Famous life · 1921
Igor Severyanin, the Russian poet of Toila
Igor Severyanin was a fashionable Russian poet, famous for verses about pineapples in champagne and ice cream of lilacs. He first spent summers in the seaside village of Toila in 1914 and 1915. After the revolution he stayed in Estonia, and from 1921 Toila was his home. On 21 December 1921 he married a local woman, Felissa Kruut, in Tartu, and their son was born the next summer. With her help he translated Estonian poets into Russian, among them Koidula, Liiv, Marie Under and Kreutzwald. He later lived in Tallinn, died there in December 1941 under German occupation, and was buried in the Alexander Nevsky cemetery.
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Igor Severjanin oli moekas vene luuletaja, kes sai kuulsaks värssidega ananassidest šampanjas ja sirelijäätisest. Esimest korda suvitas ta Toilas 1914. ja 1915. aastal. Pärast revolutsiooni jäi ta Eestisse ja 1921. aastal asus ta Toilasse alaliselt elama. 21. detsembril 1921 abiellus ta Tartus kohaliku neiu Felissa Kruudiga ja järgmisel suvel sündis neil poeg. Abikaasa abiga tõlkis ta eesti luuletajaid vene keelde, teiste seas Koidulat, Liivi, Marie Underit ja Kreutzwaldi. Hiljem elas ta Tallinnas, suri seal 1941. aasta detsembris Saksa okupatsiooni ajal ja on maetud Aleksander Nevski kalmistule.
Source: Estonian Wikipedia: Igor Severjanin; English Wikipedia: Igor Severyanin. ↗