Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont - Russian poet, literary critic and translator. He was perhaps the most outspoken supporter of impressionism in the early stages of the symbolism of Russian poetry.
Biography Facts
Balmont was born on June 4, 1867 in the Gumnischi of the Shuisky district of Vladimir province. He wrote his first poems at the age of 10, but his mother criticized the work of the future famous poet and for the next 6 years Balmont did not write anything. In high school, he began to compose again. The works of Balmont in this period were greatly influenced by the poems of the Russian poet Nekrasov.
In 1884, Balmont was expelled from the gymnasium because he was a member of a group that distributed "illegal literature." At the end of 1884, he was enrolled in a school in the city of Vladimir. In the fall of 1886, Konstantin Balmont entered Moscow State University (MSU) with a degree in Law. A year later, he was accused of participating in a "student mess" and he returned to Shuya. After another unsuccessful attempt at organized education, this time at the Demidov Lyceum in Yaroslavl, Balmont began his self-education.
