It was nice, big, round. Literature about life and creativity

Poet, prose writer, publicist A. V. Novikov was born on December 26, 1961 in the village. Alabuzino, Bezhetsky district, Tver region. His childhood was spent in Lipetsk, where he graduated high school No. 17. After serving in the army, he entered the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky to the Faculty of Poetry (seminar by V. Kostrov and V. Milkov). After graduating from the institute in 1990, he worked as a correspondent, executive secretary in the newspapers Lipetsk Izvestia, Lipetskaya Gazeta, Provincial Reporter, special correspondent for RIA Novosti in the Lipetsk region, and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gorod Lipetsk.

Andrei Novikov’s first serious publication took place in the magazine “Rise” in 1984. His poems were published in district, regional and central newspapers: “Leninskoe Znamya”, “Leninets”, “Lipetskaya Gazeta”, “Lipetsk Izvestia”, “Young Communard” (Voronezh), “Literary Gazette”, “Moskovsky Komsomolets”; in the magazines “Student Meridian”, “Literary Study”, “Friendship”, “Young Guard”, “Literary Kyrgyzstan”, “Workers and Peasants Correspondent”, “Working Shift” (Minsk), “Chayan” (Kazan); in the almanacs: “Origins”, “Poetry”, “Poetry Day”; in the collective collections “Handshake” (Voronezh, 1987), “Tournament” (M., 1987), “Debut in Sovremennik” (M., 1990), “Young Guard-85”, “Tverskoy Boulevard, 25” (M. .,1990).

He published his first poetry collection, “Among the Herbs,” in Voronezh in 1988. A year later, Andrei Novikov became a participant in the 9th All-Union Meeting of Young Writers (V. Prokushev’s seminar), at which his poems were highly praised. As a result of the meeting in 1990, the Library of the Young Guard magazine published a “book within a book” “Ancient Smile” (27 poems) with a foreword by V. Kostrov.

In 1992, A. V. Novikov was admitted to the Writers' Union of Russia. His third book of poems, “The Monkey Emperor,” was published in Lipetsk in 1993. The poet was noticed by the famous critic Vladimir Slavetsky, who wrote about him in two of his books (“Continued Letters”, “Russian Poetry of the 80-90s of the 20th Century”) and several articles. In particular, V. Slavetsky wrote about the book of poems “The Monkey Emperor”: “In the very imagery one can feel the drama of the worldview, the fragility, and unreliability of human existence in the world. There is something piercingly truthful, bordering at the same time with theatrical phantasmagoria... It is not surprising that in “The Monkey Emperor”, this feast of colors, a celebration of fine art, we also feel a certain strain, which was indicated by the reviewer of the poet Vl. Tsybin as a “terrible picture of metaphysical loneliness,” quoting the last stanza:
They carry copper shields,
The walls of Lhasa darken in the distance...
But like torn meat -
His eyes are from emptiness."

According to critics, A. Novikov’s poems belong to the category of intellectual poetry. To read and understand them, you must have a fairly broad historical and cultural knowledge base. Currently, his works are published in the magazine “Petrovsky Most” and other literary magazines in the country, and are included in the book “Writers of the Lipetsk Region. Anthology. XXI century" (2015).

Since April 2015, A. V. Novikov has headed the regional branch of the Writers' Union of Russia. At the XV Congress of the Writers' Union of Russia on February 15, 2018, he was elected secretary of the Union.

From April 4 to May 21, 2018, Andrei Novikov together with the famous Lipetsk playwright and prose writer Alexander Ponomarev in the literary motor rally " Great Russia“We drove a Lada car along the route Lipetsk-Sakhalin-Lipetsk in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Lipetsk literary magazine “Petrovsky Bridge”. During this action, meetings were held with writers from the Urals, Siberia and Far East, performances were organized for readers of local libraries. On May 21, 2018, a journey of 19 thousand kilometers was registered in the Russian Book of Records as “The longest motor rally of writers.” In February 2019, A. Novikov and A. Ponomarev toured Syria.

