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'''Velimir Khlebnikov''' [Велимир Хлебников; born Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, Виктор Владимирович Хлебников; 1885-1922), was a writer, sketcher and poet, also interested in mathematics, history, and mythology.
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'''Velimir Khlebnikov''' [Велимир Хлебников; born Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, Виктор Владимирович Хлебников; 1885-1922), was a Russian Futurist poet and playwright, also interested in mathematics, history, and mythology.
  
 
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Khlebnikov grew up in an ornithologists’s family in a village near the Caspian Sea. He studied mathematics and the natural sciences at the Universities of Kazan’ and St. Petersburg, but never graduated. Khlebnikov began publishing poetry in 1908; by 1912 he was a leading member of the [[Futurism#Russia|Russian Futurists]]. The “verbal mastery” of his zaum’ poetry in ''[[#Khlebnikov1912b|A Slap in the Face of Public Taste]]'' astounded the poet and critic [[Roman Jakobson]], who later deemed him “the greatest world poet of our century.” In writing ''[[#Khlebnikov1922a|The Tables of Destiny]]'', his book of prophecy, Khlebnikov used algorithms to map the events of history and to anticipate the future. In 1912, for instance, he uncannily predicted the collapse of an empire in 1917. During the Civil War, he worked on propaganda posters. He died of malnutrition in Santalovo, in the Novgorod province. [http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/tango_brochure.pdf#page=3 (Source)]
  
 
==Chronology==
 
==Chronology==
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[[Image:Kruchenykh_Khlebnikov_Igra_v_adu.jpg|thumb|258px|Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, ''Igra v adu'', 1912, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008637932 IA].]]
 
[[Image:Kruchenykh_Khlebnikov_Igra_v_adu.jpg|thumb|258px|Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, ''Igra v adu'', 1912, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008637932 IA].]]
 
[[Image:Kruchenykh_Khlebnikov_Mirskontsa.jpg|thumb|258px|Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, ''Mirskontsa'', 1912, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125012656720 IA].]]
 
[[Image:Kruchenykh_Khlebnikov_Mirskontsa.jpg|thumb|258px|Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, ''Mirskontsa'', 1912, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125012656720 IA].]]
[[Image:Kruchenykh_Khlebnikov_Slovo_kak_takovoe.jpg|thumb|258px|Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, ''Slovo kak takovoe'', 1913, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008628873 IA].]]
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[[Image:Kruchenykh_Khlebnikov_Slovo_kak_takovoe.jpg|thumb|258px|Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, ''Slovo kak takovoe'', 1913, [[Media:Kruchenykh_Khlebnikov_Slovo_kak_takovoe_1913.pdf|PDF]], [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008628873 IA].]]
 
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Izbornik_stikhov.jpg|thumb|258px|''Izbornik stikhov'', 1914, [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3193 JPG].]]
 
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Izbornik_stikhov.jpg|thumb|258px|''Izbornik stikhov'', 1914, [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3193 JPG].]]
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Tvoreniya_1.jpg|thumb|258px|''Tvoreniya 1'', 1914, [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3197 JPG].]]
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[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Tvoreniya_1.jpg|thumb|258px|''Tvoreniya 1'', 1914, [[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Tvoreniya_1906-1908_1914.pdf|PDF]], [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3197 JPG].]]
 
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Otryvok_iz_Dosok_sudby.jpg|thumb|258px|''Otryvok iz "Dosok sud'by"'', [1922], [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3195 JPG].]]
 
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Otryvok_iz_Dosok_sudby.jpg|thumb|258px|''Otryvok iz "Dosok sud'by"'', [1922], [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3195 JPG].]]
 
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Zangezi.jpg|thumb|258px|''Zangezi'', 1922, [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3191 JPG].]]
 
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Zangezi.jpg|thumb|258px|''Zangezi'', 1922, [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3191 JPG].]]
 
==Khlebnikov and the radio==
 
''This section is sourced from Miguel Molina Alarcón, ''[[Symphony of Sirens|Baku: Symphony of Sirens: Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde. Original Documents and Reconstructions of 72 Key Works of Music, Poetry and Agitprop from the Russian Avantgardes (1908-1942)]]'', London: ReR Megacorp, 2008, pp 21-22.''
 
 
A key artist in Russian cubo-futurism, he was constantly searching by way of
 
verbal experimentation, writing toward the utopia of a "stellar" universal language.
 
