Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin (; May 28, [<nowiki/>O.S. May 16] 1877 – August 11, 1932), commonly known as Max Voloshin, was a Russian poet. He was one of the significant representatives of the symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature. He became famous as a poet and a critic of literature and the arts, being published in many contemporary magazines of the early 20th century, including Vesy, Zolotoye runo ('The Golden Fleece'), and Apollon. He was known for his translations of a number of French poetic and prose works into Russian.
Biography
Early life
Voloshin was born in Kiev in 1877. He spent his early childhood in Sevastopol and Taganrog. Reportedly, "his schooling included a few years at the Polivanov establishment and a school in the Crimea, where in 1893 his mother had bought a cheap plot of land at Koktebel."
Russian progressive rock band Little Tragedies recorded music to three of Voloshin's poems.
Works
- Faces of Creativity (1914)
- Deafmute Demons (1923)
- Verses on Terror (1923)
- The Ways Of Cain (1923)