Biography
Delaunay was born to a Russian-French family of Soviet Intelligentsia. His grandfather, Boris Delaunay, was a prominent Soviet mathematician and creator of the Delaunay triangulation. Among his ancestors was marquis Bernard-René de Launay, the last governor of the Bastille, murdered by the attackers on that castle. Delaunay often predicted that he would repeat the fate of his ancestor.
Delaunay studied at Moscow matshkola ("Mathematical School") No. 2, one of the best in the country at that time, then at the Department of Philology at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. As a student, he also worked as a freelance author for the Literaturnaya Gazeta. Delaunay started to write poetry at the age of 13. His poetry was distributed by samizdat and some of it was published abroad.
- Пуcкай грехи мне
- не простят -
- К тому предлогов слишком много,
- Но если я просил
- у Бога,
- То - за других,
- не за себя.
- Let my sins
- not be forgiven
- the reasons for this are many
- but if I ever prayed
- to God for something
- it was for others
- never for myself
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