Anatoly Shteiger
Anatoly Sergeyevich Shteiger 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 .
Biography
Descended from an old Swiss family. Father Sergei Shteiger, country leader, leader of the nobility of Kanevsky District, deputy to the IVState Duma.
He had two sisters, one of whom Alla was a poet known in Russian abroad. The family emigrated to Constantinople in 1920, later Shteiger lived in Czechoslovakia, France and Switzerland. During World War II he was passively involved in the Resistance, and wrote anti-Nazi pamphlets. The Nazi authorities in the areas bordering on Switzerland even appointed an award for his head.
Creation
An important literary and human document is the extensive correspondence of Shteiger and Marina Tsvetaeva. Steiger is the addressee of Tsvetaeva's poetic cycle Poems to the Orphan.The author of collections of poems This Day , This Life , Ingratitude ; the final collection Twice Two Four was published posthumously. 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 spiritually close to him. In poetry, marked by the influence of Mikhail Kuzmin, Georgy Ivanov, Adamovich, but at the same time deeply individual, lyrical miniature dominates, motives of loneliness, nostalgia, fragility the world, foreboding of death. In the metric, he mainly developed classical sizes, also used a 3-ic dolly.