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Events on Monday 2 February 1942 1
1905 – 1942Daniil Kharms (1905-1942)Died 2 February 1942, aged 36Daniil Kharms was a Russian avant-garde poet and writer of absurdist prose, and a founder of the OBERIU group. He was arrested by the NKVD in 1941 and died in a prison psychiatric ward during the Siege of Leningrad. His work was largely unpublished in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s.