Nikolai Chuzhak

Nikolai Fedorovich Chuzhak (; real surname Nasimovich, ; 20 August 1876, Nizhny Novgorod – 3 September 1937, St Petersburg) was a Russian Bolshevik journalist, literary critic and art theorist.

Chuzhak was a son of a poor craftsman and violinist who was attracted to the social democratic movement in 1896. In 1904 he went to Geneva and became involved in the production of Proletarii. However he left in 1924 dissatisfied with what he regarded as Mayakovsky's traditional approach to poetry.

Chuzhak spent the last years of his life writing memoirs. From 1933, he received a personal pension assigned by the Council of the Society of Old Bolsheviks. Chuzhak died from cardiosclerosis on September 3, 1937.

Nikolai Chuzhak was father of the chess composer Evgeny Nikolaevich Somov (1910–1944).

Texts Toward an Aesthetic of Marxism (1912) Siberian Poets and Their Works (1916) The Siberian Theme in Poetry (1922) Under the Banner of Life-Building (An Attempt to Understand the Art of Today) (1923)