Eduard Georgyevich Bagritsky ( rus, Эдуа́рд Гео́ргиевич Багри́цкий, p=ɨdʊˈard ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ bɐˈɡrʲitskʲɪj, a=Eduard Gyeorgiyevich Bagriczkiy.ru.vorb.oga; February 16, 1934) was an important

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n and

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poet of the Constructivist School. He was a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career; he was also a part of the so-called Odessa School of Russian writers (which also included

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and Yevgeni Petrov, among others). A large number of this school's writers were

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natives who often incorporated Ukrainian inflections and vocabulary into their writing.

Biography

Born Eduard Godelevich Dzyubin ( rus, Эдуа́рд Гео́ргиевич Дзю́бин, p=ˈdzʲʉbʲɪn, a=Eduard Gyeorgiyevich Dzyubin.ru.vorb.oga; uk, Дзю́бін) in

to a Jewish middle-class family, most of his creative career took place in Moscow. After his early death from asthma, his friends helped to publish several of his works posthumously to provide financial assistance to his family. Isaak Babel, for example, planned to write a screenplay based on Bagritsky's lon
poem
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about Opanas" (the script was never finished and was eventually lost). Bagritsky was heavily influenced by the

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and

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. His poetry often touches on the subjects of violence, revolutionary morality, sexuality and its interethnic sociological problems. His worldview was extremely unsentimental, and earned him much invective from detractors from all sides who saw his poetry as vindictive toward both his Jewish origins and the host Russian culture. In his book ''Russian Poet/Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii'' (2000),

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investigated the path of this major Jewish poet writing in the Russian language and examined Bagritsky's contested legacy. The book included English translations of Bagrtisky's works, among them his long poem ''February'' (1933–34). In his poetry of the last period of his life Bagritsky managed to covertly criticise the growing oppressive Stalinist regime.P. Barenboim, B. Meshcheryakov — Flanders in Moscow and Odessa:: poet Eduard Bagritskii (Bagritsky) as the Till Ulenspiegel of Russian literature.
/ref> He died in

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in 1934, aged 38.

Family

Bagritsky's wife, Lidia Gustavovna Suok (of Czech and Austrian descent), had two sisters who also married noted writers: Olga married

and Serafima married

Vladimir Narbut Vladimir Ivanovich Narbut ( ua, Володимир Іванович Нарбут; 1888–1938) was a Ukrainian poet and a member of the Acmeist poetry, Acmeist group. He was also brother to artist and graphic designer Heorhiy Narbut, Heorgiy Na ...

. Bagritsky's son

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(killed early in World War II) was also a notable Russian poet, whose fiancée

Yelena Bonner Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner (russian: link=no, Елена Георгиевна Боннэр; 15 February 1923 – 18 June 2011) ...

(eventually the wife of

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) later was a notable Russian

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Notes

External links

Article about Bagritsky in the YIVO Encyclopediad of Jews in Eastern Europe

An HTML version of the book on the Flemish theme and opposition to Stalinism in the poetical legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (Bagritsky). Complete translations of the poems comprising the “Flemish” cycle

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Biography

Family

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