Kirillov Vladimir Timofeyevich

(2.H.1890, der. Kharin Duhovschinskogo district of Smolensk province - 16. HII.1943)
To. was a hard life. After the death of his father, who left a large family, forced to leave in Smolensk. From the age of ten began to work in a shoe shop. In 14 years, having moved to the south, entered a cabin-boy on one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet. Sailed to Turkey, Egypt, etc.. country. For participation in the movement of seafarers in the years 1905-06. was brought to military court, and only because of the minority to avoid the death penalty. Three years was in the Ust-Sysolskoe exile, where he joined the Social Democratic kruzhok.Uchastnik February and October revolutions of 1917. The press was made in 1913. In 1917-18. worked in Petrograd in 1919. - In the Tambov Proletkult. Since 1920. lived in Moscow. In 1918, Mr.. released a collection of K. "Poems", reflecting the pathos of the revolutionary struggle. The poem "We" (written in December, 1917. in response to the AV. Lunacharskogo of resignation in protest against the destruction of monuments of Russian culture) contain lines, . which later came to be perceived as one of the slogans Proletkult: "In the name of our tomorrow - burn Raphael, . destroy the museums, . rastopchem Art Flowers,
. Lyrics Iron Messiah, "" Sailor "," I overheard these songs are close, happy ages "," 25 October ", etc.. permeated with the spirit of proletarian internationalism. From 1929. appeared in print relatively rare. Arrested in 1937. He was posthumously rehabilitated.

Lit.: Trofimov and. Writers Smolensk. - M, 1973; Claix. - V.3.