Biography
Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont (Russian: ?????????? ?????????? ????????) (June 15, 1867?December 24, 1942) was a Russian symbolist poet, translator, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
Biography
He was born ito a noble family near Vladimir. In 1886 he entered the Moscow University, but was excluded the next year. He started poetic activity in the end of 1890s, and became famous in 1905 after having published several compilations of poems. In the end of 1905 he illegally left Russia for Paris, traveled extensively, and returned to Moscow only in 1916. He accepted enthusiastically the February Revolution, but was against the October Revolution of 1917, and left Russia for Germany, and subsequently for France in 1920. He spent the last 20 years of his life in emigration and in poverty. He died in 1942 in Noisy-le-Grand, a suburb of Paris.
Barque of Yearning
for Prince A. I. Urusov
Evening. Seashore. A sighing wind.
Majestic waves roar.
A storm is near. A black barque,
Stranger to charm, batters the shore.
Stranger to the pure charms of joy,
A barque of yearning, a barque of trouble
Quits the shore to battle the storm,
Searching for a palace of bright dreams.
It flies along the shore, it flies along the sea,
Surrendering to the will of the waves.
A matte moon observes it,
A moon full of bitter sorrow.
The evening is dead. The night blackens.
The sea rumbles. The gloom deepens.
The barque of yearning is seized by darkness.
The storm howls in the watery depths.
1894
- Alexander Beliaev
Alexander Beliaev (?????????? ?????????? ??????? IPA: [?l???ksandr r??man?v??t? b??l?æj?f] (1884?1942) is a Russian author of science fiction whose body of work from the 1920s and 1930s made him a highly regarded Russian author in that field. His published...
- Gennadiy Aygi
Gennadiy Nikolaevich Aygi (Chuvash: ???? ???????? ??????????; Russian: ???????? ?????????? ????, August 21, 1934 - February 21, 2006, Moscow) was a Chuvashian poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian. He was born in...
- Leonid Andreyev
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev often also in Latin transcription Andrejew (Russian: ?????? ?????????? ???????, August 9, 1871-September 12, 1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature....
- Konstantin Aksakov
Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (Russian: ?????????? ???????) (1817 - 1860) was a Russian critic and writer, one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles. He wrote plays, social criticism, and histories of the ancient Russian social order. The writer...
- Bella Akhmadulina
Bella (Izabella) Akhatovna Akhmadulina (Russian: ????? ???????? ??????????) is a Russian poet who has been cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language. Bella was born on the 10 April 1937 in Moscow. Akhmadulina was the only...
Biography
Konstantin Balmont
Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont (Russian: ?????????? ?????????? ????????) (June 15, 1867?December 24, 1942) was a Russian symbolist poet, translator, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
Biography
He was born ito a noble family near Vladimir. In 1886 he entered the Moscow University, but was excluded the next year. He started poetic activity in the end of 1890s, and became famous in 1905 after having published several compilations of poems. In the end of 1905 he illegally left Russia for Paris, traveled extensively, and returned to Moscow only in 1916. He accepted enthusiastically the February Revolution, but was against the October Revolution of 1917, and left Russia for Germany, and subsequently for France in 1920. He spent the last 20 years of his life in emigration and in poverty. He died in 1942 in Noisy-le-Grand, a suburb of Paris.
Barque of Yearning
for Prince A. I. Urusov
Evening. Seashore. A sighing wind.
Majestic waves roar.
A storm is near. A black barque,
Stranger to charm, batters the shore.
Stranger to the pure charms of joy,
A barque of yearning, a barque of trouble
Quits the shore to battle the storm,
Searching for a palace of bright dreams.
It flies along the shore, it flies along the sea,
Surrendering to the will of the waves.
A matte moon observes it,
A moon full of bitter sorrow.
The evening is dead. The night blackens.
The sea rumbles. The gloom deepens.
The barque of yearning is seized by darkness.
The storm howls in the watery depths.
1894
- Alexander Beliaev
Alexander Beliaev (?????????? ?????????? ??????? IPA: [?l???ksandr r??man?v??t? b??l?æj?f] (1884?1942) is a Russian author of science fiction whose body of work from the 1920s and 1930s made him a highly regarded Russian author in that field. His published...
- Gennadiy Aygi
Gennadiy Nikolaevich Aygi (Chuvash: ???? ???????? ??????????; Russian: ???????? ?????????? ????, August 21, 1934 - February 21, 2006, Moscow) was a Chuvashian poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian. He was born in...
- Leonid Andreyev
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev often also in Latin transcription Andrejew (Russian: ?????? ?????????? ???????, August 9, 1871-September 12, 1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature....
- Konstantin Aksakov
Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (Russian: ?????????? ???????) (1817 - 1860) was a Russian critic and writer, one of the earliest and most notable Slavophiles. He wrote plays, social criticism, and histories of the ancient Russian social order. The writer...
- Bella Akhmadulina
Bella (Izabella) Akhatovna Akhmadulina (Russian: ????? ???????? ??????????) is a Russian poet who has been cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language. Bella was born on the 10 April 1937 in Moscow. Akhmadulina was the only...