Alexey Fatyanov biography. Creative tandem with Mokrousov

Fatyanov Alexey Ivanovich

Fatyanov Alexey Ivanovich was born in the village of Maloye Petrino in the Vladimir region. In the late twenties, the Fatyanov family moved to the Moscow region. The future "Russian song sang" becomes a student of the theater school. HELL. Popov at the Central Theater of the Red Army. Soon introduced into performances. And in 1938-1939 he was already touring with the theater around the country. Since 1940, Fatyanov has been serving in the ensemble of the Oryol Military District. In June 1941, during the relocation of units, the ensemble ended up in an air garrison near Bryansk. Here he found the war. Fatyanova speaks to the soldiers every day; he has to write topical, "from the sheet", satirical ditties and skits, poems and songs. In 1942, one of the most "main" and popular, both at the front and in the rear, songs of the Great Patriotic War- Nightingales. Post-war Fatyanov confidently takes a worthy place in the Russian Soviet song. Composers Solovyov-Sedoy, Mokrousov, Bogoslovsky, Blanter, Novikov, Khachaturian, Zhukovsky, Biryukov write the language to his words... There are also orders for songs for performances and numerous (about 20) films. "The artisan also sang the Russian song" - this is how Yaroslav Smelyakov, his colleague in the poetic workshop, described him.

Life has given me a pen and paper,
I had other paths in life:
Almost invisible
thoughtful step
Walk through the streets of all cities.
So that the best people find in passers-by,
To fly along the steppe borders with a song,
To glorify youth
To increase joy
To shake the hands of all comrades.
Want to keep youth forever
So that youth slams the door with verses
In needless grief
In unnecessary old age
In unnecessary old age
To an unnecessary death...

Alexei Fatyanov is one of the most famous and talented poets in the USSR.

He is the author of wonderful songs, the most touching of which were written during the Great Patriotic War. Alexei Fatyanov is a great patriot, his soul was rooting for the Motherland.
The great Russian poet Alexei Ivanovich Fatyanov lived a short and difficult life.
From his first song compositions, he became a popularly beloved creator of a bright and intelligible word, which helped to more fully feel the joy of military victories and labor successes, love for their native places, their country, for each other. And also to survive the horrors of war, the disorder of life, mental anxieties.
Fatyanov's poems, brilliant in their simplicity, are real masterpieces great poetry. They not only sing perfectly, but also sound great on their own. They can be read and re-read, they are easy to remember and remain in memory for a long time. Fatyanov's poems contain all the richness of Russian poetry, and the unique creative individuality of the author.
Unfortunately, the authorities and official heads of creative organizations did not want to notice the true scale of the poet's talent, limiting him in publications, material and moral incentives, subjecting him to undeserved criticism and persecution. It is tragic that this affected the state of health and early death of the poet.
And the songs remained and they will sound as long as there is Russia and the Russian people are alive.

Aleksey Ivanovich Fatyanov was born on March 5, 1919 in the village of Maloye Petrino, now the city of Vyazniki (Vladimir region), was the fourth child. Grew up in a rich and cultural family which was known and respected by all the inhabitants of the village.
Father - Ivan Nikolaevich Fatyanov, son of Nikolai Ivanovich Fatyanov, owner of icon-painting workshops and ancillary production in the Bogoyavlenskaya Sloboda (now the village of Mstera, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Region).

Mother - Evdokia Vasilievna Menshova, daughter of Vasily Vasilyevich Menshov, a flax specialist at the Demidov flax spinning factory in Vyazniki.

Both grandfathers were Old Believers and very wealthy people. According to memoirs, the bride's dowry was taken to Mstera on twelve carts.

However, soon the family of the future poet went bankrupt, income from icon-painting workshops fell. Then Vasily Vasilyevich Menshov called his daughter's family to him and gave her shelter in his own house. With the money allocated to them, the Fatyanovs built a two-story stone house with columns opposite the Kazan Cathedral in the center of Vyazniki. Parents traded in beer, shoes, which were sewn in their workshops, owned a private cinema and an extensive library. After October revolution In 1917, all the property of the Fatyanovs was nationalized, the house was taken away - it housed a telephone exchange (now there is a museum of Alexei Fatyanov).

