Nikolay Glazkov

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Nikolay Ivanovich Glazkov (Russian: Николай Иванович Глазков, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ ɡlɐˈskof] ; 30 January 1919 – 1 October 1979) was a Soviet Russian poet who coined the term samizdat. Glazkov was born in the village of Lyskovo, in what is now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. His father was a lawyer and his mother was a teacher of German language. The family moved to Moscow in 1923. Glazkov began writing poetry at a very early age. As a student, he attended the literature faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 1938 his father was repressed during the Great Purge, and in 1940 Glazkov was thrown out of university as a relative of an enemy of the people. Soon afterwards, however, he was allowed to attend Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, from which he graduated in 1942. Upon graduation he worked as a village teacher, but in 1944 he returned to Moscow. He worked odd jobs such as loading trucks and sawing lumber, all the while publishing poetry both officially and unofficially.