Konstantin Balmont, the Glossary

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1. 143 relations: Akim Volynsky, Aleksey Koltsov, Alexander Blok, Alexander Ivanovich Urusov, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Scriabin, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Andrei Bely, Anthem of Free Russia, Baltic Sea, Bolsheviks, Bordeaux, Boris Zaytsev (writer), Brittany (administrative region), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Bulgaria, Burning Buildings, California, Capitalism, Catherine the Great, Catholic Church, Cavalry, Cheka, Chinese culture, Constitutional Democratic Party, Cossacks, Czechoslovakia, Decadence, Detskaya Literatura, Dictatorship of the proletariat, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Fascism, February Revolution, French poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gerhart Hauptmann, German literature, German military administration in occupied France during World War II, Gironde, Golden Horde, Greek language, Gymnasium (school), Ieronim Yasinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Ilya Fondaminsky, Imperial Moscow University, In Boundlessness, Ivan Bunin, ... Expand index (93 more) »

2. Liberals from the Russian Empire
3. People from Shuya
4. People from Shuysky Uyezd
5. Translators of Edgar Allan Poe
6. Translators of Omar Khayyám

Akim Volynsky

Akim Lvovich Volynsky (Аким Львович Волынский, real name Khaim Leybovich Flekser, Хаим Лейбович Флексер; 3 May 1861 – 6 July 1926) was a Russian literary (later theatre and ballet) critic and historian, one of the early ideologists of the Russian Modernism.

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Aleksey Koltsov

Aleksey Vasilievich Koltsov (Алексе́й Васи́льевич Кольцо́в; October 15, 1809 – October 29, 1842) was a Russian poet who has been called a Russian Burns. Konstantin Balmont and Aleksey Koltsov are poets from the Russian Empire.

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Alexander Blok

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (a; 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic. Konstantin Balmont and Alexander Blok are symbolist poets.

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Alexander Ivanovich Urusov

Prince Alexander Ivanovich Urusov (Александр Иванович Урусов, April 2, 1843, Moscow, Russian Empire, — July 16, 1900, Moscow) was a Russian lawyer, literary critic, translator and philanthropist.

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Alexander Kerensky

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (– 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 (N.S.). After the February Revolution of 1917, he joined the newly formed provisional government, first as Minister of Justice, then as Minister of War, and after July as the government's second Minister-Chairman. Konstantin Balmont and Alexander Kerensky are Russian anti-communists and White Russian emigrants to France.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

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Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist.

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Anatoly Lunacharsky

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (Анато́лий Васи́льевич Лунача́рский, born Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov; – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for the Ministry of Education as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist throughout his career.

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Andrei Bely

Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (a), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely (a; – 8 January 1934), was a Russian novelist, Symbolist poet, theorist and literary critic. Konstantin Balmont and Andrei Bely are symbolist poets.

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Anthem of Free Russia

The Anthem of Free Russia (Гимн Свободной России, Gimn Svobodnoy Rossii) was a proposed anthem of the Russian Republic after the February Revolution.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Boris Zaytsev (writer)

Boris Konstantinovich Zaytsev (Бори́с Константи́нович За́йцев; 10 February 1881 – 22 January 1972) was a prose writer and dramatist, and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda. Konstantin Balmont and Boris Zaytsev (writer) are liberals from the Russian Empire.

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Brittany (administrative region)

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh; Gallo: Bertaèyn) is the westernmost region of Metropolitan France.

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary (abbr.; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.

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Burning Buildings

Burning Buildings (translit, subtitled: Lyric of the Modern Soul, Лирика современной души) is the fifth book by Russian Silver Age modernist poet Konstantin Balmont.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Cavalry

Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.

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Cheka

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (p), abbreviated as VChK (p), and commonly known as the Cheka (p), was the first Soviet secret police organization.

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Chinese culture

Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago.

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Constitutional Democratic Party

The Constitutional Democratic Party (translit, K-D), also called Constitutional Democrats and formally the Party of People's Freedom (Па́ртия Наро́дной Свобо́ды), was a political party in the Russian Empire that promoted Western constitutional monarchy—among other policies—and attracted a base ranging from moderate conservatives to mild socialists.

