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
Russia
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futurist
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poet
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of
Ukrainian
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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, took his pseudonym and became intimate with a literary group "
Centrifuge
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" ( rus, "Центрифу́га"), which was founded in the same year by
Boris Pasternak,
Sergey Bobrov and
Nikolay Aseev
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 Futu ...
. In the beginning of 1914, Bozhidar, Aseev and
Grigory Petnikov founded
publishing house
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''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 by
hanging
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on 7 September 1914 in a forest near
Kharkiv
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.
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
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 ...
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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