Nikolai Minsky

Nikolai Minsky and Nikolai Maksimovich Minsky are pseudonyms of Nikolai Maksimovich Vilenkin (Виле́нкин; 1855–1937), a mystical writer and poet of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

Early life and education 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. She was his third wife.

Minsky died in Paris in 1937, and is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Works Minsky's career as a poet began in 1876, when he wrote poems on "civil topics". It was criticized for the perceived esoteric and anti-Semitic overtones. After 1905, he lived abroad.

A religious-philosophical concept is presented in the treatises With the Light of Conscience (1890) and The Religion of the Future (1905). Other publications include the collection of verses From the Gloom to the Light (1922) and various dramas and translations.