Kusikov biography

And I can dance Lezginka. And the novice poet immediately dancing Lezginka immediately. Once, angry at him, the writer Vadim Shershenevich exclaimed: “You, Sasha, are an artificial incognito.” Here you are! Kusikov waved his hand: - Well, let it be. I will take this secret with me to the grave. So I will die so mysterious. All for envy. They accused Alexander and Ruben of that they were agents of the baron of General Wrangel.

Kusikov shouted indignantly: - Let Yesenin, he is definitely not to blame! In the dungeons of the Cheka, all three were for a week until they found out that Wrangel was another young man named Ruben, who lived on a neighboring street. Alexander was unhappy: - What about apologies? We were kept here for a week for nothing! Employees of the Cheka laughed. They told Kusikov: - Say thank you for not shooting you.

What time is crazy in the yard. Don't you understand? The counter -revolution does not give us a rest for a single day. A Turkish round hat with a brush flaunted on his head. The gait was soft, almost cat. And sometimes he flaunted in black Circassian and the same color of the papaha, which surprised others a lot. And surprisingly, many could quote the verses of the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

It was his beloved poet. " Once Alexander wrote an unpleasant review of one book of poems by Mayakovsky. Getting angry with him, Mayakovsky, speaking at the Polytechnic Museum, prostrated: there are people of different tastes and tastes: I like one, and the other Kusikov.

An unimaginable noise rose in the hall. Many began to applaud. Kusikov reacted calmly, he said to Mayakovsky: - Thank you, Vladimir Vladimirovich for glorifying my last name. But I will not pay you ... - Please. I'm not waiting for a fee. Kusikov seriously remarked: - But I will not glorify your surname. Mayakovsky grinned: - My surname will become widely known and without your participation.

And it so happened that this romance became so popular that it was performed by famous singers - Lev Leshchenko, Mikhail Guzhov, Nadezhda Fedorenko. In the year, Alexander Kusikov, with the help of the People's Commissar of Education, Anatoly Lunacharsky, leaves for Germany on a creative business trip. On the way, it meets in Estonia with the poet Igor Seversin. Together they make poetry in Tallinn, Riga, Warsaw and Berlin.

Later, the northerner will return back to Tallinn, and Kusikov will remain in Berlin. He will cooperate with the emigrant newspaper "On the eve". In the year, he will release his last book of poems “The Bird Bird”. In the collection there will be poems devoted mainly to his life in exile. Kusiks will never return to their homeland. According to the memoirs of his contemporaries, his wife did not want this.

In the year, he goes to Paris, where he will be engaged in collecting and selling ancient weapons. Alexander Kusikov passed away in the year of 80 years. Based on materials from open sources of the article from "Culture".