Konstantin Balmont

Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942), born in the district of Shuya, in the province of Vladimir, was expelled from the Shuya secondary school for belonging to a clandestine circle, then excluded from the law faculty in Moscow after student unrest. His first collection appeared in 1890. A leading figure of Russian Symbolism, he learned many languages and translated Shelley, Poe and Whitman, among others. He left Russia in 1920 and died on 23 December 1942 in Noisy-le-Grand, near Paris.

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• PoetryБудем как солнцеKonstantin Balmont · 1903not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain