Farewell to Alexander Shatalov will take place on February 19, at 11:00, in the Small Hall of the Central House of Writers at the address: (Krasnopresnenskaya metro station).
Funeral service - at 14:00 in the Church of the Holy Blessed Tsarevich Demetrius at the First City Hospital (Oktyabrskaya metro station).

Svetlana Konegen:"Sasha. Sasha Shatalov. He passed away yesterday, and I found out about it while driving in a car along a road bathed in the Italian sun... There was nothing around about death, nothing pushing me or frightening me. Italy knows how to accept life and death equally cordially and calmly. I knew that this death would happen, I knew it for the last two days, when Sasha’s friend Oleg Zotov called from Berlin, saying that he was urgently flying to Moscow and there was no more hope. Before this, timid remnants of faith were still glimmering.

We met a long time ago, in 1991, and it seemed like such a different life that I almost forgot about it. But Sasha’s memory was much more tenacious, he remembered. He was then sitting in the Central House of Writers restaurant, it seems, with Slava Mogutin, and we entered there with Andrei Voznesensky. I was wearing a black cap, jacket, riding breeches, brazenly hanging slanting white bangs, and for a second Sasha decided that A.A. courageously changed his interests towards young men, not wanting to lag behind the revolutionary mores of that time. As soon as he looked at me more closely, inevitable disappointment overtook him. But I can admit that for the rest of our common life with Sasha, I tried not to disappoint him too much.

We quickly became friends, and in many ways he became a teacher for me. At that time, he was the publisher of “Verb”, thanks to whom many of us first read Burroughs and Charles Bukowski in Russian, and became acquainted with the subtle Evgeniy Kharitonov. Sasha knew the Russian underground, literary and artistic, very well.

But when thinking about him, about Sasha, for some reason I always want to remember our youth. Those were the times of reckless leaps and discoveries; with incredible joy and relief, we got rid of our own fears, generated by dull Soviet drills and prohibitions, and learned to be ourselves. We walked the entire (or almost the entire) path together or somewhere nearby. Sasha knew how to jump and fly, while always maintaining a saving irony that brought him back to solid ground. Over time, his character (like many of us) began to change somewhat. The inclination towards some special kind of intellectual hooliganism remained less and less; he seemed to become sad. There were notes of didacticism in him, he easily quarreled with many... I don’t know if this can be called a premonition, rather, age. But he died young, only 60. Many of us are now almost the same age, and we consider this our second youth. Are we right? Nobody knows this.

Although no, Sasha already knows. But we are still on the other side of knowledge. How long?..

Sasha, I'm sorry! Words are incoherent, thoughts are confused. But there remains one feeling, painful and bright at the same time - love.”

Alexander Shatalov. Photo: AZ Museum

A year ago, Sasha finally decided to carry out our joint project - the film “The Polenovs in Europe”. We went to Normandy, Rome, Geneva - in a word, we visited precisely everywhere where Polenov’s spirit is present. And now that Sasha is gone, I hope that I will find an opportunity to bring his plan to completion and exactly the way it was intended.

Over the past month and a half, the illness has taken a serious toll on him. And this made possible the birth of new wonderful, subtle and sincere poems, comparable to the last poems of Elena Schwartz. These poems will be published in the March “New World”. He knew about the future publication and was very happy that the magazine rushed to print it so quickly.

Eternal memory to a dear and priceless friend!

Natalya Polenova shared with us one of Shatalov’s last poems.

Disappear, go away, evaporate,

Dissolve in the forest, become

transparent as a leaf.

Cry, scratch, get angry,

hug.

Let him be distracted

meaningless, pure.

This snow promises to fall asleep

This dream is promised in the night

Tongue tangled, golden

Suddenly they come to mind,

drug-induced collapse.

What should I call you, are you already

somewhere near.

The snow curls into a tangerine peel.

Please sit next to me

Otherwise I will completely die now.

Alexander Shatalov (1957-2018)

Poet, critic, publisher, TV presenter, author of a series of documentaries about contemporary artists, among them “Oscar Rabin. Happy Path" (2010), "The Firmament of Erik Bulatov" (2010), "Spring in Florence. Scenes from the life of the artist Erik Bulatov" (2012) (together with T. Pinskaya), "Nemukhinsky monologues" (2014), "Oleg Tselkov. I’m not from here, I’m a stranger” (2015), “Alphabet of dissent. The history of the magazine “A - Z” by Igor Shelkovsky” (2018) in two episodes.

