From 1910 to 1914 he studied at Tartu Teacher Training College [et], and then from 1917 to 1920 at the Kherson Pedagogical Institute in southern Ukraine.
During the war years, he was evacuated to the rear of the USSR,[4] and he worked at the Nevyansk orphanage in the Sverdlovsk Oblast.
[8] Ralf Rond's verses with their atheistic orientation, robust expression, and futuristic lines were influenced by the young Vladimir Mayakovsky,[1] as well as August Alle and Henrik Visnapuu,[9] and they criticize the moral laxity during and after the war.
In the poetry collection Naine (Narva, 1926) he continued his robust and sarcastic style, and his contemporary satire increased.
[8] In the 1920s, he published articles on literary issues, and at the end of his life he wrote a book of memoirs, Minu eluraamatu helgeid ja tumedaid lehekülgi (Light and Dark Pages of My Life's Book), which has remained in manuscript.
[8] In 1940, he aligned himself with the new Soviet government; he was a non-party Bolshevik (he did not join the party because of the rigid command system that prevailed there).