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Eduard Bagritsky (?????? ?????????? ?????? (?????????)) ( Odessa
Odessa

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, Ukraine
Ukraine

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, Russian Empire
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 - February 16 1934, Moscow
Moscow

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, RSFSR) was an important Russia
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n poet of the Constructivist
Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architecture movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes....
 School. He was also a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career. He was also a part of so-called "Ukrainian School" of Russian writers (that also included Isaak Babel inter alia) that incorporated Ukrainian inflection and vocabulary into their writing.

Bagritsky, whose real name was Eduard Dzjubin, was a native of Odessa.






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Eduard Bagritsky (?????? ?????????? ?????? (?????????)) ( Odessa
Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
, Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
, Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 - February 16 1934, Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, RSFSR) was an important Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n poet of the Constructivist
Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architecture movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes....
 School. He was also a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career. He was also a part of so-called "Ukrainian School" of Russian writers (that also included Isaak Babel inter alia) that incorporated Ukrainian inflection and vocabulary into their writing.

Bagritsky, whose real name was Eduard Dzjubin, was a native of Odessa. Most of his creative career took place in Moscow. After his early death from asthma, his friends helped to publish several of his works posthumously to provide financial assistance to his family. Isaac Babel, for example, planned to write a sceenplay based on Bagritsky's long poem "Duma
Duma (epic)

A Duma is a sung Epic poetry poem which originated in Ukraine during the Cossack_Hetmanate Era around the sixteenth century, possibly based on earlier Kievan epic forms....
 about Opanas" (the script was never finished and was eventually lost).

Bagritsky was heavily influenced by the Russian Revolution and the Civil war resulting therefrom. His poetry often touches on the subjects of violence, revolutionary morality, sexuality and its interethnic sociological problems. His worldview was extremely unsentimental, and earned him much invective from detractors from all sides who saw his poetry as both vindictive toward his Jewish origins and the host Russian culture.

Family


Eduards's son Vsevolod Bagritzky (killed in World War II) was also a notable Russian poet. His wife (Eduard's daughter-in-law Yelena Bonner
Yelena Bonner

Yelena Georgevna Bonner is a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov....
 (later wife of Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was an eminent Soviet Union Nuclear physics physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union....
) was a notable Russian dissident
Dissident

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.

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