12 Facts About Maximilian Voloshin

Maximilian Voloshin was one of the significant representatives of the symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature.

Maximilian Voloshin became famous as a poet and a critic of literature and the arts, being published in many contemporary magazines of the early 20th century, including Vesy, Zolotoye runo, and Apollon.

Maximilian Voloshin was known for his translations of a number of French poetic and prose works into Russian.

Maximilian Voloshin spent his early childhood in Sevastopol and Taganrog.

When "a madman" ripped Repin's famous canvas Ivan the Terrible Killing His Son with a knife, shocking Intellectual Russia, Maximilian Voloshin was the only person in the country to defend the man, "indicating that it was an esthetic statement appropriate to the painting, which displayed gore and bad taste".

Maximilian Voloshin had a brief affair with Miss Sabashnikova, but they soon broke up, and this had a profound effect on his work.

Gradually, Maximilian Voloshin was drawn back to Koktebel in the Crimea, where he had spent much of his childhood.

The ensuing Civil War prompted Maximilian Voloshin to write long poems linking what was happening in Russia to its distant, mythologized past.

Maximilian Voloshin recreated the semi-mythical world of the Cimmerii in pictures and verses.

Miraculously, Maximilian Voloshin survived the Civil War, and in the 1920s set up a free rest home for writers in his house, in accordance with his rejection of private property.

Maximilian Voloshin is regarded as one of the most notable poets of Russian Silver Age.

Maximilian Voloshin's poems were set to music and frequently performed by singers-songwriters.