What is "bozhidar"

Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev (; June 21, 1894, Kharkiv, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire - September 7, 1914), also known as Bozhidar , was a Russian futurist poet of Ukrainian origin.

Bogdan Petrovich Gordeev was born into the family of a professor of Veterinary Institute and a school teacher. He attended the Third Kharkiv Gymnasium, graduating with a gold medal in 1913. He was one of the founders (with Grigory Petnikov and Nikolay Aseyev) of the publishing house Liren . Byben, his first issue, was published in the summer of 1914.

Bozhidar committed suicide by hanging on September 7, 1914 in a forest near Kharkiv.

The second issue of Byben and his prosody tractate were published posthumously.