Background
Mikhail Osipovich Tsetlin was born on June 28, 1882 in Moscow, Russian Federation. He was from the family of wealthy merchants.
Mikhail Osipovich Tsetlin was born on June 28, 1882 in Moscow, Russian Federation. He was from the family of wealthy merchants.
Mikhail Osipovich graduated from the Moscow gymnasium of F.I. Kreiman.
In 1907 Mikhail Osipovich was involved in the inquiry as a member of the editorial commission of the book publishing house "Molodaya Rossiya" (Young Russia). Until 1917, he lived in France and Switzerland, at the same time published poetry in Russian journals "Russkaya Mysl" (Russian Thought), "Novy Zhurnal dlya Vsekh" (New Journal for Everyone), "Sovremenny Mir" (Modern World),
Right after the February Revolution of 1917, Mikhail Osipovich returned to Russia, was published in the newspapers "Chernigovsky Krai" (Chernigov Krai), "Volny Ural" (Free Ural), and in the collection "Poets Spring Salon". Not accepting the October Revolution, he went to Odessa in 1918, and went abroad in 1919 with A.N. Tolstoy. Published collections of poems "Transparent Shadows" (1920), "Decembrists. The fate of one generation" (1933), "Blood in the Snow. Poems about the Decembrists" (1939), biographies of the composers "Five and Others" (1944) and other.
In the 20s provided material support to I. A. Bunin and other writers. In November 1940 he moved to the United States. In the last years of his life, he worked on a book about Russian symbolism.
In the late 1918, facing persecution by the Bolsheviks (as a former SR Party activist), Mikhail Osipovich left the Soviet Russia for France.
Mikhail Tsetlin (writing under the pseudonym Amari) is the author of five poetry collections (the debut one, published in 1906, was banned in 1912 for having "a revolutionary content"), biographical prose (The Decemberists, 1933; The Five and the Others, 1944; memoirs on Maximilian Voloshin) and numerous translations, e.g. of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emile Verhaeren, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Hölderlin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valéry, Hayim Nahman Bialik, etc.