About
Essayist and member of the Russian Acmeist School of poets. His poetry collections and prose works include Kamen and Stikhotvoreniya 1921–1925 (poems) and Razgovor o Dante and Chetvertaya Proza (prose).
Before Fame
He studied at the Sorbonne, the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Saint Petersburg.
Trivia
Accused by the regime of Stalin of government disloyalty, he was forced to spend the last years of his life in a Soviet prison camp.
Family Life
He married Russian author Nadezhda Khazina in the early 1920s.
Associated With
He allegedly had a love affair with fellow Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (Akhmatova, his longtime friend, denied the affair).
