Who is Fyodor Sologub
Fyodor Sologub (Russian: Фёдор Сологу́б, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, Russian: Фёдор Кузьми́ч Тете́рников, also known as Theodor Sologub; 1 March [O.S. 17 February] 1863 – 5 December 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose.Early life
Sologub was born in St. Petersburg into the family of a poor tailor, Kuzma Afanasyevich Teternikov, who had been a serf in Poltava guberniya, the illegitimate son of a local landowner. When his father died of tuberculosis in 1867, his illiterate mother. Tatiana Semyonovna Teternikova, was forced t...
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Fyodor Sologub Poems
- Devil's Swing
Over the rushing river
Where shaggy fir-trees stand,
The devil himself is pushing
My swing with furry hand. ... - We Are All Captured Beasts
We are all captured beasts,
And we howl - as we might.
We can't open the doors,
For the doors are locked tight. ... - What Are Our Villages
What are our villages, destitute,
Or the whole of time and of space?
Father's mansions exist in a multitude, -
We don't know their name, and their place. ... - The Painful Genius, Great Shakespeare
1913
(Fragment)
The painful genius, great Shakespeare, ... - His Wines, Feasts And Funs
His wines, feasts and funs are forgotten,
His sword and his armour are left,
He, single, descends into rotten
A dungeon, without a lamp. ...
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Sfencyclopedia: ... david pringle (b.1950)Geo_liminal: was chasing down an obscure dissertation on the works of fyodor sologub, thought about contacting the author to see if he had a digital copy he might part with, searched him out on the internet... ...and it turns out he's serving a 73 year jail term for child molestation
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Anto962: 5 of 5 stars to il demone meschino by fyodor sologub
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