Eduard Bagritsky
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Born | Eduard Godelevich Dzyubin November 3 [ USSR |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Russian |
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Eduard Georgyevich Bagritsky (Russian: Эдуа́рд Гео́ргиевич Багри́цкий, IPA:
He was a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career; he was also a part of the so-called Odessa School of Russian writers (which also included
Biography
Born Eduard Godelevich Dzyubin (Russian: Эдуа́рд Гео́ргиевич Дзю́бин, IPA:
Bagritsky was heavily influenced by the
In his book Russian Poet/Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (2000), Maxim D. Shrayer investigated the path of this major Jewish poet writing in the Russian language and examined Bagritsky's contested legacy. The book included English translations of some Bagrtisky's works.
Bagritsky's long poem February (1933–34) was published in a translation by
In his poetry of the last period of his life Bagritsky managed to covertly criticise the growing oppressive Stalinist regime.[2] Bagritsky who had been suffering from bronchial asthma from childhood died form complications due to pneumonia in Moscow in 1934, aged 38.[3] He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Family
Bagritsky's wife, Lidia Gustavovna Suok (of Czech and Austrian descent), had two sisters who also married noted writers: Olga married
See also
Notes
- ^ Cardinal Points vol.7, pp.147-167
- ^ P. Barenboim, B. Meshcheryakov — Flanders in Moscow and Odessa:: poet Eduard Bagritskii (Bagritsky) as the Till Ulenspiegel of Russian literature.
- ^ "Багрицкий Эдуард Георгиевич". odessa-memory.info. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
External links
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- Article about Bagritsky in the YIVO Encyclopediad of Jews in Eastern Europe
- Eduard Bagritsky. Poems
- Bargitsky in English
- P. Barenboim, B. Meshcheryakov — Flanders in Moscow and Odessa:: poet Eduard Bagritskii (Bagritsky) as the Till Ulenspiegel of Russian literature. An HTML version of the book on the Flemish theme and opposition to Stalinism in the poetical legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (Bagritsky). Complete translations of the poems comprising the “Flemish” cycle. This book in print.
- Eduard Bagritsky at Find a Grave