Nikolai Minsky

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Nikolai Minsky and Nikolai Maksimovich Minsky (Russian: Никола́й Макси́мович Ми́нский) are pseudonyms of Nikolai Maksimovich Vilenkin (Виле́нкин; 1855–1937), a mystical writer and poet of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. Born in Glubokoe (now Hlybokaye, Belarus) to poor Jewish parents, he was orphaned early. He was brought up, and finished his schooling, in Minsk. He took his pseudonym from the city he grew up in. He completed his law degree at the University of Saint Petersburg in 1879. He was married to Zinaida Vengerova, a noted literary critic in 1925. She was his third wife. Minsky died in Paris in 1937, and is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. Minsky's career as a poet began in 1876, when he wrote poems on "civil topics". His poem, A Slav's Dream, for instance, was written in support of Bulgaria's struggle against the Turks.