"The Radio of the Future" is an essay written at the end of his life anticipating the
 
possibilities of the new radiophonic medium (radio first started broadcasting in Russia
 
in 1922). He conceives radio as a "central tree consciousness" or "a great wizard and
 
sorcerer" which, with its waves, would "unite all mankind". He saw the radio station as
 
"a spider's web of lines" or "the flight of birds in springtime" which reveal the "news
 
from the life of the spirit". In the hands of artists, this new medium would transport and
 
project ideas instantly to the "unknown shores" of all humanity. Khlebnikov imagined
 
that they could make "Radio-Books", "Radio Reading-Walls", "Radio-auditoriums" ("a
 
concert stretching from Vladivostok to the Baltic"), "Radio and Art Exhibits", "Radio
 
Screens" and "Radio Clubs"... where you could see and hear everything from the
 
tiniest sound of nature to major events in the "exciting life" of cities. He understood that
 
with this there would be a communication between the artist's "soul" and the people:
 
"the artist has cast a spell over his land; he has given his country the singing of the sea
 
and the whistling of the wind. The poorest house in the smallest town is filled with divine
 
whistlings and all the sweet delights of sound." This capacity of Radio led him to see
 
it as "The Great Sorcerer",
 
capable of transmitting
 
even "the sense of taste";
 
people would drink water
 
feeling that they were
 
drinking wine; or smell: a
 
Radio station "would give"
 
the nation, for example,
 
"the odour of snow" in the
 
middle of spring. It would
 
also be a "Doctor without
 
medicine"
 
curing
 
from
 
a distance by means of
 
"hypnotic suggestion". And
 
Radio could also transmit
 
sounds to facilitate the
 
work of the harvest and
 
construction by emitting
 
certain musical notes, "la"
 
and "ti", which would help
 
"increase muscular capacity" in the workers. Another of the Radio's great qualities would
 
be the organization of popular education through radiophonic classes and lectures. But
 
Khlebnikov also warned that all this potential could be interrupted if a Radio station were
 
damaged. That would generate "a mental blackout over the entire country". Thus it was
 
necessary to protect the Radio Station with the word "Danger". In this text, Khlebnikov
 
anticipates the potential of Mass Media and its capacity for the globalization of ideas and
 
opinion - although this "universal soul" was seen by him as positive, he already suspected
 
some of its dangers. This text was possibly written in around 1921 in Pitigorsk, when
 
Khlebnikov was working temporarily as a watchman in a telegraph agency, spending
 
the long nights writing.
 
  
 
==Works==
 
==Works==
* {{a|Khlebnikov1910}} Khlebnikov, et al., ''[http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3203 Sadok sudey]'' [Садок Судей], St Petersburg: Zhuravl', Apr 1910, 131 pp, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008498954 IA]. {{ru}}
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* {{a|Khlebnikov1910}} Khlebnikov, et al., ''[[Media:Sadok_sudey_1910.pdf|Sadok sudey]]'' [Садок Судей], St Petersburg: Zhuravl' [Журавль], [Apr 1910], 131 pp, [http://shpl.dlibrary.org/ru/nodes/3203 JPG], [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008498954 IA], [http://ruslit.traumlibrary.net/page/futuristy-sadoksudey.html HTML]. {{ru}}
 
* {{a|Khlebnikov1912a}} with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008637932 Igra v adu]'' [Игра в аду], Moscow, 1912.  
 
* {{a|Khlebnikov1912a}} with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008637932 Igra v adu]'' [Игра в аду], Moscow, 1912.  
 
* {{a|Khlebnikov1912b}} Khlebnikov, et al., ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6040 Poshechina obshestvennomu vkusu. V zashchitu svobodnogo iskusstva. Stikhi, proza, stat'i]'' [Пощёчина общественному вкусу. В защиту свободного искусства: Стихи, проза, статьи], Moscow: Georgy L. Kuzmin, Moscow, Dec 1912, 114 pp. {{ru}}
 
* {{a|Khlebnikov1912b}} Khlebnikov, et al., ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6040 Poshechina obshestvennomu vkusu. V zashchitu svobodnogo iskusstva. Stikhi, proza, stat'i]'' [Пощёчина общественному вкусу. В защиту свободного искусства: Стихи, проза, статьи], Moscow: Georgy L. Kuzmin, Moscow, Dec 1912, 114 pp. {{ru}}
 
