"The sobbing seagull is replaced by an albatros"
Konstantin Azadovsky about the life and work of Konstantin Balmont Konstantin Balmont is one of the most contradictory figures of the Silver Age: the favorite of the public and the object of ridicule, the singer of freedom and the egocentric scandalist, the poet of the first row, who is almost not published and are not studied today. For our cycle of materials on Russian modernism, Maria Nesterenko talked about the life and work of Balmont with the historian of literature Konstantin Azadovsky.