The family moved to the Menshovs' house in Maloye Petrino (at that time a suburb of Vyazniki), where Alexei, the last child of Ivan and Evdokia Fatyanov, was born in his grandfather's room. Three older children - Nikolai (1898), Natalia (1900), Zinaida (1903). Brother Nikolai was one of the leaders of the Scout movement, wrote poetry, died of illness in 1922.

Baptized Alexei Fatyanov in the Kazan Cathedral in Vyazniki. He learned to read early, spent a lot of time in the home library, his father ordered books especially for him. Like many boys, he was fond of pigeons and fishing. During the NEP in 1923, the Fatyanov family again settled in their house in Vyazniki opposite the Kazan Cathedral. Parents were engaged in shoe production. It was there, in the parental home, that Alexei received his first upbringing and education. Parents instilled in Alexei a love of literature, theater, music and singing.
I was born in 1919 in the village of Petrino, in the former Vladimir province, into a fairly prosperous family, that is, so prosperous that my father could provide me with a mass delivery of books as soon as I could firmly understand that “A” is “A”, and "B" is "B".

I spent all my childhood among the richest nature of the Central Russian zone, which I would not exchange for any gingerbread of the Crimea and the Caucasus. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales of Andersen, the brothers Grimm and Afanasiev - these are my faithful companions on the country road from the village of Petrino to the provincial town of Vyazniki, where I went to school and, after studying there for three years, was taken to Moscow to conquer the world. I did not conquer the world, but I learned to read and write so much that I began to write poetry under the influence of Blok and Yesenin, whom I love madly to this day.

Alexey Fatyanov. Something like an autobiography
In 1929, the Fatyanovs' property was finally taken away. Soviet power- NEP is over.

The Fatyanov family left Vyazniki and moved to the village of Losinoostrovsky, Moscow Region (now within the city of Moscow). Settled on Turgenevskaya street. Here Alex graduated high school, in the evenings he went to study in the drama class of the music school, visited Moscow theaters and exhibitions. At this time, he first showed his poems to an adult friend. Mathematics teacher P. A. Novikov, a musically gifted and kind-hearted man, saw the future poet in the boy.

In 1935, Alexei Fatyanov entered the theater studio of Alexei Diky at the theater of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. In 1937 he was admitted to the theater school of the acting troupe of the Central Theater of the Red Army Alexei Popov. He played in performances, toured with the theater in remote garrisons Far East. Alexey Popov was pleased with the young actor, mentioned him as one of the best: "A charming guy who writes poetry, in a good way mischievous, noble and diligent, was the youngest in the troupe, and carried the load in concerts for two."

In May 1940, Fatyanov was drafted into the army, he ended up in the Yelets regiment of the railway troops of the Oryol military district, and participated in the regiment's amateur performances. Three months later, he is already the director of the District Ensemble of the Oryol Military District. Literary and musical composition of Fatyanov " great motherland sons” brought success and fame to the ensemble. At the same time, in collaboration with a young composer, private Vladimir Dorofeev, Alexei wrote the first song that appeared on the stage. Since that time, he began to write a lot, publish his essays and poems in the Oryol regional "Molodezhka".

Start your professional activity I refer to the date of entry into the ranks of the Red Army. More precisely - to the beginning of the war. Only then did I begin to write a lot and receive all kinds of support and encouragement in the midst of the Red Army masses. He began to write poems that the front recognized; articles, essays that the army learned; songs that I learned and sang Soviet Union. I feel my voice is getting stronger. Maybe it won't break...

Alexey Fatyanov. Something like an autobiography. December 19, 1943.
The beginning of the war found the ensemble in the Seshcha air garrison near Bryansk. In the first months, Alexei Fatyanov toured the positions of the Bryansk Front with concerts and wrote a report demanding that he be sent to the army, but the ensemble's leadership refused. Only he could, under the conditions of a military road, quickly write a whole program for front-line performances, rework newspaper materials into poems and songs, and write a new topical scenario. He had a voice, he led concerts, improvised, he could work both on stage and in a dark dugout. At this time, according to some sources, Alexei received his first wound when he had to leave the closing ring of the German encirclement for three days.

In February 1942, the ensemble was assigned to the rear city of Chkalov (now Orenburg) in the South Ural District and reorganized into the Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble of the South Ural Military District. They gave concerts in hospitals in Bashkiria, Orenburg, Kazakhstan, Kuibyshev and Aktobe regions, performed in front of the echelons leaving for the front. At this time, Fatyanov met the composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedym, a creative union with whom played a big role in the life of the poet. Their joint work "Talyanka" ("On a sunny meadow ...") became really popular among the soldiers.