* {{a|Khlebnikov1912c}} with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125012656720 Mirskontsa]'' [Мирсконца], [Moscow]: [Kuzmin & Dolinsky], 1912, 43 pp. {{ru}}
 
* {{a|Khlebnikov1912c}} with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125012656720 Mirskontsa]'' [Мирсконца], [Moscow]: [Kuzmin & Dolinsky], 1912, 43 pp. {{ru}}
* {{a|Khlebnikov1913a}} Khlebnikov, et al., ''[[Media:Sadok_sudey_II_1913.pdf|Sadok sudey II]]'' [Садок Судей II], 1913, [http://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Садок_Судей_II WS-RU]. {{ru}}
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* {{a|Khlebnikov1913a}} Khlebnikov, et al., ''[[Media:Sadok_sudey_II_1913.pdf|Sadok sudey 2]]'', Moscow: Zhuravl' [Журавль], 1913, [http://ruslit.traumlibrary.net/page/futuristy-sadoksudey2.html HTML], [http://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Садок_Судей_II WS-RU]. {{ru}}
 
* with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://archive.org/stream/gri_000r33125008662815#page/n1/mode/2up Bukh liesinnyi]'' [Бух лесинный], St Petersburg: EUY, [1913], [23] pp. [http://leb.nlr.ru/edoc/399063/]
 
* with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://archive.org/stream/gri_000r33125008662815#page/n1/mode/2up Bukh liesinnyi]'' [Бух лесинный], St Petersburg: EUY, [1913], [23] pp. [http://leb.nlr.ru/edoc/399063/]
 
* Khlebnikov, et al., ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008638260 Troe]'', St Petersburg: Zhuravl', 1913, 52 pp. {{ru}}
 
* Khlebnikov, et al., ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008638260 Troe]'', St Petersburg: Zhuravl', 1913, 52 pp. {{ru}}
* {{a|Khlebnikov1913b}} with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008628873 Slovo kak takovoe]'' [Слово как таковое], [Moscow]: [EUY], 1913. {{ru}}
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* {{a|Khlebnikov1913b}} with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[[Media:Kruchenykh_Khlebnikov_Slovo_kak_takovoe_1913.pdf|Slovo kak takovoe]]'' [Слово как таковое; The Word as Such], [Moscow]: [EUY], [1913], 15 pp, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008628873 IA]. {{ru}}
* Khlebnikov, et al., ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125010718191 Zatychka, sbornik: risunki, stikhi]'', Moscow: Gileya, 1913, 21 pp. {{ru}}
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* Khlebnikov, et al., ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_et_al_Zatychka_sbornik_risunki_stikhi_1913.pdf|Zatychka, sbornik: risunki, stikhi]]'' [The Bung: A Collection], Moscow: Gileya, 1913, 13+[4] pp, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125010718191 IA]. {{ru}}
  
 
* {{a|Khlebnikov1914a}} ''[http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3193 Izbornik stikhov s poslesloviyem Rechyarya]'' [Изборник стихов с послесловием Речяря], St Petersburg: EUY [ЕУЫ], 1914, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125012238776 IA]. {{ru}}
 
* {{a|Khlebnikov1914a}} ''[http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3193 Izbornik stikhov s poslesloviyem Rechyarya]'' [Изборник стихов с послесловием Речяря], St Petersburg: EUY [ЕУЫ], 1914, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125012238776 IA]. {{ru}}
 
* ''[http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3196 Ryav! Perchatki (1908-1914 gg.)]'' [Ряв! Перчатки (1908-1914 гг.)], Petrograd: EUY [ЕУЫ], 1914. {{ru}}
 
* ''[http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3196 Ryav! Perchatki (1908-1914 gg.)]'' [Ряв! Перчатки (1908-1914 гг.)], Petrograd: EUY [ЕУЫ], 1914. {{ru}}
* {{a|Khlebnikov1914b}} ''[http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3197 Tvoreniya: T. 1: 1906-1908]'' [Творения: Т. 1: 1906-1908], Moscow: Izd. "Pervogo zhurnala russkikh futuristov", 1914, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125010859870 IA].  {{ru}}
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* {{a|Khlebnikov1914b}} ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Tvoreniya_1906-1908_1914.pdf|Tvoreniya: T. 1: 1906-1908]]'' [Творения: Т. 1: 1906-1908; Creations, 1906-1908], Moscow: Izd. "Pervogo zhurnala russkikh futuristov", 1914, 106+[8] pp, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125010859870 IA], [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3197 JPG].  {{ru}}
 
