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Alexei Purin

Alexei Purin was born in Leningrad, Purin graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute as a chemical engineer but soon turned to literature. In the 1970s he became part of the group around the poet Alexander Kushner, who opposed the government's socialist realism but also rejected the "underground poetry" often found in samizdat publication. For Purin and his circle the core concepts of literary art were the ‘everyday word’ of Innokentii Annenski (1856-1909), who inspired the Acmeists, a group of early-20th-century poets reacting against the vagueness and affectations of Symbolism, and Mandelshtam’s ‘nostalgia for a world culture’.

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Alexei Purin

Пурин, Алексей Арнольдович. Русский поэт

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Nationality
Russia
Occupation
poet · literary critic · writer
Education
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
Languages
Russian

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Alexei Purin was born in Leningrad, Purin graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute as a chemical engineer but soon turned to literature. In the 1970s he became part of the group around the poet Alexander Kushner, who opposed the government's socialist realism but also rejected the "underground poetry" often found in samizdat publication. For Purin and his circle the core concepts of literary art were the ‘everyday word’ of Innokentii Annenski (1856-1909), who inspired the Acmeists, a group of early-20th-century poets reacting against the vagueness and affectations of Symbolism, and Mandelshtam’s ‘nostalgia for a world culture’.

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Alexei Purin (born 1955) is a literary critic, poet and writer, of Russian nationality. The literary critic was born in Saint Petersburg. Alexei Purin was educated at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology. Languages used include Russian.

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