Background
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Volkenstein was born on October 3, 1883, in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. His parents separated when he was a child and in 1893 his father remarried Clara Iosifovna Volkenstein.
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Vladimir Mikhaylovich Volkenstein was born on October 3, 1883, in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. His parents separated when he was a child and in 1893 his father remarried Clara Iosifovna Volkenstein.
In 1901, Vladimir Mikhaylovich graduated from Saint Anne's University in Saint Petersburg and from the law department of the University of Saint Petersburg in 1907. In 1903 he was excluded for a year from the university for participating in student unrest. He spent this year in Heidelberg, studying philosophy at the University. After returning to Saint Petersburg, he studied aesthetics, psychology, and sociology.
From 1903, Vladimir Mikhaylovich appeared in print as a lyric poet. He also participated in collective poetry works. From 1907 he acted as a literary critic, and from 1909-1911 he was the main reviewer of the magazine Modern world. The first published dramatic experience was the poem John the terrible in 1909. In 1911, Vladimir Mikhaylovich was invited by K. S. Stanislavsky to the Moscow art theater, where he worked as a Secretary and literary consultant for the 1st Studio, taking part in the production of Tartuffe, the Feast during the plague, the Village of Stepanchikov, and others. The first piece of Wolkenstein staged a tragedy, Pilgrims.