Igor Severyanin (real name: Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev) was born on May 4, 1887, in St. Petersburg, the Russian Empire, and died on December 20, 1941, in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR). Igor Severyanin was a Russian poet of the “Silver Age” and a translator from Estonian and French. He was one of the most prominent representatives of Russian futurism. he was the first Russian poet to use the word “futurist” as well as the founder of the egofuturist movement.