In 2015, the writer was awarded the literary prize of the Petrovsky Most magazine in the Prose and Drama category for the story “Writer Kapitankin” and a selection of stories “Frogs in Batter.” In 2017, he took third place in the literary festival-competition "Russian Hoffman" in Kaliningrad in the "Prose" category and first place in the VI Open International South Ural Literary Award ("Poetry: Professional Authors" category) - "for the poetic search for meaning life in the book "Crossroads". In 2018, he became the winner of the International Festival "Slavic Traditions" in Crimea (Shchelkino) in the "Poetry Slam" nomination, took 2nd place in International competition"Constellation of Spirituality" in Kyiv.

In 2016, A. Novikov was awarded Certificate of honor Union of Writers of Russia, Certificate of Honor from the Department of Culture and Art of the Lipetsk Region and the Large Silver Gumilyov Medal "For Fidelity to Creative Traditions" Silver Age". As the head of the regional branch of the Writers' Union of Russia, he received a Certificate of Honor from the head of the administration of the Lipetsk region (2018) and an anniversary medal "For the Glory of the Lipetsk Region" (2019). He was also awarded the "Labor Valor of Russia" badge of the same name All-Russian public organization and the medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "For strengthening the military community" (2019).

In 2019, A. Novikov was awarded a diploma by the administration of the Leninsky district of the Republic of Crimea for organizing and holding the XI international festival of literature and culture “Slavic traditions-2019” in the region; As a participant in this festival, he received 1st place in the "Poetry Slam" nomination and 2nd place in the "Poetry - Free Theme" nomination. He became the winner in the nomination "Small Prose - Humor" of the International Literary and Music Festival "Intellectual Season 2019" (Republic of Crimea), as well as in the nomination "Map of Russia" of the competition "Poetic Atlas 2019" of the international festival "Mginsky Bridges" in the Leningrad region, received second prize in the category "Best Poem" at the International Turgenev Competition "Bezhin Meadow". In 2019, A. V. Novikov became the owner of the “Silver Pen of Rus'” badge of the National Literary Competition “Golden Pen of Rus'”.

Author's works

Among the herbs...: poetry. - Voronezh, 1988. - 30 p. : portrait - (Young poetry of the Black Earth region).
Chalov G.V. Ruslina / Gennady Chalov. The Tale of Olekha the Oven-Keeper / Nikolai Druzhinsky. Forerunners / Alexander Andreev. An ancient smile / Andrey Novikov. Point of return: Poems / Alexander Kovalev / [art. B. Sopin]. - M., 1990. - 127 p. : ill. - (B-magazine of the Komsomol Central Committee “Young Guard”; No. 18 (433).
Monkey Emperor: Poems. - Lipetsk, 1993. - 111 p. : ill.
Crosshairs: poetry. - Voronezh, 2016. - 168 p.
Fun evenings: stories. - Voronezh, 2017. - 124 p.
[Poems] // Writers of the Lipetsk region: an anthology. 21st century / editor's note. : T.V. Gorelova (pres.) and others; ed.-comp. : N. N. Kaltygin. - Moscow, 2015. - pp. 59-60.
[Stories] // Give a smile: Lipetsk writers to youth and children / [ed.-comp. A. Novikov]. - Voronezh, 2016. - pp. 14-31.
“I accepted the world as it is”: [poems] // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2013. - No. 1 (Jan.-March). - pp. 24-28. - (Poetry).
Love is evil: stories // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2013. - No. 3 (July-Sept.). - pp. 136-139. - (Prose).
Writer Kapitankin: a story // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2014. - No. 3 (July-Sept.). - pp. 132-139. - (Prose).
“The years lived have different meanings...”: [poems] // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2015. - No. 1 (Jan.-March). - pp. 71-75. - (Poetry).
Mother and Nyunka: stories // Rise. - 2015. - No. 3. - P. 118-125. - (Prose).
Frogs in batter: stories // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2015. - No. 3 (July-Sept.). - pp. 46-57. - (Prose).
Sunset over the river: [poems] // Poetry Day - XXI century. 2015-2016: almanac: poems,
articles. - M.: Journal publishing house. “Youth”, 2016. - P. 144.
[Poems and stories] // For the glory of Boris and Gleb: collective. Sat. participants of Vseros. Russian festival literature and culture in Borisoglebsk Voronezh. region /region. department producer. center at the International Writers' Union. - Voronezh, 2016. - pp. 116-133.
[Poems] // Bezhetsky region: almanac Bezhet. local historian islands - 2016. - No. 1. - P. 63-67.
[Poems] // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2016. - No. 2 (April-June). - pp. 121-124. - (Poetry).
Distant lights: [poems] // Rise. - 2016. - No. 5.
[Poems] // Moscow Parnassus. - 2016. - No. 5. - P. 67-69.
[Stories] // Rising. - 2016. - No. 11. - P. 108-118. - (Prose).
[Stories] // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2016. - No. 4 (Oct.-Dec.). - P. 16-23. - (Prose).
[Stories] // Moscow Parnassus. - 2017. - No. 1 - P. 84-95. - (Satire and humor).
Fun evenings: a story // Moscow Parnassus. - 2017. - No. 4. - P. 92-97.

