Dmitri Kryuchkov


Dmitri Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov in Russian: Дмитрий Александрович Крючков was a Russian poet and a convert to Catholicism.

Biography

Born in 1887 in Saint Petersburg in a middle-class family, Kryuchkov studied in a German high school, but did not finish it. He was engaged in the course of Ego-Futurism poetry and published two collections of poetry. Much of his poetry had themes of landscapes and religion. His first book of poetry was titled "Padun Nemolchnyi" published in 1913. His second book of poetry was titled "Tsvety Ledyanye" and was published in 1914, featuring poems exclusively about Winter landscapes. As Ego-Futurism eventually dissipated, Kryuchkov faded into obscurity along with other poets of this movement.

Conversion to Catholicism, persecution and missing

Kryuchkov served as a psalmist in the Orthodox Church of Saint Panteleimon. In autumn 1922 he met with Leonid Fyodorov, Exarch of the Russian Greek Catholic Church. On August 19, 1923 Kryuchkov joined to Catholic Church. He worked as a writer-translator for the State Publishing House "World Literature" and private - «Academia». On December 7, 1923 he was arrested in the case group of Russian Catholics. On December 19, 1923 Kryuchkov was sent for further investigation in Moscow and imprisoned in Butyrskaya prison. On May 19, 1924 he was sentenced under Article 61 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years in prison. Sent to Irkutsk, in June 1926 was later transferred to the Department of Osinovskoye Siblag, where he worked in the mines and Aralicheva Osinovka. On December 22, 1932 he was released from the camp ahead of time-limited residence in 12 major cities and the Ural region.
Since January 1933 Kryuckkov lived in Yaroslavl, where he was again arrested in 1936 and sentenced to 15 years in labor camps. The subsequent fate is unknown.