Alexis Remizoff

Alexei Mikhailovich Remizov is a Russian writer, artist, calligrapher. One of the brightest stylists in Russian literature. Born into a Moscow merchant family. His second cousin, Maria Vasilievna Remizova, is the mother of the Russian botanist Konstantin Pangalo. The writer's mother Maria Alexandrovna Naydenova was the sister of the famous industrialist and public figure N.A.Naydenov (1834 - 1905).

From childhood, Alexei Remizov was a great inventor and dreamer. At the age of seven, he wrote down a story about a fire in the village from the words of a nanny - this was his first realistic story. Later, the work with "someone else's word" was transformed into a special author's style - creativity "according to the material." Then he decided to become a writer. In 1895, Alexey Remizov graduated from the Moscow Alexandrovskoe Commercial School and entered the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University. As a student, he was mistakenly arrested for resisting the police during a demonstration and exiled to the north of Russia (Penza, Vologda, Ust-Sysolsk) for 6 years. In exile in Penza, Remizov met Vs. E. Meyerhold, who became his lifelong friend. Remizov first introduced Meyerhold to Marx, Kautsky, Plekhanov, and Mignet's History of the French Revolution, which was popular in those years.

In 1903 he married S.P. Remizova-Dovgello.

Returning from exile in 1905 to St. Petersburg, Remizov began an active literary activity: his tales and legends are published ("Lemonar, that is to say: Spiritual Meadow", "Posolon", "Dokuka and Joker", "Nikolina's Parables"), a novel ( "The Pond") and stories ("The Clock", "The Fifth Plague"), dramatic works in the spirit of medieval mysteries ("The Tragedy of Judas, Prince of Iscariot", "Demonic Action", "Tsar Maximilian"; in 1908 at the Theater of Faith Komissarzhevskaya presented "Demonic action"). The writer was counted among symbolism (and more broadly - modernism), although Remizov himself did not position himself as a symbolist. The closest friend of the writer was Fyodor Ivanovich Shchekoldin (1870-1919), one of the founders of the RSDLP, a writer.

During the years of the revolution and the subsequent years of war communism, Remizov remained in Petrograd, although he was politically anti-Bolshevik (he himself was close to the Socialist-Revolutionary circles). In the summer of 1921, Remizov went to Germany for treatment - "temporarily", as the writer believed, but he was not destined to return back.

In November 1923, due to the economic crisis, Remizov moved from Berlin to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life. In emigration, Remizov continued to write a lot (the most famous were his artistic memoirs about life in St. Petersburg and the revolution - "Twisted Russia", and "Cropped Eyes"), however, it became more difficult to publish every year. Remizov participated in the publication of the Versty magazine (Paris, 1926-1928), which published some of his works. Since 1931, the publication of Remizov's books has almost completely ceased. His friends and fans founded a special small publishing house "Opleshnik" in 1953, which allowed the writer to publish new books.

At the end of his life he received Soviet citizenship.