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Anatoly Sergeyevich Shteiger (russian: Анато́лий Серге́евич Ште́йгер; July 20, 1907 — October 24, 1944) was a Russian poet, one of the most significant poets of the first wave of emigration. Poems, while preserving the author’s individuality, to a large extent express the aesthetics of the .В безнадёжности и в чахотке
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Biography

Descended from an old Swiss family. Father Sergei Shteiger (1868–1937), country leader, leader of the nobility of Kanevsky District, deputy to the IV

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(1913). He had two sisters, one of whom Alla (in Golovina marriage) was a poet known in Russian abroad. The family emigrated to

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in 1920, later Shteiger lived in Czechoslovakia, France and (from 1931) Switzerland.Лирические стихи. Анатолий Штейгер
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Creation

An important literary and human document is the extensive correspondence of Shteiger and Marina Tsvetaeva (a personal meeting between them took place only once). Steiger is the addressee of Tsvetaeva's poetic cycle ''Poems to the Orphan'' (August–September 1936). The author of collections of poems ''This Day'' (1928), ''This Life'' (1931), ''Ingratitude'' (1936); the final collection ''Twice Two Four'' was published posthumously (1950; under the same name, the most complete collection of poems in New York was published in 1981). He gained fame mainly as one of the representatives of the so-called ''Paris Note'', the literary movement in the poetry of the Russian Diaspora, which existed in the 1930s. The work of Steiger was promoted by the literary critic

Georgy Adamovich Georgy Viktorovich Adamovich ( rus, Гео́ргий Ви́кторович Адамо́вич, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ ɐdɐˈmovʲɪtɕ, a=Georgy_Viktorovich_Adamovich.ru.oga; — 21 February 1972) was a Russian poet of the ac ...

spiritually close to him. In poetry, marked by the influence of

Mikhail Kuzmin Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin (russian: Михаи́л Алексе́евич Кузми́н) ( – March 1, 1936) was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. Biography Born into a noble fam ...

Georgy Ivanov Georgy Vladimirovich Ivanov (russian: Гео́ргий Влади́мирович Ива́нов; in Puki Estate, Seda Volost, Kovno Governorate – 26 August 1958 in Hyères, Var, France) was a leading poet and essayist of the Russian emigratio ...

, Adamovich, but at the same time deeply individual, lyrical miniature dominates (one or several stanzas, often with an additional super schematic last line), motives of loneliness, nostalgia, fragility the world, foreboding of death. In the metric, he mainly developed classical sizes, also used a 3-ic dolly.

Death

Since childhood, he was sick with severe

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, from which he died at the age of 37 years.

References

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