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Alexander Nikolaevich Shatalov (11/10/1957 - 02/15/2018) is a Soviet and Russian poet, critic, publisher, and TV presenter.

Alexander Shatalov was born on November 10, 1957 in Krasnodar. He passed away in Moscow on February 15, 2018.

He was educated at the Moscow Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers (MIIGA). In 1985 he began to study criticism and poetry. Shatalov's first publication was published in the magazine Literary Review. He was a poetry editor at the publishing house "Young Guard", a correspondent for the newspaper "Evening Moscow" (1984-1990), and a consultant on publishing affairs for the Union of Writers of the USSR. He was a literary agent for E. Limonov and N. Medvedeva.

In 1990, he created (together with Sergei Nadeev) first the literary and artistic magazine “Glagol”, and on its basis a publishing house, which published the novels of J. Baldwin, W. Burroughs, S. Spender, E. Forster for the first time in Russian , Ch. Bukowski, as well as the first editions of E. Limonov, N. Medvedeva, E. Kharitonov, N. Sadur, M. Volokhov, A. Vasiliev, A. Galich and other authors.

Since 1993, Alexander Shatalov has conducted regular book reviews on television (Russian Universities, NTV, RTR, Culture, Home). He was the author and presenter of the television program “Graphomaniac” (RTR, Culture).

He was a member of the USSR Writers' Union (1991), the Moscow Writers' Union (1993), and the Russian PEN Club. He was deputy chairman of the commission on the literary heritage of Alexander Galich at the Writers' Union of the Soviet Union. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Western Choice party.

In 2010, Shatalov authored the script for the documentary film “Matrona of Moscow” (2010), as well as the author of the documentary film “Oscar Rabin. Happy Path" (2010), "The Firmament of Erik Bulatov" (2010), "Spring in Florence. Scenes from the life of the artist Erik Bulatov" (2012) (together with T. Pinskaya), "Nemukhinsky monologues" (2014), "Oleg Tselkov. I’m not from here, I’m a stranger” (2015). “The alphabet of dissent. The history of the magazine “A-Z” by Igor Shelkovsky” (2018) in 2 episodes. He was a regular contributor to The New Times magazine.

Alexander Shatalov is the author of 5 poetry books and translations from the languages ​​of the peoples of the USSR. The first collection was published by the publishing house "Young Guard" (together with 3 other authors - participants in the VIII All-Union Conference of Young Writers). In the preface to it, E. Eremina noted that the author “is accurate in psychological writing, psychologism is one of the attractive aspects of his work.” In her review of the book, F. Grimberg, among other things, noted the poet’s psychologism, as well as the increased “demandingness of the lyrical hero of the books towards himself,” and other critics also wrote about this. The poet's second book was also received very well. But then there was a long pause and the last 2 collections were published in America. The American realities presented in them, combined with domestic realities, made it possible for critics to talk about the cosmopolitanism of the author’s position, which was strikingly different from the content of his first collections:

– The poetry of Alexander Shatalov is a classic of the generation of the end of the century, a generation of people as fluid as the Terminator, a generation of drug-queens and psilocybin revelations of gay parties, as well as cheerful freaks who turned the capital’s communal apartments into squats for fans of comics and the Internet, a generation turning from the pipe to Manhattan going in to drink coffee with “weed” in an Amsterdam coffee shop and leaving through the back door in the Parisian docks area near Central Park, the “doom” generation frozen on the edge of the urban abyss in aching puppy and greedy anticipation of love - life-giving and devouring at the same time - draft love of which there is neither repetition nor confirmation - and immediately cynically defending against it - “we need to learn to love lightly / maliciously and coldly, sluggishly and simply,” love - as a symbol of the unrealized fullness of being, the magical interpenetration of life and death, for looking at the beloved body we all the time we see his death, love breaking through life “an unpredictable circle / where you can’t breathe, but it’s easy to suffocate” when “life without you is just a deception / but even with you it’s lonely” (precisely about - and not just - as a breakthrough into the third dimension since the circle belongs to the plane as salvation from limbo), love-death-resurrection as the right to the only free choice in a city that changes names like the faces of Indian deities, however, it is either New York, then Moscow, then Calcutta, or Paris, invariably retaining its technological essence, in the city “in which it’s time for me to know / I don’t have to live, but always die”...

