Bezymenskii, Aleksandr
Typography and cover design by Solomon Telingater. Aleksandr Ilich Bezymenskii - Soviet Russian poet. Bezymenskii took part in the October Revolution in Petrograd. He was a leader in the Young Communist movement, a member of the first convocation of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Youth League, and also a delegate to Komsomol congresses. At the seventh congress of the All-Union Lenin Communist Youth League he was elected an honorary Komsomol member. Bezymenskii began publishing in 1918 and later became an active member of RAPP (Russian Association of Proletarian Writers). His first collections of poetry, October Dawns (1920) and Toward the Sun (1921), were marked by traits of the cosmic-abstract poetry of those years. Overcoming these tendencies, Bezymenskii turned to a depiction of the heroic quality of everyday life under the revolution for example, the collection How Life Smells (1924) and the poems On a Cap and On Felt Boots. Many of his poems and songs are devoted to the Komsomol for example, The Young Guard (1922), Komsomol Fleet March (1924), and the narrative poem Komsomoliia (1924). Bezymenskii came to be known as the poet of the Komsomol. He is also the author of the narrative poems Small Town (1921, published in 1922 23), Vladimir ll ich Ul ianov (1926), Felix (1927), Petersburg Blacksmith (1937, published in 1939).The poem Tragic Night (1930 63) is devoted to the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station. Cover restored, otherwise in a very good condition.
In the publishing illustrated case folder. 1. Lenin, V. Tasks of the Youth Union. 2. Stalin, I. About Lenin. 3. Stalin, I. About the Komsomol. 4. Kaganovich, L. International and internal situation and tasks of the Komsomol. 5. Postyshev, P. For the Bolshevik education of new Komsomol cadres. 6. Krupskaya, N. Memories of Lenin. 7. Ulyanov-Elizarova, A. Memories of Ilyich. Design and typography by Solomon Telingater (1903 - 1969), a famous avant-garde Soviet graphic artist, illustrator, printer and book designer. Along with Gustav Klutsis, Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and others, Telingater was a founding member of the October group, a collective of Constructivist artists formed in 1928. The brochure about Postyshev was withdrawn from circulation due to the fact that he was declared an enemy the USSR. The complete set is great rarity. The case folder professionally restored, otherwise near fine.