Background
Arkady Sergeyevich Bukhov was born on February 7, 1889, in Ufa, Russian Empire (now Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation) in the family of a railway employee.
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University
Saint Petersburg State University
Arkady Sergeyevich Bukhov was born on February 7, 1889, in Ufa, Russian Empire (now Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation) in the family of a railway employee.
In 1907 Arkady Sergeyevich graduated from the 2nd Kazan Gymnasium. Then he entered the law faculty of Kazan University (now Kazan (Volga region) Federal University) but was expelled the same year because he was arrested twice (on suspicion of belonging to the RSDLP and then to the Socialist Revolutionary Party). Upon returning from exile, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Law of Saint Petersburg University (now Saint Petersburg State University).
Arkady Sergeyevich began to write poetry in Kazan, including revolutionary content (Conscription, Capital). In 1908, he regularly published reviews of contemporary poetry in the Saint Petersburg journal Dragonfly and Spring written with youthful ardor. In 1909 in Kazan, he published a book about Alexander Blok and Mikhail Kuzmin, entitled Critical touches. Lectures, articles, and essays on contemporary fiction. It was written in the tradition of impressionistic criticism.
After leaving the 4th year of Saint Petersburg University, Arkady Sergeyevich became a full-time employee of the magazine Satyric (then - the magazine New Satyric), where he took one of the leading positions during the years of the 1st World War. He printed humoresques, short stories, pamphlets, satirical poems in the journal Spring, Sun of Russia, World Panorama, Beach, etc.; in 1912 he collaborated in the newspaper The Day, in 1913 he edited The Blue Journal. In 1914 he was drafted into the army but was soon demobilized as politically unreliable.
Arkady Sergeyevich showed the falsity of generally accepted morality, petty everyday vanity - the "ferris wheel" of life. He caustically scoffed at the newfangled trends in art. The civil themes of Bukhov’s poems go back to the traditions of the revolutionary-democratic satire of the 1860s. Bukhov’s style is characterized by sarcastic irony, a paradox, a satirical pun, a peculiar aesthetics of rudeness. Arkady Sergeyevich often argued with Ilya Vasilevsky, who reproached him for writing to please the crowd. He replied that he would rather prefer "to be the pet of society than to write only for the elite ... and demand a special understanding". Elements of socially significant satire are especially strong in his collection Render unto Caesar (1917), where the imperial family, Rasputin and others are ridiculed. In the fall of 1918, being the head of the repertoire of the theater troupe on tours in Western Belarus, Arkady Sergeyevich found himself in the territory occupied by the Poles. In 1920-1927 he lived in Kaunas, edited the newspaper Echo, to which he gave a loyal direction in relation to Soviet Russia.
In 1927 he returned to Moscow. Arkady Sergeyevich was published in Soviet satirical publications, he wrote a number of collections, short stories, and satirical novels: The Story of Three Saints and Some Strangers (1930), The Diary of Elijah the Prophet (1931), the pamphlet novel The Black Ring (1931). He was illegally repressed and posthumously rehabilitated.