Vvedensky A.I. (1904-1941), poet

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VVEDENSKY Alexander Ivanovich (1904, St. Petersburg - 1941?), poet, drama writer. In 1921, after graduating from Lentovsky Gymnasium, he entered Law Faculty and then Chinese Department of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Petersburg University. Soon he gave up studies and started writing. He was a member of Petrograd Poets Union, was one of the founders of OBERIU (Union for Realist Art) and other groups. The main features of his creativity were orientation on semantic experimentalism, study of linguistic features with the help of poetic texts (The Meaning of Sea, Four Descriptions, etc.). Vvedensky's play Christmas Tree at the Ivanov's anticipated many techniques and theses of the contemporary theatre of the absurd. From 1928 to 1931 he published about 30 children books. He was arrested in 1931 together with other poets of OBERIU (was released in 1932). He was arrested for the second time in 1941 in Kharkov. He died on is way to prison (the date and cirrcumstances of death are unknown). Vvedensky's manuscripts were preserved in the saved archive of D. Kharms and, a small part of it, in State archives (including the KGB archives). In Leningrad Vvedensky lived at 37 Syezzhinskaya Street.

References: ОБЭРИУтов год / Сост. В. Шубинский // Искусство Ленинграда. 1990. № 7. С. 82-85; Мейлах М. Б. Дверь в поэзию открыта... // Введенский А. И. Полн. собр. произведений: В 2 т. М., 1993. Т. 1. С. 10-39.

D. N. Akhapkin. Kharms Daniil (real name Yuvachev Daniil Ivanovich)
Lentovskaya L. D.
Vvedensky Alexander Ivanovich
Syezzhinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 37
Мейлах М. Б. "Дверь в поэзию открыта..." // Введенский А. И. Полн. собр. произведений: В 2 т. М., 1993
ОБЭРИУтов год / Сост. В. Шубинский // Искусство Ленинграда, 1990 OBERIU