Graal Arelsky co-founded the Academy of Ego-Poetry with fellow Ego-Futurist Konstantin Olimpov.
12 Facts About Graal Arelsky
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Graal Arelsky was born in 1888 to a peasant family.
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Graal Arelsky worked at the observatory of the People's House.
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Graal Arelsky maintained that man is a creation of nature so that she rules his actions and egoism, which she placed inside of man and should be developed, is what unites all humanity.
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Graal Arelsky was one of the authors of Prolog Ego-Futurizm, a brochure on Ego-Futurism published in October 1915, along with Igor Severyanin, Olimpov, and George Ivanov.
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Graal Arelsky subsequently dedicated his novel The Enemy of Ptolemy to the latter.
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Graal Arelsky published several stories of science fiction, including the short story collection Tales of Mars, the short stories Citizen of the Universe, The Man Who Went to Mars, and Gift of the Selenites.
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Graal Arelsky published a work of popular science, Sun and Time: Popular Astronomy for Peasant Youth.
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Graal Arelsky traced a direct connection between the development of the social system and scientific and technological progress, but in a peculiar way: his novel does not feature the struggle of classes, but the struggle of mono-ethnic civilizations: highly developed and primitive.
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Graal Arelsky was sent to the Ukhta-Pechora camp to serve his sentence.
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Graal Arelsky died on April 5,1937, in the village of Chibyu, Komi ASSR.
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Graal Arelsky was rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of the RSFSR on December 23,1964.