* with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3185 Sarinnaya lyubov. Bukh lesinyy]'' [Старинная любовь. Бух лесиный], [Petrograd]: EUY [ЕУЫ], 1914, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008663409 IA], [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008662815 IA]. {{ru}}
 
* with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3185 Sarinnaya lyubov. Bukh lesinyy]'' [Старинная любовь. Бух лесиный], [Petrograd]: EUY [ЕУЫ], 1914, [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008663409 IA], [http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125008662815 IA]. {{ru}}
 
* with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125010870794 Te li le]'', [St Petersburg]: [EUY], 1914, 18 pp. {{ru}}
 
* with Aleksei Kruchenykh, ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_000r33125010870794 Te li le]'', [St Petersburg]: [EUY], 1914, 18 pp. {{ru}}
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* ''[http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005316339#?page=1 Izbrannye stikhotvoreniya]'' [Избранные стихотворения], ed. N. Stepanov, Moscow: Sov. pisatel, 1936, 507 pp. {{ru}}
 
* ''[http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005316339#?page=1 Izbrannye stikhotvoreniya]'' [Избранные стихотворения], ed. N. Stepanov, Moscow: Sov. pisatel, 1936, 507 pp. {{ru}}
  
* ''Sobranie proizvedeniy'' [Собрание произведений], 5 vols., ed. N.L. Stepanov, Leningrad: Izd-vo pisateley v Leningrade, 1928-33, [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005413224#?page=1 RSL/1], [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005423495#?page=1 RSL/2], [http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=showbook&pid=4626 PDF/3], [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005423725#?page=1 RSL/3], [http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=showbook&pid=4653 PDF/4], [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005413233#?page=1 RSL/4], [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005413244#?page=1 RSL/5]. {{ru}}
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* ''Sobranie proizvedeniy'' [Собрание произведений], 5 vols., ed. N.L. Stepanov, Leningrad: Izd-vo pisateley v Leningrade, 1928-33, [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005413224#?page=1 RSL/1], [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005423495#?page=1 RSL/2], [http://imwerden.de/publ-4626.html PDF/3], [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005423725#?page=1 RSL/3], [http://imwerden.de/publ-4653.html PDF/4], [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005413233#?page=1 RSL/4], [http://imwerden.de/publ-5061.html PDF/5], [http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01005413244#?page=1 RSL/5]. {{ru}}
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* ''[http://www.rvb.ru/hlebnikov/mat/contents.htm Tvoreniya]'' [Творения], Moscow, 1986. {{ru}}
  
 
* ''Sobranie sochineiy'' [Собрание сочинений], 6 vols., 2000-06, [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom1_2000_text.pdf PDF/1], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom2_2001_text.pdf PDF/2], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom3_2002_text.pdf PDF/3], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom4_2003_text.pdf PDF/4], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom5_2004_text.pdf PDF/5], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom6.1_2005_text.pdf PDF/6-1], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom6.2_2006_text.pdf PDF/6-2]. {{ru}}
 
* ''Sobranie sochineiy'' [Собрание сочинений], 6 vols., 2000-06, [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom1_2000_text.pdf PDF/1], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom2_2001_text.pdf PDF/2], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom3_2002_text.pdf PDF/3], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom4_2003_text.pdf PDF/4], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom5_2004_text.pdf PDF/5], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom6.1_2005_text.pdf PDF/6-1], [http://imwerden.de/pdf/khlebnikov_ss_tom6.2_2006_text.pdf PDF/6-2]. {{ru}}
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; in English
 
; in English
 
* ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_The_King_of_Time_Selected_Writings_of_the_Russian_Futurian.pdf|The King of Time. Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian]]'', ed. Charlotte Douglas, trans. Paul Schmidt, Harvard University Press, 1985, 255 pp. {{en}}
 
* ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_The_King_of_Time_Selected_Writings_of_the_Russian_Futurian.pdf|The King of Time. Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian]]'', ed. Charlotte Douglas, trans. Paul Schmidt, Harvard University Press, 1985, 255 pp. {{en}}
* ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Collected_Works_1_Letters_and_Theoretical_Writings.pdf|Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, 1: Letters and Theoretical Writings]]'', ed. Charlotte Douglas, trans. Paul Schmidt, Harvard University Press, 1987, 452 pp. {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Collected_Works_1_Letters_and_Theoretical_Writings.pdf|Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, 1: Letters and Theoretical Writings]]'', ed. Charlotte Douglas, trans. Paul Schmidt, Harvard University Press, 1987, xii+452 pp. {{en}}
* ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Collected_Works_2_Prose_Plays_and_Supersagas.pdf|Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, 2: Prose, Plays, and Supersagas]]'', ed. Ronald Vroon, trans. Paul Schmidt, Harvard University Press, 1989. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZbgPWn-4ansC&printsec=frontcover] {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Collected_Works_2_Prose_Plays_and_Supersagas.pdf|Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, 2: Prose, Plays, and Supersagas]]'', ed. Ronald Vroon, trans. Paul Schmidt, Harvard University Press, 1989, xii+403 pp. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZbgPWn-4ansC&printsec=frontcover] {{en}}
* ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Collected_Works_3_Selected_Poems.pdf|Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, 3: Selected Poems]]'', ed. Ronald Vroon, trans. Paul Schmidt, Harvard University Press, 1998, 290 pp. {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Collected_Works_3_Selected_Poems.pdf|Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, 3: Selected Poems]]'', ed. Ronald Vroon, trans. Paul Schmidt, Harvard University Press, 1998, x+274 pp. {{en}}
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===Selected writings===
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* ''Deň modrých medveďov'', trans. Milan Ferko, Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1969, 142 pp. [https://www.databazeknih.cz/knihy/den-modrych-medvedov-136419?show=binfo] {{sk}}
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===Selected essays===
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* [[Velimir_Khlebnikov/Radio_budushego_1921_1927|"Radio budushego"]] [Радио будущего], ''Krasnaya nov'' [Красная новь] 8, Moscow, 1927, pp 185-187. Written 1921. {{ru}}
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** [[Velimir_Khlebnikov/Radio_budushego_1921_1927#Radio_of_the_Future|"Radio of the Future"]], in Khlebnikov, trans. Paul Schmidt, ''The King of Time'', 1985, pp 155-159; repr. in Khlebnikov ''Collected Works, 1'', 1987, pp 392-396. {{en}}
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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* Roman Jakobson, ''Noviyshaya russkaya poeziya: Nabrosok pervyi. Viktor Khlebnikov'' [Новљйшая русская поезия], Prague: Tipografija, 1921, 68 pp. [http://comenius-bibl.wz.cz/Jakobson.html#1921] {{ru}}
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** "Modern Russian Poetry: Velimir Khlebnikov", in ''Major Soviet Writers: Essays in Criticism'', ed. E.J.Brown, Oxford University Press, 1973, pp 58-82. {{en}}
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** [[#Jakobson1921|more translations]]
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* Vladimir Mayakovsky, [http://www.ruthenia.ru/sovlit/j/335.html "V.V. Khlebnikov"] [В.В. Хлебников], ''Krasnaya nov'' [Красная новь] 4, Moscow, 1922, pp 303-306. {{ru}}
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* D. Kozlov (Д. Козлов), [http://hlebnikov.lit-info.ru/hlebnikov/vospominaniya/kozlov.htm "Novoe o Velemire Khlebnikove"] [Новое о Велемире Хлебникове. (Воспоминания)], ''Krasnaya nov'' [Красная новь] 8, Moscow, 1927, pp 177-188. {{ru}}
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* Nikolay Stepanov, ''[http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=showbook&pid=3888 Velimir Khlebnikov: zhizn i tvorchestvo]'' [Велимир Хлебников: жизнь и творчество], 1975. {{ru}}
 
* Nikolay Stepanov, ''[http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=showbook&pid=3888 Velimir Khlebnikov: zhizn i tvorchestvo]'' [Велимир Хлебников: жизнь и творчество], 1975. {{ru}}
 
* Salomon Mirsky, ''[http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00047414_00002.html Der Orient im Werk Velimir Chlebnikovs]'', Munich: Sagner, 1975, 121 pp. {{de}}
 
