47-502: (Redirected from Other Russia ) The Other Russia can refer to: The Other Russia (book) , a 2003 book by Eduard Limonov The Other Russia (coalition) , a 2006–2010 wide coalition of Russian political and human rights organizations, known as the organizer of the Dissenters' March The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov , a Russian political party created in 2010 Topics referred to by
94-532: A cantonist . During his teens, he went to the Sverdlovsk School № 16. There, he was on friendly terms with another student named Vladimir Vinnichevsky , who later on became a serial killer. In 1942, at the age of 17, he joined the Red Army as a volunteer. He changed his name to Ernst during this period because the name Erik "sounded childish," but his mother and friends still called him Erik. At
141-682: A Russian side. The Other Russia also created a militia called " Interbrigades " to support the separatist movement in Donbass; they took part in the battles for Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, and also were engaged in the protection of the leader of Limonov during his visit to the Luhansk region. He died on 17 March 2020 in Moscow. It was reported that Limonov had been battling cancer; complications from two surgery procedures such as throat problems, struggles with oncology , and inflammation were cited as
188-518: A Russian-made heavy gun at Croatian Army headquarters." During the 1990s, he supported Bosnian Serbs in the Yugoslav wars; and Abkhaz and Transnistrian secessionists against Georgia and Moldova , respectively. Limonov was also initially an ally of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and was named as Security Minister in a shadow cabinet formed by Zhirinovsky in 1992. However Limonov soon tired of Zhirinovsky, accusing him of moderateness and of approaching
235-577: A building near the Kremlin, which was visited by Nikita Khrushchev , accompanied by a large entourage, and a film crew. He shouted that the exhibits were "Dog shit!" , and picked out Neizvestny as the person he believed to be in charge. Neizvestny told him: "You may be Premier and Chairman, but not here in front of my works. Here I am Premier and we shall discuss as equals." As they continued to argue, someone in Khrushchev's entourage called Neizvestny
282-635: A choice either to become a informant, or leave the country. Although neither he nor Shchapova were Jewish, the Soviet Union issued permission for the couple to emigrate to Israel, but soon after the couple arrived in the United States. Limonov settled in New York City , where he and Shchapova soon divorced. Limonov worked for a Russian-language newspaper as a proofreader and occasionally interviewed recent Soviet emigrants. Like Eddie,
329-751: A criminal case was launched against him on charges of incitement of ethnic hatred. On the Ukrainian Independence Day 24 August 1999, Limonov along with 15 other supporters from the top of the city's clock tower in Sevastopol publicly called to review the status of the city and not to ratify the Treaty about Friendship and Cooperation between Russia and Ukraine by the State Duma. Limonov was jailed in April 2001 on charges of terrorism ,
376-556: A fellow poet, Yelena Shchapova , in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in 1973. During his period in Moscow, Limonov was involved in the Konkret poets' group and sold volumes of his self-published poetry while doing various day jobs. Having achieved a degree of success in this manner by the mid-1970s, and he and his wife emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1974. The exact circumstances of Limonov's departure are unclear and have been described differently. Reportedly, KGB secret police gave him
423-547: A hearing that the NBP paper Limonka had disseminated illegal and immoral information: "in essence, E. V. Limonov (Savenko) is an advocate of revenge and mass terror, raised to the level of state policy." The court decided to recommend issuing an official warning to Limonka, to investigate the possibility of examining whether Limonov could be held legally responsible, and to publish its decision in Rossiiskaia gazeta . After that,
470-431: A homosexual, but 'after excusing himself to Minister of Culture Yekaterina Furtseva ', Neizvestny replied: "Give me a girl right here and now and I'll show what sort of homosexual I am." At the end of the session, Khrushchev told him: "You are the kind of man I like. There's an angel and a devil in you. If the angel wins, we can get along together. If it's the devil who wins, we'll destroy you." On 15 December, Neizvestny
517-481: A number of shows which were well-attended in the mid to late 1980s. This gallery also asked him to create his suite of five original graphics, "Man through the Wall," to mark the end of Communism at the end of the 1980s. Magna Gallery was closed at the end of 1992. During this time, Neizvestny worked diligently to get his dream "Tree of Life" monumental sculpture funded and built. Several small versions or spinoffs based on
