MovementRussian Futurism, Zaum Notable workUniversal War, 1916
Full NameAleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh BornFebruary 9, 1886 (1886-02-09) Olevka, Kherson province, Ukraine DiedJune 17, 1968, Moscow, Russia BooksSuicide circus, Victory over the sun, Our arrival Known forPoetry, Collage, Artist's book Similar PeopleVelimir Khlebnikov, Olga Rozanova, Mikhail Larionov
Aleksei kruchenykh roman on telephone
Aleksei Yeliseyevich Kruchonykh (Russian: Алексе́й Елисе́евич Кручёных; 21 February 1886 – 17 June 1968), a well-known poet of the Russian "Silver Age", was perhaps the most radical poet of Russian Futurism, a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk and others. Together with Velimir Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh is considered the inventor of zaum. Kruchenykh wrote the libretto for the Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun, with sets provided by Kazimir Malevich. He married Olga Rozanova, an avant-garde artist, in 1912.
He's also known for his Declaration of the Word as Such (1913): «The worn-out, violated word "lily" is devoid of all expression. Therefore I call the lily éuy – and original purity is restored.»
The Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona have a reggae-styled song called "Posveshtenie A. Kruchenykh" (Homage to A. Kruchenykh) on their 1990 concept album Instruktsiya po vyzhivaniyu.