title: Voloshin
abstract: This chapter introduces Maximilian Voloshin as one of the most prominent poets of the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary years in Russia. Voloshin's poetry brought together many of the most typical features of most poets at their time, such as their aestheticism, snobbery, symbolism, and their enthusiasm for the Europeans. Ivan Bunin believed that Voloshin had another failing with extreme literary praise for the most terrible and bestial crimes of the Russian Revolution. The chapter notes that 
journal: Cornell University Press eBooks