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Sasha ChernyRussian poet of the Silver Age, prose writer
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Biography of Sasha Cherny
Sasha Cherny was a Russian poet and prose writer of the Silver Age, who gained wide recognition as the author of popular lyrical-satirical poetic feuilletons. He was born into a large Jewish family of a pharmacist and a representative of a trading firm. In order to give their child the opportunity to enter a gymnasium, his parents had him baptized. However, Alexander did not stay long in the gymnasium. He ran away from home and became a beggar. His tragic fate was written about in the newspaper, and a government official from Zhytomyr, K.K. Roche, moved by the story, took the boy in. K.K. Roche, who was involved in charitable work and loved poetry, had a great influence on Alexander's life.
From 1900 to 1902, Alexander Glikberg served as a private in the training team of the 20th Galician Regiment, and then worked at the Novoselitsa customs. On June 1, 1904, his "Diary of a Rezoner" was published in the Zhytomyr newspaper "Volynsky Vestnik" under the pseudonym "Sam po sebe" ("By Himself"). In 1905, he moved to Saint Petersburg, where he published satirical poems in journals such as "Zritel," "Almanakh," "Zhurnal," "Maski," and "Leshiy," which brought him fame. As Korney Chukovsky wrote, "… upon receiving a fresh issue of a journal, the reader would first and foremost look for poems by Sasha Cherny."
His first poem under the pseudonym "Sasha Cherny" - the political satire "Chepukha," published on November 27, 1905, led to the closure of the magazine "Zritel." His poetry collection "Various Motives" was banned by censorship. From 1906 to 1908, he lived in Germany, where he continued his education at Heidelberg University.
Returning to Saint Petersburg in 1908, Sasha Cherny collaborated with the magazine "Satirikon" and published poetry collections such as "With a Beggar's Spirit," "Involuntary Tribute," and "Satires." He was published in journals such as "Sovremenny Mir," "Argus," "Solntse Rossii," "Sovremennik," and in newspapers such as "Kievskaya Mysl," "Russkaya Molva," and "Odesskiye Novosti." He became known as a children's writer, with books such as "Tuk-Tuk," "Living Alphabet," and others. During the First World War, Sasha Cherny served as a private in the 5th Army at a field hospital and worked as a prose writer. He published a collection of prose called "Frivolous Stories" (1928), the novella "A Wonderful Summer" (1929), and children's books such as "The Dream of Professor Patrashkin" (1924), "Mickey the Fox's Diary" (1927), "The Cat's Sanatorium" (1928), "The Rosy Book" (1930), and "The Adventurous Squirrel" (1932).
In 1929, he acquired a plot of land in La Favère, a village in the south of France, where he built his own house. Russian writers, artists, and musicians would come and stay at his house for long periods of time. Sasha Cherny died from a heart attack on August 5, 1932. Risking his life, he helped extinguish a fire on a neighboring farm. When he returned home, he lay down and never got up again.
He was buried at the Lavandou cemetery in the Var department. The poet's grave was lost after the battles of the Second World War.