As usual, the holiday enters into us: [poems] // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2017. - No. 4. - P. 5-9. - From the content: Christmas; Apple; Holiday; Doesn't count; Clerk; Sunset over the river; Tired age; Bright strokes of canvas; Don't give it away.

Romance with a century: [poems] // Zenziver. - 2017. - No. 6. - From the contents: Forbidden City; Cautious night; Bell; Crosshair; Romance with the centenary.

Supermarket. World of fields. Holiday. Christmas: [poems] // Metamorphoses. - 2017. - No. 4. - P. 104.

[Poems] // Academy of Poetry. 2016-2017. - M., 2017. - P. 156.
Poems // Parade of Literatures: a literary and artistic almanac of modern poetry and prose in Russia and the post-Soviet space. - Moscow: White Cranes of Russia, 2018. - P. 217-218.
Father's land. Sunset. The last warmth. Tired Age: [poems] // Guardians of Nature: almanac lit. competition in honor of the 145th anniversary of M. M. Prishvin. - Veliky Novgorod, 2018. - pp. 116-118.
Stupid. Ferret. Mother and Nyunka: stories [Electronic resource] // Velikoross: literary-historical. magazine : network version. - 2018. - No. 108 (April). - Access mode: http://www.velykoross.ru/journals/all/journal_70/article_4259/. - 05/06/2018.
Frogs in batter: a story // Territory of the word: literary art. almanac / Union of Writers Lugan. Nar. Republic, Writers' Union Donets. Nar. Republic. - 2018. - Experiment. adj. "The Life of Remarkable Possums." - No. 1 (4). - pp. 74-76.
Crane by the road: a story // White Rock: quarterly. online magazine / Union of Writers of Crimea. - 2018. - No. 2. - P. 138-140.
Book people. Uncle Zapuperya. Mother and Nyunka: [stories] // Baltika. - 2018. - No. 2. - P. 122-126.
A banker's wedding: [story] // White Rock. - 2018. - No. 2. - P. 114-118.
Poems // Crimea. - 2018. - No. 2. - P. 129-131.
On Great Russia / A. Ponomarev, A. Novikov // Metamorphoses: lit.-art. magazine - Minsk, 2018. - No. 2. - P. 182-194.
In the foggy void: [poems] // Baikal. - 2018. - No. 3. - P. 96-100.
“Life gets tired of measuring sadness”: [poems] // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2018. - No. 3 (July-Sept.) - P. 30-33.
Literary motor rally in half the equator / A. Novikov, A. Ponomarev // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2018. - No. 3 (July-Sept.) - P. 175-180. - (To the 10th anniversary of the magazine "Petrovsky Most").
Motor rally "Great Russia" / A. Ponomarev, A. Novikov // White Rock. - 2018. - No. 3. - P. 155-166.
Poems // White Rock. - 2018. - No. 4. - P. 290-293. - (Guest of the magazine).
From the noise of the creation of the world: poems // Sura. - 2018. - No. 4. - P. 125-132.
Literary motor rally “All Russia”: travel notes/ A. Novikov, A. Ponomarev // Shores. - 2018. - No. 4. - P. 108-113. - (Lipetsk shores).
Birdcatcher and fisherman: [poems] // Southern Lights: Odessa Literary Arts. magazine - 2018. - No. 4. - P. 88-92.
Star Bridge: poems // Simbirsk. - 2018. - No. 7. - pp. 16-17. - (Guest. Our guests are Lipetsk writers).
On solar axis: [poems] // Siberian lights. - 2018. - No. 8. - P. 84-86. - (Poetry).
