Biography

Georgy Ivanov

Georgy Ivanov (1894 – 1958) was a member of the Russian Guild of Poets and began his career writing poems that were heavily influenced by Baudelaire and the French Symbolists. He suffered from alcoholism and wrote some of his finest work (‘poems of brilliant despair’ as one critic said) while living in penury and misery in France at the end of his life.

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