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Chris Knight looks at the legacy of Velimir Khlebnikov. This is an edited transcript of a talk given to Communist University
Velimir Khlebnikov is almost unknown in the west, but to those Russians who know a little bit about literature and poetry in their own culture he is the greatest Russian poet since Pushkin.
He had an unusual childhood: a tribal upbringing, with ethnic music and wonderful, colourful traditional costumes. He was born into the Kalmyk tribal group (originally Mongolian Buddhists) in near the Caspian Sea. His father was a tsarist administrator. As a child Khlebnikov grew up with animals in the house and with camels wandering around outside. Nearly all the homes in the village were yurts1 - his was the only solid building. Kalmyk instruments and dancing had a huge effect on him, and his childhood environment was very relevant to his later life.
As a boy, he was used to rid
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- Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov [Note 1] (Russian: Велими́р Хле́бников, IPA: [vʲɪlʲɪˈmʲir ˈxlʲɛbnʲɪkəf]; [Note 2] 9 November [O.S.
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- Velimir (real name: Viktor) Vladimirovich Khlebnikov (), poet and poetic theorist, one of the leading figures of Russian Futurism.
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- Khlebnikov is becoming recognized as one of the major Russian poets of the twentieth century, having for years been dismissed as a purveyor of unintelligible verbal trickery.
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- Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov [Note 1] (Russian: Велими́р Хле́бников, IPA: [vʲɪlʲɪˈmʲir ˈxlʲɛbnʲɪkəf]; [Note 2] 9 November [O.S.
| composed in 1916 by the futurist poet and philosopher of history. | |
| Khlebnikov came up with the terms “Futurian” and “Presidents of Planet Earth” to describe his circle. | |
| In April 1914, he boarded a ship in Vladivostok and headed to Tokyo. |