Vera Nikolaevna Polozkova (born March 5, 1986) is a famous Russian poetess. She became one of the few who managed to reach the hearts of the younger generation and make them love, appreciate and understand poetry.

Childhood

Vera was born in the early spring of 1986 in Moscow. She became a late child, so her parents doted on her, but this did not prevent her father from leaving the family when the baby was only two years old. Since then, they have not seen each other, and five years later the man died.

The mother tried to give her daughter love for two. They became real friends, Vera trusted her with all her childhood, and then youthful secrets. At the same time, the girl enjoyed complete freedom. Perhaps this is what contributed to the early disclosure of her talent.

The girl began to write poetry when she was barely five years old. Of course, this surprised others and aroused admiration, but soon Vera showed everyone that she had remarkable intellectual abilities and talent. At the age of 15, she had already graduated from high school. During her studies, she managed not only to overtake all her classmates, but also to practice vocals and choreography.

Youth

After school, Vera easily entered one of the most prestigious universities - Moscow State University - at the Faculty of Journalism. She loved literature with all her heart, but soon realized that journalism had very little in common with her.

She did not quit her studies, but she began to devote her main energies to poetry, discovering its world for herself and creating amazing works. Already in her first year, she released a collection of her works.

At the same time, Vera worked in several magazines, in which she kept columns and published articles.

Poetry

Vera chose poetry as the main business of her life. Despite the fact that this genre has long lost its popularity, she decided that she would be able to breathe new life into it. And I didn't guess. Having relied on the promotion of her works through social networks, the girl quickly became one of the most popular and beloved authors. Vera's LiveJournal blog has become mega-popular in just a few years. In 2006, she received the title of LJ Poet of the Year.

After that, the poetess decided that it was time to make a name for herself offline as well. In 2007, she held her first creative evening, which aroused genuine interest among devoted fans and literary critics. Soon, her collection "Nepoemanie" was published. It became a real triumph and brought the Neformat award.

A year later, Vera went to India. Acquaintance with this country brought a lot of new things to the worldview of the poetess. It also resulted in the famous "Indian cycle". Since then, Vera has been visiting India regularly, she says that she has some special connection with her.

Polozkova's next collection was Photosynthesis. At the moment, it has already been reprinted three times, which is a kind of record not only for poetic literature, but even for modern prose.

2012 brought Vera Polozkova a trip across the ocean to the United States and the realization that cultural differences and language barriers are not obstacles for people who are sensitive to poetry. Her performance at the local book fair was a huge success.

A year later, the third collection, Ostochrechenie, was published.

Theatre

Talented people are talented in everything. In any case, in many ways. Vera Polozkova confirms this with her whole life. Along with writing poetry and working in print media, she decided to try her hand at the theater stage. Her first experience was the interactive performance "The Society of Anonymous Artists". The experiment turned out to be successful, so the girl began to periodically rise to the stage in the future.

The production of "Poems about Love", based on the works of the poetess, was a great success. The third performance "The Chosen Ones" also included Vera's poems. This time, close friends took the stage with her.

The play "Happy 60s" revealed Polozkova solely as a talented actress, already without the admixture of her personal poetic creativity.

Music

Another path that interested Vera and soon submitted to her was music. It all started with the release of the audio version of "Photosynthesis". The idea was that the poetess read her poems to musical accompaniment. The idea turned out to be so successful that it has already undergone six reprints. And it is unlikely that everything will stop there.

In 2011, The Sign of Inequality was released; it was already a full-fledged music album, which, however, existed and exists only in the online version.
Inspired by the success, Vera, together with like-minded musicians, organized a group that gave dozens of concerts in different CIS countries and made a splash.

Personal life

Against the background of a rich creative biography, the personal life of Vera Polozkova looks quiet and peaceful. In 2014, she married Alexander Bgantsev, who was one of the musicians in her band and played the bass guitar. In the same year, the couple had a son, Fedor.

Biography, life story of Polozkova Vera Nikolaevna

The early years of the poetess

Vera Nikolaevna Polozkova, poetess and actress, was born on the 5th of March in 1986 in Moscow. Vera began writing poetry at the age of five. The girl was raised by her mother. The first collection of poems was presented to Vera for her birthday on her fifteenth birthday, it was released in an edition of 350 copies.

Education

Vera graduated from school at the age of 15, having passed her exams as an external student, and entered the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. She did not graduate from Moscow State University, since obtaining a diploma was associated with the delivery of a large number of tails that she had accumulated. She left the university three months before graduation.

Successes in literature

The first real book of poetry was published in 2008. It was published by the writer Alexander Zhitinsky. He met Vera through her LiveJournal blog. Polozkova's first public performance took place in Moscow in May 2007, at the Bulgakov House. The presentation of the book was in 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. In February 2009, Vera Polozkova was awarded the "Neformat" award.

Artistic career

Vera Polozkova has been playing since 2008 in the play "The Society of Anonymous Artists" by Georg Genot at the Theater. Joseph Beuys. In August 2008, Vera Nikolaevna starred in the video "Give me a cigarette." The video was filmed by the group, with the same group on the A-ONE TV channel, Polozkova performed in the Pair Run program in April 2009. In October 2009, the premiere performance took place at the Praktika Theater based on the texts of Polozkova, directed by Sheveleva, with the participation of Vera. Also on the stage of the Perm theater "Stage-Hammer" was the premiere of the play directed by Sheveleva and Boyakov "Poems about Love" with the participation of Vera. Vera starred in short films and music videos. Vera's live performances were a success, fame grew exponentially.

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Vera Nikolaevna worked for several years at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She wrote reviews for the Book Review magazine, as well as articles for the Cosmopolitan magazine, where she ran her own column. In addition, Vera was the author of articles in the magazines Afisha, Shik-Magazine, etc.

Polozkova's blog on LiveJournal

Polozkova's blog reached 16,000 readers by March 2010. And so the poetess became one of the youngest 1000-nicknames in LiveJournal, her diary became popular. However, Vera Nikolaevna eventually stopped updating it.

Reality show

Vera Polozkova took an active part in a reality show called "Polyglot", which was held on the TV channel "Culture" (hosted the program). Vera Nikolaevna was a participant in the program of French lessons that took place in 2012. He also invited Polozkova to his show on Channel One "Evening", the show took place in March 2013. Faith could be seen in the "School of Scandal" program and other programs on the "Culture" channel.

Bibliography

Vera Polozkova was published 4 times: the collection "Nepoemanie" was published 2 times (in 2008 and 2010); the collection "Photosynthesis" was published in 2008 jointly with the author Pavolga O.; the collection "Roughness" was published in 2013.

Interesting sayings

Vera Nikolaevna once said that she did not like to do the same thing for a long time and quickly got tired of things that had to be done day after day.

Awards and prizes

In 2006, Vera Nikolaevna received the title "poet of the year in LiveJournal", she reached the final of the "Poet Tournament" (SLAM).

Biography

Born in Moscow on March 5, 1986. He has been writing poetry since the age of 5. She published her first book at the age of 15. Poetry SLAM 2006 finalist. She shared the LiveJournal Poet of the Year award with Oleg Borichev. She wrote for the newspaper "Book Review", the magazines Cosmopolitan (she led the column "Difficult story") and "Afisha". In 2003-2004 she was an employee of FBI-Press, she wrote for Iskra-Spark and Shik-Magazine magazines. Until April 2008 she worked at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art ART4.RU.

The first public performance took place in May 2007 in Moscow, in the cultural center "Bulgakov's House". The first “non-children’s” book of poems by Vera Polozkova, “Nepoemaniye,” was published in 2008 by the writer Alexander Zhitinsky, who met Polozkova through her blog. The presentation of the book took place in February 2008 at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art ART4.RU.

In February 2009, Polozkova was awarded the Neformat Prize in the Poetry nomination.

