Career

He was born in Saint St. Petersburg, and died in Obninsk. Gorodetsky entered the literary scene as a Symbolist, developing friendships with Blok, Ivanov, and Briusov. Following his brief stint with Symbolists, Gorodetsky began to associate with younger poets, forming the Acmeist group with Gumilev, Akhmatova, and Mandelshtam.

Subsequently abandoning yet another group, he welcomed the Bolshevik revolution as a Soviet poet.