High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scarlat Callimachi or Calimachi (nicknamed Prin?ul Ro?u, "the Red Prince"; September 20, 1896?June 2, 1975) was a Romanian journalist, essayist, futurist poet, trade unionist, and communist activist, a member of the Callimachi family of boyar and Phanariote lineage. He is not to be confused with his ancestor, hospodar Scarlat Callimachi. Born in Bucharest, he lived for part of his childhood at the family manor in Boto?ani, where, at age 11, he witnessed first-hand the 1907 peasants' uprisings (which, as he later admitted, contributed to his left-wing sympathies). As a youth, he read Russian anarchist books, while studying in Paris during World War I, joined anarchist circles. While travelling through Finland in 1917, Callimachi attended a public meeting at which Vladimir Lenin gave a speech, and consequently adopted Bolshevism.