Boris Alexandrovich Sadovskoy (born Sadovskiy; Борис Александрович Садовской, February 22,

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'', Sadovskoy in his own poetry followed the tradition of Afanasy Fet, whom he admired and wrote several books about. His second adopted trend was the patriarchal Russia' stylisations which often took a form of literary parodies and mystifications. After the

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, Sadovsky, a monarchist, refused to emigrate and, becoming a wheelchair-user, lived in isolation, his last book published in 1928.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sadovskoy, Boris 1881 births 1982 deaths Soviet poets Male poets from the Russian Empire