14 Facts About Nikolay Zabolotsky

Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky was a prominent Soviet and Russian poet and translator.

Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky was born on May 7,1903, in Kizicheskaya sloboda.

Nikolay Zabolotsky's father, Alexei Agafonovich Zabolotsky was an agronomist, who managed a zemstvo agricultural farm.

Nikolay Zabolotsky's mother, Lydia Andreevna Zabolotsky was a teacher.

In 1920, Zabolotsky left his family and moved to Moscow, enrolling simultaneously in the departments of medicine and philology at the Moscow State University.

Nikolay Zabolotsky had already begun to write poetry at this time.

In 1928, Nikolay Zabolotsky founded the avant-garde group Oberiu with Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky.

Nikolay Zabolotsky's first book of poetry, Columns, was a series of grotesque vignettes on the life that Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy had created.

Amidst Joseph Stalin's increased censorship of the arts, Nikolay Zabolotsky fell victim to the Great Purge.

Nikolay Zabolotsky translated several Georgian poets and traveled frequently to Georgia.

Nikolay Zabolotsky's poetry began to take a more traditional, conservative form and was often compared to the work of Tyutchev.

Nikolay Zabolotsky's cousin was the children's writer Leonid Vladimirovich Dyakonov.

The last few years of Nikolay Zabolotsky's life were beset by illness.

Nikolay Zabolotsky suffered a debilitating heart attack and, from 1956 onward, spent much of his time in the town of Tarusa.