- Anatoly Marienhof
Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof ( _ru. Анатолий Борисович Мариенгоф;
6 May (24 April O.S.) 1897 —24 April 1962 ) was aRussia npoet ,novellist andplaywright . He was one of the leading figures ofImaginism . Now he is mostly remembered for his memoirs that depict Russian literary life of the 1920s and his friendship withSergei Yesenin .Biography
Anatoly Marienhof was born into a nobleman's family in
Nizhny Novgorod . Upon graduating from gymnasium in 1914, he was drafted and served during theFirst World War on Eastern Front.Marienhof's literary career started in 1918 when he contributed to an almanac published in
Voronezh . Later that year he metSergei Yesenin and otherMoscow poets. Together they started a new poetic flow calledImaginism . Marienhof participated in all Imaginist actions and publications. He himself published a dozen books of poetry in 1920—1928.Marienhof gained further renown with his controversial fiction: "The Novel without Lies" (1926) and "The Cynics" (1928). The former presented his fictionalized recollections of his friendship with Sergei Yesenin; the latter was a story of the life of young intellectuals during the revolution and the
War communism . Both were met with sharp criticism in the Soviet press. "The Cynics" was published in Berlin (Petropolis), and not in the Soviet Union until 1988.After the publication of his last novel, "Shaved Man", in 1930 in
Berlin and parts of his historical novel "Ekaterina" (1936), Marienhof was reduced to writing for theatre and later for radio without any hope of being published again.In his later years, after
Stalin 's death, Marienhof wrote mostly memoirs; they were published several decades after his death in 1962.
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