Igor Severyanin
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Igor Severyanin
St. Petersburg, the Russian Empire - Tallinn, Estonian SSR

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.

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

DesyatyjKrug
by David Gay

The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min