* Salomon Mirsky, ''[http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00047414_00002.html Der Orient im Werk Velimir Chlebnikovs]'', Munich: Sagner, 1975, 121 pp. {{de}}
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* Nils Åke Nilsson (ed.), ''[http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:472423/FULLTEXT01.pdf Velimir Chlebnikov: A Stockholm Symposium]'', Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1985, 150 pp. {{en}}
 
* Nils Åke Nilsson (ed.), ''[http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:472423/FULLTEXT01.pdf Velimir Chlebnikov: A Stockholm Symposium]'', Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1985, 150 pp. {{en}}
 
* Johannes Holthusen (ed.), ''[http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00057054_00001.html Velimir Chlebnikov]'', Munich: Sagner, 1986. {{de}},{{ru}},{{en}}
 
* Johannes Holthusen (ed.), ''[http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb00057054_00001.html Velimir Chlebnikov]'', Munich: Sagner, 1986. {{de}},{{ru}},{{en}}
* Raymond Cooke, ''[http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=610271C90A25E27B28F0AE03EC9B4EB5 Velimir Khlebnikov: A Critical Study]'', Cambridge University Press, 1987. {{en}}
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* Raymond Cooke, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=610271C90A25E27B28F0AE03EC9B4EB5 Velimir Khlebnikov: A Critical Study]'', Cambridge University Press, 1987. {{en}}
 
* Ronald Vroon (Роналд Вроон), [http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=showbook&pid=2687 "Khlebnikov i Platonov: predvaritelnye zametki"] [Хлебников и Платонов: предварительные заметки], in ''Yazyk kak tvorchestvo'', Moscow, 1996, pp 55-65. {{ru}}
 
* Ronald Vroon (Роналд Вроон), [http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=showbook&pid=2687 "Khlebnikov i Platonov: predvaritelnye zametki"] [Хлебников и Платонов: предварительные заметки], in ''Yazyk kak tvorchestvo'', Moscow, 1996, pp 55-65. {{ru}}
 
* Andrey Shishkin (Андрей Борисович Шишкин), [http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=showbook&pid=1649 "Velimir Khlebnikov na 'Bashne' Vyacheslava Ivanova"] [Велимир Хлебников на "Башне" Вячеслава Иванова], ''NLO'' 17 (1996), pp 141-167. {{ru}}
 
* Andrey Shishkin (Андрей Борисович Шишкин), [http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=showbook&pid=1649 "Velimir Khlebnikov na 'Bashne' Vyacheslava Ivanova"] [Велимир Хлебников на "Башне" Вячеслава Иванова], ''NLO'' 17 (1996), pp 141-167. {{ru}}
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==See also==
 
==See also==
* [[Symphony of Sirens]]
 
 
* [[Aleksei Kruchenykh]]
 
* [[Aleksei Kruchenykh]]
 
* [[Russia#Avant-garde]]
 
* [[Russia#Avant-garde]]
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* [http://www.hlebnikov.com/ The World of Velimir Khlebnikov]
 
* [http://www.hlebnikov.com/ The World of Velimir Khlebnikov]
 
* [http://www.hlebnikov.ru/ Мир Велимира Хлебникова]
 
* [http://www.hlebnikov.ru/ Мир Велимира Хлебникова]
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* [http://www.rvb.ru/hlebnikov/ Khlebnikov in Russkaya virtualnaya biblioteka]
  
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Khlebnikov in 1916. [1]
Born November 9, 1885(1885-11-09)
Maloderbetovsky ulus, Astrakhan Governorate, Russian Empire (now Malye Derbety, Kalmykia
Died June 28, 1922(1922-06-28) (aged 36)
Santalovo, Kresttsy county, Novgorod Governorate, Soviet Union
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Velimir Khlebnikov [Велимир Хлебников; born Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, Виктор Владимирович Хлебников; 1885-1922), was a Russian Futurist poet and playwright, also interested in mathematics, history, and mythology.

