Alexander Polezhayev [SEP] medical condition
in the course of several months, Alexander Polezhayev fell ill with tuberculosis and died.
"Polezhayev's fate was of a peculiar, I'd say proto-Soviet kind. The Tsarist army became his GULAG," wrote poet and Russian poetry historian Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
External links.
- Alexander Polezhayev @ the Moshkov Library
Alexander Polezhayev
Alexander Ivanovich Polezhayev (, 11 September [o.s. 30 August] 1804, v.Pokryshkino, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire – 28 [o.s. 16] January 1838, Moscow, Russian Empire), was a controversial Russian poet, best known for his satirical poem "Sashka" which in 1826 resulted in his being demoted to the Russian Army in the Caucasus, by a special decree of Nicolas I who saw this daring challenge as a continuation of the Decembrist revolt. Polezhayev continued to write satires (