Demyan Bedny
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April 13, 1883 Kirovohrad Oblast |
| Died | May 25, 1945 (aged 62) Moscow |
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Yefim Alekseevich Pridvorov (Russian: Ефи́м Алексе́евич Придво́ров; IPA: [jɪˈfʲim ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ prʲɪˈdvorəf]; April 13 [O.S. April 1] 1883 – May 25, 1945), better known by the pen name Demyan Bedny (Russian: Демья́н Бе́дный; IPA: [dʲɪˈmʲjan ˈbʲednɨj], Damian the Poor), was a Soviet Ukrainian poet, Bolshevik and satirist.
Efim Pridvorov was born to a poor family in Hubivka village, in Kherson Province, in Ukraine. At the age of seven, his father took him to live in Elizavetgrad, (Kirovohrad) but six years later was sent back to his home village to live with his mother "in extreme poverty". When he was 14, his father secured him a paid for place in a feldsher training college in Kiev. This was followed by 4 years of military service. In 1904, he entered the philological and historical faculty of Petersburg University. His university years coincided with the heady times of the 1905 Revolution, and Pridvorov, like most students, became an ardent supporter of the revolution. From 1911 he began to be published in Communist newspapers, such as Pravda, and in 1912 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). Also in 1911, he published the poem "Of Demyan Bedny", which led to him being known by that name, and began a private correspondence with Vladimir Lenin which was said to develop into a long-lasting personal friendship. His first collected works were published in Basni (Fables) in 1913. During World War I, he once again saw service as a feldsher and was decorated.
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