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Titov Alexey Ivanovich in his youth |
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Titov Alexey Ivanovich |
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Song "Karelia" |
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Manuscript of A.I.Titov"s translation of "Kalevala" |
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Titov Alexey Ivanovich
(1913-1983) –
was a Russian poet and an Honoured Art Worker of Russia.
A.I.Titov’s first poems were published in 1933. Since 1936 till
the beginning of the Great Patriotic War A.I.Titov was working
in the editorial office of a factory newspaper in Leningrad
(now St.Petersburg). During wartime he was a special
correspondent of the army newspaper at the Karelian front.
In 1949 A.I.Titov moved to Petrozavodsk, worked as an executive
secretary and then as an editor-in-chief of the “North”
magazine. For 11 years he was an executive secretary of the
board of the Writers’ Union of Karelia. During last years of
his life he was a plenipotentiary of the Karelian Literary
fund.
All A.I.Titov’s literary works are connected with Karelia. In
1948 his poem “Found Happiness” written under the influence of
the folk epos “Kalevala” was first published in the magazine
“On the Border” (since 1965 called “North”) and later as a
separate edition. In 1952 A.I.Titov’s collection of poems
“Renewed Land” appeared. After that a poem “Luba Kostrova”, a
poem for children “Forest Dvorniks”*, collections “Forest Land
Songs”, “Blue Islands”, “Green Belt” were published.
A.I.Titov was also known as a song-writer in Karelia. His 70
poems were set to music by Leningrad and Karelian composers.
A.I.Titov was one of the translators of the epos “Kalevala” in
O.V.Kuusinen’s composition into Russian (1970). In 1975 the
runes “Ilmarinen forges “Sampo” and “Ilmarinen’s Heroic Deeds”
translated by A.I.Titov were published in the “World Literature
Library”. Manuscripts of these translations are kept in
A.I.Titov’s personal fund.
131 files dd.1933-1983 are kept in A.I.Titov’s personal fund:
- biographical information: autobiography, personal
documents, photographs;
- manuscripts of verses, poems; texts of songs, essays,
scenarios; translations of epic runes “Kalevala”, memoirs,
performances, reviews;
- letters written to A.I.Titov by the following writers and
poets: A.Prokofyev, A.Znamensky, G.Sysolyatin, A.Timonen,
V.Rozhdestvensky, O.Shestinsky, S.Botvinnik, etc., as well as
by his relatives and friends;
- references and reviews of A.I.Titov’s literary works;
- documents reflecting the process of A.I.Titov’s work.
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