Balmont Dmitry Biography

Moscow Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont was born on June 15. Father, Dmitry Konstantinovich, served in the Shuisky district court by the peace, then in the Zemstvo as chairman of the council. Mother, Vera Nikolaevna, nee Lebedeva, came from the colonel's family. She knew foreign languages ​​well, loved literature, performed in the local press, arranged literary evenings and amateur performances.

Vera Nikolaevna had a strong influence on the worldview of her son, introducing him into the world of music, literature and history. Up to ten years, Konstantin lived with his family in Gumnishchi, in the 10th. He learned to read the future poet in his own five years, spying on his mother, who taught the letter of his older brother. When it was time to give older children to the gymnasium, the family moved to Shu.

Father was fond of hunting and regularly traveled to the Gumnishchi, on these trips, Konstantin often accompanied him. In the city of Balmont, he entered the preparatory class of the Shui gymnasium. At first, the boy was passionate about study and did success, but soon the learning bored him, and his academic performance decreased, but the time of drunken reading came.

Good knowledge of foreign languages ​​allowed him to read French and German works in the original. At the age of ten, he himself began to write poetry. For belonging to an illegal mug, Konstantin was forced to leave the seventh grade of the gymnasium, his mother was worth a considerable effort to transfer him to a gymnasium in Vladimir. In Vladimir, Konstantin lived in a rented apartment under the supervision of a Greek language teacher.

At the end of the city, this event was not noticed by anyone, except for a mentor who forbade Balmont to be printed until the completion of his studies at the gymnasium. Comrades K. Balmont in the gymnasium handed over his notebook with verses by the writer V. Korolenko, who reacted seriously and wrote a thorough letter to the gymnasium student, in which he noted the talent of the young poet.

Balmont subsequently considered Korolenko his godfather. Balmont entered the law faculty of Moscow University, but a year later, due to participation in student riots, he was excluded. After some time, he returned to the university, but then left it of his own free will, entering the Demidov Lawye Lyceum, but did not study there either.

Later, K. Konstantin Dmitrievich was seriously engaged in self -education. Balmont married Larisa Mikhailovna Garelina, daughter of the Ivanovo-Voznesensky merchant. The marriage was not happy - the wife did not sympathize with either literary aspirations or revolutionary moods of her husband and was prone to quarrels. This collection did not arouse the interest among readers, close people also did not accept him, soon the poet burned almost the entire small circulation.

In - gg. In March, Balmont made a suicide attempt, throwing him out of the window of the third floor. As a result, the poet received serious fractures. It is believed that he was pushed on this act despair from a complex family and financial situation, since after the illness of Balmont was filled with failures - he parted with his wife, and the magazines refused to print his works.

Balmont received assistance and support from the writer V. Korolenko and professor of Moscow University N. Storozhenko persuaded the publisher K. Translations were published in - gg. This period is considered a time of its creative formation. On the basis of translation activities, Balmont became close to the philanthropist Prince A. Urusov, an expert on Western European literature.

In September, G. Balmont met V. Bryusov, who later became his closest friend. Balmont has become one of the initiators of the new direction in literature - symbolism. Its poetic world is filled with the finest fleeting observations, poetry, in addition to the specific meaning, has hidden content, expressed with the help of hints, mood, musical sound.

Fot - Oh, for a long time! He enthusiastically studied the history of Russia, books on natural sciences and folk art. To be able to read, and, and books, among which there are many, many boring ones. To love not only joy, but also pain. Balmont married the translator E. Andreeva and went with his wife to Western Europe. They visited France, Holland, Spain, Italy, the poet spent a lot of time in libraries, improved knowledge of languages, was interested in history, religion and philosophy.

In March, he took part in a massive student demonstration in St. Petersburg, the main requirement of which was the abolition of the decree to send unreliable students to the soldier's service. During the dispersal of the demonstration, there were victims. There, a fist, a nagaika, a nagagan, two or three zero, four villain and stupid little sultan reigns there .... In the summer of G., spending autumn and winter in Moscow, at the beginning of G.

Balmont again goes to Europe - Spain, Switzerland, France, where he often acted as a lecturer. During these years, poetic circles of balmontists began to arise in Russia, in which followers tried to imitate the idol not only in poetic expression, but also in life. In gg. In January, the Slavs, you are bright glory, for the fact that you are open with your heart, cheerful babies.