Nikolai Alexejewitsch Sabolotski

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Nikolay Zabolotsky ( Russian Николай Алексеевич Заболоцкий ., Scientific transliteration Nikolaj Alekseevic Zabolockij ; born April 24 . Jul / 7 May  1903 greg. In Kazan , Russia ; † 14. October 1958 in Moscow ) was a Russian poet and translator.

Memorial plaque for Nikolai Sabolotski in Kirov, Russia. There he visited his father

Life

Nikolai Sabolotski began studying at the Moscow University Medical Faculty in 1920. Shortly afterwards he moved to Petrograd , where he studied literature until 1925 at the Pedagogical Institute " Alexander Herzen ".

In 1927, Sabolozki founded the avant-garde artist association OBERIU together with Daniil Charms and Alexander Wwedenski .

His first volume of poetry ( Столбцы , Eng . "Columns, Columns"), which appeared in Leningrad in 1929 , provoked a literary scandal and mocking reactions in the press.

Sabolotski was arrested on March 19, 1938 for "anti-Soviet propaganda" by the NKVD in Leningrad and sent to Siberia for forced labor . He also continued his artistic work in Siberia and finished the translation of the Igor song begun in 1937 .

After his pardon, he was able to return to European Russia in 1946. His memoirs about the time of his imprisonment were published in English in the West in 1981 and in Russia in 1988.

Sabolotsky visited Georgia frequently and translated Georgian poets such as Shota Rustaveli and Vasha-Pschawela into Russian.

He died of heart failure in Moscow on October 14, 1958. There he is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Work (selection)

  • Autumn architecture. Institute for Slavic Studies, Jena 1996, ISBN 3-9805226-0-1 .
  • Face in the hunched mirror. , People and World, Berlin 1979.

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personal data
SURNAME Sabolotski, Nikolai Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Заболоцкий, Николай Алексеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian author, poet of the Russian avant-garde
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Kazan
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1958
Place of death Moscow