"...the meaning of a lonely fire...": poems // North Muya Lights. - 2018. - No. 5 (Sept.-Oct.). - P. 69.
“...like a rainbow is my light spirit...”: poems // North Muya Lights. - 2018. - No. 6 (November-December). - P. 57.
Vesi: [poems] // Steam locomotive. - 2018. - No. 8 - P. 85-89.
Green flower: [poems] // Under the clock: literary art. almanac Smolen. department of the Union of Russia. writers. - 2018. - No. 17, book. 1. - pp. 144-151.
Poems // Litera: literary almanac. - Ryazan: Start, 2019. - pp. 146-148.
Poems // Russian Laughter-19: an almanac of ironic poetry. - Nizhny Novgorod: Books, 2019. - pp. 121-124.
[Stories about the writer Kapitankin] // White Rock. - 2019. - No. 1. - P. 149-156.
[Poems] // Shores. - 2019. - No. 1. - P. 123.
Under the sky of Syria: [about the trip of A. Novikov and A. Ponomarev to Syria, where the presentation of the magazine “Petrovsky Bridge” and the book took place. A. Ponomarev "The Transparent Sky of Syria" for Syrian writers and growing up. military] // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2019. - No. 1 (Jan.-March) - P. 192-194.
Book people: a story // North-Muya lights. - 2019. - No. 1. - P. 42-43.
Incompleteness: [poems] // Russian Bell. - 2019. - No. 1 - P. 244-250. - (Union of Writers of the Lipetsk Region).
[Poems] // Sukhum. - 2019. - No. 1-2. - pp. 263-269.
Mama da Nyunka = Anayka ve Nyunka: story [in Crimean Tatar. language] / A. Novikov; lane S. Suleymanov // Crimea. - 2019. - No. 1-2 (53-54). - P. 200-202. - (Prose in the Crimean Tatar language = Kyrymtatar Tilinde Edebiyat).
[Poems] // White Rock. - 2019. - No. 2. - P. 94-96.
“I will come out of the coma of life”: [poems] // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2019. - No. 2 (April-June) - pp. 28-32.
Village tales // North-Muya lights. - 2019. - No. 3. - P. 27-29.
[Poems] // Capital. - 2019. - No. 3. - P. 232-233. - (Living room: Lipetsk).
Crossroads: poems // Russian echo. - 2019. - No. 3 (May-June). - pp. 40-44.
The Gingerbread Governor: (chapters from the novel) // Metamorphoses [Belarus]. - 2019. - No. 3. - P. 285-288. - (Satire and humor).
"Insomnia in stained glass...": [poems] // North. - 2019. - No. 3-4. - P. 103-104.
The smell of the world: a poem // Dawn. - 2019. - No. 4. - P. 124-125.
Stories // Neva. - 2019. - No. 4. - P. 61-78.
Short stories // Tavria literary. - 2019. - No. 4. - P. 17-59.
[Poems] // Parallels: literary art. and publicist. almanac. - 2019. - No. 6. - P. 130-131.
Marina: [poems] // Rise. - 2019. - No. 7.
[Poems] // Circular bowl: literary and artistic almanac. - 2019. - No. 18. - P. 113-114.
Being in a certain state of anxiety: ironic poems // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2019. - No. 3 (July-September). - pp. 197-199. - (Satire and humor).
[Stories] // Priokskie dawns. - 2019. - No. 3. - P. 111-121. - (Modern Russian story).
Gingerbread Governor // Metamorphoses. - 2019. - No. 4. - P. 385-388.
The Gingerbread Governor: a novel // Literary overlock. - 2019. - No. 4. - P. 12-79.
Ironic poems // North-Muya lights. - 2020. - No. 1 (Jan.-Feb.). - P. 81.