Khlebnikov grew up in an ornithologists’s family in a village near the Caspian Sea. He studied mathematics and the natural sciences at the Universities of Kazan’ and St. Petersburg, but never graduated. Khlebnikov began publishing poetry in 1908; by 1912 he was a leading member of the Russian Futurists. The “verbal mastery” of his zaum’ poetry in A Slap in the Face of Public Taste astounded the poet and critic Roman Jakobson, who later deemed him “the greatest world poet of our century.” In writing The Tables of Destiny, his book of prophecy, Khlebnikov used algorithms to map the events of history and to anticipate the future. In 1912, for instance, he uncannily predicted the collapse of an empire in 1917. During the Civil War, he worked on propaganda posters. He died of malnutrition in Santalovo, in the Novgorod province. (Source)

Chronology

Based on chronology in Khlebnikov, The King of Time, ed. Charlotte Douglas, 1985, pp 239-247.

  • 9 Nov 1885: K. born in village of Malye Derbety, ca. 80 km south of Volgograd.
  • 1903: Graduates from Kazan gymnasium; enters university.
  • 1908: Sends early poems to Ivanov. Moves to Petersburg; enters university.
  • 1909: Meets Kamensky. Publishes first literary piece.
  • 1910: Plans trip to Montenegro. Meets Burliuk and Matyushin. Breaks with Ivanov and Symbolists. "Incantation by Laughter" published in Kulbin's Impressionists' Studio [Студия импрессионистов]. The collection A Jam for Judges [Садок Судей] published; includes "O Garden of Animals!".
  • 1911: Meets Mayakovsky. Working on theory of history.
  • 1912: Visits Burliuk estate in southern Russia. A Game in Hell [Игра в аду] by K. and Kruchenykh. Contributes to A Slap in the Face of Public Taste [Пощёчина общественному вкусу]. The World in Reverse [Мирсконца] by K. and Kruchenykh.
  • 1913: Contributes to A Jam for Judges II [Садок Судей II]. Mrs. Laneen. "Usa-Gali". "Nikolai". "The Word as Such" [Слово как таковое]. "The Letter as Such".
  • 1914: Breaks with Burliuk over Marinetti. Selections of Poems [Изборник стихов]. Creations [Творения].
  • 1915: Writes "K" (pub. 1916).
  • 1916: Society of 317 (Presidents of Planet Earth) founded. Drafted into army. Stationed near Saratov.
  • 1917: Receives military furlough. In Kharkiv, writes "An Appeal by the Presidents of Planet Earth". In Moscow and Petrograd; with Tatlin plans program of 3 plays.
  • 1918: Works for newspapers in Nizhny Novgorod. Works for newspaper in Astrakhan; writes "October on the Neva".
  • 1919: Spends early spring in Moscow; contributes "The Head of the Universe" and "To the Artists of the World" to proposed collection, International of the Arts. In military hospital with typhus.
  • 1920: In Kharkiv, after release from hospital. Arrives in Baku; works for newspaper and cultural-educational section of Volga-Caspian fleet. In Baku invents Laws of Time.
  • 1921: Sails from Baku to Enzeli, Persia. Returns to Russia; goes to Piatigorsk. Returns to Moscow.
  • 1922: Finishes Zangezi. Excerpts from the Tables of Destiny [Отрывок из "Досок судьбы"] published. Zangezi [Зангези] printed. 28 June: K. dies in village of Santalovo.
Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, Igra v adu, 1912, IA.
Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, Mirskontsa, 1912, IA.
Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, Slovo kak takovoe, 1913, PDF, IA.
Izbornik stikhov, 1914, JPG.
Tvoreniya 1, 1914, PDF, JPG.
Otryvok iz "Dosok sud'by", [1922], JPG.
Zangezi, 1922, JPG.

