Nikolay Oleynikov

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Nikolay Makarovich Oleynikov
Born5 August 1898 (1898-08-05)
Kamenskaya, Russian Empire
Died24 November 1937 (1937-11-25) (aged 39)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeLevashovo Memorial Cemetery
OccupationEditor, poet and playwright
NationalityRussian
Periodavant-garde

Nikolay Oleynikov (d. 1937) was a Russian poet.[1]

Works[change | change source]

  • Elizaveta Bam (1928, Елизавета Бам), a play
  • Lapa (1930, Лапа), a play
  • Incidences (1933–1939, Случаи), a short story cycle
  • The Old Woman (1939, Старуха), a novella
  • The Plummeting Old Women (1989)
  • It Happened Like This: Stories and Poems (1998)
  • Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms (2007)
  • A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms (2018)

Related pages[change | change source]

Sources[change | change source]

  1. Saunders, George (9 December 2007). "Soviet Deadpan". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 August 2008.

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