Fedor Svarovskiy

Born on April 6, 1971, in Moscow, into a family of journalists. After school he worked on the filming of documentary movies as a “film crew administrator.” At the age of 19 he emigrated from the Soviet Union to Denmark. He spent a year and a half in a refugee camp, was granted political asylum, after which he lived in Aarhus and later moved to Copenhagen. Because he saw no clear prospects for his life in Denmark, in 1996 he returned to Moscow. He married. He began working as a journalist, first in television and then in print. He writes poetry in the style of steb, is an active participant in poetic and other social circles, is an Orthodox Christian, and the author of the book Everybody Wants to Be Robots (2007); ambitious and hermetic, he identifies contemporary Russian power with aggressive aliens.

Instruction finding yourself suddenly among medieval Albanians ending up at a construction site in Ancient China as a Japanese slave in a dark forge of antiquity, forging horseshoes for elephants on the Sinai mountains three thousand years ago, waiting for the sunrise or with a knife in your hand in the glow of blue-red sirens in the middle of the Bronx in a waterlogged trench during the Brusilov Offensive near Vykhino station, drinking beer with the guys among donkeys laden with contraband on the Tajikistan border falling asleep in a spit-covered bathroom in an opiate addict’s apartment downing champagne with vodka in the company of artists on the last desk in the 9th grade of a general school in the city of Kursk running away in the desert in the 4th century from a giant lizard in a solitary cell in an illegal American prison among a wild desert, alone, three days’ walk from Suez sitting on a potty in a state institution where childhood passes unnoticed in a truck with militants under the leadership of a narco-Trotskyist warlord in a wet forest with a guitar among Soviet songwriters-tourists in ’97 in the Moscow metro on the edge of an exploding platform cutting across the stage as part of the band “Civil Defense” in prehistoric times in places unknown to anyone being a senior research fellow at some research institute in cramped offices or during