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Maximilian Alexandrovich Voloshin
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Maximilian Alexandrovich Voloshin (born with the surname Kirienko-Voloshin) was a Russian and Soviet poet, translator, landscape painter, and art and literary critic. The future poet's childhood was spent in Taganrog and in Crimea. Voloshin graduated from the Feodosia Gymnasium, and later enrolled in the law faculty of Moscow University. After his second year, he was expelled from the law faculty for taking part in "disturbances." He never completed university, but spent the rest of his life in self-education and taking lessons. In the 1900s he traveled extensively around Europe, visiting Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, and Greece.
In 1903, upon returning to Moscow, he joined the circle of Symbolists and began publishing actively. In 1910 he published his first collection, "Poems. 1900–1910." After the 1917 revolution Voloshin lived in Crimea and devoted himself to painting. During this time he created a series of plein air works — the "Koktebel Suite." In 1921 Voloshin was admitted to the All-Russian Union of Poets. In 1924 he founded a free House of Creativity in his home in Crimea (later the House of Creativity of the USSR Literary Fund, now the M. A. Voloshin House-Museum). The poet died in 1932 and was buried in Koktebel.
Музеи, посвящённые персоне
Date of birth
28 May 1877
Date of death
11 August 1932
Occupation
Poet