Literature about life and creativity

Slavetsky V. [On the work of A. Novikov] // Slavetsky V. Letters continued: articles, portraits, polemics / V. Slavetsky. - Voronezh, 1989. - pp. 133-136.
Slavetsky V. “... Connecting light and wind” // Literary studies. - 1989. - No. 5. - P. 19-20.
Tsybin V. “Between disasters” // Literary studies. - 1993. - No. 2. - P. 195-196.
Novikov A. There is always a choice: [conversation with the poet A. Novikov] / recorded by I. Neverov // Lipetsk newspaper. - 1993. - June 22.
Boinikov A. Thirst for revelation: about the new book of poems ["Crossroads"] by Andrei Novikov // Petrovsky Most. - 2016. - No. 3 (July-September). - pp. 125-128. - (Criticism and literary criticism).
Lipetsk residents received the "Russian Hoffmann" prizes: [in Kaliningrad Lipets. writers A. Novikov and S. Peshkova took third place in lit. festival-competition "Russian Hoffmann"] // Lipetsk newspaper. - 2017. - June 15 - P. 4. - (In the know. Culture).
Boynikov A. Joy and sadness in half: about the stories of Andrei Novikov // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2018. - No. 1 (Jan.-March) - P. 165-168.
Chereshneva I. Strengthen the Russian world: [in May 2017, A. Novikov and A. Ponomarev, at the invitation of the Union of Writers of Transnistria, took part in the celebration of the Days of Slavic Literature and Culture in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic] // Literary Transnistria. - 2018. - No. 1 - pp. 11-13. - (Chronicle of events).
On Great Russia: [A. Novikov and A. Ponomarev committed lit. motor rally from Lipetsk to Sakhalin and back] // Metamorphoses: literary art. magazine (Belarus). - 2018. - No. 2. - P. 182-194.
Andreev V. Literary motor rally “Great Russia”: [A. Novikov and A. Ponomarev on a journey from Lipetsk to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk; stop in Irkutsk] // Siberia. - 2018. - No. 2. - P. 240-242. - (Events).
Books for children of Transnistria: [on the initiative of A. Novikov and A. Ponomarev, collected and delivered to the libraries of the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic for children. books] // Moscow Parnassus. - 2018. - No. 3. - P. 119-120.
Sizova N. Literary connections: [Lipets. writers A. Ponomarev and A. Novikov returned from literature. road trips to the Far East; they spoke about their journey at a meeting at the Lipetskaya Gazeta Publishing House] // Lipetskaya Gazeta: results of the week. - 2018. - No. 22 (May 21-27) - pp. 20-21.
Vityuk I. Literary rally from Lipetsk to Sakhalin: [writers A. Novikov and A. Ponomarev dedicated the “Great Russia” rally to the 10th anniversary of literature. magazine "Petrovsky Bridge"] // General literary newspaper. - 2018. - No. 11 - P. 22. - (Meeting place).
Bogdanov V. Two in the car - and without a dog...: A. V. Novikov and A. A. Ponomarev: [regarding the "Great Russia" motor rally] // I'll gather friends by the fireplace...: unforgettable meetings / V. Bogdanov. - Lipetsk, 2019. - pp. 96-99.
Bezborodov I. A word to the reader: [ch. ed. magazine "Petrovsky Bridge" about the motor rally of A. Novikov and A. Ponomarev "Great Russia", about lit. interregion connections and about the authors of this issue - writers from Siberia and the Far East] // Petrovsky Most. - 2019. - No. 1 - P. 1.
Slavin A. Literary run... to Syria: [Andrei Novikov and Alexander Ponomarev] // Metamorphoses. - 2019. - No. 1. - P. 29-32.
“The transparent sky of Syria”: Lipetsk writers [A. Ponomarev and A. Novikov] presented a book in Syria about the hero-pilot Oleg Peshkov: [author of the book - A. Ponomarev] // Sura. - 2019. - No. 2. - P. 205-208. - (Criticism. Reviews. Reviews).
Menshikova E. Where Cain killed Abel: who is in the country ancient civilization brought the Lipetsk literary magazine "Petrovsky Bridge": [Lipets. writers A. Novikov and A. Ponomarev at a meeting with journalists from the Lipetskaya Gazeta Publishing House spoke about their trip to Syria] // Lipetskaya Gazeta. - 2019. - March 19.
“Russian poems were read in destroyed Palmyra”: two Lipetsk poets Alexander Ponomarev and Andrei Novikov spent two years trying to obtain permission to travel to war-torn Syria // Life in Lipetsk. - 2019. - March 19 (No. 12). - P. 7. - (On the line of fire).
Polyakova M. Lipetsk writers visited Siberia: writers Andrei Novikov and Alexander Ponomarev presented their works in Syria // Lipetsk newspaper: results of the week. - 2019. - No. 11 (March 11-17). - pp. 22-23.
Slavin A. Transparent sky of Syria: Chairman of the Lipetsk regional branch of the Union of Writers of Russia Andrei Novikov and co-chairman Alexander Ponomarev presented in the Syrian Arab Republic the book “Transparent sky of Syria” and the literary magazine “Petrovsky Bridge” - about the Hero of Russia pilot Oleg Peshkov // General Writers Literary Newspaper . - 2019. - No. 3 - P. 4. - (War and Peace).

