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Igor
Sergeevich Kholin

Russia • 1920−1999

Biography and information

Brought up in an orphanage. War veteran, captain. From 1946 he lived in Moscow, serves as a firefighter, then worked as a waiter. From 1949 he studied at the artist E. Kropivnitsky, entered the Lianozovo group in Moscow. artists and writers (Rabin, N. Vechtomov, Sun.Nekrasov, G. Sapgir, later Limonov, etc.). The poet-conceptualist. Published in Samizdat and in the West. Was printed only as a children's poet, sa-Ki "adult" poems were published in the Soviet Union since perestroika (collection of poetry "the people Barack", 1989, etc.).