Died 1942-12-23.
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Konstantin Balmont
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont was a Russian symbolist poet and translator who became one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
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culture · Russian poet (1867–1942) · linguist · poet · writer · translator · essayist · translator of Adam Mickiewicz · translator of William Wordsworth · also Konstantin Balmont, Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont, Balmont
Born 3 June 1867 · Died 23 December 1942 · Q314498
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1942· 1 entry
1921· 1 entry
Balmont moved out of Paris into the provinces where he and his family rented houses in Brittany, the Vendée, Bordeaux, and the Gironde
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1920· 2 entries
Balmont and his family left Russia for good
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Anatoly Lunacharsky (urged by Jurgis Baltrušaitis, then the head of the Lithuanian diplomatic mission in Moscow) granted Balmont permission to leave the country
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1916· 1 entry
Traveled through the entire Empire, giving readings to large audiences and reached Japan, where he was also warmly received
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1914· 1 entry
The publication of Balmont's Complete Works in ten volumes commenced
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1913· 1 entry
After an amnesty on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty was declared
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1909· 1 entry
Balmont attempted suicide for the second time (jumping out a window) and again survived
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1907· 1 entry
When Tsvetkovskaya gave birth to a daughter Mirra, named so by her father in the memory of the poet Mirra Lokhvitskaya, who died in 1905 and with whom he had passionate platonic relations
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1904· 1 entry
Balmont published his collected writings in prose as Mountain Peaks (Gornye vershiny)
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1903· 2 entries
Meaning apparently Larisa, but also his university friends who considered the book 'reactionary' and scorned its author for 'betraying the ideals of social struggle'
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Balmont returned to Russia, his administrative restrictions having been removed by Interior Minister von Plehve
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1901· 2 entries
Balmont sent Leo Tolstoy a copy of it, saying in a letter: "This book is a prolonged scream of a soul caught in the process of being torn apart
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Their daughter Nina Balmont (Bruni in marriage, died in Moscow in 1989) was born
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1899· 1 entry
Would launch the Scorpion publishing house)
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1896· 1 entry
Balmont married Ekaterina Alekseyevna Andreeva, and the couple went abroad that year to travel through Western Europe
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1894· 2 entries
Balmont met Valery Bryusov, who, impressed by the young poet's "personality and his fanatical passion for poetry," soon became his best friend
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And marked the starting point in his literary career, several critics praising the young author's originality and versatility
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1890· 1 entry
Balmont released a self-financed book called Collection of Poems (Sbornik stikhotvoreny), which included some of the pieces published in 1885
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1889· 2 entries
Ignoring his mother's warnings, Balmont married Larisa Mikhaylovna Garelina, a daughter of Shuya-based factory-owner, described as a neurasthenic who "gave [the poet] the love of a truly demonic nature"
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Balmont returned to the university but soon quit again after suffering a nervous breakdown
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1886· 2 entries
Balmont graduated from the much hated gymnasium ("It completely ruined my nervous system
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But was quickly expelled for taking part in student unrest
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1876· 1 entry
The family moved to Shuya where Vera Nikolayevna owned a two-story house
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-06-03.
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