Konstantin Podrevsky
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Константин Николаевич Подревский January 14, 1888 Turinsk, Tobolsk Governorate, Russian Empire, Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | February 4, 1930 (aged 42) Moscow, USSR |
| Occupation | poet, translator, lyricist |
| Years active | 1910-1929 |
| Spouse(s) | Vera Mikulina (1910-1922), Anna Lyamina |
Konstantin Nikolayevich Podrevsky (Russian: Константин Николаевич Подревский; January 14, 1888 in Turinsk, Tobolsk Governorate, Russian Empire – February 4, 1930 in Moscow, USSR) was a Russian Soviet poet of Polish origin on mother's side, a translator and lyricist, co-author of more than 150 popular songs of the 1920s, including "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" which he wrote with Boris Fomin.
Konstantin Podrevsky was born in Turinsk, Tobolsk, to Nikolai Nikolayevich Podrevsky (1855-1916), a Chernigov-born Ukrainian raznochinets (later journalist and editor of Sibirsky Listok newspaper), and Zoya Ignatyevna, (born Vincentina Wilhelmina Lisowska, 1862-1925?), a daughter of the Polish revolutionaries who were deported to the Siberia after the 1863 Uprising. In Astrakhan, where the family settled after having received the permission to return from Siberia, Konstantin joined the city's First Gymnasium. After graduation in 1906 he enrolled into the Kiev University's law faculty. It was in Kiev that he debuted as a published poet, in the local Student Almanac magazine.
In 1914 Podrevsky moved to Moscow and a year later enlisted as a private, to be posted to the World War I battlefields. Demobilized in 1917, he settled at the Arbat, and moved into a bohemian circle of friends, among them poet Andrey Bely. In 1922 Podrevsky became a professional poet and lyricist and a year later joined the Dramsoyuz (Dramatists Union), starting the artistic partnership with his new friend there, Boris Fomin. Among this tandem's most popular songs was "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" (1924), arguably, the most famous 20th century Russian romance.
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