Daniil Charms

Daniil Charms (born Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachov) was born in St. Petersburg in 1905. The Russian writer was a founding member of the avant-garde artists’ group OBERIU, which was banned in 1930. To continue writing under censorship, he also produced literature for children. Charms was arrested several times and exiled from Leningrad. He died in 1942 in the psychiatric ward of Kresty Prison.