Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev ( rus, Богда́н Петро́вич Горде́ев, p=bɐˈɡdan pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ɡɐrˈdʲeɪf, a=Bogdan Pyetrovich Gordyeyev.ru.vorb.oga; 21 June 1894– 7 September 1914), also known as Bozhidar ( rus, Божида́р, p=bəʐɨˈdar, a=Bozhidar.ru.vorb.oga), was a
Russian
futurist poet of
Ukrainian origin.
Bozhidar (sometimes transliterated Bojidar) is also a
Bulgarian given name.
Biography and literary career
Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev was born into the family of a professor of Veterinary Institute and a school teacher.
He attended the Third Kharkiv
Gymnasium, graduating with a gold medal in 1913.
After graduating, Gordeev, strongly influenced by creations of
Velemir Khlebnikov
Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov ( rus, Велими́р Хле́бников, p=vʲɪlʲɪˈmʲir ˈxlʲɛbnʲɪkəf; – 28 June 1922) was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of th ...
, took his pseudonym and became intimate with a literary group "
Centrifuge" ( rus, "Центрифу́га"), which was founded in the same year by
Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...
,
Sergey Bobrov Sergey may refer to:
* Sergey (name), a Russian given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Sergey, Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland
* ''Sergey'' (wasp), a genus in subfamily Doryctinae
The Doryctinae or doryctine wasps are ...
and
Nikolay Aseev. In the beginning of 1914, Bozhidar, Aseev and
Grigory Petnikov Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy are Russian masculine given names.
It may refer to watcher angels or more specifically to the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels.
Grigory
* Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist
* Grigory Barenblatt (1927 ...
founded
publishing house ''Liren (Лирень)''. Later in that year, the only book of poems by Bozidar – “Tambourine” ( rus, "Бубен", in the spelling of the author, mixing the graphics of the Latin alphabet and Cyrillic alphabet – “Byben”), was published.
Bozhidar committed
suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome), and s ...
by
hanging on 7 September 1914 in a forest near
Kharkiv, partially due to the beginning of
World War I.
His prosody tractate and Byben's second issue were published posthumously.
Bozhidar was also posthumously included in Khlebnikov's "Chairmen of the Globe" society by its founder: Khlebnikov wrote his name under "Martians' Trumpet" manifest in 1916.
See also
*
Russian Futurism
External links
Bozhidar's Verses
1894 births
1914 suicides
Writers from Kharkiv
People from Kharkov Governorate
Russian male poets
Ukrainian poets in Russian
Suicides by hanging in Ukraine
20th-century Russian poets
20th-century Russian male writers
1914 deaths
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