Portrait of Maximilian Voloshin

Maximilian Voloshin

Ukrainian poet

Lived
1877–1932
Country
Russia

Updated September 2026

About Maximilian Voloshin

Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin, 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, and Apollon. He was known for his translations of a number of French poetic and prose works into Russian.

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