Nikolay Belotsvetov

Nikolay Belotsvetov (4th of May 1892, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire – 1950, Mülheim, FRG) – a poet and a publicist.

He was born in St. Petersburg into a well-known businessman's Nikolay Belotsvetov's family. So his childhood and youth were linked to creative atmosphere and this affected his love for music, painting and philosophy.

N. Belotsvetov was especially fond of German music and philosophy, he mastered seven foreign languages.

He took an active part in the activities of Moscow and Peterburg anthroposophic society, propagating mystic ideas.

The Belotsvetov family moved to Riga, where settled down and resumed the work in the  joint stock venture “Salamandra”.

N. Belotsvetov lived for some time in Berlin where he excelled in poetry writing and translating from German and into German.

He had fruitful creative contacts with Riga poetic community and published his poetry collection there.

N. Belotsvetov moved to Germany in July 1941 and died in 1950.

Sources of information:

Поляков Федор. Вехи жизненного пути Николая Белоцветова // Николай Белоцветов. Дневник изгнания. Издание подготовил Федор Поляков.  Frankfurt am Main. Peter Lang GmbH. 2006.  С. 13–52.

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