Ethnicity:
One of his ancestors was Swedish and as Leonid Ivanovich liked to tell, his ancestor was killed by Peter the Great.
Leonid Ivanovich Andruson was born on August 5, 1875 in Narva-jõesuu, Ida-Virumaa, Estonia in a family of a sawmill worker who also worked in mechanical engineering company.
Leonid Ivanovich studied at the Narva Gymnasium but was expelled because of his bad grades. However he believed that he was expelled because he read banned books. He also studied binding mastery in Saint Petersburg.
In 1897 Leonid Ivanovich was arrested for underground printing press in Novgorod (Veliky Novgorod). His first work was published in 1899 in the "Zhurnal dlya vsech" magazine. From 1903 to 1907 Leonid Ivanovich was the editory secretary and one of the active authors of that magazine.
In 1908 was published his first collection of poems and translations "The fairy tale of love". In 1922 he released a book of poems "Silence".
