Background
Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev was born on June 21, 1894, in Kharkiv, Kharkivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine into the family of a professor of Veterinary Institute and a school teacher.
Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev was born on June 21, 1894, in Kharkiv, Kharkivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine into the family of a professor of Veterinary Institute and a school teacher.
Bogdan Petrovich attended the Third Kharkiv Gymnasium, graduating with a gold medal in 1913. He successfully studied languages (including Sanskrit). In 1913 he entered Kharkov University, but suddenly took the documents, broke up with his family and secretly left for Smolensk, where he had lived for more than six months, earning private teaching.
After graduating, Bogdan Petrovich, strongly influenced by the creations of Velemir Khlebnikov, took his pseudonym and became intimate with a literary group Centrifuga. At the beginning of 1914, Bozhidar, Aseev and Grigory Petnikov founded publishing house Liren. Later in that year, the only book of poems by Bozidar - Tambourine.
Bozhidar committed suicide by hanging on September 7, 1914, in a forest near village Babki, nearby Kharkiv, partially due to the beginning of World War I.