{"id":363,"date":"2007-02-11T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2007-02-11T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T02:50:00","slug":"ilya-kormiltsev-1959-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/ilya-kormiltsev-1959-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilya Kormiltsev (1959-2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These sad news just in. My thanks to Michael Jonik who forwarded the article from the Saint Petersburg Times<\/span><\/a> reproduced below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Ilya Kormiltsev, poet, translator, the head of the radical publisher Ultra Kultura and a former songwriter for the Soviet rock band Nautilus Pompilius, died in London on Sunday. He was 47.<\/p>\n

Late last month, Kormiltsev was reported to have been hospitalized in London, diagnosed with cancer of the spine in its worst stage.<\/p>\n

A persistent critic of the Kremlin\u2019s politics, Kormiltsev protested when former Nautilus Pompilius\u2019 singer Vyacheslav Butusov performed, for a fee, for 5,000 activists of Nashi at the Kremlin-backed youth movement\u2019s summer camp in July 2006. He compared Nashi with the Chinese Cultural Revolution\u2019s infamous Red Guards. <\/p>\n

In articles and interviews, Kormiltsev accused former rock scene peers in betraying the dissenting nature of the music when Akvarium\u2019s Boris Grebenshchikov, Leningrad\u2019s Sergei Shnurov and the others secretly met the Kremlin\u2019s ideologist Vladislav Surkov in 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means that the people don\u2019t think about their future, above all,\u201d he said in an interview with The St. Petersburg Times last August. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Surkovs come and go, but you won\u2019t be able get back your reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kormiltsev was born on Sept. 29, 1959 into the family of geologists in Sverdlovsk, as Yekaterinburg was then known. He graduated from the chemistry department of the Urals University in 1981.<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, Kormiltsev became active at the then-burgeoning Sverdlovsk underground rock scene, writing lyrics for several local bands including bands Urfin Dzhus and Nastya.<\/p>\n

But he is best-remembered for co-writing some of the best-known Nautilus Pompilius songs, such as the anti-totalitarian anthems \u201cSkovanniye Odnoi Tsepyu\u201d (Chained Together) and \u201cShar Tsveta Khaki\u201d (Khaki-Colored Globe).<\/p>\n

Always an opponent to the Soviet and post-Soviet authorities, he rejected the Lenin Komsomol Award that was given to Nautilus Pompilius in 1989. <\/p>\n

In the 1990s and 2000s, he became well-known as a translator. He translated many English and American works by authors such as William Burroughs and Bret Easton Ellis.<\/p>\n

More recently, Kormiltsev\u2019s publishing house attracted controversy by putting out a wide range of nonconformist literature, from skinhead memoirs to anthologies of American Beat poetry to the prison essays of National Bolshevik Party founder Eduard Limonov. <\/p>\n

Ultra Kultura was under permanent attack from the authorities and was accused, alternatively, of promoting drug use, or spreading pornography.<\/p>\n

Kormiltsev is survived by his wife, the opera singer Alesya Mankovskaya, and a son, Stas. <\/p>\n

A memorial service will be held at the Central House of Writers in Moscow at 11 p.m. on Friday. A funeral service will be held at Moscow\u2019s Troyekurovskoye Cemetery at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u2014 By Sergey Chernov<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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