THE BIOGRAPHY OF POET CHROLLI (S. F. TARASOV)
The article is devoted to the life and work of the poet Sergei Pavlovich Tarasov, who wrote
and published in Petrograd shortly before the revolution two poetry books under the pseudonym
«Chrolli». To date, numerous sources, the pseudonym of the poet transcribed incorrectly: Konstantin
Favstovich Tarasov. The poet Chrolli known as reporter Alexander Blok and a member of
the Circle of poets that existed in 1915-1916 at the University of Petrograd. On one of the
Chrolli’s books was reviewed by Nikolai Gumilev. In recent decades, attention to the life and
work of Chrolli was attracted by R. D. Timenchik and M. L. Gasparov, including poems Chrolli
in the anthology of experimental poetry. The article precedes publication of a biographical article
about Sergey Pavlovich Tarasov, written by a physicist, Natalia Sergeyevna Rytova (1937–2012),
related to the Tarasov’s family, who lived in the XX-th century beginning in Krasnoyarsk. Set the
origin of the error in the disclosure of the pseudonym. The error occurred in 1927 and due
to the difficult conditions of the bibliographical work of that time. On the basis of documents of
the poet’s father, a teacher of Krasnoyarsk Theological Seminary Favst Gerasimovitch Tarasov
date of birth of his son, Sergei: March 23, 1892. From essay N. C. Rytova it follows that Sergey
Tarasov went missing during the civil war, between 1918 and 1920.
Described the characteristic features of the poetics of Chrolli and its special place in the context
of the culture of the «silver age”. Selected elements of the absurd, deliberately inflated literary
ambitions and the presence of subtle irony aimed at the figure of the author. Poems Chrolli
distinguished by the originality and high verificationa culture, a variety of cultural areas to which
it is addressed. Attention to tradition and to the form of verse brings together his poetry with the
poetics of Acmeism, and the elements of outrageousness – futurism. However, poetry Chrolli
remained aloof from the mainstream of Russian poetry of his time. The life and work of the poet
is inherent in borderline, «liminality» which is shown in the article on several levels.
Indicated a distant relationship with Chrolli arose much later, the poetics of conceptualism.
The article includes brief analysis of several characteristic poems of the poet. Marked likely the
proximity to the creative work of another unjustly forgotten poet and philologist-scholar (the researcher
of Pushkin), George Maslov, which was also represented among the participants in the
poetry group. The ways of further study of the biography of Sergei Tarasov, at first, to search
documents about his studies at the University of Petrograd.
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