Nikolai Aseyev (writer)

He studied a technical school in the city and had also attended the Moscow Institute of Commerce.

[1] It is said that Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky were two of Aseyev's literary influences.

[2] In 1914, Aseyev helped form a young poets' group called Lirika.

[1] In the same year, his first poetic collections, "Night Flute" (Nochnaia fleita), and "Zor", which were written in the Russian Futurist style, were published.

Among his notable poems was A Song about Alabama, which criticized the American conceptualization of a crime punishable by death for blacks.