Velimir Khlebnikov
Russian Futurist poet and playwright, inventor of zaum.
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Velimir Khlebnikov was a Russian poet and playwright central to the Russian Futurist movement.[1] He died in June 1922 while a guest at a friend's house near Kresttsy.[2]
Life and work
Khlebnikov grew up in an ornithologist's family near the Caspian Sea.[3] He belonged to Hylaea, the most significant Russian Futurist group.[4] In 1921 he traveled to Persia and wrote poems about the sights there.[5] He suffered from gangrene and paralysis before his death, possibly from blood poisoning or toxemia.[2]
His education took him first to a school in Kazan and subsequently to one in Saint Petersburg.[6] He abandoned his studies to devote himself entirely to writing, with his initial creative output dating to 1908.[6] In 1912, he released a system for forecasting historical occurrences, which included a prediction of an "empire's fall in 1917".[4] Although he backed the 1917 Russian Revolution, Soviet authorities faulted his writing for failing to adhere to socialist realism.[7]
What the cited sources add
The Monoskop account states Khlebnikov was also interested in mathematics, history, and mythology.[3] The Monoskop chronology notes he sent early poems to Ivanov in 1908.[3] It records that he visited the Burliuk estate in southern Russia in 1912.[3] The Monoskop source says he received a military furlough in 1917.[3]
It gives his date of death as 28 June in the village of Santalovo.[3]
References
- Wikipedia, "Velimir Khlebnikov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Roman Jakobson on Velimir Khlebnikov (in Russian); "Velimir Khlebnikov", Monoskop (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Velimir Khlebnikov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov: Letters and Theoretical Writings (Harvard University Press, 1987; ), p. 33, n. 98. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Velimir Khlebnikov", Monoskop. facts only, no text reused. monoskop.org
- Wikipedia, "Velimir Khlebnikov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Velimir Khlebnikov", Monoskop (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Velimir Khlebnikov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Khlebnikov, "The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian", Harvard University Press, 1985, p. 39 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Velimir Khlebnikov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Selected Poems with Postscript, 1907–1914", World Digital Library, 1914; "Velimir Khlebnikov", Monoskop (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Velimir Khlebnikov" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cooke, "Velimir Khlebnikov: A Critical Study", Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 2 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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