Maksimilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin | Biography

Since the centenary of his birth in 1977, the work of the poet, painter, critic, and cultural historian Maksimilian Voloshin has enjoyed a considerable revival, both in Russia and abroad. Although his complete works have not yet appeared in an academic edition, most of his poetry and prose became available during the 1980s and 1990s in various forms, along with much biographical and memoiristic literature about him. Yet, with the exception of a few notable articles and dissertations, Voloshin's life and work have not received on a large scale the attention generated by his fellow Silver Age poets--Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, Osip Emil'evich Mandel'shtam, and Viacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov. In the lives of these figures he tends to appear as something of a legendary, if not fantastic, presence. While this perception of him might be explained by Voloshin's love for mystification, his lengthy absences from the centers of Russian...
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