Alexander Shatalov's poems have been translated into English, Bulgarian, and German. They were awarded a prize from the magazine “New World” (1996) and published in several collective collections.

Biography

Books of poems

1985 - “Direct Speech”, Book of Poems, M., “Young Guard”.
1991 - “In the Past Tense”, Book of Poems, M., “Soviet Writer”.
1996 - “Another Life”, Poems, Houston (USA), “Verb”.
1997 - “Poems about love and death”, M.
1997 - “JFK Airport”, Poems, Houston (USA), “Verb”.

Prose

2009 - “Box”, M., “Verb”, Book Club.

Poetry publications

1987 - Literary collection “Star Hour” (Bulgaria), a selection of poems
1988 - Literary collection “Pregredka” (Bulgaria), a selection of poems
1996 - Zvezda Magazine, No. 7. A selection of poems
1996 - “New World” magazine, No. 2, a selection of poems under the general title “Frost, dumbfounded...”
1996 - “New World” magazine, No. 6, a selection of poems under the general title “Without beginning or reason”
1997 - “New World” magazine, No. 8, a selection of poems under the general title “Family Photographs”
1996 - Literary almanac “URBI”, St. Petersburg, selection of poems
1996 - Literary collection “Portfolio”, Ardis Publishing House (USA), a selection of poems
1996 - Literary magazine “Neue Literatur” (Germany), No. 2, selection of poems
1997 - Zvezda magazine, No. 10, selection of poems
2002 - “Mitin Magazine”, No. 60, a selection of poems under the general title “Flower”

Critical articles

“I’m tired of shouting, I’m good!...”, “Literary Newspaper”, 10.26.83
“War of the Worlds”, “Literary Russia”, 11/20/87
“Against inertia”, “Literary Russia”, 11/27/84
“Waiting for action”, “Literary Russia”, 01/25/85
“I won’t get tired of jumping along the road. Book review.”, “Literary Russia”, 03/03/89.
“The truth about time. About the prose of Yu. Davydov”, “Literary Russia”, 08.21.87
“In the Mirror of Time”, newspaper “Evening Moscow”, 05/22/87.
“Imitators”, “Young Communist”, No. 3, 89
“Both home and peace. About the poetry of T. Kuzovleva”, “Literary newspaper”, 03/06/85
“Beatniks: Case History. About the prose of W. Burroughs”, “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, 08/04/93
"Ruruk Ivnev. Love before article 154", Index On Censorship (London), No. 1, 95.
"The Last Unprintable Writer," Index On Censorship (London), No. 1, '95.
"A Revolution Delayed," Index On Censorship (London), No. 1, '95.
“A Novel with an Epigraph, Or A Family Portrait Against a Novel Backround”, “The Russian”, No. 8, 95
“Yearning for Books During a Time Of Famine,” Moscow Times, 11/23/94.
“According to Rustam’s outline”, “Panorama” newspaper (USA), 03/02/93.
“The problem of choice”, “Literaturnaya Gazeta”, 06/07/95
“Swallow School. About the book N. Matveeva”, “Book Review”, 01/31/95
“My soul is tired and confused... new books about S. Yesenin”, “Book Review”, 10/03/95
“We need to be collected in bouquets. About the book R. Nureyev”, “Book Review”, 08/15/95
"Don't be sad! I'm just leaving for a century. About the Poetry of A. Galich”, in the book. "Petersburg Romance", Ed. "Khud.lit", L., 1989.
“I will stay on this earth. About the poetry of A. Galich,” in the book. "Return", Ed. "Music", L., 1990.
“Something like love. About the novel by J. Baldwin,” in the book. J. Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room", ed. "Verb", M., 1993.
“Great mandarin. About prose Ed. Limonov", in the book. Ed. Limonov “It’s me - Eddie”, Ed. “Verb”, M., 1990
“To be honest. About poems Ed. Limonova", magazine/"Aurora", No. 8, 1990,
“Beatniks. Case history", ed. "Verb", M., 1993.
“Purple like iris. About the prose of Ch. Bukowski,” in the book. Ch. Bukowski “Stories of Ordinary Madness”, Ed. "Verb", M., 1997.
“Towards the clouds. About the poetry of T. Beck." In the book. T. Beck “Clouds through the trees”, Ed. "Verb", M., 1997.
“Eternal youth. About the poetry of A. Purin”, “Znamya”, No. 1, 96
“The subject of lovers' interjections. On the history of the relationship between Yu. Yurkun and M. Kuzmin”, “Questions of Literature” No. 4, 96,
"Butterfly. About the Poetry of D. Novikov”, “Znamya”, No. 11, 96.
“Five books about love and passion. Review of the book. new products", w. "NRG", No. 9, 98
“Fifteen-year-old men. About the poems of A. Anashevich", zh. “Banner”, No. 10, 99
"Alexander Leontyev. Butterfly garden. Book three. Cicadas”, “Banner”, No. 8, 99
"Journey to the Land of the Dead" “Friendship of Peoples”, No. 2, 02
“Twilight of the Gods” ExLibris NG, 03/12/09
“Searching for Paradise” New Times, No. 15 (200) April 25, 2011
“Sphinx of Fashion” New Times, No. 35 (220) October 24, 2011
“The Minion of Tragic Fate” New Times, No. 14 (242) dated April 16, 2012
“A man of Cezan nationality” New Times, No. 30 (257) dated September 24, 2012
“The Other Russia of Mikhail Nesterov” New Times, No. 14-15 (283) dated April 22, 2013.

