Nikolai Engelhardt
Nikolai Alexandrovich Engelhardt was a Russian writer, critic, poet, journalist, memoirist and literary historian, co-founder and one of the original leaders of the Russian Assembly. The writer and agricultural scientist Alexander Engelgardt was his father.
Engelhardt's best-known works include the historical novel on Pavel I The Bloodied Throne, The History of Russian Censorship. 1703-1903, The History of Russian Literature in the 19th Century, the book of memoirs Episodes of the Past as well as numerous literary essays.
Engelhardt married Larisa Garelina, Konstantin Balmont's first wife, and adopted her son, Nikolai Balmont. Their daughter Anna Engelhardt became the second wife of Nikolai Gumilyov. Nikolai Alexandrovich Engelhardt died of starvation in besieged Leningrad in January 1942.
