The unjust stamp of "latecomer" was embedded in the consciousness of his contemporaries. All these details of his biography are vital for the reception of his poetry. His verse features a persona tormented by loneliness, anguish, insults, and an agonizing sense of the ephemerality of life. Suffering in a senseless and irreparable world in which he is doomed to live, the hero of these lyrics also knows a different world, the contemplation of which gives him the only meaning of, and justification for, life. The best feature of Annensky's poetry is the authenticity of emotional states, developed in complex psychological situations, in which all conflicts occur inside the persona himself.
Innokentii Fedorovich Annensky was born on 20 August 1855 in Omsk, Siberia. Little is known about his parents. His father, Fedor Nikolaevich Annensky, was a high-ranking official, the head of the Department of the Central Administration of Western Siberia. When Annensky, the youngest of six children, turned five, his family moved to St. Petersburg, where his father met with complications in his career and soon was forced to retire on a modest pension.
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