Gennady AygiGennady Aygi (1934–2006) was born in a village in the Chuvash Republic, a land with a Turkic language, and eventually became the Chuvash national poet, later moving to Moscow. Like Platonov, he couldn’t publish his work in the SovietUnion until the 1980s. New Directions publishes his books Child-And-Rose and Field-Russia. Read More Read Less