Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Assejew

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Nikolai Assejew

Nikolai Aseev ( Russian Николай Николаевич Асеев * June 27 . Jul / 9. July  1889 greg. In lgov ; † 16th July 1963 in Moscow ) was a Russian poet and literary critic.

Asseev is generally regarded as a representative of socialist realism ; his late work is strongly influenced by the privations of the Second World War .

His first publications from 1913 to 1914 were under the influence of symbolism ; then he turned to the acquaintance of Velimir Chlebnikow and Vladimir Mayakovsky of Slavic mythology and futurism . After the October Revolution , his poetry had revolutionary-romantic features. In the 1920s, Assejew was one of the key figures in the artist group Left Front of Art (LEF).

Assejew also created Russian adaptations of foreign language poetry, such as the poems of Mao Zedong (1957).

He received the Stalin Prize (1941), the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor .

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