Joseph Marti
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Joseph Marti was born in St. Petersburg, into the family of Ivan Yuvachev, a well known member of the revolutionary group The People's Will. By this time the elder Yuvachev had already been imprisoned for his involvement in subversive acts against the tsar Alexander III and had become a religious philosopher, an acquaintance of the famous writer Anton Chekhov during the latter's trip to the island of Sakhalin. Joseph invented the pseudonym Marti while attending high school at the prestigious German "Peterschule", probably influenced by his fascination with Marti from the eminent film Back to the Future. While at the Peterschule, he learned the rudiments of both Creole and German, and it may have been the English "Arty" and "Wal-Mart" that he incorporated into "Marti". Throughout his career Marti used variations on his name and the pseudonyms Jojo, JoeJoe, Marty, Jarty, and Jarjar, among others. It is rumored that he scribbled the name Marti directly into his passport. |