Biography of Dronnikov

By the anniversary of the birth of Viktor Dronnikov, “Do not be silent, that there was a delegate of three Soviet and Russian congresses of the Writers Union, a corresponding member of the Academy of Poetry. Laureate of the four All -Russian literary prizes: the Union of Writers of Russia, them. Feta, them. Cavalier of the Order of Friendship and the sign "Public Recognition". Viktor Dronnikov was born on August 18 G.

In early childhood he survived a great grief - his father did not return from the war. Tired soldiers returned from the war in the dusty Bolkhovsky Bolkhovsky. Together with the guys, I ran out to meet them. It was joyful and sad. I was sure that not to Prokaraul of my father. I did not remember him in the face. But I would have recognized him from a thousand. I spent a day at a noisy big man, swallowing dust.

Father did not return ”...” - so, in the preface to one of the collections of his poems, the poet wrote about the end of the war and his pain. From an early age, Viktor Dronnikov worked - a locksmith, a welder, a collector at the Eagle factories.

In the year, on the ticket of the Komsomol, he went to the construction of the Moscow -Vladivostok railway. The first poetic lines were written there. The first publications of a young worker appeared in the Oryol Komsomolets newspaper in the year, as amended by which he later worked as a literary employee. In the year he graduated from the Literary Institute.

Gorky at the seminar of Vladimir Sokolov, protecting the diploma with honors. Through all the work of the poet, the theme of love for the native land, the fidelity of his great and small homeland passes. An elevated attitude towards a woman, responsiveness for all the good in a person, the desire to measure modern life to the moral experience of the Great Patriotic War - the origins of his poetry.

Viktor Dronnikov died on August 24. In farewell to the poet, the spiritual mentor of Viktor Petrovich Archpriest of the Assumption Mikhail-Arkhangelsk Cathedral, Father Konstantin Zolotukhin said about him: “In my opinion, the greatness of the artist and the significance of his work are not only in his skill, but also in the depths of those ideas that feed his soul and which are expressed in his work.

Viktor Petrovich Dronnikov loved his homeland, his people, his nation. He was a real Russian warrior, a real Russian Vityaz - strong, straightforward, who always told only the truth, no matter how bitter she was. And from love for his earthly Fatherland, he ascended into another love - love for the Heavenly Fatherland, love for God ... And if we become the heirs of that love, the morality that Viktor Petrovich Dronnikov wore in his heart, then Russia will stand.

Today, when all the purest, the most sacred, when vulgarity and sin reigns and ridiculed, is, especially in a timely manner, and it is necessary for all of us the work of Viktor Petrovich Dronnikov. I am sure that his name - the Orthodox poet and the patriot - will never be forgotten in Russia. ”