Background
Zdanevich, Il’ia was born in 1894 in Tiflis, Georgia, United States.
Zdanevich, Il’ia was born in 1894 in Tiflis, Georgia, United States.
Graduated from Petrograd University, 1917.
His Polish father was a teacher of French, his mother was Georgian. As a young man, corresponded with Marinetti. One of the first Russian futurists in Petrograd and Tiflis (Tbilisi).
Left for Constantinople, 1920, and for Paris, 1921. Became a Dadaist. One of the founders of the poetic group Cherez. Organized poetry readings by V. Mayakovsky and A. Kusikov in Paris.
Over a period of 34 years, published 22 such books. The exhibition Iliazd and the Illustrated Book (18 June-18 August 1987) in New York attracted a lot of attention.