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Yuri Kolker, the Glossary

Yuri Kolker (14 March, 1946; Ю́рий Ко́лкер, יורי קולקר) is a Russian poet.^[1]

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Abraham Sutzkever

Abraham Sutzkever (Avrom Sutskever; אברהם סוצקבר; July 15, 1913 – January 20, 2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. Yuri Kolker and Abraham Sutzkever are Israeli poets.

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Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end of the Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, in the belief that this was the site of the Neva Battle in 1240 when Alexander Nevsky, a prince, defeated the Swedes.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.

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BBC News Russian

BBC News Russian (BBC News Ру́сская слу́жба) – formerly BBC Russian Service (Ру́сская слу́жба Би-би-си́) – is part of the BBC World Service's foreign language output, one of nearly 40 languages it provides.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood.

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.

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George Herbert

George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England.

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John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer.

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Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Yuri Kolker and Joseph Brodsky are 20th-century Russian poets, 20th-century Russian translators, Denaturalized citizens of the Soviet Union, English–Russian translators, Russian male poets, Soviet dissidents, translators from English and writers from Saint Petersburg.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Literary criticism

A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.

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Neva (magazine)

Neva is a Russian monthly literary magazine, founded in the Soviet era.

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Nikolay Zabolotsky

Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky (Никола́й Алексе́евич Заболо́цкий; May 7, 1903 – October 14, 1958) was a prominent Soviet and Russian poet and translator. Yuri Kolker and Nikolay Zabolotsky are 20th-century Russian poets, 20th-century Russian translators and Russian male poets.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

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Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Peter the Great St.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Refusenik

Refusenik (otkaznik,; alternatively spelled refusnik) was an unofficial term for individuals—typically, but not exclusively, Soviet Jews—who were denied permission to emigrate, primarily to Israel, by the authorities of the Soviet Union and other countries of the Soviet Bloc.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Russian Mind

Russian Mind (French – La Pensée Russe) is a pan-European sociopolitical and cultural magazine, published on a monthly basis both in Russian and in English.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Samizdat

Samizdat (lit) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader.

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Soviet dissidents

--> Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

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Vladislav Khodasevich

Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich (Владисла́в Фелициа́нович Ходасе́вич; 16 May (28 May) 1886 – 14 June 1939) was an influential Russian poet and literary critic who presided over the Berlin circle of Russian emigre litterateurs. Yuri Kolker and Vladislav Khodasevich are 20th-century Russian poets and Russian male poets.

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films. Yuri Kolker and Yevgeny Yevtushenko are 20th-century Russian poets, 21st-century Russian poets and Russian male poets.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kolker