June 4, 1821 poet Apollo Maykov was born Personal business Apollo Nikolaevich Maykov (1821-1897) was born in Moscow in a noble family. Father Nikolai Apollonovich Maykov was an artist, the mother of Evgeny Petrovna - a writer. In the Maikov house, frequent guests were artists, writers, musicians. The family had five children, all were boys. In the summer, Apollo was sent to the estate of grandmothers in the suburbs - to the village of Chepchikha (near the current Solnechnogorsk).