Background
Belozerov Alexander Andreevich was born on November 7, 1883, in the village Efimievo of the Nizhny Novgorod province, Russian Federation (now Nizhny Novgorod region, Russian Federation).
Belozerov Alexander Andreevich was born on November 7, 1883, in the village Efimievo of the Nizhny Novgorod province, Russian Federation (now Nizhny Novgorod region, Russian Federation).
Belozerov Alexander Andreevich graduated from a 4-grade elementary school. In 1896, his mother died of consumption and he moved to Nizhny Novgorod to his father.
Alexander Andreevich worked as a shop assistant in a cloth store. After the death of his father in 1899, he helped his younger brother and sister, a grandmother who lived in the village. In 1901 he joined an underground Marxist circle and began to engage in self-education on a regular basis.
In 1902 Alexander Andreevich began to write poetry, participated in the handwritten journals of the club "Nashi mysli". During the years of the October Revolution, he wrote several brochures and books on the history of the revolutionary movement in Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod province and many articles on historical and literary, folklore, and local history topics.
In the October period, the works of Alexander Andreevich were published in many local (Nizhny Novgorod, Gorky), nonresident and metropolitan newspapers and magazines. Significant cycles of poems found a place in the collection of proletarian poets "Under the Banner of Truth" and in the three-volume anthology "Proletarian Poets".
Alexander Andreevich was a Secretary of the Trade Union of the Nizhny Novgorod Council of Unions and the Regional Bureau of Local History. He was one of the founders of proletarian poetry and the founder of Nizhny Novgorod Union of Merchants, a member of the committee of the union and the actual editor of its body "Vestnik Prikazchika".
