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Balmont (Бальмонт) Konstantin Dmitrievich
(1867–1942)

Konstantin Balmont was a Russian symbolist poet, translator, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. He was born into a noble family near Vladimir. In 1886 he entered the Moscow University, but was excluded the next year. He started poetic activity in the end of 1890s, and became famous in 1905 after having published several compilations of poems. In the end of 1905 he illegally left Russia for Paris, traveled extensively, and returned to Moscow only in 1916. He accepted enthusiastically the February Revolution, but was against the October Revolution of 1917, and left Russia for Germany, and subsequently for France in 1920. He spent the last 20 years of his life in emigration and in poverty. He died in 1942 in Noisy-le-Grand, a suburb of Paris.

Russia, 1992.06.15, Shuya. Konstantin Balmont

Russia, 1992, 125th Birth Anniv of Konstantin Balmont