Since 2008, she has been playing in the interactive play Society of Anonymous Artists by Georg Genot (Joseph Beuys Theatre, together with Theatre.doc). At first, Mikhail Kaluzhsky was a partner in the performance, then Vera Polozkova and Arman Bekenov (co-author of the project) began to play the performance for two. In 2008, the publishing house Livebook publishes Vera's poetry collection "Photosynthesis", released together with photographer Olga Pavolga. The collection is composed of texts by Polozkova and photographs by Pavolga. Subsequently, "Photosynthesis" was reprinted three times in connection with the commercial success of the book. The total circulation of the publication was about 30 thousand copies.

In June 2008, Artemy Troitsky invited Polozkova to be co-hosts of the first Stepnoy Volk independent music award ceremony, which was held as part of the Moscow Open Book Festival. In November 2008, Polozkova traveled to India for the first time. Thanks to the trip, an extensive corpus of texts under the general title "Indian Cycle" appears. After each trip to India, this cycle is replenished with new verses. Studies of changes in one's relationship with God and the evolution of spiritual experience have occupied a large place in Polozkova's work ever since. And India is becoming a kind of "place of power." In 2009, Polozkova met Eduard Boyakov (founder, producer and director of the Praktika and later Politeatr theaters). Since the same year, Vera has been serving in the Praktika Theater and playing in the poetic performance Poems about Love based on her own texts (directed by Eduard Boyakov). The play premiered in October 2009. In December 2009, the premiere of the play "Poems about Love" took place on the stage of the Perm Theater of New Times "Stage-Hammer". In the spring of 2011, the premiere of the play "Poems about Moscow" took place in the "Practice". This is a poetic performance based on the texts of four contemporary poets: Vera Polozkova, Andrey Rodionov, Fyodor Svarovsky and Elena Fanailova.

In June 2009, Polozkova's first audiobook "Photosynthesis" was published. The audiobook was released as a selection of texts recorded in the author's reading from the collection of the same name with a soundtrack. In addition, the audiobook contains various phrases and small notes to the texts spoken by Vera during the recording. The producer of the project is Lena Gracheva. The author of music is Sergey Geokchaev. By 2013, this record had already been reissued six times. At the end of 2009, another body of texts was recorded at the studio, which would later form the track list of Polozkova's first musical album, The Sign of Inequality. In January 2010, the Livebook publishing house published a reissue of the Nepoemaniye collection. The book is supplemented with twenty-two new verses and three poems. Reissues of the book - 2011, 2012.

In June 2010, Vera, together with Valery Maryanov, was invited to host the Usadba Jazz festival. Since 2010, Polozkova has been a permanent participant and member of the Board of the Texture festival in Perm. The international festival of theater and cinema about modernity "Textura" brings together Russian and foreign films and performances about the present day on one platform.

In July 2011, the famous producer and promoter Alexander Cheparukhin invites Vera to become his co-host at the large international music festival "Movement", held near the village of Khokhlovka near Perm.

On June 8, 2011, the debut demo-album "Sign of Inequality" was released, and within the first week of sales on the Internet, it took first place in terms of the number of downloads on the site muz.ru. This record was not released on physical media, since from the very beginning it was declared as a “pen test”. The producer of the project and the author of the musical concept is Lena Gracheva. The author of music is Sergey Geokchaev. Subsequently, a musical group was assembled by Gracheva, and the authorship of the music became common. Members of the group (at different times): Sergey Geokchaev - keyboards, Nikolai Saginashvili - acoustic guitar, Alexander Bgantsev - bass guitar, Anatoly Levitin - drums, Vladimir Litsov - electric guitar.

From autumn 2011 to summer 2012, Vera and her musicians gave about 60 concerts in Russia and Ukraine. The group became a participant in the anniversary festival "Invasion" in 2011, one of the headliners of the More Amore festival in 2012, opened the "Festival of Festivals" on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow in honor of City Day (2012), was nominated for independent music award "Steppe wolf". In October 2011, the 16 Tons Club presented Polozkova and her group with the Golden Gargoyle Award for the album Sign of Inequality. During this time, the music for the album changed and added. In the summer of 2012, the double album "Sign of Inequality" was recorded at Viktor Bulatov's Music Street Studio.

