Konstantin Konstantinovich Olimpov (Russian: Константин Константинович Олимпов) (1889–1940) Birth name Konstantin Konstantinovich Fofanov (Russian: Константин Константинович Фофанов) Konstantin Olimpov was a

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...

and son of

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and real ...

poet Konstantin Mikhailovich Fofanov (1862–1911). Along with

Igor Severyanin Igor Severyanin (russian: И́горь Северя́нин; pen name, real name Igor Vasilyevich Lotaryov: И́горь Васи́льевич Лотарёв; May 16, 1887 – December 20, 1941) was a Russian poet who presided over the circle ...

, Olimpov was one of the founding members of

Ego-Futurism Ego-Futurism was a Russian literary movement of the 1910s, developed within Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and his early followers. While part of the Russian Futurism movement, it was distinguished from the Moscow-based cubo-futurists as it w ...

. A disagreement between Olimpov and Severyanin caused Severyanin to leave the group of Ego-Futurists in the Autumn of 1912. He also co-founded The Academy of Ego-Poetry with fellow Ego-Futurists

Graal Arelsky Graal-Arelsky ( rus, Граа́ль-Аре́льский, p=ɡrɐˈalʲ ɐˈrʲelʲskʲɪj, a=Graal' Aryelskiy.ru.vorb.oga; 1889-1937) or Stepan Stephanovich Petrov ( rus, Сте́фан Сте́фанович Петро́в, p=ˈsʲtʲɛfən ˈsʲ ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Olimpov, Konstantin Soviet poets 1889 births 1940 deaths Poets from the Russian Empire