Arseny Tarkovsky
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Arseny Tarkovsky in the mid-1930s
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| Born | Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky June 24, 1907 (N.S.) Elisavetgrad, Russian Empire |
| Died | May 27, 1989 (aged 81) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Children | Andrei Tarkovsky |
Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky (Russian: Арсе́ний Алекса́ндрович Тарко́вский, June 25 [O.S. June 12] 1907 in Elisavetgrad – May 27, 1989 in Moscow) was a prominent Soviet poet and translator. He is considered one of the great twentieth century Russian poets. He was predeceased by his son, film director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Tarkovsky was born on June 25 N.S. 1907 in Elisavetgrad, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine). His father, Aleksandr Tarkovsky (in Polish: Alexander Tarkowski), was a bank clerk, Russian revolutionary (Narodnik), and amateur actor of Polish origin and his mother was Maria Danilovna Rachkovskaya.
In 1921, Tarkovsky and his friends published a poem which contained an acrostic about Lenin. They were arrested, and sent to Nikolayev for execution. Tarkovsky was the only one that managed to escape.
By 1924 Tarkovsky moved to Moscow, and from 1924-1925 he worked for a newspaper for railroad workers called "Gudok", where he managed an editorial section written in verse. In 1925-1929 he studied literature at a university college in Moscow. At that time he translated poetry from Turkmen, Georgian, Armenian and Arabic.
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