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#1732779650829564-555: A room in a miserable hostel and spent time with homeless persons, some of whom he had casual sexual intercourse with, as related in ‘’It’s me, Eddie’’, published in France under the title Le poète russe préfère les grands nègres . He then found a job as a butler for a millionaire in the Upper East Side. This period of his life led him to write autobiographical texts, including His Butler's Story . Finally, disillusioned with
611-566: A traitor to his homeland who contributed to the downfall of the USSR. Ad Marginem publishes my friend Eduard Limonov's novels. Your obedient servant—Christian Eduard Kracht (truthfully my middle name)" Limonov's works were scandalous for the Russian public, once they began to be published in the USSR during the late perestroika era. Particularly noted is It's Me, Eddie , which contained numerous pornographic descriptions of homosexual acts involving
658-625: Is based on Limonov's writings. In late 1990s and early 2000s, Limonov was a regular contributor to "Living Here" and later to the eXile , both English-language newspapers in Moscow. These were the only known sources where Limonov wrote articles in English. When he joined as a contributor, he specifically asked the editors of the paper that they preserve his "terrible Russian-English style." Although most of his featured articles were political, he also wrote on many topics, including "advice for ambitious youngsters." Limonov expressed that his favorite poet
705-414: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eduard Limonov Eduard Veniaminovich Limonov ( né Savenko ; Russian : Эдуард Вениаминович Лимонов , IPA: [ɪdʊˈart vʲɪnʲɪɐˈmʲinəvʲɪtɕ lʲɪˈmonəf] ; 22 February 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a Russian writer , poet , publicist , political dissident and politician. He emigrated from
752-509: Is just as zealous in putting down American radicals as the KGB is with its own radicals and dissidents. True, the methods of the FBI are more modern. . . . The KGB is, however, studying the techniques of its older brother and modernizing its methods. The first chapter of It's Me, Eddie , was published by an Israeli Russian-language journal. Finished by 1977, it was consistently rejected by publishers in
799-679: The Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1991, where he founded the National Bolshevik Party . The party was banned in the country in 2007 and superseded by The Other Russia . In the 2000s, he was one of the leaders of The Other Russia coalition of opposition forces. Limonov was born in the Soviet Union , in Dzerzhinsk , an industrial town in Gorky Oblast (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ). His father
846-522: The American artist, once said to Neizvestny, "All my life I create the world of children, and you create the world of man." Erik Neizvestny was born 9 April 1925 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg ) into a Jewish family. His father was a doctor and his mother was a scientist. Ernst's great grandfather received his surname, literally meaning "unknown," when he was conscripted for military service as
893-455: The FBI interrogated dozens of his acquaintances, once asking a friend about " Lermontov " in Paris when he had resettled in France. I did not find the freedom to be a radical opponent of the existing social structure of the country which pompously calls itself the 'leader of the free world,' but neither did I notice it in the land which represents itself as the 'future of all humanity.' The FBI
940-671: The Moscow City Court banned the National Bolshevik Party as extremist. The decision was upheld by the Supreme Court. Limonov continued his political activities as one of the leaders of The Other Russia , along with liberal, nationalist and communist politicians. He took part in various protests and was one of the organizers of the Dissenters' Marches . In particular, on 3 March 2007, Limonov
987-608: The Philosophy Department of the Moscow State University . His sculptures, often based on the forms of the human body, are noted for their expressionism and powerful plasticity. Although his preferred material was bronze, his larger, monumental installations were often executed in concrete. Most of his works are arranged in extensive cycles, the best known of which is The Tree of Life , a theme he had developed since 1956. In November 1962 Neizvestny
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#17327796508291034-543: The Russian Academy of Arts . In 1995, he participated as a painter in the jubilee exhibition on Gogol Boulevard, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the exhibition of painting in the pavilion "beekeeping" at VDNH with Eduard Drobitsky, Julia Dolgorukova and other nonconformist artists. A biography of Neizvestny was written by University of Oregon professor Albert Leong in 2002 entitled: Centaur: The Life and Art of Ernst Neizvestny . Another book about Neizvestny
1081-807: The Soviet era was destroyed before he was forcibly exiled to America. Neizvestny's talent for large monumental sculptures was again recognized when in the late 1980s six Taiwan cities commissioned the New Statue of Liberty to be built in Kaohsiung harbor. Like the original in New York, it was planned to be 152 feet tall. Several models were built. At least one about five feet tall, and approximately 13 smaller bronzes, each slightly over 18 inches, sold to clients of Magna Gallery in San Francisco . Although
