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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 futures studies or futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities ...
poet and writer.


Biography

Aseyev was born in the city of
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in the region of
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. 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 and
Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ( – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, Russian Revolution, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Ru ...
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 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
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.


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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 20th-century Russian screenwriters Russian male screenwriters Soviet male writers Soviet poets Soviet screenwriters Soviet male screenwriters Futurist writers Socialist realism writers 20th-century Russian male writers 20th-century Russian poets National University of Kharkiv alumni Recipients of the Stalin Prize Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery {{Russia-poet-stub