The silver age of Russian poetry would not have been such if Konstantin Balmont, an amazing poet and talented translator, had not contributed to it. A sophisticated and intelligent man, he had a very subtle mental organization, which can be clearly seen in his literary work.
Konstantin Balmont had six brothers, two older and four younger. The poet himself said that his love for literature was instilled in him by his mother, who had been actively reading all her life. The first poems of the young Constantine wrote at the age of 10. For participation in the revolutionary circle, Balmont was expelled from the university a year after the start of his studies and expelled from Moscow. Three years later, he was allowed to return to school, but he could not do it for reasons of health.
When Konstantin Balmont married the merchant’s daughter Larisa Garelina, this spoiled his relationship with relatives, as the family did not approve of his choice. Balmont’s first publication of poems took place in 1894, when he published a collection of his poems with his own money. The book, however, was rather coolly received by critics and the public. The poet’s first marriage did not last long, and soon he divorced, and almost immediately after that he remarried, and his ex-spouse married. In 1901, Balmont was forced to flee from Moscow after reading a verse to the public against Nicholas the Second.
The poet published his poems in France, as in Russia they were not missed by censorship. In 1920, Balmont emigrated to France finally. Balmont was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature together with Maxim Gorky and Ivan Bunin. The number 42 in a surprising way reflected in the life of the poet. For the Paris Red Banner, he wrote 42 poems. At the age of 42, his mother died. In the same year he visited Egypt, after which he wrote the work “42 instructions from father to son”. He was born 42 years after the Decembrist uprising. Balmont, who died in 1932, was buried in France, and t
