Background
ASEYEV, Nikolay was born on July 10, 1889. Son of an insurance agent.
ASEYEV, Nikolay was born on July 10, 1889. Son of an insurance agent.
Studied at Moscow Business Institute and Philological Faculty,Moscow State University.
1913had first verse published and met Mayakovskiy, who influenced his work. 1916-1917 in Russian Army. 1918-1922 worked for Soviet organisation and contributed to underground Bolshevik newspaper in Vladivostok.
1922 founded the "Buffoon” lit soc and joined the ’’Centrifuge” group, to which Pasternak and Bobrov belonged. 1923 foundedthe ’’Left Front” lit group and published its journal LEF 1924 fell into disfavor for his poem ’’Lyrical Digression” and the ”general decadence” of his works. Also translated poets of Soviet republican.
Many of his patriotic poems were set to music