Nikolay Zabolotsky

Nikolai Alexeyevich Sabolozki (Russian Николай Алексеевич Заболоцкий, scientific transliteration Nikolaj Alekseevic Zabolockij; born 24 Apriljul / May 7 1903greg in Kazan, Russia, .. † October 14, 1958 in Moscow) was a Russian poet and translator.

Life

Nikolai Sabolozki began in 1920 to study at the medical faculty of Moscow University. Shortly thereafter, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he studied literature until 1925 at the Pedagogical Institute " Alexander Herzen ."

Sabolozki founded in 1928 together with Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedenski the avant-garde artists association OBERIU.

His first collection of poetry ( Столбцы, dt " column, columns " ), which was published in St. Petersburg in 1929, caused a literary scandal and mocking reactions in the press.

Sabolozki was arrested on March 19, 1938 for " anti-Soviet propaganda " by the NKVD in Leningrad and sent to forced labor in Siberia. In Siberia he continued his artistic work and finished the translation, begun in 1937 of Igor song.

After his parole in 1946 he was able to return to European Russia. His memoirs about the time of his arrest in 1981 appeared in the West in English and 1988 in Russia.

Sabolozki frequently visited Georgia and translated Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli and how Vazha Pshavela into Russian.

He died on October 14, 1958 of a heart attack in Moscow. He is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Work (selection)

• Architecture of autumn. Institute of Slavic Studies, Jena 1996, ISBN 3-9805226-0-1.
• Face in the mirror humped. , Folk and World, Berlin 1979.