Vladimir Narbut

Vladimir Ivanovich Narbut (Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Нарбут; 1888–1938) was a Ukrainian poet and a member of the Acmeist group. He was also brother to artist and graphic designer Heorgiy Narbut.

Biography

Vladimir Ivanovich Narbut was born on his family's estate at Narbutovka, near the town of

in March 1913. On his return Narbut became the publisher and editor of the magazine Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh until he had to give it up for financial reasons.

After the

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A translation of Narbut's poem "Portrait" appears in the anthology Modern Russian Poetry, ed. Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks (Bobbs Merrill, 1967).

References

Sources

• Brief biography of Narbut in Russian

External links

• Вадим Беспрозванный; Анна Ахматова - Владимир Нарбут: к проблеме литературного диалога
• Two poems in English translation, "Seance" (1913) and part 1 of "Seventeenth" (1918) in the New England Review