Balmont

Few poets experienced such a spectacular fame during their lifetime as Konstantin Balmont, to the jealous remark of V. Bryusov "who reigned in Russian poetry for a decade without a rival." His famous book "Let Us Be Like the Sun" called for a joyful, bright, audacious life. And his life was like that: early fame, turbulent loves, travels to exotic countries, several forced emigrations, and finally the last one, which turned the "sunny genius" into a stepson of Russian literature for almost half a century... And at the same time, Balmont's unparalleled productivity - poetic, prose, and translation - is astonishing. P.V. Kupriyanovsky and N.A. Molchanova, researchers of the poet's work, present to the reader the first attempt at a complete biography of Balmont, "the poet with a morning soul."