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This is a list of authors who have written poetry in the Russian language.
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, best known for his satirical poem ''Sashka'' which in 1826 resulted in his being demoted to the Russian Army in the Caucasus, by a special decree of Nicolas I who saw this daring challenge as a continuation of the Decembrist revolt. He was arrested by the police, brought to the tsar, and forced to recite the poem out loud in the presence of the emperor, after which the emperor said, "I give you the means of rehabilitating yourself by military service. Are you ready to serve as a private in the army?" His service in the military was considered admirable by those who otherwise would have disliked Polezhayev.
Polezhayev continued to write satires (describing the Russian Tsar as 'a hangman' and 'an Emperor corporal') and in the early 1830s became close to the radicals, one of whom,
Alexander Hertzen
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, translit=Alexándr Ivánovich Gértsen; ) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agra ...
, later remembered him with great warmth in his book of memoirs ''My Past and Thoughts''. A volatile and rebellious character prone to heavy drinking, Polezhayev got involved in a series of incidents, the last of which resulted in his being punished by flogging so severe, fragments of twigs had to be extracted surgically form his back. After that, in the course of several months, Alexander Polezhayev fell ill with
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and died.
"Polezhayev's fate was of a peculiar, I'd say proto-Soviet kind. The Tsarist army became his
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," wrote poet and Russian poetry historian
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko ( rus, links=no, 1=Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, ...
.
References
External links
Alexander Polezhayev@ the Moshkov Library
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1804 births
1838 deaths
Poets from the Russian Empire
Male writers from the Russian Empire
Russian male poets
Russian-language poets
Russian satirists
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
19th-century poets
19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire
Tuberculosis deaths in Russia