Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh or Kruchonykh or Kruchyonykh (February 21, 1886 - June 17, 1968), a well-known poet

Poet

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 of the Russian "Silver Age"

Silver Age of Russian Poetry

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, was perhaps the most radical poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 of Russian Futurism

Russian Futurism

Russian Futurism is the term used to denote a group of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism"...

, a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky

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, David Burliuk

David Burliuk

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 and others. Together with Velimir Khlebnikov

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, Kruchenykh is considered the inventor of zaum

Zaum

Zaum is a word used to describe the linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh....

. Kruchenykh wrote the libretto for the Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun

Victory over the Sun

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, with sets provided by Kazimir Malevich

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. He married Olga Rozanova

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, an avant-garde artist, in 1912.

Most famous poem of Kruchenykh

Zaum	Transliteration
Дыр бул щыл убещур скум вы со бу р л эз	Dyr bul shchyl ubeshchur skum vy so bu r l ez

(1913)

External links

• On Kruchenykh (English)
• Kruchenykh in Tiflis (from Chapter Nine of G. Janecek, Zaum: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism) (English)
• Biography and poems (Russian)
• Biography, bibliography (Russian)
• Four zaum poems (Russian)
• Visual Poems 1917 - 1921
• Digitized Russian avant-garde books
• English translations of 4 poems