Sergey Antonovich Klychkov

Background

Sergey Antonovich Klychkov was born on July 13, 1889 in the village of Dubrovka, Tver Governorate. His father, a local shoemaker, was an Old Believer, and it greatly influenced upon his son and his future writings.

Education

Since 1908 he studied at Moscow University but was expelled in 1913.

Career

Klychkov took part in the 1905 Revolution, was on barricades as a member of fighting druzhina and after that described his experience in several poems, some of which, published in 1906.

In 1914 he was drafted into the army, fought at the front.

In the post-war period 1919-21 he lived in Crimea. In 1921 Sergey Klychkov moved to Moscow. There cooperated with the magazine «Krasnaya Nov'» and the publishing house «Krug».

Klychkov was arrested by State Security organs on July 31, 1937 and shot on 1 August, 1937. Sergey Klychkov was posthumously rehabilitated.

Works

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• book

  • Sakharny Nemets. Knyaz Mira

References

• Great Russian Encyclopedia