Mikhail Osipovich Tsetlin (russian: Михаи́л О́сипович Це́тлин, July 10, 1882,

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better known under his pen name Amari (Амари). In the late 1918, facing persecution by the

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(as a former SR Party activist), Tsetlin left the

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for France. In 1923, he founded ''Okno'' literary magazine, which published three issues and was later re-established by Tsetlin's distant relative, the poet

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as a web-only journal after a lapse of some 83 years. In Paris, Tsetlin's home was open to Russian émigré artists, for whom he often provided. He earned respect as a philanthropist and a literary entrepreneur. In 1940 Tsetlin moved to the USA where he, together with

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, founded '' Novy Zhurnal'' (Новый Журнал) magazine in 1942. Mikhail Tsetlin (writing under the pseudonym Amari) is the author of five poetry collections (the debut one, published in 1906, was banned in 1912 for having "a revolutionary content"), biographical prose (''The Decemberists'', 1933; ''The Five and the Others'', 1944; memoirs on

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) and numerous translations, e.g. of poems by

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, etc.Mikhail Tsetlin
at the Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary. 2009

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