Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1885)

Velimir Khlebnikov

Russian playwright, poet and futurist (1885-1922)

Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov, was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it. Influential linguist Roman Jakobson hailed Khlebnikov as "the…