Baltrushaitis Biography

BALTRUSAITIS, Yurgis Kazimiron, a graduate of Moscow University in the year is one of the founders of the Skorpion publishing house. He collaborated with the magazines "New Way", "Libra" and "Northern flowers", wrote poetry in Russian and Lithuanian languages. During his lifetime, collections of poems “Earth steps”, “Mountain path” participated in Moscow theatrical life. In the years, Baltrushaitis led the special diplomatic mission of Lithuania in Soviet Russia, and years - the Extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Lithuania to the USSR.

Contributed to the improvement of relations between the two countries. From the year - in the diplomatic service in Paris. Russian historical encyclopedia. Baltrusette Yurgis Kazimirovich [Paantwardis of Rossien. Kovenskaya lips- 3. The son of the poor Lithuanian peasants-Catholics. He took possession of reading and writing independently. In, moving to the winter holidays to the abbot of the local parish, Baltrushaite studied him with arithmetic, geography and Latin.

In, having passed the exams to the People’s School, he entered the Koven gymnasium. From the age of 15 he kept himself lessons. In, after the end of the gymnasium, he entered the natural department of the Physics and Mathematics faculty of Moscow University. At the same time attended lectures at the Faculty of History and Philology. In his student years, he became close to S. after graduating from the university in Polyakov met with K.

Balmont and V. Bryusov to which he was published in the Lithuanian language. In Aug. Zhenya Baltrushaitis devoted all the books of his poems. The debut in the press - the poem "Sleeping the poplars quietly. The fields were numb in the fall of the Poles along with Balmont and Bryusov by the Skorpion Publishing House, which soon united the leading symbolist writers. In Skorpion, he published his first book - the translation of the drama of Ibsen “When we, dead, wake up” Baltrusette Sum.

This work was the beginning of the many years of B.'s many years in the beginning of X, he participates in the "Scorpio" Alm. Later, Bryusov wrote: “Baltrushaitis-somehow immediately, from his first steps in literature, found himself, immediately found his tone, his topics, and since then he has not changed his own” Russian thought. Division 2.

In X from time to time he spoke with verses in the magazines “New Way”, “Golden Fleece”, “Pravda”, “New Journal for All”, “Russian Thought”, etc. Baltrushaitis wrote original verses in Russian relatively slightly less, unlike most symbolist poets, he was strict in the use of expressive means, laconic in the disclosure of his inner world, and traditional in poetic technique. Baltrushaitis did not like broadcast declarations; Living for a long time abroad Italy, Scandinavia, Germany, was neutral in the fractional struggle within the symbolist movement.

After the cessation of the “Libra” in the year of the “crisis” of symbolism, reflecting on its place in LIT. Dyakonov Stavrogin: “I alone lagged behind like a wounded crane from a pack. Although I accept it more with joy than with sadness. And one thing is better, and one is better for me. ”The tree is in fire. Distinct awareness of his lit. The book of poems by Baltrusette intended to publish in the early years of the new century, see these ideas then remained unrealized.

The result of the pre -revolutionary poetic work of Baltrushaite - the book “Earth steps. Elegy, songs, poems ”,“ Mountain path. The second book of poems ”The third book of Balticitis’s poems“ Lilia and Sickle ”, which was announced in E, published after the death of the poet Paris, Baltrushatis believed that“ a lifetime struggle for a common life, equally fair and equally complete to everyone.

” However, the events of real life, revolutionary upheavals did not find a distinct expression in his meditative lyrics. In the poetry of Baltrusitis, the philosophical leitmotif is clearly tangible: faith in the high purpose of man, in the achievement of overcoming the universal disharmony of nature and the individual “I” “now and the prison”, “in the mountains”, “call”, “morning songs”, etc.

The author of the only lifetime monographic essay on the poet’s work noted that “the creation of poetry and philosophy is a distinguishing distinctive Dark »Baltrushaitis lyrics Rozanov S. Baltrusitis Silhouette. Words about words: Critical articles. In E, the literary reputation of Baltrushaite was significantly strengthened as “a symbolist throughout the spiritual warehouse and one of the affirmative from the beginning of the“ northern colors ”of the literary school, which appropriated this name” Ivanov Vyach.

He collaborated in the magazine "Testaments", after its censorship prohibition - in Northern Notes, largely devoting his works to the literature of the Scandinavian countries. Freely speaking many foreign languages, Baltrushaitis made a significant contribution to Russian translation art. His translations of the works of J. Byron, G. Ibsen, G. Gauptmann, G. Gamsun, O.

Wilde, A. Strinberg, M. Meterlink, Translations of the Verses, Armenian poets in the Bryusovo Armenia, among numerous articles of the Scandinavian writers - the article on the internal path of K., retained their importance. Balmont »Testaments.I tried Baltrushaitis my forces in prose: the story “Drops” Northern flowers to the essential fact of the literary and personal biography of Balticratis X - friendly communication with M.

Gorky, especially strengthening at –16 during joint work on the unusable publication in Russian, a collection of Lithuanian literature. According to the memoirs of Struogi, Gorky characterized B. letters of Yu. The artistic interests of B. Skryabin consulted him using the technique of versification, participated in his charitable concerts, after the death of the musician he became one of the founders of Scriabin society, with M.

Churlenis, L. Pasternak, K. Marjanov, A. Tairov and V. Meyerhold, in the summer in the Baltrushaitis family, B. Pasternak, who translated the advice In Russian, the comedy of G. Kleist “Broken A jug” see air routes. Baltrushaitis was seriously interested in the problems of the theater, in was a member of the Literary Bureau of the MHT theater-studio, later participated in the work of the Moscow Free Theater, the Moscow Art Theater and the Chamber Theater.

In November. Komissarzhevskaya, who entrusted him with the development of the program of the new theater school - a kind of "Theological community". The death of the actress did not allow this undertaking to see the album of the Sun of Russia. The October Revolution Baltrushaitis accepted sympathetically, joined in cultural and organizational work. In April. The last years of the life of Baltrushaitis were overshadowed by troubles and deprivations of the times of the Nazi occupation.

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