The presentation of the album took place on November 6, 2012 at the Vladimir Mayakovsky Moscow Academic Theater and was sold out. On November 18, the second part of the presentation took place in the Moscow club "16 tons", and on December 28, the presentation in St. Petersburg in the club "Waiting Room".

In the summer of 2012, Vera takes part in the Book Expo book fair in New York. As part of the fair, a solo reading of Polozkova took place. In the second half of 2012, Vera took part in the reality show "Polyglot" by Dmitry Petrov on the TV channel "Culture" to learn French.

In January 2013, the premiere of the first video of Vera Polozkova for the song from the album "Sign of Inequality" "Evening" took place. Video operator and director - Sergey Sarakhanov.

In February 2013, the premiere of the joint video of Vera Polozkova and Svetlana Surganova “Gertrude” took place (the author of the lyrics of the song is Vera Polozkova, the original title of the text set by Surganova to the music “Little Rock and Roll”). At the beginning of March 2013, at the invitation of the SLOVO festival, Vera travels to London for the first time, where Polozkova performs three performances as part of the festival - two of them solo. Vera also reads translations of her texts into English (the author of the translations is Yuri Machkasov). On March 13, the Waterstones bookstore in Piccadilly hosted a poetry performance by the Praktika Theatre. The participants of the performance are Vera Polozkova, Pavel Artemiev, Alisa Grebenshchikova and Irina Mikhailovskaya.

On March 16, the Polytheatre was opened in the Large Auditorium of the Lecture Hall of the Polytechnic Museum. And already in April, the premiere of a new performance based on Polozkova's poems "The Chosen Ones" (director - Eduard Boyakov) took place. Polozkova's texts are divided between four characters played by Mikhail Kozyrev, Pavel Artemyev, Alisa Grebenshchikova and Vera herself. "The Chosen Ones" is a conversation about the poetic craft and the evolution of a poet and a person, one of the important results of Polozkova as a poet and performer.

On April 18, 2013, Polozkova's third collection of poetry, Ostochlenie, was published. The texts in it are divided into 13 parts. For the first time, such cycles of poems as "Short Film" and "Indian Cycle" are fully collected under one cover. The book also includes new texts by Vera, written from 2011 to 2013 inclusive. The compiler of the collection is Alexander Gavrilov. At the presentation of the book in the Moscow cinema "Pioneer", together with Vera, the book was presented by her friends - Alexander Manotskov, Alisa Grebenshchikova, Alexander Gavrilov and Alexander Mamut. During the first week of sales, the book takes first place among the bestsellers of the Moskva bookstore.

On May 18, 2013, the premiere of the play "Happy 60-s" based on poems by Bella Akhmadulina and Andrei Voznesensky took place at the Politheatre. The actors of the performance are Pavel Artemyev, Ilya Barabanov, Ekaterina Volkova, Yulia Volkova, Alisa Grebenshchikova, Vera Polozkova, Yegor Salnikov. Director - Eduard Boyakov. This is a performance about the 60s of the XX century and how that era rhymes with what is happening in Russia at the moment.

Vera Polozkova is one of the heroines of the book by the journalist and poet Yulia Idlis “Runet. Created idols”, published in 2010. The heroes of the book are eight of the most famous, bright and successful Russian bloggers.

Vera Polozkova - Laureate of the Prize. Rimma Kazakova of the Writers' Union of Moscow, 2011. In 2012, Polozkova was nominated for the "Made in Russia" Snob magazine award in the "Literature" nomination for the synthesis of literature with other arts (the "Polytheater" play "The Chosen Ones" and the album "The Sign of Inequality").

Who is Vera Polozkova?

Vera Nikolaevna Polozkova is a Russian poetess, theater actress and playwright. She was born on March 5, 1986 in Moscow. One of the most successful and recognizable contemporary Russian poets. In fact, she returned poetry to its former popularity and revived the traditions of poetic evenings. How could one imagine that at the beginning of the 21st century the poet would collect thousands of halls and sell his collections in tens of thousands of copies? Vera did it!