“The next day after we met, he read his poems to me, which immediately touched me, they just played music,” Soloviev-Sedoy recalled.

Vasily played a melody on the piano, and then they sang together with Alexei, this is how the compositions “Nightingales” and “She didn’t say anything” were born. The neighbors were the first to hear new works and immediately approved the creative union with applause. In 1943, the song “On a sunny meadow” was written, which charged with optimism and faith, in 1944 - “Migratory Birds”, in 1945 - We haven’t been at home for a long time” and “Far native aspens”. In total, during the war years, Fatyanov and Solovyov-Sedym created about 80 songs. They literally scattered, accompanied the soldiers in battles, and most importantly, they united on the way to victory. "Nightingales" is one of the most important and famous war songs.

“This is an immortal song. It has the most important thing - it is the soul of the people," said the famous commander Georgy Zhukov.

In June 1944, with the assistance of Solovyov-Sedoy, Alexei Fatyanov was seconded to the Red Banner Song and Dance Ensemble. USSR to the position of head of the literary and dramatic department. During the tour in the liberated Kharkov, there was a conflict with the leadership. On August 30, 1944, by order of Alexander Alexandrov, Fatyanov was sent to serve in the ranks of the army and ended up in the 15th self-propelled artillery regiment, which was being reorganized in the Moscow region.

In September, the unit became part of the 6th Guards Tank Army. Fatyanov is a front-line correspondent for the army newspaper "To Defeat the Enemy". In December 1944, during the storming of the city of Szekesfehervar (Hungary), he was wounded a second time, awarded the medal "For Courage" and a 10-day vacation.

On April 18, 1945, on the initiative of Solovyov-Sedoy, he was seconded to Tallinn at the disposal of the ensemble of Baltic sailors. In East Prussia, he spoke in advanced units in front of the infantrymen of the 2nd Baltic Front. The leadership noted the combination of the literary data of the poet and efficiency. He acted in dramatizations, read poetry, and directed. Fatyanov's fame grew; According to the memoirs of his contemporaries, there was not a day in 1945 that songs based on his poems did not sound on the All-Union Radio. They walked in whole blocks, several times a day.

April 30, 1945 Alexei Fatyanov received military rank sergeant. For his work in the ensemble he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In February 1946 he was demobilized from the army.

According to award documents (order 03 / n dated March 17, 1945), he has been in the Red Army since 1941, in the army since 1945 and did not participate in battles before.

From February to June 1946, Fatyanov wrote at least ten songs, was present on the set of the movie "Big Life-2", met with the audience, spoke on the radio, and was engaged in literary work. The song "Where are you now, brother-soldiers?", which sounded for the first time in the fall of 1946, was a huge success.

An important component is the performer of the song, the first was Georgy Vinogradov. He sang "Nightingales" very soulfully, it was in his performance that the song entered the folk. After the end of the war and the long-awaited victory, Fatyanov continues to create many beautiful songs, such as "In the City Garden", in collaboration with composer Matvey Blanter (the song entered the repertoire Lyudmila Gurchenko) and "Golden Lights" - with Solovyov-Sedym. The poet managed to work with such talented composers as Boris Mokrousov, Aram Khachaturian, Anatoly Novikov and others. All of them admitted that it was a great pleasure to compose with Fatyanov, he often hummed the right melody himself, was very hardworking and easy to communicate with. Fatyanov wrote songs for films. The composition “When Spring Comes” can be heard in the film “Spring on Zarechnaya Street”, “Migratory Birds” in “Heavenly Slug” and many others.

In June 1946, Alexei married a 20-year-old girl, Galina, whom they met in the company of mutual friends. During the acquaintance, Galina did not know that the famous poet was in front of her.
“Before getting married, Alexei told me that his wealth is his hometown of Vyazniki and songs,” Fatyanova later admitted.
In 1948, the couple had a daughter, Alena, and two years later, a son, Nikita. He loved his wife and children very much, they inspired him to create new lines.

In 1947, he was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR as a songwriter (Fatyanov himself considered himself a poet and did not like being called that). Relations with writers were difficult. Songwriters were among the highest paid in the literary guild, and Fatyanov was repeatedly criticized with the phrases: “poet of tavern melancholy”, “cheap music for empty words”, accused of “creative failure”, etc. Many composers were repeatedly awarded Stalin prizes for songs based on Fatyanov's poems, but the author of the words was not awarded. Despite this, directors and composers continued to come to him with new orders. After 1946, 18 films with Fatyanov's songs were released.