Works

Books

  • Khlebnikov, et al., Sadok sudey [Садок Судей], St Petersburg: Zhuravl' [Журавль], [Apr 1910], 131 pp, JPG, IA, HTML. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Igra v adu [Игра в аду], Moscow, 1912.
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Poshechina obshestvennomu vkusu. V zashchitu svobodnogo iskusstva. Stikhi, proza, stat'i [Пощёчина общественному вкусу. В защиту свободного искусства: Стихи, проза, статьи], Moscow: Georgy L. Kuzmin, Moscow, Dec 1912, 114 pp. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Mirskontsa [Мирсконца], [Moscow]: [Kuzmin & Dolinsky], 1912, 43 pp. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Sadok sudey 2, Moscow: Zhuravl' [Журавль], 1913, HTML, WS-RU. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Bukh liesinnyi [Бух лесинный], St Petersburg: EUY, [1913], [23] pp. [2]
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Troe, St Petersburg: Zhuravl', 1913, 52 pp. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Slovo kak takovoe [Слово как таковое; The Word as Such], [Moscow]: [EUY], [1913], 15 pp, IA. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Zatychka, sbornik: risunki, stikhi [The Bung: A Collection], Moscow: Gileya, 1913, 13+[4] pp, IA. (Russian)
  • Izbornik stikhov s poslesloviyem Rechyarya [Изборник стихов с послесловием Речяря], St Petersburg: EUY [ЕУЫ], 1914, IA. (Russian)
  • Ryav! Perchatki (1908-1914 gg.) [Ряв! Перчатки (1908-1914 гг.)], Petrograd: EUY [ЕУЫ], 1914. (Russian)
  • Tvoreniya: T. 1: 1906-1908 [Творения: Т. 1: 1906-1908; Creations, 1906-1908], Moscow: Izd. "Pervogo zhurnala russkikh futuristov", 1914, 106+[8] pp, IA, JPG. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Sarinnaya lyubov. Bukh lesinyy [Старинная любовь. Бух лесиный], [Petrograd]: EUY [ЕУЫ], 1914, IA, IA. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Te li le, [St Petersburg]: [EUY], 1914, 18 pp. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Igra v adu, [Moscow]: [Kuzmin & Dolinsky], 1914, 27 pp, IA. (Russian)
  • Vremya mera ira [Время мера мира], Petrograd, 1916. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Chetyre stitsy. Sbornik stikhov [Четыре птицы. Сборник стихов], Moscow: К., 1916. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Vremennik [Временник], Moscow: B. i., 1917. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh and Tatiana Tolstaya, Mir i ostalnoe, Baku, 1920, 93 pp. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Liren [Лирень], V.m., 1920, 40 pp. (Russian)
  • Noch' v okope [Ночь в окопе], Moscow: Imazhinisty, 1921. (Russian)
  • Otryvok iz "Dosok sud'by" [Отрывок из "Досок судьбы"], [Мoscow], [1922]. (Russian)
  • Zangezi [Зангези], Moscow, 1922. (Russian)
  • Zapisnaya knizhka [Записная книжка], ed. A. Kruchenykh, Moscow: Vserossiyskiy soyuz poetov, 1925, 30 pp. (Russian)
More

Collected writings

in Russian
  • Izbrannye stikhotvoreniya [Избранные стихотворения], ed. N. Stepanov, Moscow: Sov. pisatel, 1936, 507 pp. (Russian)
  • Sobranie proizvedeniy [Собрание произведений], 5 vols., ed. N.L. Stepanov, Leningrad: Izd-vo pisateley v Leningrade, 1928-33, RSL/1, RSL/2, PDF/3, RSL/3, PDF/4, RSL/4, PDF/5, RSL/5. (Russian)
  • Tvoreniya [Творения], Moscow, 1986. (Russian)
in English

Selected writings

  • Deň modrých medveďov, trans. Milan Ferko, Bratislava: Slovenský spisovateľ, 1969, 142 pp. [4] (Slovak)

Selected essays

  • "Radio budushego" [Радио будущего], Krasnaya nov [Красная новь] 8, Moscow, 1927, pp 185-187. Written 1921. (Russian)
    • "Radio of the Future", in Khlebnikov, trans. Paul Schmidt, The King of Time, 1985, pp 155-159; repr. in Khlebnikov Collected Works, 1, 1987, pp 392-396. (English)

Literature

  • Roman Jakobson, Noviyshaya russkaya poeziya: Nabrosok pervyi. Viktor Khlebnikov [Новљйшая русская поезия], Prague: Tipografija, 1921, 68 pp. [5] (Russian)
    • "Modern Russian Poetry: Velimir Khlebnikov", in Major Soviet Writers: Essays in Criticism, ed. E.J.Brown, Oxford University Press, 1973, pp 58-82. (English)
    • more translations
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky, "V.V. Khlebnikov" [В.В. Хлебников], Krasnaya nov [Красная новь] 4, Moscow, 1922, pp 303-306. (Russian)
  • D. Kozlov (Д. Козлов), "Novoe o Velemire Khlebnikove" [Новое о Велемире Хлебникове. (Воспоминания)], Krasnaya nov [Красная новь] 8, Moscow, 1927, pp 177-188. (Russian)

See also

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