Demjan Bedny
Demyan Bedny ( Russian Демьян Бедный ; actually Yefim Alekseyevich Pridworow , Russ. Ефим Алексеевич Придворов * April 1 jul. / 13. April 1883 greg. In Gubowka, Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 25. May 1945 in Moscow ) was a Russian poet .
Demjan Bedny came from a peasant family from Gubowka in the Cherson Governorate (today in Ukrainian Hubiwka in the Kirowohrad Oblast ). After training as a field scissor , he began studying in Saint Petersburg . His first fables and poems appeared in 1899 . In 1912 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party . After the October Revolution , Bedny wrote political songs and poems that made him very popular. In 1937, on behalf of the Stalinist government , he demanded in poems the shooting of "enemies of the people". In 1938 he was expelled from the CPSU . Bedny wrote anti-German fables and ridiculous poems during World War II , but was unable to regain his earlier popularity.
The pseudonym "Bedny", literally "the poor", which the poet used from the beginning of his writing activity, is similar to the pseudonym "Gorki" , "the bitter", under which the writer Alexei Peschkow had achieved fame a few years earlier. Bedny, who stood out in the 1920s with his sharply anti-religious works, is considered one of the models for the figure of the poet Ivan Nikolajewitsch Ponyrew with the pseudonym “Besdomny” (“the homeless”) in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita .
The small town of Spassk in the Russian Oblast of Penza was named Bednodemjanowsk in his honor from 1925 to 2005. The ship Demyan Bednyy was named after the poet in 1985 in the Soviet Union and is still in service on the East Siberian river Lena .
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- Article Demjan Bedny in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Web links
- Literature by and about Demjan Bedny in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | Bedny, Demjan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bednyj, Demjan; Bedny, Demyan; Pridvorov, Jefim Alexejewitsch (real name); Бедный, Демьян (Cyrillic); Придворов, Ефим Алексеевич (real name, Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gubowka, Cherson Governorate, Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1945 |
| Place of death | Moscow |