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Another Face of Soviet Nostalgia: Daniil Kharms

Natasha Kadlec studies Russian literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

“Now I’ll tell you about how I was born,” wrote the poet Daniil Kharms in 1935: “I was born twice….” Kharms goes on to detail the process by which his father, wishing for his son to be born on New Year's Day, forcibly reversed the author’s premature birth. By this logic, Kharms was born twice: once four months early, and once — indeed — on January 1.

Writing like Kharms' was hardly consonant with the dominant currents of official Soviet literature under Stalin, but since his posthumous circulation in samizdat during the 1960s, Kharms has become a cult icon of alternative culture. In the years leading up to Soviet collapse, he even became a legitimate, if marginal, object of academic study. More recently, his lyrics have been set to music – from Ukrainian band Esthetic Education’s Juravli i korabli (2006) to Icelandic composer Hafliði Hallgrímsson’s What They Sell In The Stores Nowadays (2009).

Interest in Kharms, though, isn’t limited to ac

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1. Pushkin was a poet and was always writing something. Once Zhukovsky caught him at his writing and exclaimed loudly: – You’re not half a scribbler!

From then on Pushkin was very fond of Zhukovsky and started to call him simply Zhukov out of friendship.

2. As we know, Pushkin’s beard never grew. Pushkin was very distressed about this and he always envied Zakharin who, on the contrary, grew a perfectly respectable beard. ‘His grows, but mine doesn’t’ – Pushkin would often say, pointing at Zakharin with his fingernails. And every time he was right.

3. Once Petrushevsky broke his watch and sent for Pushkin. Pushkin arrived, had a look at Petrushevsky’s watch and put it back on the chair. ‘What do you say then, Pushkin old mate?’ – asked Petrushevsky. ‘It’s a stop-watch’ – said Pushkin.

4. When Pushkin broke his legs, he started to go about on wheels. His friends used to enjoy teasing Pushkin and grabbing him by his wheels. Pushkin took this very badly and wrote a

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Biography

Daniil Ivanovich Kharms (real name Yuvachev; December 17 (30), 1905, St. Petersburg – February 2, 1942, Leningrad) – Russian and Soviet writer, poet and playwright. Founder of the OBERIU association.

He was repressed and arrested on August 23, 1941. He died in a prison hospital on February 2, 1942 in Leningrad. Rehabilitated on July 25, 1960.

Daniil Yuvachev was born on December 17 (30), 1905 in St. Petersburg in the family of Ivan Pavlovich Yuvachev (1860-1940) and Nadezhda Ivanovna Yuvacheva (Kolubakina) (1869-1929). Daniil Ivanovich himself considered January 1 as his birthday. Later, he loved to tell pseudo-autobiographical, absurdist stories about his birth, leaving several texts on this topic (“Now I will tell …”, “The Incubator Period” – both 1935). I.P. Yuvachev was a People’s Volya revolutionary who was exiled to Sakhalin and became a spiritual writer. Daniel’s father was familiar with A.P. Chekhov, L.N. Tolstoy, M.A. Voloshin and N.A. Morozov.

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