DATES: Late 1940s – Early 1960s PLACE: Leningrad MEMBERS: Aleksandr Arefev, Roal’d Mandel’shtam, Richard Vasmi, Sholom Shvarts, Vladimir Shagin e Valentin Gromov. DESCRIPTION: Also known as the Orden nishchenstvujushchikh zhivopistsev (Order of the Poor Artists) and Boltayka (from the verb boltat, meaning ‘to chat’), the circle of artists, who gathered around Aleksandr...
DATES: 1965-1975 PLACE: Leningrad FOUNDER: Boris Vakhtin MEMBERS: Vladimir Gubin, Igor Efimov, Vladimir Maramzin. PUBLISHING INITIATIVES: samizdat anthology Gorozhane (two editions: 1964, 1965); foundation of the Parisian tamizdat journal «Ekho». DESCRIPTION: The group called Gorozhane (Citizens) originates from Boris Vakhtin’s project to publish an anthology of the same name of the prose works of a group...
DATES: 1985 – ongoing PLACE: Leningrad – Saint Petersburg MEMBERS: Dmitrij Shagin, Vladimir Shinkarev, Vladimir Yashke, Aleksandr Florensky, Olga Florenskaya, Mikhail Sapego and more (listed in http://mitki.kulichki.com/russian/members/). PUBLISHING INITIATIVES: Periodical releases of the «Mitki-gazeta» magazine (1992-1998); foundation of the Mitkilibris (1994) and the Krasnyj matros (1995) publishers. DESCRIPTION: The origins of the Mitki group...
DATES: 1954-1956 PLACE: Leningrad MEMBERS: Lev Loseff, Vladimir Uflyand, Mikhail Eremin, Sergey Kulle, Leonid Vinogradov, Mikhail Krasilnikov, Yury Mikhailov, Aleksandr Kondratov, Vladimir Gerasimov, Oleg Tselkov. PUBLISHING INITIATIVES: Brynza (Bryndza) and S’’edim brynzu! (Let’s eat bryndza!) almanacs, 1951-1952; poetic anthology UVEK (1977). DESCRIPTION: It was the creative mind of Kostantin Kuzminsky that gave the group...
DATES: 1963/64 – early Seventies PLACE: Leningrad FOUNDERS: Aleksey Khvostenko and Anri Volokhonsky ASSOCIATES: Yuri Galetsky, Leonid Entin, Kari Unskova, Ivan Steblin-Kamensky, Leonid Chertkov and others PUBLISHING INITIATIVES: Works published with Polza publishing company, on Apollon-77 almanac (Paris, 1977) and on «Ekho» magazine. DESCRIPTION: The name VERPA refers to both the literary production and musical works...
DATES: 1965-1972 PLACE: Leningrad FOUNDERS: Vladimir Erl’, Dmitry Makrinov MEMBERS: Aleksandr Mironov, Nataliya Fedyuchek, Sergej Dorofeev, Aleksey Khvostenko, Viktor Nemtinov PUBLISHING INITIATIVES: Polza and Palata mer i vesov editions. DESCRIPTION: The Khelenukty group was founded in September 1966 by the poets Dm. M. and Vladimir Erl (pseudonyms of Dmitry Makrinov and Vladimir Gorbunov) and was the...