In the literary heritage of Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin (1877-1932) – poet, artist, critic, translator – memoir essays and diary entries occupy a large place. In his “Notes-Mainings” the personality of a spiritual person, versatile, endowed with an inquisitive, insightful and deep mind finds expression. He was given “a sense of the secret of being, the desire to understand the connection of everything in the world, to guess the highest meaning of each phenomenon.” This book includes Voloshin’s autobiographical essays, travel stories, portraits of contemporaries (Gorodetsky, Kuzmin, Remizov, Annensky, Ehrenburg, Benoit and others). The author himself admitted: “I am striving in every person whom fate puts on my way, to find those parties for which he can be loved. These sides are almost always – his will to life and burning. It seems to me that only this can be called to life good features of a person …”
Author
Voloshin Maximilian Alexandrovich
Publisher
Ig Lenizdat, 2014
Series
Lenizza-classic
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