Biography

Vera Polozkova was born in Moscow. Her parents separated when the girl was still very young. Vera was raised by her mother, an engineer by profession. At the age of 15, our heroine graduated from school as an external student and entered the journalism department of Moscow State University with a degree in Literary Criticism. A talent for versification was discovered in Vera at an early age, and in her first year at the university she released her debut collection of poems.

While studying at Moscow State University, the girl worked as a freelance writer in the magazines Afisha, Book Review, Iskra, and even Cosmopolitan, where she led her own column, "A Difficult Story." However, a few months before receiving her diploma, she finally realized that her soul lay more in poetry than in journalism. This was the reason for leaving the university.

In 2003, Vera Polozkova registered an account in LiveJournal - Vero4ka, where she began to share her own poems. In parallel, she published her works on the popular poetry portal Stihi.ru. Very soon, Vera Polozkova's blog on LiveJournal gains several thousand subscribers, which at that time was a huge success. And Vera becomes the youngest of the popular Runet bloggers.

In 2006, Vera Polozkova reached the finals of the famous Moscow Poetic SLAM tournament, at the same time she received the LiveJournal Poet of the Year award. The following year, her first performance is held at the Moscow cultural center "Bulgakov's House". From that moment on, the popularity of Vera Polozkova begins to grow at a tremendous speed.

Professional activity

Vera Polozkova is a true trendsetter in poetic fashion. She is the first of the Russian poets to record the album “The Sign of Not / Equality”, where she reads her poems to musical accompaniment. Then this trend is picked up by many other modern poets, and poetic and musical works become extremely popular in our country.

In addition, Vera plays in modern theater projects - "Teatr.doc" and the theater "Practice" (later "Polytheater"). Based on his poems, he creates entire performances: “Poems about Love” and “Poems about Moscow”. Receives prestigious literary and poetic awards: "Neformat" and the Rimma Kazakova Prize from the Writers' Union. She is nominated for the Parabola Award, established by the Andrei Voznesensky Foundation, and becomes the woman of the year according to the glossy Glamor magazine.

After the release in 2009 of her first audiobook "Photosynthesis" and the music collection "The Sign of Non/Equality", Vera was invited to perform and lead popular poetry and music events, and was even nominated for the independent music award "Steppenwolf". Vera begins to tour with her performances around the country and the world (from London to New York), where she invariably gathers full halls of listeners. Her books are published in tens of thousands of copies, but the demand for them is so high that they have to be constantly reprinted.

Poems by Vera Polozkova

In the work of Vera Polozkova, several poetic cycles can be distinguished. In the latest music album "Cities and Numbers" (released in 2015), the poetess herself divided the poems into 4 themes: north, south, west and east. The heroes of her "Western" works bear the corresponding names: Howard Knoll, Barbara Grain, Geoffrey Tatum. But from this the meaning of the poems does not lose its relevance for us.

A significant part of Vera's "eastern" poems is dedicated to India, where she first visited in 2008. India for our heroine is a place of strength, relaxation and inspiration. Among her most famous Indian works are the poem "What Shankar told his friend Raju" and the cycle "Letters from Gokarna".

Another common theme in Vera's poems is the sea. For example, "We must live by the sea, mom" and "Look at the sea for the future." In her works, the sea is not only energy and strength, but also an excellent healer of souls.

The “family” poems of Vera Polozkova can also be singled out as a big topic. This includes not only her works for children, but also poems dedicated to her sons and mother. In general, mother appears as an interlocutor in her earliest works. For example, in the same “We must live by the sea, mother” or in “Letter to mother”.

Books

Personal life of Vera Polozkova

Despite all the mental anguish of her lyrical heroes, Vera Polozkova herself has a large family: husband Alexander Bgantsev and two sons Fedor and Savva. Alexander is a bass player. Together with Vera, he prepares performance programs and accompanies her as part of a musical group. The couple got married in 2014, in the same year their first son Fedor was born. In 2018, Vera and Alexander had another son, Savva.

Polozkova, Vera
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