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# Konstantin Balmont's two suicide attempts in 1890 and 1909
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/13-marta-1890-goda-student-konstantin-dmitrievich-balmont-vybrosilsia-iz-okna-meblirovannykh-komnat-luvr-na-tverskoi-i-vyzhil-otdelavshis-perelomom-nogi-na-kotoruiu-budet-khromat-dolgie/
- Published: 2020-11-20T10:07:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:09:44.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Moscow, People

On 13 March 1890 the student Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont threw himself from a window of the Louvre furnished rooms on Tverskaya and survived, getting off with a broken leg that would leave him limping for many years. Perhaps this is a touch of belletristic exaggeration, but Balmont's limp would be corrected by another serious injury, when he tried to take his own life a second time, again throwing himself from a window in 1909, and again not dying but merely damaging his limbs.