Sergei Antonovich Klychkov
Sergei Antonowitsch Klychkow ( Russian Сергей Антонович Клычков ; actually SA Leschonkow ; born July 13, 1889 in Dubrowki , Tver Governorate ; † October 8, 1937 ) was a Russian-Soviet writer.
His first poems appeared in 1907, and from 1925 onwards he wrote mainly prose. He described rural life during the revolution. In his poems he combined material from Russian folk songs and fairy tales with themes of symbolism.
Klychkov was one of the so-called "peasant poets" around Sergei Jessenin and Nikolai Kljujew . He was arrested and murdered in 1937 in the course of the Stalin purges .
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| SURNAME | Klychkov, Sergei Antonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leschenkow, Sergei A .; Klychkov, Sergei; Klytchkov, Sergueï; Клычков, Сергей Антонович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Soviet writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dubrowki , Tver Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1937 |