Most of Fatyanov's works are written in the style of civil and love lyrics, his poems organically fit the music, were simple, easy to remember the first time.

Post-war songs, such as the best lyrical song of the Great Patriotic War “Nightingales”, “Where are you, my garden?”, “First of all, first of all, planes”, “A brass band plays in the city garden”, “Silence behind the Rogozhskaya outpost” , “We haven’t been at home for a long time”, “Where are you now, brother-soldiers?”, simple and melodic, based on folklore traditions, sound in all popular films (“Wedding with a dowry”, “Soldier Ivan Brovkin”, “Ivan Brovkin in the virgin lands", "The house in which I live") and gained great popularity. However, during Fatyanov's lifetime, only one small book of his poems, The Accordion Sings (1955), was published, and they began to be widely published only in the 1960s-1980s.

Fatyanov was not only a poet, but also an artist, played the accordion and piano, possessed singing voice. At creative evenings, along with the recitation of his poems, he sang songs to his own poems, which were then very popular.

In early November 1959, while taking a boat ride along the Moscow River, he suddenly felt unwell. A cardiographic examination did not confirm the presence of a heart attack, by November 10 the condition had improved, and Fatyanov continued to work on the poem "Bread", which he finished and retyped on a typewriter on November 12 (the text was lost after his death).

He died suddenly on November 13, 1959 from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. In the evening, Fatyanov went to bed and did not wake up. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery. The coffin with the body from the gate was carried in their arms simple people changing each other. According to eyewitnesses, since the funeral of the writer Maxim Gorky, there has not been such a gathering of people in Moscow.
34-year-old wife Galina turned out to be a widow, consciously she remained for all subsequent years of her life, being faithful to her husband. After her husband's death, Galina's wife tried in every possible way to preserve his memory, published various books. Since 1974, the All-Russian Fatyanovsky Festival of Poetry and Song has been held in the poet's hometown, and in 1996 the Writers' Union of Russia established the Fatyanovsky Literary Prize.
Since 1998, the Museum of the Song of the 20th Century has been open in the famous Fatyanov Trading House. In honor of Alexei Fatyanov, streets are named in the poet's homeland - in Vyazniki, as well as in Vladimir and Bishkek. Residents of the city of Vyazniki are very proud of their brilliant fellow countryman.

The songwriter lived a short life, but managed to make an important contribution to the development of the song genre. He was one of the best lyricists of the last century and had a unique poetic talent. His songs continue to live to this day, despite the indifference to his talent on the part of the authorities, he received the most important thing - the recognition of the people. He madly loved his native land.
Some of his last lines were:

“If I had not been born in Russia,

What would you do in life

How would you live?

How would I master the difficult path?

And, probably, I wouldn’t have folded the songs!

Origin

The grandfather of Alexei Fatyanov - Nikolai Ivanovich Fatyanov, the owner of icon-painting workshops and ancillary production in the Bogoyavlenskaya Sloboda (now the village of Mstera, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Region). Another grandfather, the father of the poet's mother, is Vasily Vasilyevich Menshov, a flax expert at the Demidov flax-spinning factory. Both grandfathers were Old Believers.

The parents of the future poet, Ivan and Evdokia Fatyanov, built a two-story stone house with columns opposite the Kazan Cathedral in the center of the city of Vyazniki. Parents traded in beer, shoes, which were sewn in their workshops, owned a private cinema and an extensive library. After the October coup of 1917, all the property of the Fatyanovs was nationalized, the house was taken away - it housed a telephone exchange, now there is a museum of Alexei Fatyanov. The family moved to the Menshovs' house in the suburbs of Vyazniki, where Alexei, the last child of Ivan and Evdokia Fatyanov, was born in his grandfather's room. Three older children - Nikolai (1898), Natalya (1900), Zinaida (1903).

Childhood

Alexei Fatyanov was baptized in the Kazan Cathedral in the city of Vyazniki.

During the NEP in 1923, the Fatyanov family again settled in their house in Vyazniki opposite the Kazan Cathedral. Parents were engaged in shoe production. It was there, in the parental home, that Alexei received his first upbringing and education. Parents instilled in Alexei a love of literature, theater, music and singing.

