Graal Arelsky

You are also tormented by the stellar worlds that you look at, and you speak especially well about the stars... [1] A year later, he published the article, Egopoetry in Poetry (Egopoezii v poezii) in which he argued that Ego-poetry aims to glorify egoism as the only true and vital intuition.

Arelsky was also one of the authors of Prolog Ego-Futurizm, a brochure on Ego-Futurism published in October 1915, along with Igor Severyanin, Olimpov, and George Ivanov.

His second book of poems, "Leteysky shore", was published in 1913 and marked the author's transition from acmeism, cultivated in the "Workshop of Poets", to the "scientism" promoted by him.

Several notable literary works were published after he left Ego-Futurism and joined the Acmeist Guild of Poets.

[1] These include the Tales from Mars (Povesti o Marse), a compilation of three interconnected fictional stories which culminate in a Martian workers' revolution against their capitalist oppressors.

According to science fiction researcher A. Pervushin, this book is the forerunner of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.

On April 1, 1936, he was sentenced by the Special Collegium of the Leningrad Regional Court to 10 years in labor camps under article 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation.