Vadim Delaunay

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name = Vadim Delaunay
Вадим Николаевич Делоне


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birthname = Vadim Nikolaevich Delaunay
birthdate = Birth date|1947|12|22
birthplace = Moscow, Russia
deathdate = death date and age|1983|06|13|1947|12|22
deathplace = Paris, France
occupation = Poet
nationality = Russian
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notableworks = "Portraits in a Barbed Frame" (1979)
spouse = I. Belgorodkaya
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awards = awd|Vladimir Dal|1984

Vadim Nikolaevich Delaunay (or Delone, _ru. Вадим Николаевич Делоне; 1947 – 1983) was a Russian poet and dissident, who participated in the
1968 Red Square demonstration of protest against military suppression of the Prague Spring.

Biography

Delaunay was born to a Russian-French family of Soviet Intelligentsia. His grandfather, Boris Delaunay, was a prominent Soviet mathematician and creator of the Delaunay triangulation. Among his ancestors was marquis Bernard-René de Launay, the last governor of the Bastille, murdered by the attackers on that castle. Delaunay often predicted that he would repeat the fate of his ancestor.fact|date=September 2008

Delaunay studied at Moscow matshkola ("Mathematical School") No. 2, one of the best in the country at that time, then at the Department of Philology at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. As a student, he also worked as a freelance author for the "Literaturnaya Gazeta". Delaunay started to write poetry at the age of 13. His poetry was distributed by samizdat and some of it was published abroad.

:"Пуcкай грехи мне":"не простят -":"К тому предлогов слишком много,":"Но если я просил":"у Бога,":"То - за других,":"не за себя."

:"Let my sins":"not be forgiven":"the reasons for this are many":"but if I ever prayed":"to God for something":"it was for others":"never for myself"Vadim Delaunay

Political activism

On January 22, 1967, Delaunay took part in a demonstration on Pushkin Square protesting the arrest of Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov as well as articles 70 and 190 of the Soviet Penal Code—"Anti-Soviet agitation" and "Libel against the Soviet Government". He was arrested and given a one-year suspended sentence (incidentally in accordance with article 190 of the Penal Code). His sentence was much lighter than that of another organizer of the same meeting, Vladimir Bukovsky, who got three years in a labor camp. Delaunay was distressed by the difference in the sentence, explaining the relative softness of it by the influence of his relatives.fact|date=September 2008

Dissidence

Delaunay's sentence required him to move away from Moscow, so he went to Novosibirsk State University to a friend and pupil of his grandfather, Aleksandr Aleksandrov. In Novosibirsk, he continued his philology studies and wrote poetry. At that time, his first official foreign publications appeared in the Paris magazine "Grani" N66. Delaunay was an organizer of a concert by the Bard Alexander Galich, who was semi-legal at that time.

In the beginning of 1968, after the court hearing for Galanskov and Ginzburg, Delaunay wrote an open letter to "Literaturnaya Gazeta" in which he praised their bravery. The letter was published in the New York newspaper "Novoe Russkoe Slovo" ("The New Russian Word").

1968 Red Square demonstration

"Main article:" 1968 Red Square demonstrationIn June 1968, Delaunay returned to Moscow. On August 25, 1968, he and seven other dissidents organized the now-famous demonstration in support of the Prague Spring in Red Square near the Moscow Kremlin. Delaunay and Pavel Litvinov held the famous banner with the words "ЗА ВАШУ И НАШУ СВОБОДУ" ("For your freedom and ours").

Seven people were arrested, and in court, Delaunay stated that the five minutes of freedom on the square were worth the years in prison that were probably awaiting him.fact|date=September 2008 Efforts of the defense to convince the court in the absence of any criminal element in actions of the demonstrators were vain. [Talk by Sofia Kallistratova в защиту in defense of V.Delaunay. (in Russian) http://www.memo.ru/library/books/sw/chapt49.htm] There is opinion that the sentence was ready before the court session.Yuliy Kim. Lawyer's Waltz.(In Russian: Адвокатский вальс). http://www.memo.ru/library/books/sw/chapt18.htm] Delaunay was sentenced to two years and 10 months in a labor camp that he served in Tyumen Oblast in northwestern Siberia. [ Andropov to the Central Committee. The Demonstration in Red Square Against the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia. September 20, 1968 http://www.yale.edu/annals/sakharov/documents_frames/Sakharov_008.htm]

Emigration

In June 1971, Delaunay finished serving his sentence and returned to Moscow. In 1973, his wife I. Belgorodkaya was arrested for her involvement with an underground journal, "Хроника Текущих Событий" ("Chronicle of Current Events"). In 1975, she was freed, and they both emigrated to France. In 1979, Delaunay published his story "Portraits in a Barbed Frame" in the magazine "Echo".

Death

On 13 June, 1983, Delaunay died of a heart attack in Paris at the age of 35. [cite news | first=Michel | last=Crépu | coauthors= | title=The rebels of the Iron Curtain | date=2002-09-26 | publisher= | url =http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Delaunay&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Vadim%2BDelaunay%2522%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG | work =L'Express | pages = | accessdate = 2008-09-06 | language = ] In 1984, his book of poetry "Verses: 1963-1983" was published. In that same year, he was posthumously awarded the Vladimir Dal prize. His poetry has been published in Russia since 1989.

References

External links

* [http://www.memo.ru/history/diss/delone.htm Biography] ru icon
* [http://antology.igrunov.ru/authors/delone/ Biography and works] ru icon
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Persondata
NAME=Delaunay, Vadim Nikolaevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Delaunay, Vadim; Delone, Vadim; Delone, Vadim Nikolaevich; Делоне, Вадим Николаевич
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Soviet poet, singer-songwriter and dissident
DATE OF BIRTH=1947
PLACE OF BIRTH=Russia
DATE OF DEATH=13 June 1983
PLACE OF DEATH=France