Demyan Bedny

Demyan Bedny (Russian Демьян Бедный; actually Yefim Alekseyevich Pridworow, russ Ефим Алексеевич Придворов; * 1 Apriljul / April 13 1883greg in Gubowka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire, .. † May 25, 1945 in Moscow) was a Russian poet.

Demyan Bedny came from a farming family in the government of Kherson Gubowka (today Ukrainian Hubiwka in Kirovohrad Oblast ). After a medic training he took in St. Petersburg to study. In 1899 and published his first poems and fables. In 1912, he joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia. After the October Revolution Bedny wrote political songs and poems that made him very popular. In 1937, he called on behalf of the Stalinist governance in poems the shooting of " enemies of the people ". In 1938 he was expelled from the CPSU. During the Second World War anti- German Bedny wrote fables and satires, but could not regain its former popularity.

The pseudonym " Bedny ", literally " the poor", which used the poet since the beginning of his literary career, ähnenlt the pseudonym " Gorky ", "The Bitter ", under which the writer Alexei Peshkov had acquired a few years earlier fame. Bedny, who distinguished himself in particular in the 1920s by sharp anti-religious works, is considered one of the models for the character of the poet Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyrew with the pseudonym " Besdomny " ( " the homeless " ) in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.

The small town Spassk in Russian Penza Oblast wore from 1925 to 2005 in his honor the name Bednodemjanowsk. After the poet and the ship Demyan Bednyy in 1985 in the Soviet Union named, which is still in use today on the East Siberian Lena River.

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• Article Demyan Bedny in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE ), 3rd Edition 1969-1978 (Russian)