Nikolai Klyuev

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Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev (occasionally transliterated from the Cyrillic alphabet as Kliuev, Kluev, Klyuyev, or Kluyev) (October 10, 1884 - between October 23 and 25, 1937), was a notable Russian poet. He was influenced by the symbolist movement, intense nationalism, and a love of Russian folklore.

Born in a small village near the town of Vytegra, Kluyev rose to prominence in the early twentieth century as the leader of the so-called "peasant poets". Kluyev, who was gay,[1] was a close friend and mentor of Sergei Yesenin and was the lover of the Russian painter Anatoly Nikiforovich Yar-Kravchenko as well as the novelist Nikolai Arkhipov. Arrested in 1933 for contradicting Soviet ideology, he was shot in 1937 and rehabilitated posthumously in 1957.

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  1. ^ Tuller, David (1997), Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, University of Chicago Press, p. 92, ISBN 0226815684 
  • The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day. Authors: Fone, Byrne R. S.; Fone, Byrne R. S. Columbia University Press. ISBN-0231096704

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