Bozhidar


Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev, also known as Bozhidar, was a Russian futurist poet of Ukrainian origin.
Bozhidar is also a Bulgarian given name.

Biography and literary career

Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev was born into the family of a professor of Veterinary Institute and a school teacher.
He attended the Third Kharkiv Gymnasium, graduating with a gold medal in 1913.
After graduating, Gordeev, strongly influenced by creations of Velemir Khlebnikov, took his pseudonym and became intimate with a literary group "Centrifuge", which was founded in the same year by Boris Pasternak, Sergey Bobrov and Nikolay Aseev. In the beginning of 1914, Bozhidar, Aseev and Grigory Petnikov founded publishing house Liren . Later in that year, the only book of poems by Bozidar - “Tambourine”, was published.
Bozhidar committed suicide by hanging on September 7, 1914 in a forest near village Babki, nearby Kharkiv, partially due to the beginning of World War I.
His prosody tractate and Byben's second issue were published posthumously.
Bozhidar was also posthumously included in Khlebnikov's "Chairmen of the Globe" society by its founder: Khlebnikov wrote his name under "Martians' Trumpet" manifest in 1916.