Vladimir Timofeïevitch Kirillov ( rus, Влад′имир Тимоф′еевич Кир′иллов) (2 October 1889, in

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Smolensk Governorate Smolensk Governorate (russian: Смоленская губерния, Smolenskaja gubernija), or the Government of Smolensk, was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR. It ex ...

– 16 July 1937, in

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) was a

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proletarian poet associated with

Proletkult Proletkult ( rus, Пролетку́льт, p=prəlʲɪtˈkulʲt), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolut ...

. Kirillov was born into peasantry and was active in the revolutionary movement from 1904. He was first published in 1913 and mostly wrote for working class publications. In 1918 he was elected to the national praesidium of ProletkultMally L. (2000), ''Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938.'' Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. and also became active in

Kuznitsa Kuznitsa (English: Forge or Smithy) was a Soviet literary association which existed from 1920 to 1932. Biography The Kuznitsa association consisted of proletarian writers who emerged from Proletkult in January 1920. Among them were Sergei Obrado ...

. He opposed the introduction of the

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and left the

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in 1921. He became one of the victims of the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...

and was arrested on January 30th 1937 and later executed on July 16th. He was rehabilitated in 1957.

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