In 1929, the Fatyanovs' property was finally taken away by the Soviet authorities - the NEP policy ended. The Fatyanov family left Vyazniki and moved to the village of Losinoostrovsky, Moscow Region, now within the city of Moscow. Settled on Turgenevskaya street. Alexei studied at a music school, attended Moscow theaters and exhibitions.

Youth

He entered the theater studio of Alexei Denisovich Diky at the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, after which in 1937 he was admitted to the theater school of the acting troupe of the Central Theater of the Red Army. Played in performances; since 1940 in the ensemble of the Oryol military district. Since the beginning of the war with the ensemble at the front, he was wounded when leaving the encirclement. After being wounded, he was accepted into the Song and Dance Ensemble. Aleksandrov, from where, on a false charge, in 1943 he ended up in a penal company of the 6th Panzer Army; was wounded for the second time in the battles for Hungary and acquitted.

Fatyanov's post-war songs, such as the best lyrical song of the Great Patriotic War "Nightingales", "Where are you, my garden?", "First of all, first of all, planes", "A brass band plays in the city garden", "Silence behind the Rogozhskaya Zastava" , “We haven’t been at home for a long time”, “Where are you now, fellow soldiers?” unsophisticated and melodic, based on folklore traditions and gaining great popularity. However, during the life of Fatyanov, only one small book of his poems, “The Accordion Sings” (1955), was published, and they began to be widely published only in 1960-1980.

Fatyanov was not only a poet, but also an artist, played the accordion and piano, and had a singing voice. At creative evenings, along with the recitation of his poems, he sang songs to his own poems, which were then very popular.

Fatyanov's poems are simple, but piercingly sincere, tender and graceful. Fatyanov is one of the finest Soviet lyricists, his heroes are simple guys and girls, young, fresh, noble and romantic, usually of peasant origin, who came to study and work from the village to the city or were demobilized. The life and feelings of such people are sung by Fatyanov, many poems have become popular songs for more than 60 years, outliving the author for a long time. Among them are songs from the films “Soldier Ivan Brovkin” (“If the accordion could do ...”, “The third company was teaching”), “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” (“When spring comes, I don’t know ...”), “Wedding with dowry "(" Boast, dear, I will not ... ")," The house in which I live ".

During his lifetime, Fatyanov's poems were published little, this was facilitated by numerous administrative penalties due to the abuse of alcoholic beverages.

Last years

In 1946, after demobilization, he married Galina Nikolaevna Kalashnikova.

He died suddenly in 1959 from an aortic aneurysm. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

Awards

He was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (posthumously, Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin dated February 16, 1995 No. 148), the Order of the Red Star, the medal "For Courage" (the first on a tank he broke into the Hungarian city of Szekesfehervar with battles), the medal " For victory over Germany.

In honor of Fatyanov, an annual song festival has been held in Vyazniki since 1974.

In 1996, the Writers' Union of Russia established the Fatyanovsky Literary Prize.

Fatyanov Alexey Ivanovich biography short and Interesting Facts from the life of a Russian poet, author of many popular songs are presented in this article.

Short biography of Alexei Fatyanov

Fatyanov Alexey Ivanovich was born March 5, 1919 in the village of Maloye Petrino in a family of merchants, owners of workshops, an extensive library and a private cinema. The October Revolution of 1917 took away all the property from the Fatyanovs - it was nationalized. Therefore, the family was forced to wander with relatives, where Alexei was born.

In 1923, the family settled in a house in Vyazniki and was engaged in shoe production. At home, the boy received his education and upbringing. Mother and father instilled in their son a love of theater, literature, singing and music.

In 1929, the Soviet authorities completely took away the property from the Fatyanovs, and they moved to the village of Losinoostrovsky, Moscow Region. Here he enters the theater studio of the Wild at the theater of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. After graduating from it in 1937, Alexei Ivanovich was accepted into the theater school of the Central Theater of the Red Army. Since 1940, he began to play and perform with his songs in the ensemble of the Oryol military district. He began to write poetry under the influence of the works of Yesenin and Blok. During his lifetime, the book of publications "The Accordion Sings", published in 1955, saw the light.

In 1946, he married Galina Nikolaevna Kalashnikova.

In addition to the fact that Fatyanov was a poet, he skillfully played the piano and accordion, had a wonderful singing voice.

