Apollon Korinfsky

Apollon Apollonovich Korinfsky (; 29 August 1868 – 12 January 1937) was a Russian poet, journalist, writer, translator and memoirist.

Biography Korinfsky was born in Simbirsk to a local judge, his name tracing to his grandfather on father's side, a self-educated Mordovian peasant.

Having debuted as a published author in 1886 (under the pseudonym Boris Kolyupanov) with several poems and stories, Korinfsky in 1889 moved to Moscow (where he wrote for Rossiya and Russkoye Bogatstvo), then further to Saint Peterburg in 1891. There he contributed to the magazines Nashe Vremya (Our Time) and Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya and edited the short-lived magazine Sever (which opened and closed in 1888).

In 1895—1904 he worked as an assistant editor for Pravitelstvenny Vestnik (Government's Herald) under Konstantin Sluchevsky, his friend, writing mostly essays on history and ethnography which in 1901 were collected in the compilation Narodnaya Rus (Folklore of Russia). Among the authors whose work he translated were Heinrich Heine, Samuel Coleridge, Adam Mickiewicz and Taras Shevchenko, as well as Yanka Kupala, with whom he was on friendly terms.