Thesis in the CVC - a series of easel sheets "portraits of contemporaries", the rating is satisfactory. The training took place in the graphical Department (1972-1979, workshop of V. A. Vetrogonsky). Qualified graphic artist.
Look at yourself from the side
Impartially and not without irony,
And to see a little depth
And recognize the lack of harmony,
It would, of course, not funny,
But as they say, is instructive:
Thinking to love yourself is a sin,
Know: not to love is painful.
Boris Vasilyev-Palm trees - artist by profession, for vyuchenik Academy of arts, and a poet by vocation, judging by his poems. This is not all agree. After all, did not happen poet who appealed to everyone. Shakespeare, for example, didn't like L. Tolstoy.
The spiritual life of the artist-poet Vasiliev Palma presents in his poems. For those who are interested in bio-geography of our hero, here is a brief outline of his life, thank God, still unfinished journey.
Born in the Arctic circle, the Khibiny mountains (Kirovsk) in a family of legendary on the Kola Peninsula hunters. Therefore, the first infant movements on all fours did not on the rugs and bear-skins. To walk, to read, to learn the nature and love life and learned the village of Umba on the Tersky shore of the White sea.
From 6 to 7 years he lived with his parents and younger brother in a hut in the swamps of the Dnieper several kilometres from the nearest village (station Popovo near Zaporozhye), that is, away from the rest of the world people. Dad was there to observe the habits brought from America muskrat - fur-bearing animal.
In school, Boris went in 1948 in the city of Zaporozhye. In the 3rd class went to Ishmael, 4th in Kaluga. From 5th he studied and finished high school in Murmansk. At the same time - at the age of nineteen - became the champion of the region for the boom in the Welterweight (75 kg) weight.
Between school and army apprentice mitsurugi, in the newspaper "polar truth" has mastered the basics of journalism - its first of several professions.
Having Homeland soldier debt three-year army service in 1962, wanting to get to know the life of the country and to contribute, in the naive impulse, the elimination of social ills satirical pen (satires), he entered the faculty of journalism of Leningrad state University and, after transfer in his second year at capital UNIVERSITY, graduated from the same faculty, but of the Moscow University (MGU).
For essay on Murmansk to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the city in 1966 was accepted as a student in the news Department of "Komsomolskaya Pravda". A year later began to publish his satires. But life in the country did not improve and, often bumping into all sorts of bans, left in 1968 the the profession.
Who knows history, particularly about the events of that year, he will understand one of the main reasons for leaving.
Parting with journalism, Boris Vasilyev (without prefix Trees, more on that below*) first published some of his poems on the comic page of "Komsomolskaya Pravda". Here are two quatrains from the publication.
"The ground I'm the shape of a ball choose -
Thought God, beard pulling, -
Anyone with the edge
To each center felt.
