Yury Kazakov

Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov (Russian Юрий Павлович Казаков; born August 8, 1927 in Moscow, † November 29, 1982 ) was a Russian writer.

He was born in a rural milieu of the provinces Smolensk entstamme ends working class family. His youth coincided with the period of the Second World War. The memories of the Moscow bombing raids 1960-1970 found their literary expression.

In 1946, he was enrolled at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow, where he studied cello and double bass, and he graduated in 1951. A permanent professional commitment did not materialize.

End of 1940, Kazakov began to write poems, prose and plays, which were rejected by the editors, as well as contributions to the newspaper Sowjetski sport. In 1953 he began studying at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

Under Kasakows earliest stories stand out Teddy (1956) and Arcturus the Hound (1957). The main characters are escaped circus animals. Kazakov, who wrote mainly lyrical short stories in which individual stories are at the forefront, is considered as carrying on the best traditions of Russian classical music in modern literature, especially I. Bunin, of which he was planning a book.

1963 published Kazakov in Germany the anthology music at night. The 1960 published in the Soviet Union anthology of short stories The scent of bread appeared in 1965 in German.

A special place in Kasakows work took the Russian North as he presented it in the collection of short stories Northern Diary (1977).

For Kasakows prose and poetry a subtle musical rhythm is characteristic. His heroes are lonely people with deep sensitivity that are drawn mired in debt. The feeling of guilt and farewell marked the last stories Svechechka (1973) and, with autobiographical touches, You cried bitterly in a dream (1977).