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Cossacks

The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Decadence

The word decadence refers to a late 19th century movement emphasizing the need for sensationalism, egocentricity; bizarre, artificial, perverse, and exotic sensations and experiences.

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Detskaya Literatura

Detskaya Literatura (r, lit. "Children's Literature"), formerly Detgiz and Detizdat, is a Soviet and Russian publishing house for children's literature.

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Dictatorship of the proletariat

In Marxist philosophy, the dictatorship of the proletariat is a condition in which the proletariat, or working class, holds control over state power.

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Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (p; – December 9, 1941) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. Konstantin Balmont and Dmitry Merezhkovsky are symbolist poets.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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February Revolution

The February Revolution (Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.

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French poetry

French poetry is a category of French literature.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

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Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist.

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German literature

German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language.

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German military administration in occupied France during World War II

The Military Administration in France (Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; Administration militaire en France) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.

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Gironde

Gironde (US usually,; Gironda) is the largest department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France.

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Golden Horde

The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus (in Kipchak Turkic), was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Gymnasium (school)

Gymnasium (and variations of the word) is a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university.

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Ieronim Yasinsky

Ieronim Ieronimovich Yasinsky (Иерони́м Иерони́мович Яси́нский; April 30, 1850 – December 31, 1931) was a Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist. Konstantin Balmont and Ieronim Yasinsky are poets from the Russian Empire and translators from the Russian Empire.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). Konstantin Balmont and Igor Stravinsky are Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France and Russian anti-communists.

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Ilya Fondaminsky

Ilya Isidorovich Fondaminsky (Илья Исидорович Фондаминский; February 17, 1880, Moscow, Russia — November 19, 1942, Auschwitz, Nazi-occupied Poland), was a Russian author (writing under the pseudonym I. Bunakov) and political activist, in 1910s one of the leaders of the Esers party, in 1917 a senior member of the Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government. Konstantin Balmont and Ilya Fondaminsky are White Russian emigrants to France.

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Imperial Moscow University

Imperial Moscow University was one of the oldest universities of the Russian Empire, established in 1755.

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In Boundlessness

In Boundlessness (translit) is a second major poetry collection by Konstantin Balmont, first published in 1895 in Moscow.

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Ivan Bunin

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (or; a; – 8 November 1953). Konstantin Balmont and Ivan Bunin are translators from the Russian Empire and White Russian emigrants to France.

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Ivan Nikitin (poet)

Ivan Savvich Nikitin (Ива́н Са́ввич Ники́тин) (Voronezh –, Voronezh) was a Russian poet. Konstantin Balmont and Ivan Nikitin (poet) are poets from the Russian Empire.

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Ivan Shmelyov

Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв, also spelled Shmelev and Chmelov) (– 24 June 1950) was a Russian writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow. Konstantin Balmont and Ivan Shmelyov are Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France.

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Ivanovo Oblast

Ivanovo Oblast (Ivanovskaya oblastʹ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

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Jurgis Baltrušaitis

Jurgis Baltrušaitis (2 May 1873 – 3 January 1944) was a Lithuanian symbolist poet and translator, who wrote his works in Lithuanian and Russian. Konstantin Balmont and Jurgis Baltrušaitis are symbolist poets.

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Kazan Cathedral, Saint Petersburg

Kazan Cathedral or Kazanskiy Kafedralniy Sobor (Kazanskiy kafedral'nyy sobor), also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, is a cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg.

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Kherson

Kherson (Ukrainian and) is a port city in Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast.

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Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

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Kozma Soldatyonkov

Kozma Terentyevich Soldatyonkov (Козьма Терентьевич Солдатёнков; 22 October 1818 in Moscow, Russian Empire – 1 June 1901 in Kuntsevo, Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian industrialist, mecenate, philanthropist, art collector and a renowned publisher.

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Lavr Kornilov

Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (Лавр Гео́ргиевич Корни́лов,; – 13 April 1918) was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as, which corresponds to the romanization Lyov. Konstantin Balmont and Leo Tolstoy are translators from the Russian Empire.

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Let Us Be Like the Sun

Let Us Be Like the Sun is the sixth book of poetry by Konstantin Balmont, first published in 1903 by Scorpion in Moscow.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (p; 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet.

