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Velimir Khlebnikov

Died in 1922

Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922), born on 9 November 1885 in the province of Astrakhan, studied at the University of Kazan, mathematics then natural sciences, and in Saint Petersburg, sciences then letters, without ever completing a course of study. A central figure of Russian Futurism, he travelled to Persia in 1921. He died on 28 June 1922 in a village in the province of Novgorod; Roman Jakobson regarded him as the greatest poet of his century.

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