1128-492: The United States and only brought out a few years after becoming an instant success in France in 1980. In interviews, Limonov says this was because the book was not written with an anti-Soviet tone as was other Russian literature admired in the United States. In New York, Limonov also discovered another side of the American Dream . After being a dissident, he lived a poor life due to his low income. He managed to afford
1175-566: The age of thirteen and soon after became involved in theft and petty crime as an adolescent hooligan. Limonov adopted his pen name for use in literary circles during this time. In 1966, together with his first actual wife, Anna Moiseevna Rubinstein, (their marriage was not registered officially) he first came to Moscow, earning money sewing trousers (Limonov "dressed" many in the intelligentsia; sculptor Ernst Neizvestny and poet Bulat Okudzhava among others), but later returned to Kharkov. Limonov moved to Moscow again in 1967, marrying
1222-674: The authorized maximum number of signed and numbered castings was 200, far fewer were actually cast and sold, in part because the monument was never built in Taiwan. The reasons are largely political and are described in Albert Leong's bio of Neizvestny, referred to below. During the 1980s, Neizvestny was a visiting lecturer at the University of Oregon and at UC Berkeley . He also worked with Magna Gallery in San Francisco and had
1269-439: The charges were ridiculous and politically motivated, but was convicted and sentenced to four years imprisonment for the arms purchasing, while the other charges were dropped. He served almost two years before being paroled for good behavior. He wrote eight books while in jail. In 2006, Limonov married the actress Yekaterina Volkova . They had a son, Bogdan, and a daughter, Alexandra. They split up in 2008. On 19 April 2007,
1316-701: The close of World War II , he was heavily wounded and sustained a clinical death . Although he was awarded the Order of the Red Star "posthumously" and his mother received an official notification that her son had died, Neizvestny managed to survive. In 1947, Neizvestny was enrolled at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga . He continued his education at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute and
1363-482: The country he termed "a damned outhouse bereft of spirit or purpose on the outskirts of civilization", Limonov left America for Paris with his lover Natalya Medvedeva in 1980, where he became active in French literary circles. He swore to never return to the United States, and never did. Having remained stateless for thirteen years, he was granted French citizenship in 1987. Limonov and Medvedeva got married in 1982;
1410-538: The direct cause of his death. Limonov's works are known for their cynicism. His novels are also (to an extent, fictive) memoirs, describing his experiences as a youth in Russia and as émigré in the United States. In 2007, the Swiss novelist Christian Kracht wrote to American businessman David Woodard , " Solzhenitsyn has described Limonov as 'a little insect who writes pornography,' while Limonov described Solzhenitsyn as
1457-517: The forced overthrow of the constitutional order, and the illegal purchase of weapons. Based on an article published in Limonka under Limonov's byline, the government accused Limonov of planning to raise an army to invade Kazakhstan . After one year in jail, his trial was heard in a Saratov court, which also heard appeals from Russian Duma members Vladimir Zhirinovsky , Alexei Mitrofanov and Vasiliy Shandybin for his release. He maintained that
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1504-689: The front lines of Sarajevo in 1992 with Radovan Karadžić , then the Bosnian Serb president and later a convicted war criminal , and firing a few rounds with a machine gun in the direction of the besieged city. When asked about the incident in 2010, Limonov claimed he had been shooting at a target range and that Pawlikowski added an extra frame to make it appear he had fired on an apartment complex. This explanation has been challenged. On another occasion, Limonov said that he "celebrated his 50th birthday in Kninska Krajina ... by firing from
1551-547: The immigrant protagonist of Limonov's first novel It's Me, Eddie , Limonov was drawn to punk subculture and radical politics . Limonov's New York acquaintances included Studio 54 's Steve Rubell and a Trotskyist group, the Socialist Workers Party . As protagonist Eddie finds out as a consequence, the latter is a political target of the FBI . Limonov was himself harassed by the FBI. As he later recounted,
1598-548: The informal successor to the NBP. It was denied official registration in 2010 and in 2019, after it got re-established without Limonov as formally part of its leadership. Since 2014, Limonov supported the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic , and encouraged Russians to take part in the Russo-Ukrainian War on
1645-632: The narrator. The author later argued that such scenes were purely fiction; however, his fellow Russian nationalists were nevertheless appalled by such descriptions in Limonov's work. Thus, the Neo-Nazi leader Alexander Barkashov remarked to a journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda concerning Limonov: "Если лидер педераст, то он родину продаст." ("If the leader is a pederast, he will betray the fatherland.") Russian film director and screenwriter Aleksandr Veledinskii 's 2004 feature film Russkoe ("Russian")