Very often, the poet was "awarded" with administrative penalties due to alcohol abuse. Alexei Fatyanov died of an aortic aneurysm in 1959.

Songs by Alexei Fatyanov- “Nightingales”, “First of all, first of all planes”, “Where are you, my garden?”, “Silence behind the Rogozhskaya outpost”, “A brass band is playing in the city garden”, “Where are you now, fellow soldiers? ”,“ We haven’t been at home for a long time ”,“ If the accordion could do it ... ”,“ Spring on Zarechnaya Street ”,“ I won’t brag, dear ... ”,“ When spring comes, I don’t know ... ”,“ First of all, first airplanes."

Alexey Fatyanov interesting facts

In honor of the poet, the annual song festival, which is held in 1974, is named.
In 1996, the Writers' Union of Russia established the Fatyanovsky Literary Prize.
He loved to organize creative evenings, where he loved to sing his own songs and recite his poems.
Fatyanov's poems were little published during his lifetime for the reason that the poet and actor abused alcohol too often. Which was unacceptable during the Soviet period.
The poet himself chose the names for his children. Since he was very fond of Russian fairy tales, he named his son Nikita as a hero, and his daughter Alena.

Alexey Ivanovich Fatyanov(1919 - 1959) - Soviet Russian poet, author of many songs popular in the 1940s-1970s (to the music of Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, Boris Mokrousov, Matvey Blanter and other composers).

Biography

Born March 5, 1919 in the village of Maloye Petrino (now within the city of Vyazniki, Vladimir Region)

Origin, childhood

Father - Ivan Nikolaevich Fatyanov, son of Nikolai Ivanovich Fatyanov, owner of icon-painting workshops and ancillary production in the Bogoyavlenskaya Sloboda (now the village of Mstera, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Region).

Mother - Evdokia Vasilievna Menshova, daughter of Vasily Vasilyevich Menshov, a flax specialist at the Demidov flax spinning factory in Vyazniki.

Both grandfathers were Old Believers and very wealthy people. According to memoirs, the bride's dowry was taken to Mstera on twelve carts.

However, soon the family of the future poet went bankrupt, income from icon-painting workshops fell. Then Vasily Vasilyevich Menshov called his daughter's family to him and gave her shelter in his own house. With the money allocated to them, the Fatyanovs built a two-story stone house with columns opposite the Kazan Cathedral in the center of Vyazniki. Parents traded in beer, shoes, which were sewn in their workshops, owned a private cinema and an extensive library. After the October Revolution of 1917, all the property of the Fatyanovs was nationalized, the house was taken away - it housed a telephone exchange (now there is a museum of Alexei Fatyanov).

I was born in 1919 in the village of Petrino, in the former Vladimir province, into a fairly prosperous family, that is, so prosperous that my father could provide me with a mass delivery of books as soon as I could firmly understand that “A” is “A”, and "B" is "B".

I spent all my childhood among the richest nature of the Central Russian zone, which I would not exchange for any gingerbread of the Crimea and the Caucasus. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales of Andersen, the brothers Grimm and Afanasiev - these are my faithful companions on the country road from the village of Petrino to the provincial town of Vyazniki, where I went to school and, after studying there for three years, was taken to Moscow to conquer the world. I did not conquer the world, but I learned to read and write so much that I began to write poetry under the influence of Blok and Yesenin, whom I love madly to this day.

Alexey Fatyanov. Something like an autobiography

In 1929, the property of the Fatyanovs was finally taken away by the Soviet authorities - the NEP ended.

The Fatyanov family left Vyazniki and moved to the village of Losinoostrovsky, Moscow Region (now within the city of Moscow). Settled on Turgenevskaya street. Here Alexei graduated from high school, in the evenings he went to study at the drama class of the music school, visited Moscow theaters and exhibitions. At this time, he first showed his poems to an adult friend. Mathematics teacher P. A. Novikov, a musically gifted and kind-hearted man, saw the future poet in the boy.

Youth

In 1935, Alexei Fatyanov entered the theater studio of Alexei Diky at the theater of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. In 1937 he was admitted to the theater school of the acting troupe of the Central Theater of the Red Army Alexei Popov. He played in performances, toured with the theater in remote garrisons of the Far East. Alexey Popov was pleased with the young actor, mentioned him as one of the best: "A charming guy who writes poetry, in a good way mischievous, noble and diligent, was the youngest in the troupe, and carried the load in concerts for two."