Verhoustinski Boris A.

(12.HI by dp. information-25.HI.1.1888, St. Petersburg - 21.HI.1919, Smolensk)
The son of an official. In January 1907. participated in the formation of an anarchist group "Black Terror", issued by an agent provocateur, arrested: until November 1908 - at the St. Petersburg solitary prison ( "Crosses"). In 1910-14 he. often printed poetry and prose. Published a collection of tales and stories for children "Green Meadow" and "brave warriors" (both 1913), but held aloof from the literary world. Aware of writing as another form of the original anarchist choice in. protecting their opposition to "vile time" early 1910's., manners literary bohemian, modern schools in the literature, which until the end of life spoke disparagingly: "decadence" and "futuristic lingo". In 1915, Mr.. - Member of the Poets "Beauty". At the same time in the publishing house "Guild of Poets" published by the most representative series of his lyrics (collection "Perun". -Pb., 1915). Spring 1916. was mobilized and served in the combat engineers. As a result of the gassing was disabled. In 1917, Mr.. - Among the anarchists in Petrograd, in the winter of 1917-18. member of the editorial board Puffin. Was curator of palaces in Oranienbaum. The spring of 1919. - Smolensk: the newspaper of the political army of 16 "Red Army" printed grotesque, satirical and anticlerical poems, partially assembled posthumously ( "Sailor's Confession". -M., 1921). He founded the association Smolensk artistic expression. He died of typhoid.
Lit.: Flame, 1920. -? 13-14; Russian writers, 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. -T. 1. - M., 1989.