The unsolved sphinx of the Silver Age Maximilian Voloshin - poet, artist, anthroposophist, freemason, owner of the famous House of the Poet, poetic chronicler of Russian strife, peacemaker of whites and reds - still arouses keen interest and causes controversy. This first voluminous biography of the poet, which includes a comprehensive analysis of his best creations, will help resolve, if not all, then many of them. With all his creativity, Voloshin tried to give answers to the “damned” Russian questions, and these answers did not suit either the white or the red side. Not only a brilliant poet, but a man of extraordinary erudition, diverse hobbies, “non-partisan” kindness, he involved many famous people of that era into his life orbit - from D. Merezhkovsky, 3. Gippius, Vyach. Ivanov, M. Tsvetaeva, V. Khodasevich, O. Mandelstam, A. Tolstoy... to the terrorist B. Savinkov, the bloody Bolshevik B. Kuhn and other prominent practitioners of the revolution. The life and work of the poet is a captured chronicle of the tragedy of “Crucified Russia.”