Sasha Chorny

Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Гли́кберг, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ ˈɡlʲiɡbʲɪrk] ⓘ; 13 October [O.S.

Alexander Glikberg was born into a Jewish family of pharmacists in Odessa, Russian Empire (currently in Ukraine) on October 13 N.S.

The Glikberg children could not enter a gymnasium because of the quota restriction for enrollment of Jews in schools in Imperial Russia.

Alexander served two years in the Army and then got a job as a customs officer in the village of Novosiltsy on the border with Austria-Hungary.

The magazine went bankrupt within two months, and Alexander decided to continue his journalistic career in Saint Petersburg.

After returning to Saint Petersburg, Alexander published a collection of verse titled Nonsense (Чепуха) in the magazine Zritel using the pen name Sasha Chorny.

There isn't a student, physician, or lawyer that does not know Chorny's verses by heart,"[1] wrote Korney Chukovsky, who was also a Satirikon contributor.

He died of a heart attack while helping to put out a fire in the town of Lavandou in the South of France on July 5, 1932.

"[2] Dmitri Shostakovich set five of Chorny's poems to music for his song cycle Satires (Pictures of the Past), op.