{"title":"Sergei Tretyakov","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSergei Tretyakov\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1892–1937) was a Soviet writer and theorist. Associated with the Russian futurist movement, he began as a poet and later became involved in theater, cinema, journalism, and even radio. He helped write the intertitles for Sergei Eisenstein’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBattleship Potemkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and had a profound influence on the work of his friend Bertolt Brecht. During the Great Purge, he was arrested, made to sign a false confession of espionage, and sentenced to death by firing squad. He killed himself in Moscow’s Butyrka prison before his execution could be carried out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/sergei-tretyakov.oembed","provider":"New York Review Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}