Kruchenykh Alexey Eliseevich

Poet and theorist of Russian Cubo-Futurism. In 1902, Kruchenykh graduated from the Kherson city three-year school and went to Odessa, where he entered the art school - one of the best secondary art institutions of that time. In 1907 he moved to Moscow and began to collaborate as an artist in the humorous magazine "Alarm Clock" and other publications, became famous for a series of cartoons and caricatures of writers, artists and scientists called "All of Moscow in Caricatures." In 1910 in Moscow, Kruchenykh took an active part in the activities of the group "Gileya" headed by Burliuk - the prototype of future futurism. In 1912 it began creative collaboration with V. Khlebnikov, they jointly wrote and published the poem “The Game in Hell.” In 1913, together with V. Mayakovsky, he wrote a futurist manifesto. While living in Tiflis in 1916-1919, Kruchenykh, together with other futurists - brothers K. and I. Zdanevich, N. Chernyavsky, V. Gudiashvili and others. participation in the activities of the artistic and poetic group “Syndicate of Futurists.” In 1919, Kruchenykh moved from Tiflis to Baku, where he worked in the Baku branch of ROSTA, collaborated in newspapers, and published poetry and theoretical collections. In 1921, Mayakovsky contributed to Kruchenykh’s return to the circle of Moscow poets, and organized his evening at the Polytechnic Museum. In 1923, the poet joined the post-futurist group “Lef” led by Mayakovsky. During the Great Patriotic War, he remained in Moscow, continued to write poetry, and collaborated with TASS Windows.