Reference materials

Lipetsk encyclopedia. - Lipetsk, 2000. - T. 2. - P. 423.
Literary Lipetsk: a panorama of the creativity of Lipetsk writers and poets. - Lipetsk, 2002. - Part 1. Poetry. - P. 29-30: photo.
Works of Lipetsk writers (1981-1995): bibliogr. decree. - Lipetsk, 2005. - pp. 46-47.
Yanushevskaya E. Modern “non-modernity”: reflections on the book of poems by Andrei Novikov “Crossroads” // Petrovsky Most. - 2019. - No. 2 (April-June) - P. 173-174. - (Criticism and literary criticism).

Internet resources

Word: socio-political weekly. - Access mode: http://www.gazeta-slovo.ru/krug-chteniya/3248-zdes-otchij-kraj
Russian Bell: literary magazine. - Access mode: http://ros-kolokol.ru/proza/petrunya-i-poroshok.html
Russian Bell: literary magazine. - Access mode: http://ros-kolokol.ru/poeziya/istukan.html

Andrey Korovin and Alexander Pereverzin remember their poet friend. Photo by Andrey Tarasov

This year, Andrei Novikov, poet, editor of the Modern Poetry magazine, employee of the Art House Media publishing house, organizer of the Word Order festival, creator of the Litafisha website, passed away...

An evening in his memory and a presentation of the book “The Uncalculating Heir,” published posthumously, were held at the Bulgakov House. The book is dedicated to Liliya Gazizova, the last beloved woman of Andrei Novikov.

The evening was hosted by the permanent curator of the Bulgakov House and good friend Novikova Andrey Korovin. The first to speak was Olga Ermolaeva, who complained that “Andryusha’s sweet face is missing.” She also called Andrey a mentor, a teacher, on whose recommendation many were published, who later took a prominent place in modern poetry. Olga Ermolaeva shared her observation that in Lately Andrey looked discolored, and before he could easily somersault in the snow. And I was glad that at the end of his life love came to Andrey with beautiful name Lily.

Then Alexander Pereverzin, editor-in-chief of the Voymega publishing house, which published the book, came out. He told how this collection of Andrei’s poems was created - perhaps his only book at all. The fact is that Andrei was not inclined to publish his poems, he treated them without due attention and not seriously. He was always ready to give up the publication to someone else.

Then Andrei's friends spoke - Vyacheslav Kharchenko, German Vlasov, Konstantin Prokhorov, Vladimir Pimenov and others, who talked about what Andrei was like in life. Everyone agreed that he was a cheerful, sociable person, kind, generous, sympathetic, well-read, intelligent, well versed in poetry... You could always come to visit him, he always lent money, stayed overnight if necessary, helped everyone get published...

Almost all the speakers began their speech in confusion by saying that they didn’t know what to say... But they grieve just like everyone else, and they remember the same way kind words, and everyone misses him, and through one they believe that Andrei is still alive. And Andrei’s mother also believes that her son is alive.

Andrei died absurdly... Almost everyone has recently noticed that Andrei has moved away from everyone, and it has become noticeable that something difficult and bad is happening in his soul. Andrei went missing and was found already buried... Therefore, I really want to believe that it was not Andrei who was actually buried. He deceived everyone and left differently.

Mikhail Kvadratov said that “Andrey was good, big, round.”

Yuri Konkov, perhaps, said it best: “He was in poetry, completely, completely, always, and it flowed in his veins instead of blood.”

Liliya Gazizova knew Andrei better than everyone present, but she was not inclined to revelations, because the wound had not yet healed, and the poetess could hardly hold back her tears. She read a poem that ended: “But by dawn you come to life again and stroke my hair.”

I would like to end with a quote from Andrei’s published book: “... only the memory will not die/ will not cool down/ look at the sky/ it is not blue.”