Interview

Interview with Alexey Parshchikov, Book Review, 2002
Interview with Evgeny Yevtushenko, Kultura TV channel, 2002
Interview with Evgeniy Rein, Kultura TV channel, 2002
“Literature is always nostalgia”, interview with Vasily Aksenov, Nezavisimaya Gazeta 09.27.02
Conversation with Vasily Aksenov, TV channel “Culture”, 2002
“I am a beautiful woman, but not fatal”, interview with Renata Litvinova, TV channel “Culture”, 2003
“Tolstoy controls me,” interview with Marat Gelman, Ogonyok No. 8, 2007
“Millionaires are modern princes”, interview with Oksana Robski, “Ogonyok” No. 10, 2007
“Is Carlson a glitch?”, interview with Eduard Uspensky, Ogonyok No. 11, 2007;
“Walking Library”, interview with Anatoly Naiman, “Ogonyok” No. 13, 2007
“No time for a fairy tale,” interview with Dmitry Krymov, “Ogonyok” No. 14, 2007
“Moyizdat”, interview with Polina Dashkova, “Ogonyok” No. 15, 2007
“Before and after the Island”, interview with Pavel Lungin, “Ogonyok” No. 18, 2007
“Along the NIL”, interview with Alexander Shirvindt, “Ogonyok” No. 19, 2007
“I’m not an actor at all,” interview with Juozas Budraitis, Ogonyok No. 22, 2007
“Thousands of books and buttons”, interview with Alexander Vasiliev, “Ogonyok” No. 27, 2007
“The period of enrichment is over,” interview with Michel Houellebecq, Ogonyok No. 46, 2007
“I have never been a dissident,” interview with Vasily Aksenov, “The New Times” No. 27, 2009
“The choice of reading is a matter of self-esteem,” interview with Lyudmila Ulitskaya, “The New Times” No. 32, 2009
“You have too many guards,” interview with Catherine Deneuve, “The New Times” No. 35, 2009
“I was attracted by some unknown force,” interview with Vladimir Nemukhin, “The New Times” No. 39, 2010
“Cosmos of Eric Bulatov”, interview with Eric Bulatov, “The New Times” No. 05, 2011
“I wanted to dress the street,” interview with Kenzo Tokado, The New Times No. 42, December 12, 2011.

Talented people continue to leave rapidly. The popular publisher, TV presenter and gifted person passed away - Alexander Shatalov died. He was a versatile personality who strove for new heights and left behind a rich creative heritage. On the Internet, citizens express condolences over the death of Alexander Nikolaevich. He was known to many, if not as a publisher, then certainly as a TV presenter or poet.

Biography

This wonderful man was born in Krasnodar in 1957. Studied at the Moscow Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers. From his youth he had an interest in poetry and literature in general. Since the age of 27, he has been engaged in criticism and poetry, publishing his poems and articles in the literary publication Literary Review. The publishing house "Young Guard" invites a talented young man to work as an editor in their poetry department. For more than six years, Shatalov held the position of journalist in the Evening Moscow publication.

