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Vadim Nikolaevich Delaunay (or Delone, Template:Lang-ru; 1947-1983) was a Russian poet and dissident.
Vadim Delaunay was born to a Russian-French family of a Soviet Intelligentsia. His grandfather, Boris Delaunay was a prominent Soviet mathematician, the author of the Delaunay triangulation, among his ancestors was marquis Bernard-René de Launay, the last governor of the Bastille, murdered by the atackers on that castle. Vadim often predicted that he would repeat the fate of his ancestor.
- 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
- be not forgiven
- the reasons for this are many
- but if I prayed
- my God for something
- that was for others
- never for myself
Vadim Delaunay
Vadim studied in Moscow matshkola N2, one of the best in the country at that time, then at the Department of Philology at Moscow Pedagogical Institute. Been a student he also worked as a freelance author for the Literaturnaya Gazeta.
Vadim started to write poetry at the age 13. His poetry was distributed by samizdat, some were published abroad. On January 22 1967 he took part in a demonstration on the Pushkin Square protesting against arrest of Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov and against 70-th and 190th articles of the Soviet Penal Code - Anti-Soviet agitation and Libel against the Soviet Government. Delaunay was arrested and given a one year suspended sentence (incidently just according to the 190 article of the Penal Code). His sentence was much later than that of another organizer of the same meeting, Vladimir Bukovsky, who got three years of a Labor camp. Vadim was distressed by the difference in the sentence explaining the relative softness of it by the influence of his relatives.
Vadim'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 Danilovich Aleksandrov. In Novosibirsk he continued he philology studies, writes poetry. At that time there were his first official foreign publications in the Paris magazine Grani N66. Vadim was an organizer of a concert of a half-legal to that time Bard Alexander Galich. In the beginning of 1968 after the court hearing on Galanskov and Ginzburg Delaunay wrote an open letter to Literaturnaya Gazeta where he praises the bravery of those people. The letter was published in the New York newspaper Novoe Russkoe Slovo.
In June 1968 Delaunay returned to Moscow. On August 25 1968 Delaunay and the other seven dissidents organized the now famous demonstration in support of the Prague Spring on the Red Square near the Moscow Kremlin. He and Pavel Litvinov we actually holding the famous banner with the words "ЗА ВАШУ И НАШУ СВОБОДУ" (For Your and Our Freedom). Seven people were arrested, at the court Delaunay stated that the five minutes of freedom on the square are worth the years in the prison that probably awaiting him. Delaunay was sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in a labor camp that he served in Tyumen Oblast in North-Western Siberia.
In June 1971 Delaunay served his sentence and returned to Moscow. In 1973 his wife I. Belgorodkaya was arrested as a participant of an underground journal The Chronicles of the Current Events (Хроника Текущих Событий). In 1975 she was freed and they both emigrated to France. In 1979 Delaunay published his story Portraits in the Barbed Frame in the magazine Echo.
On 13 June 1983 Delaunay died out of a heart attack. In 1984 his book of poetry Verses: 1963-1983 was published. The same year he was posthumously awarded the Vladimir Dal prize. Since 1989 his poetry is published in Russia.