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Velimir Vladimirovich Khlebnikov
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A Study of Poetry
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Velimir Vladimirovich Khlebnikov: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov
Born November 9, 1885 • Russia
Died June 28, 1922 (aged 36) • Russia
Movement / Style Cubo-Futurism
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
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Antiokh Dmitriyevich Kantemir
Russian poet
Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky
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Fet, portrait by Ilya Repin
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky
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David Davidovich Burlyuk
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Russian artist and writer
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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
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Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam
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Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
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Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
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Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
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Khomyakov, engraving by Ivan Pozhalostin, 1879
Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer

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