Worked for N. Medvedev and E. Limonov as a literary agent. In the mid-90s of the last century, with the direct participation and ideological inspiration of Shatalov, the art magazine “Glagol” was first created, and soon a publishing house emerged on the basis of the literary magazine.

The new publishing house also published works by the writer Eduard Limonov. One of these books, entitled “It’s me, Eddie,” caused a real violent reaction from the public. The work was, it used profanity. Shatalov, as the creator and editor of this publishing house, was showered with people's discontent. Later, “Verb” put into circulation numerous translations of the works of foreign figures such as Stephen Spencer, Charles Bukowski, James Baldwin and many others.

Since 1991 he has been a member of the Writers' Union. In 2013, he became a direct participant in the Western Choice party.

The biography of the public figure ended at the age of 61. On February 15, Alexander Shatalov died.

Creative achievements of Alexander Shatalov

Alexander Nikolaevich showed himself brilliantly in the role of a TV presenter. He very talentedly conducted book reviews on Domashny, NTV and Kultura. Viewers could watch him in the “Graphomaniac” program.

Since 2010, Shatalov has established himself as a first-class scriptwriter. With his light hand, such documentaries as “Matrona of Moscow”, Nemuin Monologues”, “Oscar Rabin” and some others saw the light of day. In addition, Alexander was published in The New Times, where his articles were in great demand.

Many remember Alexander Shatalov as a sensitive poet. His poems found a response in the hearts of his listeners. He is the author of five poetry collections. In addition, he was engaged in translations of poetry from other peoples of the Soviet Union. Alexander's first collection was received very warmly; critics noted its very precise psychologism. The first book was published by the Young Guard publishing house. The second collection was also highly appreciated by professional critics. Then there was some pause in his work, then, in the USA, the poet published two more of his collections.

Literary experts noted that the latest books are strikingly different from the first; they are permeated with the ideology of cosmopolitanism.

Shatalov's poetic creations always found their audience, and critics treated them favorably. The poems have been translated into Bulgarian, German and English. Also, the works at one time received an award from the literary magazine “New World”.

Health problems, death

On February 15, 2019, Alexander Shatalov died. The first to report this news on his social network was the writer E. Limonov, who worked with Alexander for a long time. No official information has yet been released about the cause of death. As Limonov said, Alexander Nikolaevich’s departure was provoked by two serious illnesses.

The death of Alexander Shatalov came as a real shock to his colleagues. It is reported that he passed away after a long illness. Colleagues and friends note that they did not suspect anything about Alexander’s health problems; he preferred not to talk about his problems.

Famous TV presenter and publisher Alexander Shatalov died at the age of 60. The cause of death was serious illness.

Poet, publisher and TV presenter Alexander Shatalov died at the age of 61. The cause of death was a severe long-term illness.

The sad news was reported by the writer Eduard Limonov, who worked with the literary figure.

“He was born in 1957, he could still live. Alexander Nikolaevich Shatalov is now flying to other worlds. I don’t want to list the terrible diseases that felled him. There were two of them. My last book that he published was “Under the Sky of Paris,” he shared on his microblog.

At various times, Alexander Shatalov conducted book reviews on the NTV, Kultura and Domashny television channels.

Soviet and Russian poet, critic, publisher, TV presenter.

Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers (MIIGA). Since 1985 he has been engaged in criticism and poetry. The first publication was published in the journal Literary Review. He worked as a poetry editor at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, a correspondent at the Evening Moscow newspaper (1984-1990), and a consultant on publishing affairs for the USSR Writers' Union. He was a literary agent for E. Limonov and N. Medvedeva.

In 1990, he created (together with S. Nadeev) first the literary and artistic magazine “Glagol”, and on its basis a publishing house in which the novels of J. Baldwin, W. Burroughs, S. Spender, E. Forster, were first published in Russian. Ch. Bukowski, as well as the first editions of E. Limonov, N. Medvedeva, E. Kharitonov, N. Sadur, M. Volokhov, A. Vasiliev, A. Galich and other authors. Since 1993, he has conducted regular book reviews on television (Russian Universities, NTV, RTR, Culture, Home). Author and presenter of the television program “Graphomaniac” (RTR, Culture). Member of the USSR Writers' Union (1991), the Moscow Writers' Union (1993), and the Russian PEN Club. Deputy Chairman of the Commission on the Literary Heritage of Alexander Galich at the Union of Writers of the USSR. Since 2013, member of the Western Choice party.

