Background
KIRILLOV, Vladimir was born on October 14, 1890 in village Kharino, Smolensk Province. Son of a peasant.
KIRILLOV, Vladimir was born on October 14, 1890 in village Kharino, Smolensk Province. Son of a peasant.
Primary schooling.
Seaman with Black Sea Merchant Fleet. Visited Turkey, Greece and Egypt. Foreign part in seamen's revol activities in 1905-1906 Revol exiled for three years to Ust’-Sysol’skaya, where he joined Social-Democratic circle.
1911 went to America. 1912 returned to Russia. 1914 drafted into Tsarist Army and sent to front.
Took part in 1917 February and October Revol. 1913 first work published. 1917-1918 with Petrograd, from 1919 with Tambov Proletarian Culture Organisations
Visited front with agitation teams. From 1920 in Moscow; member, "Smithy” lit group but subsequently expelled and joined All-Russian Writers’ Union. 1918 published collection Stikhotvoreniye (Verse) covering revol events.
December 1917 wrote poem in response to Lunacharsky’s resignation from the government in protest against the destruction of Russian cultural monuments. The poem contained lines which later became one of the Proletarian Culture Organization(s)’s slogans: "Foreign the sake of our Tomorrow, we shall burn Raphael, destroy the museums and trample the flowers of art”. 1923 broke with above organisation, while his verse departed increasingly from the principles of proletarian poetry.
During the New Economy Police period his work renounced the basic themes of his preceding period. From 1929 published very little. 1937 arrested by State Security organs.