Origins & Early Life

Yefim Alekseevich Pridvorov (Russian: Ефи́м Алексе́евич Придво́ров, IPA: [jɪˈfʲim ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ prʲɪˈdvorəf] ; 13 April [O.S. 1 April] 1883 – May 25, 1945), better known by the pen name Demyan Bedny (Russian: Демья́н Бе́дный, IPA: [dʲɪˈmʲjan ˈbʲednɨj] , Damian the Poor), was a Soviet Russian poet, Bolshevik propagandist and satirist. Yefim Pridvorov was born to a poor family in the village of Hubivka, in Kherson Governorate, now in Ukraine. At the age of seven, his father took him to live in Yelysavethrad, but six years later, he was sent back to his home village to live with his mother "in extreme poverty".

Pivotal Works & Achievements

When he was 14, his father secured him a paid-for place in a feldsher training college in Kiev, which was followed by four years of military service. In 1904, he entered the philological and historical faculty of Petersburg University. His university years coincided with the heady times of the 1905 Russian Revolution, which Pridvorov, like most other students, became an ardent supporter. In 1911, he began to be published in communist newspapers such as Pravda, and in 1912, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). Also in 1911, he published...

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