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Kirill Medvedev
Kirill Medvedev (Russian: Кирилл Феликсович Медведев; born 19 June 1975) is a Soviet and Russian activist, musician, translator and author who notably gave up the copyright to all his works in 2004.[1] He is a key member of the musical group "Arkadiy Kots." Early life and educationKirill Medvedev was born on June 19, 1975, in Moscow. His father Feliks was a well-known post-Soviet journalist and writer.[2] From 1992 to 1995 he studied in the history department at the Moscow State University.[3] Career Medvedev published two collections of poetry in his mid twenties: Everything is Bad (or It’s No Good) and Incursion; these were dismissed by some critics as they were autobiographical free verse, which is unusual among Russian poets. He also translated Charles Bukowski into Russian.[2] In 2003, he renounced his copyright in his "Manifesto on Copyright".[4][2] Literary scholar Annette Gilbert has interpreted Medvedev’s manifesto and his turning away from the established literary world as a continuation of the resistance of Russian authors against a state-regulated publishing system and samizdat.[5] In 2007, Medvedev founded the Free Marxist Press, which publishes the works of Ernest Mandel, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Herbert Marcuse, Terry Eagleton, and Russian authors.[2] In 2012, It’s No Good: poems/essays/actions a collection of poems, essays, and actions were published in English for the first time, by n+1 / Ugly Duckling Presse.[6][2] In it he described his perspective in and among the mainstream poets, the inextricable "link between politics and culture," and how refusal of copyright or recognition for his works is part of a fundamental role of art to challenge existing power systems.[7][8]
MusicianMedvedev has been performing vocals and guitar in the Arkadiy Kots Band, a riot-folk band based in Moscow which formed in 2010.[9] The band draws its name from the Russian socialist poet Arkady Kots who translated The Internationale into Russian.[10] ActivismIn the early 2000s Medvedev joined a small socialist party called Vpered ("Forward").[2] In 2017, Medvedev announced he was running in the municipal elections in the Meshchansky District.[11] On 12 September 2017, he announced on the party's Facebook page that he received about 11% of the vote (379 votes) and was not elected.[12] Personal lifeIn 2015 Medvedev said, that for several years he "was a stay-at-home father; more recently I have worked as a delivery man for several companies as well as a freelance book editor".[1] Works in english translationBooks Kirill Medvedev. "It's No Good." Translated by Keith Gessen, Mark Krotov, Cory Merrill, Bela Shayevich (n+1/New York: Ugly Duckling Press, 2016). [1] References
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