took part in the organising of the IV Extraordinary Congress of Soviets of Workers', Peasants', Soldiers' and Cossack's Deputies . In 1919, Ivnev was sent to the south as head of the organizing bureau of the propaganda train named after A. V. Lunacharsky, and visited Ukraine and Georgia. Returning to Moscow, in 1921 he headed the All-Russian Union of Poets. During this period, Ivnev's rapprochement with the Imagists begins . 1920s: Imaginist Now in Moscow, joined a new poetic trend, Imaginism, with which he was mainly associated in the 1920s. In 1925 Ivnev visited Germany, then worked in Vladivostok at the Knizhnoe delo publishing house. In 1927 he visited Japan. In the second half of the 1920s Rurik Ivnev published an epic trilogy, The Life of an Actress, which contained the novels Love without the love (1925), The Open House (1927) and The Hero of Novel (1928). Later Years With increasing oppression from the Soviet authorities in 1930s and 1940s, Ivnev was reduced to earning his living through translations of foreign-language poetry and writing historical plays. In the late 1930s he worked on an autobiographical novel, At the Foot of Mtatsmindy. In the same period Ivnev began to work on another autobiographical novel, Bohemia, which he completed in the month before his death. At the time he lived in Tbilisi and translated Georgian poetry. In 1950 he returned to Moscow. After the Stalinist era came to an end, he worked on his memoirs. He died four days before his ninetieth birthday. Personal life Ryurik Ivnev had numerous homosexual relationships throughout his life and mentioned those encounters in his diaries, published in 2013. References External links Ryurik Ivnev. Poems 1891 births 1981 deaths Russian male poets Russian male novelists Writers from Tbilisi 20th-century Russian poets 20th-century Russian male writers Russian LGBT poets Russian LGBT novelists Russian gay writers Gay novelists Gay poets 20th-century Russian LGBT people