Vadim Danilovich Gardner (real name - Vadim de Paiva-Perera Gardner) was a poet. In his poetry, he repeatedly addressed the history of his family and ancestors. The poet’s pedigree is exotic and very legendary, fate is dramatic, and the name is almost forgotten.
Background
Ethnicity:
His father and grandfather were Americans, mother - Russian.
Vadim Danilovich Gardner was born on June 18, 1880, in Vyborg, Leningrad, Russian Federation. He was born in a family of an American citizen Daniel-Thomas Gardner and Russian writer and translator Ekaterina Ivanovna Dykhova. She went to the USA to study medcine and met there Vadim's father. Vadim was the grandson of a famous American scientist and the great-grandson of the founder of Brazil University.
Education
Vadim Danilovich finished a 7-grades gymnasium in Saint Petersburg and then studied at the Faculty of Law at Saint Petersburg University. In 1905 he was expelled due to participation in student unrest, was arrested and spent 2 months in prison, but was released as an American citizen.
Career
In 1908, his first collection of poems called Poems. Vadim Danilovich was close to acmeist poets, was familiar with N.S. Gumilyov, and visited the "tower" of V.I. Ivanov. In the general review of modern poetry A. Blok recognized his poems as "more interesting than others", but nevertheless classified them as epigonal.
In 1913 Vadim Danilovich became a member of the Poet Workshop, having published before this the second book of lyrics, From Life to Life (1912), testifying that he went from imitation of symbolists to following artistic aesthetics: verses become more substantive, in addition, new themes appear in them - mythologized images of Russia-the Mother and the debtor son, understood by him through the originality of his own origin.
In 1916 Vadim Danilovich accepted Russian citizenship and was sent to England to participate in the work of the Allied Arms Supply Committee. In the spring of 1918, he returned to Saint Petersburg. Since 1921 he lived in Finland; in 1929 published in Paris the collection Under the Distant Stars.
In November 1939, with the beginning of the Finnish war, the poet's family, along with other residents of their village, turned into refugees. After the war, the poet moved to Helsinki.
Vadim Danilovich died in 1956.
