Sasha Krasny

Sasha Krasny
Саша Красный
Sasha Krasny; Саша Красный
Born	28 September [ Grekov Odessa Art school
Occupation(s)	poet, songwriter
Children	Boris Bryansky; (1928－1972)
Awards	Cross of St. George

Sasha Krasny (

Odessa

in 1912 and the last in 1993. His son Boris Bryansky (1928–1972) was also a poet and songwriter.

Biography

Bryansky said he was born in 1882 in

St. George's Cross

, 4th Degree.

After the

Yevgeni Petrov he published his poems in the Gudok newspaper, a mouthpiece for the Soviet Ministry of Transport. He helped initiate the agitprop movement of "Blue shirts" which took its name from his 1923 collection of poetry, "The Blue Blouse" (Russian: Синяя блуза).^[2]

In the mid-1920s Krasny led a circle of amateur performers who sought to popularize Bolshevik ideology by touring the country with skits, songs, and recitations of poems. The show was called the Sasha Krasny Theatre and continued well into the 1930s. He also found time to publish several collections of songs.

Krasny was not active as a poet from that time until the 1980s. When he joined the

USSR Union of Writers

in 1984, he was already 102 years old. In his old age he concentrated on love themes. His collection "The Contrasts" appeared in 1990 and "Only About Love" three years later. This last collection of verse was published when he was 111.