Khlebnikov

Poets have been ill-fated in Russia ever since the Revolution: Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Esenin, among the two great poets of the Revolutionary era, were suicides; Viktor Khlebnikov starved to death during the Civil War; […]

The ship's Russian captain, Vitaly Khlebnikov, told reporters that the boarding was "dangerous."

Though born in New York, he was motivated by a passionate identification with Russia and its culture - he was known to his Russian readers as Pavel Khlebnikov.

Poet Oleg Khlebnikov has lived in the old writers' retreat north of the birch alley for 20 years, penning his verse on an oil cloth-covered wooden table on the veranda of a dacha he leases from the Literary Fund, a cultural heritage bureaucracy that inherited the enclave after the demise of the Soviet Union.

Dmitry Khlebnikov, a passenger seated in the 10th row, later told journalists at Sheremetyevo airport that he was only alive thanks to the crew.