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Bruno Jasieński

Died in 1938

Bruno Jasieński (1901-1938), born Wiktor Zysman in Klimontów, the son of an assimilated Jewish doctor and of a mother from the Polish nobility, completed his secondary education in Moscow, then entered the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1918. There in 1920 he founded a Futurist club with Stanisław Młodożeniec and Tytus Czyżewski. Settled in Paris in 1925, a Communist, he ran an amateur theatre there for the Polish workers of Saint-Denis. Expelled from France in 1929, welcomed in the Soviet Union by crowds, he was arrested during the Great Terror and shot near Moscow on 17 September 1938.

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