Nikolai Zabolotskii

Robert Chandler (Queen Mary, University of London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

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Born 24 Apr 1903
Died 14 Oct 1958
Activity 1926-1958

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Born in Russia
Active in Russia

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Zabolotsky's father was an agronomist, of peasant stock; his mother was an assistant schoolteacher, the descendant of priests. Nikolai was born not far from Kazan, but spent much of his childhood in a village, and then a small town, in the remote province of Vyatka. After briefly studying medicine and philology in Moscow, he moved to Petrograd in the early 1920s to study at the pedagogical institute. In 1928, he and two younger writers, Daniil Kharms and Aleksandr Vvedensky, founded the OBERIU or “Ob'edinenie real'nogo iskusstva” [“Association of Real Art”], the last avant-garde grouping in the Soviet Union. This acronym was provocative. If "real'nyi" is understood to mean "real", it implies that the work of other artists might

not

be real art. And if "real'nyi" is understood as…

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Citation: Chandler, Robert. "Nikolai Zabolotskii". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 February 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13311, accessed 26 December 2024.]

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