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Sasha Krasny (Russian: Саша Красный, literally Alexander the Red) was the pen-name of Aleksandr Davydovich Bryansky (Russian: Александр Давыдович Брянский; 28 September [O.S. 16 September] 1882 – 2 March 1995[1]), a Russian poet and songwriter. His first book was published in Odessa in 1912 and the last in 1993. His son Boris Bryansky (1928–1972) was also a poet and songwriter.

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Sasha Krasny Саша Красный
Born	28 September [O.S. 16 September] 1882 Sevastopol, Russian Empire
Died	(1995-03-02)2 March 1995 (aged 112 years, 155 days) Moscow, Russia
Other names	Aleksandr Davydovich Bryansky (penname)
Alma mater	Grekov Odessa Art school
Occupation	poet, songwriter
Children	Boris Bryansky (1928－1972)
Awards	Cross of St. George

Biography

Bryansky said he was born in 1882 in Sevastopol, into a Jewish family. After graduating from Grekov Odessa Art school which he entered in 1908, Bryansky performed on stage under the pseudonym of Sasha Krasny. In 1914 he was drafted into Russian Army and fought in World War I. According to his own account, he was wounded and awarded with a St. George's Cross, 4th Degree.

After the October Revolution he joined the Red Army and became one of Vladimir Lenin's bodyguards. Along with fellow Odessite writers such as Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov he published his poems in the Gudok newspaper, a mouthpiece for the Soviet Ministry of Transport. He helped initiate the agitprop movement of "Blue shirts" which took its name from his 1923 collection of poetry, "The Blue Blouse" (Russian: Синяя блуза).[2]

In the mid-1920s Krasny led a circle of amateur performers who sought to popularize Bolshevik ideology by touring the country with skits, songs, and recitations of poems. The show was called the Sasha Krasny Theatre and continued well into the 1930s. He also found time to publish several collections of songs.

Krasny was not active as a poet from that time until the 1980s. When he joined the USSR Union of Writers in 1984, he was already 102 years old. In his old age he concentrated on love themes. His collection "The Contrasts" appeared in 1990 and "Only About Love" three years later. This last collection of verse was published when he was 111.

Death

Krasny died in 1995 at the claimed age of 112[3] in Moscow and was buried at the New Donskoy Cemetery there. His supercentenarian age was never independently confirmed. His final publication was a memoir about Sergei Yesenin.

References

External links

This article is based on a translation of the equivalent article of the Russian Wikipedia on 2 October 2007.

• Bryansky's tomb

На других языках

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- [en] Sasha Krasny

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[fr] Sacha le Rouge

Sacha le Rouge (en russe : Sacha Krasny, Саша Красный), nom de plume d'Alexandre Davydovitch Brianski (en russe : Александр Давыдович Брянский), né le 16 septembre 1882 (28 septembre 1882 dans le calendrier grégorien) à Sébastopol sous l'Empire russe et mort le 2 mars 1995 (à 112 ans) à Moscou, est un poète et auteur-compositeur soviétique d'ascendance juive. C'est l'un des fondateurs du théâtre collectif agit-prop Blouse Bleue.

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[ru] Саша Красный

Са́ша Кра́сный (литературный псевдоним Алекса́ндра Давы́довича Бря́нского;[1] 16 (28) сентября 1894, Севастополь, Таврическая губерния, Российская империя — 2 марта 1995, Москва, Россия) — русский советский поэт, песенник, чтец и артист театра малых форм. Один из создателей движения «Синяя блуза».

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