 Mikhail Gerasimov (poet)

Mikhail Prokofyevich Gerasimov (; 1889–1939) was one of the most widely read working-class poets in early-twentieth-century Russia.Initially embracing the Bolshevik revolution as a liberating event and participating in the effort to create a new proletarian culture, following the New Economic Policy he became disillusioned and was imprisoned during the Joseph Stalin era.