1. Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov was a Russian writer and artist.
10 Facts About Dmitri Prigov
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Dmitri Prigov was known for writing verse on tin cans.
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Dmitri Prigov was a prolific poet having written nearly 36,000 poems by 2005.
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Dmitri Prigov's work was widely published in emigre publications and Slavic studies journals well before it was officially distributed.
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Dmitri Prigov had been a member of the Artists' Union from 1975.
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Dmitri Prigov took part in an exhibition in the USSR in 1987: his works were presented in the framework of the Moscow projects "Unofficial Art" and "Modern Art".
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Dmitri Prigov wrote the novels Live in Moscow and Only My Japan, and was an artist with works at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
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Dmitri Prigov had many strings to his bow writing plays and essays, creating drawings, video art and installations and even performing music.
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Dmitri Prigov died from a heart attack in 2007, aged 66, in Moscow.
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Dmitri Prigov had been planning an event where he would sit in a wardrobe reading poetry while being carried up 22 flights of stairs at Moscow State University by members of Voina Group.