Sergey Gorodetsky
Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky (Серге́й Митрофа́нович Городе́цкий; January 17 1884 – June 8, 1967) was a Russian poet. He was one of the founders (together with Nikolay Gumilev) of "Guild of Poets" (Цех поэтов). He was born in Saint Petersburg, and died in Obninsk. • Illustration — Sergey Gorodetsky and his wife.
Also recorded as Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky
Sergey Gorodetsky
Ilya Repin · Public domain
- Born
- 1884. · Saint Petersburg.
- Died
- 1967. · Obninsk.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire and Soviet Union.
- Occupation
- poet, writer, translator, painter, playwright, literary critic, opinion journalist and librettist.
- Fields
- lyric poetry.
- Movements
- Acmeist poetry.
- Education
- Saint Petersburg 6th gymnasium.
- Honours
- Order of the Badge of Honour.
- Languages
- Russian.
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Sergey Gorodetsky. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q2072175 · wikipedia · Sergey Gorodetsky
In this article
Biography
Biography
Portrait by Ilya Repin (1914) Gorodetsky entered the literary scene as a Symbolist, developing friendships with Alexander Blok, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Valery Briusov. Following his brief stint with Symbolists, Gorodetsky began to associate with younger poets, forming the Acmeist group with Nikolai Gumilev, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelshtam. Subsequently, abandoning yet another group, he welcomed the Bolshevik revolution as a Soviet poet.
Sergey Gorodetsky studied at Saint Petersburg 6th gymnasium. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are lyric poetry. Employment is recorded with Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Badge of Honour.
Городецкий, Сергей Митрофанович
Городецкий, Сергей Митрофанович
Karl Bulla
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1884
Sergey Gorodetsky born at Saint Petersburg.
1967
Sergey Gorodetsky died at Obninsk.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Saint Petersburg.
Birth place
Obninsk.
Death place
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Sergey Gorodetsky, revision 1375167443 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Wikidata, structured authority record Q2072175: Sergey GorodetskyWikimedia Foundation
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Born at
1- Saint PetersburgPlace
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Paintings
19,456 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Sergei ZverevArtist
- Sergey BalovinArtist
- Sergey GerasimovArtist
- Sergey GlushkoArtist
- Sergey GrinevichArtist
- Sergey IvanovArtist
- Sergey Ivanovich MarkinArtist
- Sergey Ivanovich SmirnovArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Sergey Gorodetsky?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.