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Mark Aldanov

Mark Aldanov (Марк Алда́нов; Mordkhai-Markus Israelevich Landau, Mark Alexandrovich Landau, Мордхай-Маркус Израилевич Ландау, Марк Алекса́ндрович Ланда́у; – February 25, 1957) was a Russian and later French writer and critic, known for his historical novels. Konstantin Balmont and Mark Aldanov are White Russian emigrants to France.

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Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Алексей Максимович Пешков; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent.

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Maximilian Steinberg

Maximilian Osseyevich Steinberg (Максимилиан Осеевич Штейнберг; – 6 December 1946) was a Russian composer of classical music.

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Maximilian Voloshin

Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin (Максимилиа́н Алекса́ндрович Кирие́нко-Воло́шин; May 28, 1877 – August 11, 1932), commonly known as Max Voloshin, was a Russian poet.

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Mikhail Albov

Mikhail Nilovich Albov (Михаи́л Ни́лович А́льбов; November 20, 1851 – June 25, 1911) was a writer from the Russian Empire.

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Mikhail Gnessin

Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin (Михаил Фабианович Гнесин; sometimes transcribed Gnesin; 2 February 18835 May 1957)Sitsky, Larry.

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Mirra Lokhvitskaya

Mirra Lokhvitskaya (Ми́рра Ло́хвицкая; born Maria Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya – Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Ло́хвицкая; November 19, 1869 – August 27, 1905) was a Russian poet who rose to fame in the late 1890s. Konstantin Balmont and Mirra Lokhvitskaya are poets from the Russian Empire.

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Moscow State University

Moscow State University (MSU; Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia.

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Music of Russia

Music of Russia denotes music produced from Russia and/or by Russians.

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Nadezhda Teffi

Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi (Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Тэ́ффи; – 6 October 1952) was a Russian humorist writer. Konstantin Balmont and Nadezhda Teffi are White Russian emigrants to France.

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Narodnaya Volya

Narodnaya Volya (t) was a late 19th-century revolutionary socialist political organization operating in the Russian Empire, which conducted assassinations of government officials in an attempt to overthrow the autocratic Tsarist system.

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Nicholas I of Russia

Nicholas I (–) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland.

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Nicholas II

Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 186817 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. Konstantin Balmont and Nicholas II are Russian anti-communists.

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Nikolai Engelhardt (writer)

Nikolai Alexandrovich Engelhardt (Николай Александрович Энгельгардт, 15 February 1867, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — January 1942, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian writer, critic, poet, journalist (associated mainly with Alexey Suvorin's Novoye Vremya), memoirist and literary historian, co-founder and one of the original leaders of the Russian Assembly (Russkoye Sobranye). Konstantin Balmont and Nikolai Engelhardt (writer) are poets from the Russian Empire.

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Nikolai Gumilev

Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev (also Gumilyov; Николай Степанович Гумилёв,; – August 26, 1921) was a Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer.

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Nikolai Minsky

Nikolai Minsky and Nikolai Maksimovich Minsky (Никола́й Макси́мович Ми́нский) are pseudonyms of Nikolai Maksimovich Vilenkin (Виле́нкин; 1855–1937), a mystical writer and poet of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

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Nikolai Myaskovsky

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский; Mikołaj Miąskowski; 20 April 18818 August 1950), was a Russian and Soviet composer.

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Nikolai Obukhov

Nikolai Borisovich Obukhov (Николай Борисович Обухов; Nicolai, Nicolas, Nikolay; Obukhow, Obouhow, Obouhov, Obouhoff) (22 April 189213 June 1954)Jonathan Powell. Konstantin Balmont and Nikolai Obukhov are Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France.

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Nikolay I. Storozhenko

Nikolai Ilyich Storozhenko (Николай Ильич Стороженко; 22 May 1836, in Irzhavets, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – 25 January 1906, in Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian literary historian and a leading Shakespearean scholar of his time.

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Nikolay Nekrasov

Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (a, –) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the mid-nineteenth century, particularly as represented by Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Chernyshevsky.

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Nina Berberova

Nina Nikolayevna Berberova (Ни́на Никола́евна Бербе́рова; 26 July 1901 – 26 September 1993) was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.

