Konstantin Podrevsky was born in Turinsk, Tobolsk, to Nikolai Nikolayevich Podrevsky (1855-1916), a Chernigov-born Ukrainian raznochinets (later journalist and editor of Sibirsky Listok newspaper), and Zoya Ignatyevna, (born Vincentina Wilhelmina Lisowska, 1862-1925?), a daughter of the Polish revolutionaries who were deported to the Siberia after the 1863 Uprising.
In Astrakhan, where the family settled after having received the permission to return from Siberia, Konstantin joined the city"s First Gymnasium. After graduation in 1906 he enrolled into the Kiev University"s law faculty. lieutenant was in Kiev that he debuted as a published poet, in the local Student Almanac magazine.
In 1914 Podrevsky moved to Moscow and a year later enlisted as a private, to be posted to the World War I battlefields.
Among this tandem"s most popular songs was "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" (1924), arguably, the most famous 20th century Russian romance. In 1929 the First All-Russian Musicians Conference pronounced the whole genre of the Russian romance "counter-revolutionary".
Podrevsky"s best known songs were banned, and he was personally attacked in the press as a "NEPman stooge". The same year Podrevsky failed to forward a declaration to his local tax authorities, and all of his family"s property was arrested.
He suffered a severe shock and, as a result, a fatal nervous breakdown.
Konstantin Podrevsky died on February 4, 1930. His ashes were interred in Donskoye Cemetery"s columbarium in Moscow. In the early 2010s the Selected Poems by K.N. Podrevsky were published for the first time in Russia.
A niece of the scientist Nikolai Zhukovsky, she was a poet who published as "Vera Zhukovskaya".
They divorced in 1920. Podrevsky"s second wife was Anna Ivanovna Lyamina (née Stepanova, 1898-1974).
lieutenant was the latter"s granddaughter Maria Filina who in the 2010 passed the poet"s archives to the Vodolei Publishers which resulted in the Selected Works by K.N. Podrevsky having been published in his country for the first time.
