heights! Spring betrothed them. Their joint world is a world where there are no "leaders or bureaucrats." The sun for warmth, young grass as a symbol of life, and love as the highest state of the soul - this is what a person always needs.
Popularizer of literary creativity
For many years, V. Arkhipov has been teaching young writers mastery in the Inspiration studio. Every year in Krasnodar held a children's poetry contest "Winged Swing", Days of Poetry of the Kuban. He is called the "poet of young hearts."
From personal life
The wife - Tamara Vasilievna - always remains not only a devoted admirer of her husband, but also his companion. She helps him make out and edit books. And in his verses the words of love for the best of women do not cease to sound. Every summer they go to Vyatka. They are waiting for the old hut of Vladimir's parents, which requires care and repair.
The daughter of Anastasia, whom the poet immensely loves, is dedicated to the poem of the same name.
At any time of the year, the name of the daughter on the lips of the father. Wonderful is the name for him is associated with nature - with bird cherry, with mountain ash. The poet names the pure Russian name in pronunciation with the word "Russia". These two words are not separable. The author recalls her grandmother Efrosinho, the poet’s mother, whom her daughter resembles. Daughter Anastasia brings light and warmth to the house. His soul hurts for her. Without Russia and a daughter - without these two suns - he cannot.