In 2010, he was the author of the script for the documentary film “Matrona of Moscow” (2010), as well as the author of the documentaries “Oscar Rabin. Happy Path" (2010), "The Firmament of Erik Bulatov" (2010), "Spring in Florence. Scenes from the life of the artist Erik Bulatov" (2012) (together with T. Pinskaya), "Nemukhinsky monologues" (2014), "Oleg Tselkov. I’m not from here, I’m a stranger” (2015). “Alawite dissent. The history of the magazine "A-Z" by Igor Shelkovsky" (2018) in two episodes. Regular contributor to The New Times magazine.

Works of Alexander Shatalov:

Author of five poetry books and translations from the languages ​​of the peoples of the USSR. The first collection was published by the publishing house "Young Guard" (together with three other authors - participants in the VIII All-Union Conference of Young Writers). In the preface to it, E. Eremina wrote that the author “is accurate in psychological writing, psychologism is one of the attractive aspects of his work.” In her review of the book, F. Grimberg also noted the poet’s psychologism and the increased “demandingness of the lyrical hero of the books towards himself,” other critics also wrote about this. The poet's second book was also received quite favorably. However, then there was a long pause and the last two collections were released in the USA. The American realities reflected in them, combined with domestic realities, allowed critics to talk about the cosmopolitanism of the author’s position, which was strikingly different from the content of his first collections.

A. Shatalov's poems were translated into English, Bulgarian and German. They were awarded the New World magazine prize (1996) and published in a number of collective collections.

At the age of 61, the famous poet, TV presenter, director Alexander Shatalov died. This happened on February 15th. His death was reported by Eduard Limonov, a friend of Shatalov. The cause of death has not yet been announced. But Limonov says that the TV presenter was ill and most likely died from the disease.

A talented singer, a successful publisher, a purposeful person, he lived a short but bright and interesting life. Achieved a lot and helped many. His friends say a lot of good things about him. His poems are well known even outside the CIS. They were translated into English, German, Bulgarian.

Alexander Shatalov TV presenter biography, personal life, photo: talented in everything

The future talent was born in the city of Krasnodar on November 10, 1957. Little is known about his childhood. But no one at that time could even imagine that he would become a poet and create masterpieces.

Alexander Nikolaevich entered the Moscow Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers. There he received his higher education. As we see, aviation is not a very creative direction. Shatalov also understood this, so he did not work for long. And already in the mid-eighties his first masterpiece was published in the Literary Review magazine. His career growth began with this publication. At first he worked as a correspondent for the Evening Moscow publication, then he took the prestigious post of editor at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house and was engaged in consulting activities for the Writers' Union.

Alexander Shatalov TV presenter biography, personal life, photo: work and activity come first

In the difficult 90s, pressure and a tremendous desire to achieve success helped Alexander Nikolaevich accomplish something that would glorify him forever. He founded the publishing house "Glagol". This publishing house published a book by Eduard Limonov, his friend, “It’s me, Eddie.” The book attracted the attention of the public because it was unlike all others and used profanity. Nevertheless, Shatalov was not afraid to give her life and made no mistake. Also, for the first time in Russia, the Glagol publishing house published novels in Russian by such writers as Charles Bukowski and Stephen Spender. And this is not the entire list of authors.

Since the early nineties, Alexander Nikolaevich has conducted reviews on the channels “Culture”, “Domashny” and “NTV”. At the same time, he does not leave his creative field of activity. Writes scripts and critical articles.

Alexander Shatalov TV presenter biography, personal life, photo: comprehensively and harmoniously developed personality

Alexander Nikolaevich poured a piece of his soul into everything he did and did. He devoted a lot of time to work and creativity. That is why I did not have time to start a family or a beloved wife. Which would protect, take care of and give warmth. He drew his energy from that source to which he gave all of himself.

Few people know that in addition to everything, the poet was also involved in documentary films. He is the author of a series of films that tell about sixties artists. Author of five poetry books and translations from the languages ​​of the peoples of the USSR.

Reading Shatalov’s books, you immediately notice the high psychologism and even the author’s excessive demands on himself. The poetry of Alexander Shatalov is a classic of the generation of the end of the century.