Novikov Andrey Nikitich (Nikitovich) - prose writer, journalist.

Born into a poor peasant family. He started his “universities” as a shepherd boy. He studied at a rural school (according to other sources, Novikov was taught to read and write by a rural deacon). Then he was a digger, a woodcutter, and a loader. Called up for active duty military service, he “served out” the war against the Teutons as a private (initially - in the 2nd Army of General A.V. Samsonov, participated in the inglorious campaign in East Prussia in August 1914). In March (according to other sources - June) 1917 he joined the RSDLP (b). After October, Novikov, a member of the regiment's soldiers' committee, was sent to Balakovo, Samara province. (now Saratov region). Here he became a member of the city government and became the first editor of Balakovo’s Izvestia (1919).

In 1923-25 he worked in the editorial offices of magazines and newspapers in Voronezh ("Voronezh Commune"), Ivanovo-Voznesensk ("Workers' Region"), Bryansk ("Bryansky Rabochiy"). From the spring of 1925 he lived in Moscow. He worked at the publishing house “Peasant Newspaper” (including in the editorial offices of “Batrak”, “Peasant Radio Newspaper”). Until Oct. 1931 was a member of the literary group "Pereval".

Novikov's first book, a collection of stories and short stories "The Master's Court" (1928), did not attract attention. The writer became notorious thanks to the satirical story “Causes of the Origin of Nebulae” published the following year (with the support of M. Gorky) (Krasnaya Nov. 1929. No. 2) - about the triumph of bureaucracy “in one single country” ( main character, a communist, commits suicide because of this). Of particular interest to the story, written under the obvious influence of Plato’s “City of Gradov,” are the hoax epigraphs belonging to Novikov’s longtime friend and fellow countryman Andrei Platonov. The story was approved by Perevalsk critic A. Lezhnev, who compared Novikov with J. Hasek (On the way to the revival of satire // Literary newspaper. 1929. April 22), and unconditionally rejected by V. Blum (Will satire be revived? // Ibid. May 27). The thesis he put forward about the objective counter-revolutionary nature of satire in Soviet conditions prompted M.A. Bulgakov to write a letter to the government (Stalin?). The discussion that then took place at the Polytechnic Museum, “Do we need satire?” (1930) resolved the issue positively, which, however, did not affect further censorship actions. 6 years earlier, A.K. Voronsky was unable to publish a similar story by N.N. Nikitin “Count”. The story was eventually published, but the author never remembered it.

In Feb. 1930 Novikov, as part of the Pravda brigade, made a trip to the places of “accelerated collectivization”. Perceiving the arrival of the tractor in the village as a revolution in the peasant economy, Novikov openly opposed the “excesses.” Not a single essay of his was published in the newspaper, and the one published later on Sat. “The Racing Field” was subjected to devastating criticism (More vigilance! // Literary newspaper. 1931. September 10 (before the title “V-r”, i.e. V.V. Goltsev (?)); Berezov P. Under the Mask //Proletarian Avant-Garde. 1932. No. 2, etc.).Novikov’s story “The Plant for Public Improvement” (October 1931. No. 3) is dedicated to the theme of the destruction of personality in the conditions of the “great turning point” - a kind of continuation of “The Reasons for the Origin of Nebulae.” Novikov’s next book was “Genealogy of Many Generations” (1935), consisting of “The Tale of the Kamarnitsa Peasant,” written in the style of Shchedrin’s “History of a City” and dedicated to the peasant uprising under Catherine II,a also “Chronicles of a provincial town” - about the events in Balakovo and the Chapaev brothers and a colorless story about a happy collective farm life - “Meeting at the Well”. In the same year, the first (illustrated) edition of the novel “Military Feats of Simpletons” (2nd ed. - 1936) - about the death of Samson’s army in the Masurian swamps. It was this novel that A.I. Solzhenitsyn had in mind when he wrote in the preface to “August the Fourteenth” that before it events were portrayed “not like that.” Criticism reacted quite harshly to the adventures of the “Russian Schweik”: Vl. Nikonov’s article “Shift of Concepts” in “Znamya” (1935. No. 8) and “Empty anecdotes or wicked satire?” V " Fiction"(1935. No. 10), "Military anecdotes" (Literary Leningrad. 1935. No. 35. August 1). The Smolensk edition of “The Tale of the Kamarnitsa Muzhik” (1936) became last book writer.