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Noisy-le-Grand

Noisy-le-Grand is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Pyotr Pertsov

Pyotr Petrovich Pertsov (Пётр Петрович Перцов, 16 June 1868 — 19 May 1947) was a Russian poet, publisher, editor, literary critic, journalist and memoirist associated with the Russian Symbolist movement. Konstantin Balmont and Pyotr Pertsov are poets from the Russian Empire.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian Imperial Guard

The Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard (Лейб-гвардия Leyb-gvardiya, from German Leib "body"; cf. Life Guards / Bodyguard) were military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Russia.

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Russian Mind

Russian Mind (French – La Pensée Russe) is a pan-European sociopolitical and cultural magazine, published on a monthly basis both in Russian and in English.

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Russian Provisional Government

The Russian Provisional Government was a provisional government of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II, during the February Revolution.

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Russian Revolution of 1905

The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, began on 22 January 1905.

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Russian symbolism

Russian symbolism was an intellectual, literary and artistic movement predominant at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

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Russians

Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.

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Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.

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Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)

The Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829 resulted from the Greek War of Independence of 1821–1829; war broke out after the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II closed the Dardanelles to Russian ships and in November 1827 revoked the 1826 Akkerman Convention in retaliation for the participation of the Imperial Russian Navy in the Battle of Navarino of October 1827.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Scorpion (publishing house)

Scorpion (Скорпион) was a Russian publishing house which played an important role in the development of Russian Symbolism in the early 1900s.

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Sergeant

Sergeant (Sgt) is a rank in use by the armed forces of many countries.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (– 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. Konstantin Balmont and Sergei Prokofiev are Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor.

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Sergei Taneyev

Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (Серге́й Ива́нович Тане́ев,; –) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.

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Sergey Gorodetsky

Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky (– June 8, 1967) was a Russian poet.

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Severny Vestnik

Severny Vestnik (Се́верный ве́стник, The Northern Messenger) was an influential Russian literary magazine founded in Saint Petersburg in 1885 by Anna Yevreinova, who stayed with it until 1889.

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Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast

Shuya (p) is the third largest town in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia.

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Silence (Balmont)

Silence (translit, subtitled "Lyric poems", Лирические поэмы) is a third poetry collection by Konstantin Balmont, first published in August 1898 in Saint Petersburg, by Alexey Suvorin's Publishing House.

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Silver Age of Russian Poetry

Silver Age (Сере́бряный век) is a term traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the last decade of the 19th century and first two or three decades of the 20th century.

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Sonnet

The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (from the Latin word sonus). It refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme.

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Sovremennye zapiski

(Современные записки, "Contemporary Papers") was a politicized literary journal published from 1920 to 1940.

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Spanish art

Spanish art has been an important contributor to Western art and Spain has produced many famous and influential artists including Velázquez, Goya and Picasso.

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State Duma

The State Duma is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia.

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Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.

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Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and most populous city of Estonia.

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Tatars

The Tatars, in the Collins English Dictionary formerly also spelt Tartars, is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation. That confederation was eventually incorporated into the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan unified the various steppe tribes.

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The Bells (poem)

"The Bells" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was not published until after his death in 1849.

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The Bells (symphony)

The Bells (Колокола, Kolokola), Op.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Ukrainians

Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.

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Under the Northern Sky (poetry collection)

Under the Northern Sky (translit) is a collection of poetry by Konstantin Balmont featuring 51 poems, first published in the early 1894 in Saint Petersburg.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne, was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution.

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Valentin Serov

Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (Валентин Александрович Серов; – 5 December 1911) was a Russian painter and one of the premier portrait artists of his era.

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Valery Bryusov

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (a; – 9 October 1924) was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. Konstantin Balmont and Valery Bryusov are symbolist poets.

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Vendée

Vendée (Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast.

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Vesy

Vesy (Весы́; The Balance or The Scales) was a Russian symbolist magazine published in Moscow from 1904 to 1909, with the financial backing of philanthropist S. A. Polyakov.

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Vladimir Governorate

Vladimir Governorate (translit) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, the Russian Republic and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1796–1929.

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Vladimir Korolenko

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко, Володи́мир Галактіо́нович Короле́нко; 27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian of a Ukrainian origin in the Russian Empire.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Владимир Владимирович Набоков; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Konstantin Balmont and Vladimir Nabokov are Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France and Russian anti-communists.

