Aleksei Kruchenykh

Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh; Kruchonykh; Kruchyonykh (Алексе́й Елисе́евич Кручёных). Born 1886. , a well-known poet of the Russian "Silver Age", was perhaps the most radical poet of Russian Futurism, a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk and others. Together with Velimir Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh is considered the inventor of zaum. Kruchenykh wrote the libretto for the Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun, with sets provided by Kazimir Malevich. He married Olga Rozanova, an avant-garde artist, in 1912. Died 1968.

Literature

• Aleksei Kruchenykh, Faktura slova, 1922-23. (in Russian)
• Aleksei Kruchenykh, Our Arrival: From the History of Russian Futurism, edited by R. V. Duganov, Moscow: RA, 1995, 191 pp.
• Craig Dworkin, "To Destroy Language", Textual Practice 18(2), 2004, pp 185-197.