In 1937-39, the magazine published the cycle “Volga Novels” (30 days. 1937. No. 8 and 12), the anti-Stalin parable “Feast at the Lord” (Ibid. 1938. No. 6; review by S. Nagorny “Hollow Weights” // Literary newspaper 1938. July 15), “At the monument” (about V.I. Chapaev), “Big Dipper”, “Lime blossom” (Collective farmer. 1939. No. 2,4,6). The large novel “Residence of the Freethinkers,” the stories “Kustarislova” and “The Last Letter” (RGALI) remained in the manuscripts.

In 1940, Novikov was arrested (the reason is unknown; the “Case” contains only one document - the statement of the writer N.V. Chertova in 1938 that in the House of Writers Novikov loudly asked her: “Have you heard that ten thousand Bolsheviks wrote a letter to Stalin with demand to stop repression?").

At the end of July 1941, when there were persistent rumors that the Germans were about to take Moscow, the systematic extermination of prisoners took place, and Novikov was shot. Posthumously rehabilitated after the 20th Party Congress. For the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth in the village of Semyonovka, Paninsky district, Voronezh regional, a room-museum was equipped in the library.

M.D.Elzon

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Poet, prose writer, publicist was born on December 26, 1961 in the village. Alabuzino, Bezhetsky district, Tver (Kalinin) region. He spent his childhood in Lipetsk, where he graduated from secondary school No. 17. After serving in the army, he entered the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky to the Faculty of Poetry (seminar by V. Kostrov and V. Milkov). After graduating from the institute in 1990, he worked as a correspondent, executive secretary in the newspapers Lipetsk Izvestia, Lipetskaya Gazeta, Provincial Reporter, special correspondent for RIA Novosti in the Lipetsk region, and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gorod Lipetsk.
The first serious publication took place in the magazine “Rise” in 1984. Poems were published in district, regional and central newspapers: “Leninskoe Znamya”, “Leninets”, “Lipetskaya Gazeta”, “Lipetsk Izvestia”, “Molodoy Kommunar” (Voronezh), “Literary Gazette”, “Moskovsky Komsomolets”; in the magazines “Student Meridian”, “Literary Study”, “Friendship”, “Young Guard”, “Literary Kyrgyzstan”, “Workers and Peasants Correspondent”, “Working Shift” (Minsk), “Chayan” (Kazan); in the almanacs: “Origins”, “Poetry”, “Poetry Day”; in the collective collections “Handshake” (Voronezh, 1987), “Tournament” (M., 1987), “Debut in Sovremennik” (M., 1990), “Young Guard-85”, “Tverskoy Boulevard, 25” (M. .,1990).
He published his first poetry collection, “Among the Herbs,” in Voronezh in 1988 on the recommendation of S. Mikhalkov. A year later, he became a participant in the 9th All-Union Meeting of Young Writers (seminar by V. Prokushev), at which his poems were highly appreciated. As a result of the meeting in 1990, the “Library of the Magazine” “Young Guard” published a “book within a book” “Ancient Smile” (27 poems) with a foreword by V. Kostrov. Currently works are published in literary magazine“Petrovsky Bridge”, “Rise”, “Poetry Day” (anniversary issue 2016) were included in the book “Writers of the Lipetsk Region. Anthology. XXI century" (2015).
In 1992 he was admitted to the Writers' Union of Russia. The third book of poems, “The Monkey Emperor,” was published in Lipetsk in 1993. I was noticed by the famous critic Vladimir Slavetsky, who wrote about my work in two of his books (“Continued Letters”, “Russian Poetry of the 80-90s of the 20th Century”) and several articles. Famous writers V. Tsybin and V. Kostrov wrote about my poems. The fourth book, “Crossroads,” was published in Voronezh in 2016.
Since April 2015, he has headed the regional branch of the Russian Writers' Union. In the same year, he was awarded the literary prize of the Petrovsky Most magazine in the Prose and Drama category for the story “Writer Captainkin” and a selection of stories “Frogs in Batter.”
In 2016, he was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the Union of Writers of Russia, a Certificate of Honor from the Department of Culture and Art of the Lipetsk Region, and the Large Silver Gumilyov Medal “For fidelity to the creative traditions of the Silver Age.”