Daniil kharms poems

Biography

Daniil Yuvachev was born on December 17 (30), in St. Petersburg, in the family of Ivan Yuvachev, a former naval officer, revolutionary-People's Will, exiled to Sakhalin and took up religious philosophy there. Kharms's father was an acquaintance of Chekhov, Tolstoy and Voloshin.

Daniil studied at the privileged St. Petersburg German school Petrishule. In he entered the Leningrad Electrical Technical School, but was soon forced to leave it. In he took up writing. In his early youth he imitated the futuristic poetics of Khlebnikov and Kruchenykh. Then, in the second half of the s, he abandoned the predominance of “zaumi” in versification.

In , Yuvachev met the poetic and philosophical circle of plane trees, which included Alexander Vvedensky, Leonid Lipavsky, Yakov Druskin and others. He quickly gained scandalous fame in the circles of avant-garde writers under his pseudonym “Kharms”, in