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Nikolai Nikolayevich Aseyev ( rus, Никола́й Никола́евич Асе́ев, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ɐˈsʲejɪf, a=Nikolay Nikolayevich Asyeyev.ru.vorb.oga; July 10, 1889 - July 16, 1963) was a Russian and Soviet
Futurist
Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities abou ...
poet and writer.
Biography
Nikolai was born in the city of
Lgov in the region of
Kursk
Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...
. He studied a technical school in the city and had also attended the Moscow Institute of Commerce.
Aseyev joined the army in 1915 until 1917.
It is said that
Velimir 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 ...
and
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...
were two of Aseyev's literary influences.
Works
In 1914, Aseyev helped form a young poets' group called ''Lirika''.
In the same year, his first poetic collections, "Night Flute" (''Nochnaia fleita''), and "Zor", which were written in the
Russian Futurist
Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism," which espoused the rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, ...
style, were published. The former also reflected traces of Russian Symbolism.
Aseyev was awarded a government honor for the latter poem in 1941.
Aseyev's work has been known for its interest in America. Among his notable poems was ''A Song about Alabama'', which criticized the American conceptualization of a crime punishable by death for blacks.
He was also one of those who contributed to the Soviet and American reconciliation narrative.
He once wrote the Americans, "You have Abraham, we have a Joseph... let's make a new Bible."
Aseyev died in 1963 in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
.
References
External links
Collection of Poems by Nikolay Aseyev(English Translations)
Includes English translations of poem "Announcement," 122 Biography
1889 births
1963 deaths
People from Lgov, Kursk Oblast
People from Lgovsky Uyezd
Russian male poets
Russian male writers
20th-century Russian screenwriters
Male screenwriters
Soviet male writers
Soviet poets
Soviet screenwriters
Futurist writers
Socialist realism writers
20th-century Russian male writers
20th-century Russian poets
National University of Kharkiv alumni
Stalin Prize winners
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
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