Apparent Idiot Considered Russia’s Greatest Poet
14 min readMay 10, 2019
Maxim Maximovitch Sazonov, a posthumously discovered Cold War Russian poet, was obsessed with rubber and apples.
One overlooked, undoubtedly tragic, consequence of the Cold War was the isolation of Eastern European artists and philosophers. Suppressed, imprisoned or even executed, some of these creative geniuses were prevented from publicizing works which did not toe the communist…