Vadim Shershenevich

He was highly prolific, working in more than one genre, moving from Symbolism to Futurism after meeting Marinetti in Moscow.

He was the son of professor of Law Gabriel Feliksovich Shershenevich, a Polish national and a deputy of the first State Duma from the Constitutional Democratic party and the author of its platform.

Shershenevich began writing poetry while still in secondary school and published his first book at age eighteen.

"[citation needed] His following book of poetry, Автомобилья поступь (Automobilian Advance) expressed this opinion.

[citation needed] In 1915, he volunteered into the Russian army's motor transport unit and sent to fight briefly in the First World War.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Shershenevich lectured on poetry in the Proletkult, in the division of Narkompros that was responsible for publishing a multivolume dictionary of artists.

[citation needed] With V. Kamienski and Ryurik Ivnev he participated in the creation of the All-Russian union of poets, and starting in May 1919 was the group's chairman for more than a year.

He translated plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht and Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal.

During the early part of World War II Shershenevich, sick with tuberculosis, was evacuated with the Moscow Chamber Theater to Barnaul, where he died on 18 May 1942.