After graduating from Grekov Odessa Art school which he entered in 1908, Bryansky performed on stage under the pseudonym of Sasha Krasny.
After the October Revolution he joined the Red Army and became one of Vladimir Lenin's bodyguards.
Along with fellow Odesite writers such as Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov he published his poems in the Gudok newspaper, a mouthpiece for the Soviet Ministry of Transport.
[2] In the mid-1920s Krasny led a circle of amateur performers who sought to popularize Bolshevik ideology by touring the country with skits, songs, and recitations of poems.
Krasny died in 1995 at the claimed age of 112[3] in Moscow and was buried at the New Donskoy Cemetery there.