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Vladimir Zeeler

Vladimir Feofilovich Zeeler (Владимир Феофилович Зеелер, 6 June 1874, Kiev, Ukraine, then Russian Empire, – 27 December 1954, Paris, France) was a Russian lawyer, state official and political activist, the Interior Minister in the short-lived South Russian Government; since 1919 a journalist, editor, memoirist and philanthropist, who for thirty years served as a Secretary of the Paris-based Union of Russian Writers and Journalists in Paris. Konstantin Balmont and Vladimir Zeeler are White Russian emigrants to France.

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Vladimir, Russia

Vladimir (Влади́мир) is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, east of Moscow.

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Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet)

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (Вячесла́в Ива́нович Ива́нов, Venceslao Ivanov; – 16 July 1949) was a Russian poet, playwright, Classicist, and senior literary and dramatic theorist of the Russian Symbolist movement. Konstantin Balmont and Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet) are symbolist poets.

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Vyacheslav von Plehve

Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve (p; &ndash) was a Russian politician who served as the director of the police from 1881 to 1884 and later as the minister of the interior from 1902 until his assassination in 1904.

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Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl (Ярославль) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow.

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Yaroslavl State University

The Yaroslavl Demidov State University (Russian: Ярославский государственный университет имени П. Г. Демидова) is an institution of higher education in Yaroslavl, Russia.

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Yuri Terapiano

Yuri Konstantinovich Terapiano (Ю́рий Константи́нович Терапиа́но, 21 October 1892 – 3 July 1980) was a Russian poet, writer, translator, literary critic and a prominent figure in White émigré cultural life.

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Zhivopisnoe obozrenie

Zhivopisnoe obozrenie (Живописное обозрение, Pictorial Review) was a Russian illustrated weekly magazine published in Saint Petersburg in 1872–1900 and in 1902–1905.

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Zinaida Gippius

Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius or Hippius (– 9 September 1945) was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. Konstantin Balmont and Zinaida Gippius are Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France and symbolist poets.

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See also

Liberals from the Russian Empire

• Boris Chicherin
• Boris Zaytsev (writer)
• Konstantin Balmont
• Konstantin Kavelin
• Mikhail Speransky
• Nikolai Berdyaev
• Nikolai Stankevich
• Semyon Frank
• Sergei Bulgakov
• Timofey Granovsky

People from Shuya

• Boris Balmont
• Feodor Vassilyev
• Konstantin Balmont
• Lyudmila Chernykh
• Pavel Belov
• Vasily Luzhsky

People from Shuysky Uyezd

• Aleksei Kiselyov (politician)
• Andrei Bubnov
• Anna Barkova
• Konstantin Balmont
• Nathalie Sarraute
• Pavel Belov
• Pavel Postyshev
• Sergey Nechayev

Translators of Edgar Allan Poe

• Aeba Koson
• Alberto Laiseca
• Arno Schmidt
• Bonifaciu Florescu
• Charles Baudelaire
• Clarice Lispector
• Dimosthenis Kourtovik
• Emil Gulian
• Ion Luca Caragiale
• Ion Vinea
• Iuliu Cezar Săvescu
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Julio Cortázar
• Konstantin Balmont
• Laura Poantă
• Luca Caragiale
• Maik Yohansen
• Mihu Dragomir
• N. Porsenna
• Octavio Cordero Palacios (writer)
• Piroska Reichard
• Simon Vestdijk
• Stéphane Mallarmé
• Svetislav Stefanovic
• Vasile Pogor

Translators of Omar Khayyám

• Ahmed Rami (poet)
• Andrzej Gawroński
• D. V. Gundappa
• Duvvuru Ramireddy
• Edward FitzGerald (poet)
• Edward Henry Whinfield
• Frederick Rolfe
• Friedrich von Bodenstedt
• G. Sankara Kurup
• Hemendra Kumar Roy
• Justin Huntly McCarthy
• Karim Emami
• Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Konstantin Balmont
• Madhav Julian
• Maithili Sharan Gupt
• Muhammad Shahidullah
• Pierre Pascal
• Richard Le Gallienne
• Robert Graves
• Safvet-beg Bašagić
• Shakti Chattopadhyay
• T. Ifor Rees
• Thirunalloor Karunakaran

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Balmont

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