1692-519: The pair split up by 1995. In 1991, Limonov returned to Russia from France, restored his citizenship, and became active in politics. Limonov was a strong supporter of Serbia in the wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia and participated in a sniper patrol in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War . Paweł Pawlikowski 's film Serbian Epics includes footage of Limonov travelling to
1739-416: The president and consequently split from him, publishing the book "Limonov against Zhirinovsky" (1994). In 1993, together with figures like Aleksandr Dugin and Yegor Letov , he founded the National Bolshevik Party which started to publish a newspaper called Limonka (the Russian nickname for the lemon-shaped F1 hand grenade ; also a play on his pen name Limonov). In 1996, a Russian court judged in
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1833-588: The sentence for them is ten years in prison." He went on to compare looking at Neizvestny's work to being in a toilet looking up while someone else was sitting on it. Despite these insults, in 1975, four years after Khrushchev's death, his family commissioned Neizvestny to design the monument over his grave at the Novodevichy Cemetery . Other well-known works he created during the Soviet period include Prometheus in Artek (1966). Much of his art from
1880-465: The theme were built, but the enormous monumental version that Neizvestny dreamed to build, inside which people could walk, has not been built although it has been fully conceptualized, planned out and detailed by the artist as a labor of love. In 1996, Neizvestny completed his Mask of Sorrow , a 15-metre (49 ft) tall monument to the victims of Soviet purges, situated in Magadan . The same year, he
1927-713: Was Velimir Khlebnikov . Japanese writer Yukio Mishima is noted, by some observers, as an influence on Limonov's writing. Eduard Limonov's life is related in detail by Emmanuel Carrère in his 2011 biographical novel Limonov and in the Adam Curtis documentary series Can't Get You Out of My Head . English actor Ben Whishaw portrayed Limonov in Limonov: The Ballad , a film by Kirill Serebrennikov based on Carrère's novel. Ernst Neizvestny Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny ( Russian : Эрнст Ио́сифович Неизве́стный ; 9 April 1925 – 9 August 2016 )
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1974-502: Was a Russian sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher . He emigrated to the U.S. in 1976 and lived and worked in New York City . American playwright Arthur Miller once described Neizvestny as an "artist of the East" who is regarded by Russians as an "expression of the country, of its soul, language, and spirit" and as a "prophet of the future" who represents the "philosophical conscience of his country." Alexander Calder ,
2021-404: Was among 400 guests invited to hear Khrushchev speak at Moscow's House of Receptions . Khrushchev reputedly intended to be conciliatory, but went off script and pointing at one of Neizvestny's statues and demanded: "is that a horse or a cow? Whatever it is, it makes an ugly mockery of a perfectly noble animal." Pointing at another he said: "If that's supposed to be a woman, then you're a faggot. And
2068-665: Was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation . Although he lived in New York City and worked at Columbia University, Neizvestny frequently visited Moscow and celebrated his 80th birthday there. A museum dedicated to his sculptures was established in Uttersberg, Sweden. Some of his crucifixion statues were acquired by John Paul II for the Vatican Museums . In 2004, Neizvestny became an honorary member of
2115-591: Was born in the Voronezh Oblast while his mother was born in the Gorky Oblast . Limonov's father—then in the military service – was in a state security career and his mother was a homemaker . In the early years of his life his family moved to Kharkov in the Ukrainian SSR , where Limonov grew up. He studied at the H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University . By Limonov's own account, he began writing "very bad" poetry at
2162-574: Was detained by police in the very beginning of the rally the first Saint Petersburg Dissenters' March ; on 14 April 2007, Limonov was arrested again after an anti-government rally in Moscow ; on 31 January 2009 was detained again in Moscow. In July 2009, he helped organise the Strategy-31 series of protests. Soon, Limonov split up with the liberal opposition. In July 2010, he and his followers established The Other Russia political party, as
2209-527: Was invited to contribute to an exhibition organised by the Moscow Union of Artists. There was tension between this body and the Academy of Fine Arts, and part of the point of the exhibition was to try to demonstrate that the Academy had too narrow a definition of what constituted art. The exhibition drew large crowds, but the organisers were ordered to close it after a few days, and transfer the exhibits to
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