YURKUN, Yuri Ivanovich (Jurkunas Joseph (Juozas))

17 сентября 1895 (village of Vilna province Clumzy; in some sources — Vilna) — 21 сентября 1938 (Leningrad)

Schedule, writer

Childhood and adolescence spent in Vilna. He studied at the Jesuit boarding (did not graduate). In 1913 as an actor he performed with a theatrical troupe in Russian and Ukrainian cities. In Kiev he met and became friends with М. А. Кузьминым.

From 1913 he lived in St. Petersburg. Was engaged in literary activities. Enjoyed the patronage of М. А. Кузьмина who invented pen name — Yurkun. Was with friendly relations with many representatives of cultural life of that time — С. Э. Радловым, Л. И. Каннегисером, В. В. Маяковским, Б. К. Лившицем, Г. В. Ивановым, Г. В. Адамовичем, В. А. Милашевским and other; frequent visitor to art workshops, artistic cabaret "Halt comedians" and "stray dog". Member of the informal literary society "the Marseilles sailors" (1917).

the author of the novel "Swedish gloves" (St. Petersburg, 1914), a collection of "Stories written on Kirochnaya street in the house № 48" (PG., 1916), the story "Bad company" (PG., 1917). In 1910-е published in magazines "Twinkle", "Lukomorie", "Petersburg nights". Together with М. А. Кузьминым, С. Э. Радловым, А. А. Радловой signed a "Declaration of emotionalism" (1923).

In 1918 he was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a revolutionary М. С. Урицкого released on the petition М. Горького. With 1920/1921 — husband of the artist and the artist О. Н. Гильдебрандт-Арбениной (not officially married).

After 1923 ceased to be published. Became interested in fine art, collecting. Formal artistic education is not received. The advice В. А. Милашевского. Created genre scenes, landscapes, caricatures, sketches, figures, collages. Executed a number of drawings for the works М. А. Кузьмина. A member of the group "13", participant 1-й exhibition Association (1929).

3 февраля 1938 arrested by the NKVD in the so-called "case of conspiracy writers"; on a sentence of the Supreme Collegium of the Supreme court of the USSR "for participation in anti-Soviet right-троцкистской terrorist and subversive-вредительской organization" sentenced to be shot. Shot 20 or 21 сентября 1938; in 1958 — rehabilitated.

a Memorial exhibition was held in 1990 and 2010 in Leningrad (now St.-Петербурге).

the artistic heritage preserved in fragments. A significant portion of the manuscripts, drawings, diaries were seized during the search Lingpa in September 1931 года. The other part, including the novel "the Fog behind bars", plays, stories, poems, memories of В. В. Маяковском and М. А. Кузьмине and the manuscripts of the М. А. Кузьмина (Yurkun was executor of the poet), confiscated in 1938. Art work is represented in several Museum collections, including the Museum of Anna Akhmatova in the fountain House (Saint-Петербург).