Oberiu
Ostashevsky, Eugene / Ostashevsky, Eugene / Yankelevich, Matvei
It was a movement so artfully anarchic, and so quickly suppressed, that readers only began to discover its strange and singular brilliance three decades after it was extinguished-and then only in "samizdat" and emigre publications. Some called it the last of the Russian avant-garde, and others called it the first (and last) instance of Absurdism in Russia, however difficult to classify, it was OBERIU (from an acronym standing for The Union of ...