Alexander Tinyakov. Man and Character

The first book telling the story of the life and fate of the eccentric Silver Age poet Alexander Tynyakov.

His poems vanished from cultural memory for a long time, but almost a century later, unexpectedly, they returned and began sounding for readers of the 21st century. Today Tynyakov is quoted by all sorts of people—from refined admirers of classic literature to punks.

This edition helps you understand the nature of such a “literary miracle.”

Roman Senchin is a prose writer, winner of the “Big Book” and “Yasnaya Polyana” awards, author of novels “Yeltyshevs,” “Zone of Flooding,” “Rain in Paris.”

“Returning to literature— a miracle no less than coming back to life. That’s what happened with a person whom, it seemed, had been forgotten for good. He wrote himself: ‘The fate of a failure has weighed upon me, and probably I will not only fail to achieve fame and success, but will die prematurely of hunger and poverty.’ And yet today his name is heard again; a kind of near-fashion has sprung up around it. His lyrical lines spread across the internet among girls with subtle souls, while other—darker—texts are picked up by today’s decadents, punks, necrophiles, and esoterics. Yevgeny Yevtushenko devoted a poem to him, calling him ‘the half-un-cursed.’ This ‘half-un-cursed’ one is Alexander Ivanovich Tynyakov.”